QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION.
By John Nevins Andrews
1. Some believe that the ten commandments which Jehovah once enacted, were afterward abolished by him, and that after this he re-enacted nine of them. Is there any authority for such a singular theory? Can you think of a single instance in which God has enacted a law, then abolished it, then re-enacted it? 2. Is not the promise connected with the fifth commandment, applied in Eph. vi, 1-3, to Gentiles as well as Jews? How then can the commandments be called Jewish? 3. Redemption is consummated for the church at the second advent. Luke xxi, 28; Rom. viii, 23; Eph. iv, 30. The only sense in which redemption was effected at the first advent was that the price was then paid for it. This was the death of the Son of God. Now if any day should be kept to commemorate redemption should it not be the crucifixion day, on which that price was paid? Eph. i, 7; Col. i, 14. 4. There is no recorded instance in the Bible of the observance of the great day of atonement. Is not this fact as remarkable as that Sabbath-keeping should not be named in Genesis? 5. How could the Galatians be represented as desiring to be in bondage again to certain beggarly elements, if the Sabbath was what Paul thus designated? Gal. iv, 9. For they had previously been heathen, and consequently had not observed the law of God. Does not this fact prove conclusively that Paul did not refer to the Sabbath, but did refer to the heathen observance of days, and months, and times, and years? 6. Burial with Christ in baptism is the divine memorial of the burial and resurrection of the Saviour. Rom. vi, 4, 5; Col. ii, 12. Do those honor him who change baptism to sprinkling, and then keep Sunday as a memorial of the resurrection of Christ?
J. N. A.