God’s Perfect Law and the Sabbath
God does not need to experiment. He knows in the beginning what is the infinitely right thing. Therefore whatever He does is perfect from the start. If nothing more were stated than this, perhaps every professing Christian in the land would agree to it. And if we can agree to this, let us proceed to the fact that since God can do everything just right the first time, His moral law must therefore be perfect. And being perfect, it would be fatal to think of making any changes in it. For if it has to be changed, that would argue that God was not infinite; that He could not see the end from the beginning; and that He had to try, and try again, just like mortals. But such ideas would belittle any man who could have such a conception of God. "Very well," you say. Then let us proceed another step: Since we must expect that God would make an absolutely perfect law, how about this talk we hear of the change of the Sabbath? A change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week would involve a change in God's law, and would involve the idea, further, that God could not make an institution to point out His creative power that would be applicable to all ages. A Bible text reads, "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before Him." Eccl. 3:14. Another text says, "For I, Jehovah, change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed." Mal. 3:6. It would be well to keep some of these principles in mind when talking about any change of the Sabbath.