HELLO SDA ARE YOU UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES OR OF CHRIST?

This is the leader they follow not Christ

Pseudo Christians have multiplied over some period of time especially in the last 300 years when out of the Rebellion of Protestants more rebel houses or churches sprouted which also rebelled against the rebellious houses of the Reformation. So then rebellion from the true church of Jesus Christ continuous and worst they multiplied and teaching more outrageous heresies that deceive many souls to their damnation.

Among such rebel churches came to Seventh Day Adventist or SDA founded by James White the husband of Ellen G. White. It is, therefore, a husband and wife tandem that founded the church and religion of some 25 million members worldwide making it the twelfth largest religion in the world. This man-made religion is fiercely anti-Catholic Church questioning the Sunday Holy Mass worship and advancing their own Sabbath Day worship teaching that it is the real worship day not Sunday or Lord's Day of the Catholic Church.

Yet the same false Christian church that mixed Judaism and Christianity has their worship on Saturday which is supposed to be a day of rest. No one works or does anything resembling work on Sabbath but the SDA has their worship service on Saturday and that is work! They are violating the Sabbath Law themselves which they said they follow straight from the law of God in Ten Commandments. It is ironic that their own pastors are guilty of violating the law on Sabbath because they are at work during the Sabbath doing services in their various churches. Well, fakes are fake and they stumble on their own false teaching.  

The Doctrine of the SDA on Sabbath is its Universality. The universality of the Sabbath is rooted in Creation. Thus its privileges and obligations are binding in all nations, sectors, or classes. (See Ex 20:11; 23:12; Dent 5:13; Isa 56:1-8.) Sabbath observance pertains to all members of the household including children and extends even "to the stranger that is within thy gates" (Ex 20:10). 

Citing scriptures alone to put up your own separate church and weaved out doctrines from the verses that support the founding and establishment of your own man-made religion without regard for other scriptural verses that seem to be contradictory to the verses cited has been the hallmark of the Rebel houses (churches). Such Scripture Alone false doctrine which is the mother of all heresies ever invented by Satan who was rebuked by Jesus the first time he tried to use the scripture against the Lord has moved them further away from the true church, the only one united church founded by Jesus Christ and built upon the continuing works of the Apostles down to their successors the bishops, priests, and leaders of the Catholic Church. 

As an example, we will discuss briefly the SDA false doctrine stated above which is the Universality of the Sabbath. Jesus already clarified this that he being the Lord even of the Sabbath has said that man is not made for the Sabbath but that the Sabbath for man. Meaning that it's not universal but made precisely for the chosen people, the Israelites, the Jews. While we Christians today no longer observe it since we are not of the law of Moses but of the Law of Christ under the New Covenant, the same God has made a new law that freed us from the bondage of the old law which nevertheless can still be applied for the Jews even Christian Jews and to which the Catholic Church has rightly acknowledged.

The basis of SDA Doctrine on the Sabbath is Exodus 20 but this scriptural passage is further clarified in Exodus 31 specifying and unequivocally stating that the law is meant for the Israelites whom we know are composed of 12 Tribes. They are known as the Jews as it is written: 

Exodus 31:12-18 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy." - The Lord in Exodus 20 is speaking to the Israelites and here he reiterated that he is giving the law to them because they are the people of the Covenant and God alone makes them holy. The chosen People of God.

 

“‘Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any work on that day must be cut off from their people. For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death. The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant. It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

The Sabbath, therefore, has been made as a sign of a lasting covenant for the Jews, very clear what the Lord has said: "It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever". Are the SDA members Israelites? Are the Catholics Israelites? There are many of us gentiles than Jews from the very beginning. That is why the Council of Jerusalem has spoken that the Law given to the Jews are not to be applied to the Christian gentiles except for some basic things like fasting but other than that we have been freed from the Law of Moses and is not under the Law of Christ who ruled that being the Lord of the Sabbath, that it is made for man and not man-made for the Sabbath meaning, non-Jews may or may not observe it and it will be not charged against him. 

We must also note that of the Ten Commandments, this is the only law of God where he made a clarification as to whom it is intended to be is the Sabbath. All the commandments apply to all but God made it clear that the Sabbath is "between me and the Israelites"

"When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God."

Now the SDA has also cited a verse in Isaiah 56 which states:  

In verses 3, 6 and 7 - Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.” And let no eunuch complain, “I am only a dry tree.” 

And foreigners who bind themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant -- these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

Here God is talking about Converted Jews, they are non-Israelites, foreigners not citizens of Israel not belonging to any of the 12 tribes, but converted to the faith of Judaism which bound them to the Law of Moses and so the Sabbath applies to them, thus God is consistent because he said “And the foreigners WHO BIND THEMSELVES TO THE LORD TO MINISTER TO HIM” they are adopted Israelites and Jews by conversion “Binding” them to the Lord. Therefore again the Universality which covers ALL Men is not taught in Isaiah to include all men 56 verses but rather it further solidifies the truth of what Jesus said that man is NOT made for the Sabbath but the Sabbath for man for it is up to those outside the Law to bind themselves to the law but the law does not force man to it. So those outside the law is not in charge of sinning against its law.

That is why Jesus is really the Lord even of the Sabbath and he is true when he said "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. So then whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven."

How then can one exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees who are under the Law and who observed the law in every detail if one will also be under the law? It is almost impossible for any man to exceed them who are even called People of the Book for their adherence to the Law. The only way that man can exceed them is to be outside the Law of Moses which are validly given to them that are under the law and be bound to the law of Christ which frees man from the yoke and place him in the New Covenant the Law of Christ that is truly universal for such is given to all men, Jews and Gentiles alike.

Therefore SDA if you are under the Law of Moses and bound yourself to it, then it is righteous for you to observe the Sabbath on Saturday but for those not bound in the Law of Moses but entered into a New Covenant of the Law of Christ, then not observing the Sabbath on Saturday can't be charged of sin against them. And yet the Catholic Church in observance of the Sabbath and the Resurrection of the Lord has rightly put into practice the Lord's Day which is Sunday. For the fulfillment of the Sabbath is observed on Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord is the Lord's Day. However, the SDA is neither here nor there. They are not Christians and they are not Jews, they are the 7th Day Adventist. They are trying to be more Jewish than the Jews and more Christian than the Christians of the Catholic Church. Thus they are half breed and the half breed has no truth in them for they are a creation of the Rebellious House the house of Satan. The 25 Million members must come out of her to have true salvation in Jesus Christ who is the head of the Church, the Catholic Church.

Bro. Manny OTFS Apologist

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