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返回研究目录 上一篇 下载中文 下一篇 我们是否尊崇耶稣如同尊崇祂父一样 我们是否尊崇耶稣如同尊崇祂父一样？ 腓立比书 2:6 “他本有上帝的行像，不以自己与上帝同等为强夺的， 约翰福音 5:21-23 父怎样叫死人起来，使他们活着，子也照样随自己的意思使人活着。22 父不审判什么人，乃将审判的事全交与子，23 叫人都尊敬子如同尊敬父一样。不尊敬子的，就是不尊敬差子来的父。 马太福音 11:27 一切所有的，都是我父交付我的。除了父，没有人知道子；除了子和子所愿意指示的，没有人知道父。 马太福音 28:18 “耶稣进前来，对他们说：“天上地下所有的权柄都赐给我了。” 路加福音 10:22 “一切所有的都是我父交付我的。除了父，没有人知道子是谁；除了子和子愿意指示的，没有人知道父是谁。” 约翰福音 3:35 父爱子，已将万有交在他手里。 约翰福音 16:15 “凡父所有的，都是我的，所以我说，他要将受于我的告诉你们。” 约翰福音 17:10 凡是我的都是你的，你的也是我的，并且我因他们得了荣耀。 约翰福音 13:3 耶稣知道父已将万有交在他手里，且知道自己是从上帝出来的，又要归到上帝那里去， 以弗所书1:20-23 20 就是照他在基督身上所运行的大能大力，使他从死里复活，叫他在天上坐在自己的右边， 21 远超过一切执政的、掌权的、有能的、主治的和一切有名的，不但是今世的，连来世的也都超过了。 22 又将万有服在他的脚下，使他为教会作万有之首。 23 教会是他的身体，是那充满万有者所充满的。 上一篇 返回研究目录 下一篇 到最頂

All trinity studies Previous Download Next Was LeRoy Froom the Main Person Responsible for the Change of the SDA Church Was LeRoy Froom the Main Person Responsible for the Change of the SDA Church to the Trinity Doctrine? So how did the central doctrine of the Catholic Church end up as a doctrine of the Seventh day Adventist faith? It may come as a surprise to many that LeRoy Froom was primarily responsible for introducing the Trinitarian doctrine to the Adventist Church, and purposefully set about to promote its acceptance and institute it into the beliefs of the Church. LeRoy Froom set out to search over 100,000 pages of her writings (25,000,000 words) for anything that could be mistaken as being Trinitarian and managed to find a small handful of quotes that he rightly figured could. He then placed these quotes into his book Evangelism. Most think that the quotes called “EV” or “Evangelism” are from a book written by Ellen White. But it was written and compiled by Froom in 1946 which was 30 years after the death of Ellen White. With the intent to deceive, Froom placed these quotes from Ellen White in his book Evangelism where she had said “third person”, “three great powers” and “Heavenly trio” etc. But all of these in fact refer to the Spirit of Christ and not another being. This is how Froom eventually managed to lead the entire Adventist Church astray because people did not take the time to research what else Ellen White wrote in this regard. She in fact wrote non-Trinitarian statements right through to her death which is very easy to confirm if people would only take the time to look without prejudice. Looking at all her writings we find she was consistent in all that she wrote. She said the Comforter is the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of truth is the Spirit of Christ, the third person is the Spirit of Christ, the third great power is the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit given at Pentecost was the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit Jesus breathed on His disciples was His own Spirit, the Holy Spirit Christ sent to represent Himself was His own Spirit, the heavenly dignitaries are the Father, Son and Spirit of Christ, the Heavenly trio is the Father, Son and Spirit of Christ, and she reveals over and over again that there are only two beings. All you have to do is want the truth and to stop reading the quotes from LeRoy Froom with the mindset of a Trinitarian. The early pioneers had no problem with these few quotes that Froom searched for because they knew who the Holy Spirit is and would never read them the wrong way. But if your belief is that the Holy Spirit is another being, then that is what you will see when you read them. It is also notable that LeRoy Froom did not start with the Bible and then move on to the writings of Ellen White. Instead he did the exact opposite. He actually began with the writings of Ellen White in order to try and find support for his belief. The fact is that Froom's belief in the trinity and the Holy Spirit came from outside of the Seventh day Adventist faith, and he set out to try and support it with statements from the Spirit of Prophecy. The reason LeRoy Froom had to go to outside sources, rather than use writings from our Pioneers is because none of the early pioneers were Trinitarians and therefore did not agree with Froom's opinions. This is also why Froom had to wait until Ellen White and the pioneers had all passed away before he could try and achieve his goal. How could this be a greater light as they called it a hundred years later? “I was compelled to search out a score of valuable books written by men outside of our faith--those previously noted--for initial clues and suggestions.” — (LeRoy Froom, Movement of Destiny, p. 322) In his book “Movement of Destiny”, which was published in 1971, he tells us how he came to write about the Holy Spirit and believe in the trinity. How much of what he wrote is truth as he understood is unknown considering other facts. He states that what he calls the “Truth of the Trinity” was an inevitable evolution in our theology stemming from the 1888 Conference and message. He concludes his brief account by claiming that the book “The Desire of Ages” presented an “inspired depiction” of the trinity doctrine and because of this it has become our denominations' “accepted position.” And yet the Desire of Ages is filled with non-Trinitarian statements. LeRoy Froom boasts that the “Desire of Ages” was even publicized in a prominent Catholic journal. Here are his own words, “...The Desire of Ages, of course, presented an inspired depiction, and was consequently destined to become the denominationally accepted position.... The Desire of Ages.... is one of the most highly esteemed books of the Denomination-a recognized classic, even publicized in such a Catholic journal as the “Universal Fatima News” for September 1965.” — (Movement of Destiny; pp. 323, 324). As a professed Seventh day Adventist, why would he be so proud of its endorsement and publicity in a Catholic Journal? That is what you would expect from a Catholic, not an Adventist. The video Jesuits in the SDA Church has a testimony “alleging” that LeRoy Froom and Roy Anderson were seen working as Catholic Priests before entering the SDA Church. This would explain Froom's enthusiasm about the Catholic journal. Then we have the issue of the book Truth Triumphant written by Adventist theologian Dr. B.G. Wilkinson. This book is an exhaustive study of the history of God's Church in the wilderness and contained statements against the Catholic Church. Froom was angry about the book and ordered the destruction of the offset press plates so the book could not be reprinted. Wilkinson was 80 years of age at this point and could not afford to have the plates made again. Why would an Adventist do such a thing unless of course he was a Catholic? Something is very wrong here and I am inclined to believe the testimony. On the 14 December 1955, Leroy Froom in a letter to Reuben Figuhr wrote, “I was publicly denounced in the chapel at the Washington Missionary College by Dr. B. G. Wilkinson as the most dangerous man in this denomination.” This took place in the mid 1940's. I believe Dr. B.G. Wilkinson had very good reason for saying this, much to the disgruntlement of Froom. Note that the “old timers” described in Froom's letter below are our pioneers. They are the ones who knew what the Church believed while Ellen White was alive and they denied the doctrine of the trinity Froom was pushing. So who was left to oppose Froom once Ellen white and the pioneers had passed on? “May I state that my book, The Coming of the Comforter was the result of a series of studies that I gave in 1927-28, to ministerial institutes throughout North America. You cannot imagine how I was pummeled by some of the old timers because I pressed on the personality of the Holy Spirit as the Third Person of the Godhead. Some men denied that –still deny it. But the book has come to be generally accepted as standard.” — (Letter of LeRoy Froom to Otto H. Christensen, Oct 27, 1960) The following letter from Froom reveals his agenda was to try and convince others that Ellen White was a Trinitarian for the sole purpose of getting the Church to follow his direction. Here is the letter to Roy Allen Anderson revealing its intent and purpose. The abused and misunderstood quotes from Ellen White are still being used to pervert the truth today. “I am sure that we are agreed in evaluating the book, Evangelism as one of the great contributions in which the Ministerial Association had a part back in those days. You know what it did with men in the Columbia Union who came face to face with the clear, unequivocal statements of the Spirit of Prophecy on the Deity of Christ, personality of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, and the like. They either had to lay down their arms and accept those statements, or else they had to reject the Spirit of Prophecy. I know that you and Miss Kleuser and I had considerable to do with the selection of these things under the encouragement of men like Elder Branson who felt that the earlier concept of the White Estate brethren on this book Evangelism was not adequate.” — (Letter from LeRoy Froom to Roy A. Anderson, January 18, 1966) Froom found “every” major statement from Ellen White that could be abused and misunderstood which means he literally had to look at everything she wrote. Could he be so deceived that he could not tell the difference between a non-Trinitarian and Trinitarian statement? Highly unlikely. He had no trouble finding every single statement that could be misunderstood so he had to know the difference. That means Froom saw the tens of thousands of non-Trinitarian statements that she wrote throughout her entire life. And he would also know that she wrote non-Trinitarian statements right through to her death. So LeRoy Froom had to know Ellen White never became a Trinitarian. How could all that he did not be intentional? Ask yourself what the following points reveal about LeRoy Froom and his agenda: 1) He looked to sources outside the Adventist Church because he couldn't find anything within our writings to fit his agenda. 2) He searched 100,000 pages (25,000,000 words) of Ellen White's writings for anything that could be misunderstood. 3) He wrote his book Evangelism after a trip to the Vatican in which he placed the misunderstood quotes he found. 4) When Adventists use these quotes they almost always have Froom's book as the source and yet he did not write them. 5) Hence most Adventist Trinitarians believe that Evangelism was written by Ellen White further revealing the deception. 6) Froom boasted that the “Desire of Ages” was even publicized in a prominent Catholic journal. 7) He wrote that the Desire of Ages was an inspired depiction of the trinity doctrine and why it is now accepted by the Church. 8) Yet the Desire of Ages is a non-Trinitarian book proven by all the non-Trinitarian statements again revealing the deception. 9) Froom wrote a letter stating that the pioneers in their old age strongly opposed the trinity doctrine that he was pushing. 10) Froom had the printing plates of a book destroyed that was not his that revealed many truths about the Catholic Church. 11) It is “alleged” that Froom was seen functioning as a Catholic priest prior entering the Adventist Church. 12) Dr. B.G. Wilkinson publicly denounced Froom as being the most dangerous man in the Adventist Church. 13) Froom wrote a letter stating how he was able to change the Church by the Spirit of Prophecy quotes he searched for. Ellen White said serious error would be brought into the Adventist Church after her death and Revelation 12:17 states that Satan would make war with God's remnant. So how far can and would Satan go? Could some Adventist Pastors have the spirit of Satan while thinking they have the Holy Spirit? Most would say no. Previous All trinity studies Next Back to top

返回研究目录 上一篇 下载中文 Read in English 下一篇 应当敬拜谁 应当敬拜谁？ 第一天使的信息 圣经研究 1。第一天使的信息是什么？ 启示录 1:3 “念这书上预言的和那些听见又遵守其中所记载的，都是有福的，因为日期近了。” 启示录14：6-7 6 我又看见另一位天使飞在空中，有永远的福音要传给住在地上的人，就是各国、各族、各方、各民。7 他大声说：“应当敬畏上帝，将荣耀归给他，因他施行审判的时候已经到了，应当敬拜那创造天、地、海和众水泉源的。” 2。审判者是谁？ 希伯来书12：22-24 “22 你们乃是来到锡安山、永生上帝的城邑，就是天上的耶路撒冷。那里有千万的天使，23 有名录在天上诸长子之会所共聚的总会，有审判众人的上帝和被成全之义人的灵魂，24 并新约的中保耶稣，以及所洒的血。这血所说的比亚伯的血所说的更美。” 3。上帝会藉着谁审判众人？ 罗马书 2:16 就在上帝藉耶稣基督审判人隐秘事的日子，照着我的福音所言。 约翰福音5：22-23 22 父不审判什么人，乃将审判的事全交与子，23 叫人都尊敬子如同尊敬父一样。不尊敬子的，就是不尊敬差子来的父。 约翰福音 5:30 “我凭着自己不能作什么，我怎么听见，就怎么审判。我的审判也是公平的，因为我不求自己的意思，只求那差我来者的意思。 4。创造者是谁？ 使徒行传4：24-27 24 他们听见了，就同心合意地高声向上帝说：“主啊，你是造天、地、海和其中万物的，25 你曾藉着圣灵托你仆人、我们祖宗大卫的口说：‘外邦为什么争闹？万民为什么谋算虚妄的事？26 世上的君王一齐起来，臣宰也聚集，要敌挡主，并主的受膏者（或作“基督”）。’27 希律和本丢彼拉多、外邦人和以色列民果然在这城里聚集，要攻打你所膏的圣仆耶稣（“仆”或作“子”）， 5。父上帝藉着谁创造万物？ 哥林多前书 8:6 然而我们只有一位上帝，就是父，万物都本于他，我们也归于他；并有一位主，就是耶稣基督，万物都是藉着他有的，我们也是藉着他有的。 箴言 30:4 “谁升天又降下来？谁聚风在掌中？谁包水在衣服里？谁立定地的四极？他名叫什么？他儿子名叫什么？你知道吗？” 【钦定本】以弗所书 3:9 “又使众人都明白，这从世界的起头以来，隐藏在借着耶稣基督创造万物之上帝里的奥秘，是如何安排的。” 6。父上帝怎么藉着耶稣基督创造万物？ 约翰福音1：1-4 1 太初有道，道与神同在，道就是神。2 这道太初与神同在。3 万物是藉着他造的；凡被造的，没有一样不是藉着他造的。4 生命在他里头，这生命就是人的光。 约翰福音 5:26 “因为父怎样在自己有生命，就赐给他儿子也照样在自己有生命；” 7。“神”在约翰福音1：1里是什么含义？ 约翰福音1：1，14，18 1 太初有道，道与神同在，道就是神。14 道成了肉身，住在我们中间，充充满满地有恩典，有真理。我们也见过他的荣光，正是父独生子的荣光。18 从来没有人看见上帝，只有在父怀里的独生子将他表明出来。 8。基督是否承受了祂父的名字？ 希伯来书1：1-5 1 上帝既在古时藉着众先知多次多方地晓谕列祖；2 就在这末世藉着他儿子晓谕我们，又早已立他为承受万有的；也曾藉着他创造诸世界。3 他是上帝荣耀所发的光辉，是上帝本体的真像，常用他权能的命令托住万有。他洗净了人的罪，就坐在高天至大者的右边。4 他所承受的名既比天使的名更尊贵，就远超过天使。5 所有的天使， 上帝从来对哪一个说，“你是我的儿子，我今日生你”？又指着哪一个说，“我要作他的父，他要作我的子”？ 创世纪 1:26 上帝说：“我们要照着我们的形像，按着我们的样式造人，使他们管理海里的鱼、空中的鸟、地上的牲畜和全地，并地上所爬的一切昆虫。” 约翰福音 5:43 “我奉我父的名来，你们并不接待我；若有别人奉自己的名来，你们倒要接待他。” 9。圣灵如何参与创造 约伯记 33:4 上帝的灵造我，全能者的气使我得生。 约翰福音20:22 说了这话，就向他们吹一口气，说：“你们受圣灵。 约翰福音3：34-35 34上帝所差来的，就说是谁的话；因为上帝赐圣灵给他，是没有限量的。35 父爱子，已将万有交在他手里。 10。我们该敬拜的是谁？ 约翰福音4：22-24 “22 你们所拜的，你们不知道；我们所拜的，我们知道，因为救恩是从犹太人出来的。23 时候将到，如今就是了，那真正拜父的，要用心灵和诚实拜他，因为父要这样的人拜他。”24上帝是个灵（或无“个”字），所以拜他的，必须用心灵和诚实拜他。” 11。我们应该如何归荣耀给我们的父上帝？ 约翰福音 5：22-24 22 父不审判什么人，乃将审判的事全交与子，23 叫人都尊敬子如同尊敬父一样。不尊敬子的，就是不尊敬差子来的父。24 我实实在在地告诉你们：那听我话、又信差我来者的，就有永生，不至于定罪，是已经出死入生了。 腓立比书2：10-11 “10 叫一切在天上的、地上的和地底下的，因耶稣的名无不屈膝，11 无不口称耶稣基督为主，使荣耀归与父上帝。” 12。我们单单要高举的是谁？ 约翰福音 17:3 认识你独一的真神，并且认识你所差来的耶稣基督，这就是永生。 13。我们是否应该重视约翰福音17：3？ 约翰一书2：22-25 22 谁是说谎话的呢？不是那不认耶稣为基督的吗？不认父与子的，这就是敌基督的。23 凡不认子的，就没有父；认子的，连父也有了。24 论到你们，务要将那从起初所听见的常存在心里；若将从起初所听见的存在心里，你们就必住在子里面，也必住在父里面。25 主所应许我们的就是永生。 14。启示录里被敬拜的是谁？ 启示录 5:13 “我又听见在天上、地上、地底下、沧海里和天地间一切所有被造之物都说：“但愿颂赞、尊贵、荣耀、权势都归给坐宝座的和羔羊，直到永永远远。” 启示录 7：9-10 9 此后，我观看，见有许多的人，没有人能数过来，是从各国、各族、各民、各方来的，站在宝座和羔羊面前，身穿白衣，手拿棕树枝，10 大声喊着说：“愿救恩归与坐在宝座上我们的上帝，也归与羔羊。” 15。天上的国是谁的国？ 启示录 11:15 “第七位天使吹号，天上就有大声音说：“世上的国成了我主和主基督的国；他要作王，直到永永远远。” 以弗所书 5:5 “因为你们确实地知道，无论是淫乱的，是污秽的，是有贪心的，在基督和上帝的国里，都是无份的。有贪心的，就与拜偶像的一样。” 启示录 22:1 “天使又指示我在城内街道当中一道生命水的河，明亮如水晶，从上帝和羔羊的宝座流出来。” 16。我们为什么没有被指示敬拜圣灵？ 启示录 5:6 “我又看见宝座与四活物并长老之中，有羔羊站立，像是被杀过的，有七角七眼，就是上帝的七灵，奉差遣往普天下去的。” 加拉太书 4:6 “我们既为儿子，上帝就差（他儿子的灵）进入我们的心，呼叫：“阿爸，父！” 约翰福音 14：16-22 耶稣说：“我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉着我，没有人能到父那里去。。。我要求父，父就另外赐给你们一位保惠师（或作“训慰师”。下同），叫他。。。 （1）永远与你们同在， 就是真理的圣灵， （2）乃世人不能接受的。因为不见他，也不认识他；你们却认识他， （3）因他常与你们同在，也要在你们里面。 （1）我不撇下你们为孤儿，我必到你们这里来。 （2） 还有不多的时候，世人不再看见我，你们却看见我，因为我活着，你们也要活着。 （3）到那日你们就知道我在父里面，你们在我里面，我也在你们里面。 有了我的命令又遵守的，这人就是爱我的；爱我的必蒙我父爱他，我也要爱他，并且要向他显现。” 犹大（不是加略人犹大）问耶稣说：“主啊，为什么要向我们显现，不向世人显现呢？” 加拉太书 2:20 “我已经与基督同钉十字架，现在活着的不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活着；并且我如今在肉身活着，是因信上帝的儿子而活，他是爱我，为我舍己。” 诗篇 139:7 “我往哪里去，躲避你的灵？我往哪里逃，躲避你的面？” 17。什么是亵渎圣灵？ 马可福音 3:22，29-30 22 “从耶路撒冷下来的文士说：“他是被别西卜附着。”又说：“他是靠着鬼王赶鬼。” 29 凡亵渎圣灵的，却永不得赦免，乃要担当永远的罪。” 30 这话是因为他们说：“他是被污鬼附着的。” 路加福音11：19-20 “我若靠着别西卜赶鬼，你们的子弟赶鬼又靠着谁呢？这样，他们就要断定你们的是非。20 我若靠着上帝的能力赶鬼，这就是上帝的国临到你们了。” 约翰福音 14:10 “我在父里面，父在我里面，你不信吗？我对你们所说的话，不是凭着”自己说的，乃是住在我里面的父作他自己的事。 18。我们能否假定有其他被敬拜的对象？ 约翰福音 14：1，6 1 “你们心里不要忧愁，你们信上帝，也当信我。6 耶稣说：“我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉着我，没有人能到父那里去。 约翰一书 1:3 “我们将所看见、所听见的传给你们，使你们与我们相交。我们乃是与父并他儿子耶稣基督相交的。” 启示录 22：18-19 18我向一切听见这书上预言的作见证，若有人在这预言上加添什么，上帝必将在这书上的灾祸加在他身上；19 这书上的预言，若有人删去什么， 神必从这书上所写的生命树和圣城，删去他的份。 上一篇 返回研究目录 下一篇 到最頂

All trinity studies Previous Download Next J. S. Washburn Letter on the Trinity J. S. Washburn Letter on the Trinity Judson S. Washburn wrote an objection letter to the Conference stating that, “The doctrine of the Trinity is regarded as the supreme test of orthodoxy by the Roman Catholic Church,” he proceeded to state why it should be rejected. “Satan has taken some heathen conception of a three-headed monstrosity, and with deliberate intention to cast contempt upon divinity, has woven it into Romanism as our glorious God, an impossible, absurd invention. This monstrous doctrine transplanted from heathenism into the Roman Papal Church is seeking to intrude its evil presence into the teachings of the Third Angel's Message... If we should go back to the immortality of the soul, purgatory, eternal torment and the Sunday Sabbath, would that be anything less than apostasy? If, however, we leap over all these minor, secondary doctrines and accept and teach the very central root, doctrine of Romanism, the Trinity, and teach that the son of God did not die, even though our words seem to be spiritual, is this anything else or anything less than apostasy, and the very Omega of apostasy?... However kindly or beautiful or apparently profound his sermons or articles may be, when a man has arrived at the place where he teaches the heathen Catholic doctrine of the Trinity, and denies that the Son of God died for us, is he a true Seventh-day Adventist? Is he even a true preacher of the Gospel?” — (Portions of a letter written by J.S. Washburn in 1939. This letter was liked by a conference president so much that he distributed it to 32 of his ministers). Previous All trinity studies Next Back to top

All trinity studies Previous Download Next Is Jesus a Real Son and God a Real Father Is Jesus a real Son and God a real Father? The trinity doctrine teaches 3 gods that are co-equal and co-eternal which are a 3 in 1 god. Does anyone stop to think and realize this means God cannot really be a Father and Jesus cannot really be His Son. If Jesus has always existed alongside the Father then He cannot be a Son, and if Jesus is not a Son, then God cannot be a Father. So it denies the Son of God which therefore denies the Father also. This denial of the Father and Son is what John called antichrist. 1 John 2:22-23. So those who teach the doctrine of the trinity make God and His Son and His Word one big lie. How many times does the Bible have to state that God is the Father of Christ and that Christ is the Son of God before one will believe it? Is there any other doctrine that discards so much Scripture? Hundreds of Scriptures suddenly become obsolete. Why would anyone in their right mind think this is acceptable? Trinitarians often claim that Jesus is only called the Son of God because of His birth in Bethlehem. But being born in human flesh, Christ became the “Son of man” at His incarnation, not the “Son of God” which He already was. Scripture reveals many times and in many ways that Jesus was God’s Son “before” God sent Him into the world, not after. The following two verses for instance say that God sent His Son into the world. Hence He was already God's Son before He sent Him. “because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.” 1 John 4:9 “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” John 3:17 Scripture also states that Jesus was the Son of God before all things were created. Paul wrote in regards to Christ that, “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.” Colossians 1:15 NKJV Over and over and over and over again we are told they are a Father and Son. And yet the Trinitarian camps on a few verses that can be abused and misunderstood in favour of discarding hundreds of unmistakable verses. They have no trouble in destroying this beautiful Father and Son relationship in favour of a Satanic doctrine just as Satan planned. It is his counterfeit doctrine that he had put in place by the Catholic Church more than 200 years AFTER the Bible was written. It is Satan’s creation to have Christians deny that Jesus is a literal Son and hence that God is a literal Father to steal our souls. The Bible says if you deny Jesus is the literal Son of God that you cannot enter the kingdom. In the Bible we find that Christ is called the “Son of God” 48 times, “only begotten” 6 times, “firstborn” 4 times and “the firstbegotten” 1 time. Not once does the Bible even so much as hint that Jesus is only a Son in a metaphorical sense. The Bible means what it says and says what it means as does Ellen White. And she stated, “God is the Father of Christ; Christ is the Son of God.” — (E.G. White, 8T 268.3) “The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty,” — (E.G. White, Ms140, Sept 27, 1903) John 5:26 also tells us that the Father gave life to His Son. “For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself.” John 5:26 If Jesus had always existed alongside the Father as the Trinity doctrine claims, then God could not have given life to His Son as He would have always had life. But Scripture reveals this is impossible. Is it really that hard to understand Satan’s goal here where this pagan 3 in 1 god idea means God is NOT really a Father, and Jesus is NOT really a Son, and the “Spirit OF God” is not really His Spirit at all but something called “god the spirit?” This is what the human mind cannot understand and they say it is a mystery and we must just accept it and not question it. We should all know what spirit tells us that lie. And compared to what? There is no mystery with the real truth that Scripture tells us over and over again. God the Father really is a Father, and the Son of God really is the Son of God, and the Spirit of God really is the Spirit of God. So simple and exactly what God's Word keeps telling us. I pray that your eyes can see and that you come to the understanding of what Satan has done in trying to obscure the truth that Jesus really is God's Son. SOP tells us that Satan hates God's Son and wants us to deny that Jesus really is the literal Son of God. If we do that, Scripture says we have no access to the Father. Thus there is a lot more to this then meets the eye that most do not stop to think about. Those who have studied this and found the truth are desperately reaching out to try and save souls. No one should object to that and it is a very sad day when people do. Previous All trinity studies Next Back to top

All trinity studies Previous Download Next Most Have No Idea What the Trinity Doctrine is and Why it Results in Hell Fire Most Have No Idea what the Trinity Doctrine is and why it Results in Hell Fire The majority of professed Trinitarians have absolutely no idea what the Trinity doctrine actually is. And when some find out, they are so shocked that they go into denial and say, “That is not what I believe!” If you do not believe the facts stated below, then you are NOT a Trinitarian! And if what you follow differs from what is explained below, then it is NOT the Trinity doctrine! It does not matter whether it be the SDA Church or any other Church. There is only ONE Trinity doctrine and it does not come in different flavours. The Trinity doctrine says there are THREE LITERAL GODS that are equal in every way and that all THREE gods have always existed. THREE gods that are co-equal and co-eternal in other words. But now we have a SERIOUS problem because the Bible says there is only ONE God. SATAN via the Catholic Church says NO PROBLEM…I have just the answer to keep all deceived. We will teach that all THREE GODS are really only ONE GOD! 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 ! THREE LITERAL GODS that are not really 3 GODS but 1 GOD. Make sense? No! Why should it? It was made up by Satan via the Catholic Church so Satan could get worship and have Christians deny the Father and Son and not even know it ! Satan HATES the SON OF GOD and wants us to deny Him. Not only that, but we can only be saved by confessing that Jesus is the Son of God. So how does the Trinity doctrine deny the Father and Son and give worship to Satan? If they are 3 gods that have ALWAYS existed, Jesus cannot really be a SON and therefore God cannot really be a FATHER. And so the Bible now has hundreds of lies! More unmistakable Scriptures are denied then any other doctrine EVER ! And yet people just go on blindly believing that it is right. Like lambs to the slaughter as they say. So God is not the Father of Christ and Christ is not the Son of God says the Trinity doctrine! Every Scripture that says Jesus is the Son of God is now a lie. Every Scripture that says God is the Father is now a lie. How many Scriptures suddenly become a lie?....“HUNDREDS!” The Bible says Jesus was God's Son before He came to Earth. The Trinity doctrine says No! The Bible says Jesus is the Son of God. The Trinity doctrine says No! He is just ROLE PLAYING. The Bible says God is the Father of Christ. The Trinity doctrine says No! He is just ROLE PLAYING. Where is there ONE Scripture that even hints they are not really a Father and Son and that they are ROLE PLAYING? IT DOES NOT EXIST ! The Bible says the Holy Spirit is the “Spirit OF God” or the “Spirit OF the Father.” The Trinity doctrine says No! It claims it is something called “god the spirit” which has a different meaning and does NOT exist in Scripture but came from antichrist ! So instead of the Holy Spirit being the SPIRIT OF THE FATHER, it is now some third god called “god the spirit.” And if “god the spirit” is Satan's idea and his creation…what spirit do you have in you? And what spirit do you give your adoration to? And what spirit do you worship or pray to for those who are now doing that also? It will be SATAN ! The third person in the Trinity is actually Satan, not the real Holy Spirit ! Christians need to wake up before it is too late. The extract below is from a mainstream SDA book. Adventist Woodrow Whidden says that expressions such as “Father,” “Son,” “Firstborn,” “Only Begotten,” “Begotten,” “the only true God” and “one God the Father” are just figurative and metaphorical. Now where is there even a hint in Scripture that this is so? “Is it not quite apparent that the problem texts become problems only when one assumes an exclusively literalistic interpretation of such expressions as “Father,” “Son,” “Firstborn,” “Only Begotten,” “Begotten,” and so forth? Does not such literalism go against the mainly figurative or metaphorical meaning that the Bible writers use when referring to the persons of the Godhead? Can one really say that the Bible writers meant such expressions as “the only true God” and “one God the Father”…” — (Woodrow Whidden, The Trinity, p. 106, 2002) A metaphor did not send a metaphor to save us. A Father sent us His Son to save us. (John 3:16) Previous All trinity studies Next Back to top

All trinity studies Previous Download Next The argument with Genesis 1 The argument with Genesis 1 The argument with Genesis 1:26 is that the Hebrew word “Elohim” for God is plural and so this must mean that God is 3 beings. It is further argued that since the pronoun “us” is used in Genesis 1:26 that this also confirms that God must be 3 and that 3 beings did the creating. Did anyone ever stop to think that “us” could be just the Father and Son? The Greek word for God is “Theos” while the Hebrew word is “Elohim.” Note that the Greek word “Theos” is singular and “only” the Hebrew word for God is plural. This is because the Hebrew people pluralized nouns to denote greatness and this is called a “Plural of majesty.” They did this to express that God is great, not that God is more than one. Below is one dictionary that not only explains the truth but also informs us that no intelligent scholar uses this false argument anymore because the truth is so easily seen and the deception exposed. Hence no one uses this argument anymore unless they are ignorant and deceived. “Elohim is the plural of Eloah ... The fanciful idea that it referred to the trinity of persons in the Godhead hardly finds now a supporter among scholars. It is either what grammarians call the plural of majesty, or it denotes the fullness of divine strength, the sum of the powers displayed by God. Jehovah denotes specifically the one true God, whose people the Jews were, and who made them the guardians of his truth.” — (Smith's Bible Dictionary) How many beings does the Bible say were involved in creation? Ephesians 3:9 says, “God, ... created all things by Jesus Christ:” God in this verse is obviously someone other than Jesus Christ, and Hebrews 1:2 and John 1:3 also say God created all things by His Son. So who is speaking in Genesis 1:26 and who is He speaking to according to these verses? God said to His Son, “let us make man in our image.” Christ is “the express image” of the Father, so anyone created in the Father's image is also created in His Son's image. How many beings does SOP say were involved in creation? “The Father and the Son engaged in the mighty, wondrous work they had contemplated, of creating the world. ... After the earth was created, and the beasts upon it, the Father and Son carried out their purpose, which was designed before the fall of Satan, to make man in their own image. They had wrought together in the creation of the earth and every living thing upon it. And now GOD said to His SON, “Let us make man in our image. [GENESIS 1:26 QUOTED]” — (E.G. White, 1SP, 24.1,2) Previous All trinity studies Next Back to top

Back to Contents Previous Download 看中文 Next The Top Fifteen Excuses Used to Avoid the Sabbath(Part 1) It is absolutely incredible how many excuses are given by Christians who claim to truly love God come up with to justify why they do not need to obey one of the Ten Commandments that defines what sin is, and is a precious SIGN and blessing from God. As stated earlier, I have been given enough excuses to write an entire book. This is extremely dangerous and the many Christians who have deliberately sought out an excuse as to why they can disobey God are in for a very rude shock. Jesus says that to even those that do miracles in His name and call Him Lord but break any of the Commandments, He will say, “depart from me I never knew you.” Can you imagine the shock of so many Christians in the end that thought they could make excuses to disobey one of God’s Commandments and get away with it? The words of Jesus on fulfilling the law are all we need to know the Sabbath truth. Jesus said that not even a letter of the Ten Commandments will pass as long as heaven and earth are still here. On the words of Jesus alone it is Ten unchanged Commandments and it is just as serious to worship idols or murder as it is to not keep the Sabbath Holy. This is far too serious an issue not to fully investigate. It is one thing to be ignorant of the truth but to not want to investigate if you are ignorantly living in sin will still condemn you. We must have a love of the truth as Jesus is truth and the Word is truth. Jesus means what He says and says what He means and we are not free to manipulate the words of any of the Ten Commandments to suit ourselves and still enter the kingdom. The Sabbath Commandment says we have six days to do our work but the Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord and we are to keep the Seventh day Holy. The other six days are secular and are not Holy and the Commandment is very clear that we cannot choose our own day. See also Exodus 16. Here are fifteen responses to the most popular excuses used that all contradict the words of Jesus. Select each link to find the real truth for each excuse or misunderstanding. -Should we keep Sunday in honour of the resurrection -Has the Calendar changed the Sabbath day -How do we know which day is the Sabbath -Can we keep any day as the Sabbath -What day is the Lord's Day -Was the Sabbath only for the Jews -The Sabbath was Made for Man -Were the Ten Commandments abolished -Is Jesus our Sabbath rest -Was the Sabbath abolished -We are not under Law but under Grace -Did Jesus break the Sabbath -Is the Sabbath in the New Covenant -How could the majority wrong about the Sabbath -Was the Sabbath changed to Sunday in the Bible and Sunday Keeping in Corinth Should we keep Sunday in honour of the resurrection? Jesus did rise on the first day of the week, but nowhere is there the slightest legitimate hint in the Bible for us to keep this day holy. See also the Sabbath to Sunday change or who changed the Sabbath to Sunday for the first day of the week misunderstandings. History confirms that some Christians around 90-120 A.D. changed to Sunday to avoid the intense persecution for Judaism using the resurrection as their excuse, and there are always those who will do their own thing contrary to God’s Word, but obviously it is not man’s prerogative to change God’s law for any reason. Jesus said, “…Full well you reject the Commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.” Mark 7:9 Many honourable events occurred on certain days of the week, but we have no command to keep them Holy. Jesus died for our sins on Friday. But not one Bible text hints that we should observe this day of such great significance that is probably the most significant event recorded in all history. It marks the moment our death sentence was commuted and our salvation assured. So how do we honour the crucifixion? Do we worship on Friday to honour the crucifixion? No! As long as you break the bread and drink the cup of communion you show the Lord’s death till He comes. Communion is what commemorates the crucifixion on Friday. It was a dramatic moment when Jesus rose from the grave on that Sunday morning, but again there is no biblical evidence whatsoever that we should observe it in honour of the resurrection. Not one instance of Sunday observance has been found in the recorded Scriptures. As with communion, honouring the resurrection should be done how God instructs us, not how man decides. This of course is done through Baptism which is a memorial of the resurrection commanded in the Bible, but it is not Sunday keeping. Paul wrote in Romans 6:4 “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Communion commemorates the Friday crucifixion and Baptism commemorates Christ’s death, burial and Sunday resurrection. Those who believe that Sunday observance honours His resurrection cite the upper room meeting of the disciples on the same day He arose from the grave. To them that gathering was to celebrate His resurrection. But when we read the Bible record of the event, we discover that the circumstances were quite different. Luke tells us that, even though the disciples were confronted with the eyewitness story of Mary Magdalene, they “believed not.” Mark 16:12-14 states, “After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them. Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.” Obviously, none of those disciples believed He was raised, so they could not have been joyously celebrating His resurrection. John explains their reason for being together, “…the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews…” John 20:19. See also “Sunday Keeping in Corinth” and the erroneous Wednesday crucifixion theory pushed by some. Has the Calendar changed the Sabbath day? The calendar has been changed but it was never changed so as to affect the weekly cycle of days or confuse the days of the week. We can be one hundred percent positive that our seventh day is the same day Jesus observed when He was here. Pope Gregory XIII was responsible for a calendar change in 1582, but it did not interfere with the weekly cycle. Our present Gregorian calendar was named after him when he made that small change in 1582. What did Pope Gregory XIII do to the calendar? Before 1582 the Julian calendar had been in effect instituted by Julius Caesar about 46 B.C. and named after him. But the Julian calendar had calculated the length of the year as 365 1/4 days, which was incorrect as the length of a year was actually eleven minutes less than 365 1/4 days. Those eleven minutes accumulated, and by 1582 the numbering of the calendar was ten days out of harmony with the solar system. Pope Gregory fixed the problem by simply dropping those ten days out of the numbering of the calendar. It was Thursday, October 4, 1582, and the next day, Friday, should have been October 5. But Gregory made it October 15 instead, dropping exactly ten days to bring the calendar back into harmony with the heavenly bodies. Were the days of the week confused? No. Friday still followed Thursday, and Saturday still followed Friday etc. The same seventh day remained and the weekly cycle was not disturbed in the least. When we keep the seventh day on Saturday, we observe the same day Jesus kept, and Luke 4:16 tells us Jesus did this every week. The U.S. Naval Observatory has also reported that there has never been any change in the continuity of the weekly cycle. How do we know which day is the Sabbath? This is a fallacy that has comforted many in their disobedience to the fourth Commandment. Beside the fact that God would not allow the day to be lost, here are four other proofs that identify we still have the correct Sabbath day: 1. Many people today have never given much thought to which is the seventh day of the week. I assumed for many years that Sunday was the seventh day and Monday was the first day. You can imagine my surprise when I found out this was incorrect. An easy way to confirm this is to just look up Saturday in any normal dictionary. Here are two. Saturday n. the seventh day of the week; day after Friday; day of worship among Jews and some Christians. Saturday n. the seventh and last day of the week: the Sabbath. 2. The Scriptures say Christ died on Friday and rose on Sunday, the first day of the week. Practically all churches acknowledge this fact by observing Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Here is the Bible evidence: “This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on.” Luke 23:52-54. This clearly shows Jesus died the day before the Sabbath. It was called “the preparation day” because it was the time to get ready (to prepare) for the Sabbath. Verses 55 and 56 go on to say, “And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the Commandment.” Note that the women rested over the Sabbath “according to the Commandment” and that the book of Luke was written decades after the cross showing the Sabbath unquestionably remained unchanged. The Commandment says, “The seventh day is the Sabbath,” so we know they were observing Saturday. The very next verse says; “Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared… And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.” Luke 24:1-2. How clearly these three consecutive days are described for us. He died Friday, the preparation day, commonly called Good Friday. He rested in the tomb on the seventh day, Sabbath, “according to the Commandment.” That was Saturday. Then on Sunday, the first day of the week, Easter Sunday to many, Jesus arose from the grave. Anyone who can locate Good Friday or Easter Sunday will have absolutely no difficulty finding the true Sabbath day. See also Wednesday crucifixion. 3. The third proof lies in the fact that in over 100 languages of the world, the seventh day Saturday is still called the Sabbath. In Italy it is called Sabbato, in Spain Sabado, in Portugal Sabbado, in Russia Subbota and Poland Sobota. All of these names mean “Sabbath” or “rest day” in their various languages. What does this prove? It proves that when those 100 languages originated at Babel in Genesis 11, Saturday was recognized as the Sabbath day and was incorporated into the very name of the day. Except for those languages that have adopted the pagan names for the days of the week, the seventh day is still called the Sabbath as the Lord named it at the time of creation. Strong’s dictionary shows the word translated “rest” in our English Bibles in Genesis 2:3, is actually “Sabbath” in the Hebrew. See who changed the Sabbath to Sunday or what day is the Sabbath for a table of languages. 4. Here is the most conclusive proof of all for the true Sabbath. The Jewish people have been observing the seventh day from the time of Abraham, and they still keep it today. Here is a whole nation, millions of individuals who have been counting off time meticulously, week after week, calendar or no calendar, for thousands of years. Could they have lost track of days? That would be impossible! The only way they could have lost a day would have been for the entire nation to have slept over an extra day and for no one ever to tell them about it afterwards. There is no scientific or astronomical reason for measuring time in cycles of seven days. The origin of the week is found in the creation story and it is an arbitrary arrangement of God and has been miraculously preserved for one reason, which is because the holy Sabbath day points to the creative power of the only true God. It is a sign of His sovereignty over the world and over human life, a sign of creation and redemption. Is this not the reason God will preserve Sabbath keeping throughout eternity? We read in Isaiah 66:22-23 “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.” The Sabbath is so precious to God that His true Children will observe it throughout all time to see in the beautiful new heavens and the new earth. If the Sabbath is so precious to God then why isn’t it precious to us? If it was made and kept since creation and we keep it for all eternity, then why isn’t everyone keeping it now? Can we keep any day as the Sabbath? By this argument Satan prepared the world to accept a substitute in place of the Sabbath which God had specifically commanded. Upon the tables of stone God wrote the great unchanging law of the ages with His own finger. Every word was serious and meaningful. Not one line was ambiguous or mysterious. Sinners and Christians, educated and uneducated, have no problem understanding the simple, clear words of the Ten Commandments. So does God mean what he says or not? God does mean what He says and He says what He means. He said unmistakably to keep the seventh day, not any day in seven. No one has tried to void that law as too complicated to comprehend. Some say they keep the Sabbath every day of the week. Is this what God said to do? My Bible says “Six days you shall work but the Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord.” Can we just respond to God by saying, “You got it wrong God, the Seventh day is not your Sabbath we can just keep any or every day.” Isn’t that dangerous to mock God and His Commandment like that? God desires us to worship Him every day, doing everything at all times to His glory, however, as to a Holy day of worship, God has commanded only one and has set apart no other day. We worship God seven days a week but if we kept the Sabbath seven days a week, we would not be Holy, we would be lazy. Most of the big Ten begin with the same words: “Thou shalt not,” but right in the heart of the law we find the fourth Commandment which is introduced with the word, “Remember.” Why is this one different? Because God was commanding them to call something to memory which already existed but had been forgotten. Genesis describes the origin of the Sabbath in these words, “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made...And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” Genesis 2:1-3. Which day did God bless and sanctify? The seventh day. How was it to be kept holy? By resting. Could any of the other six be kept holy? No. Why? Because God commanded not to rest those days but to work. In Leviticus 10, Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron were supposed to bring Holy fire from the alter but instead brought, as the Bible phrases it, strange fire. Did the Holy fire and the secular fire look the same? Yes. Were they chemically the same? Yes. Was God happy with the secular fire instead of Holy fire? Leviticus 10:2 says, “And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.” God was definitely not happy with their strange fire. So how does God feel when we offer Him a secular day instead of His Holy day? How does God feel when we offer a day used for sun worship (Sunday) that God detested? Does God’s blessing have any value or is it worthless? Why do parents pray for God to bless their children? The seventh day is different from the other six because it has God’s blessing and is Holy. Why did God make this day Holy? He made this day Holy because He is Holy and it is for intimate Holy time with Him. Ever heard the expression you can’t change it because it’s written in stone? It is very relevant that the Commandments were written in stone by God’s finger. When God puts it on stone like this it’s solid, it’s eternal and it’s immovable and you can’t change it. God gave many other Laws to Moses at Mt Sinai but they were not written in stone and most of those were nailed to the cross. The Ten Commandments were the only thing God wrote in stone. Why did God bless the day? Because He had created the world in six days. It was the birthday of the world, a memorial of the mighty act of creation. It is the test Commandment of our love and obedience to God while also celebrating creation and reminding us He can and will do it again. Can the Sabbath memorial be changed? Never. It points backward to an accomplished fact. July 4 is Independence Day. Can it be changed? It can’t change anymore than your birthday. It is a memorial of your birth, which happened on a set day. History would have to run through again to change your birthday, or Independence Day, or to change the Sabbath day. We can call another day Independence Day, and we can call another day the Sabbath, but that will never make it so. It is the day that it is. Did God ever give man the privilege of choosing his own day of rest? He did not. In fact, God confirmed in the Bible that the Sabbath was settled and sealed by His own divine selection and should not be tampered with. Read Exodus 16 concerning the giving of manna. For 40 years God worked three miracles every week to show Israel which day was holy. (1.) No manna fell on the seventh day. (2.) They could not keep it overnight without spoilage (3.) But when they kept it over the Sabbath, it remained sweet and fresh. But some Israelites had the same idea as many modern Christians. They felt that any day in seven would be all right to keep holy: “And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my Commandments and my laws?” Exodus 16:27-28. Sadly, these people thought another day could be kept just as well as the seventh day. Perhaps they were planning to observe the first day of the week, or some other day which was more convenient for them. This seems to be the plan for many Christians today. So how did God respond to these non-Jews? God accused them of breaking all His Commandments and laws. Would God say the same thing to those who break the Sabbath today? Of course! He is the same yesterday, today and forever, He changes not. God made it clear that, regardless of our feelings, those who work on the Sabbath are breaking His Commandments. James explains that breaking even one Commandment is sin and is to break all of them just as God demonstrated in Exodus 16: “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.” James 2:10-11. What day is the Lord’s Day? The Bible uses the phrase the “Lord’s day” only once in Revelation 1:10, so we know the Lord does have a special day. But there is not one single verse in the whole Bible that refers to Sunday as the “Lord’s Day.” However, the Bible does plainly identify the Sabbath as the Lord’s Day. The only day ever blessed by the Lord or claimed by Him as His holy day is the Seventh day Sabbath. Matthew 12:8 “For the son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.” Jesus did not say I AM the Sabbath, or I am LORD Sabbath! Jesus said, “I am Lord OF the Sabbath!” It was Jesus who made the Sabbath at creation and is the reason for His claim to be Lord of the Sabbath day. (Mark 2:28) If Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath day, then the Sabbath is the Lord’s Day. The vision John had on “the Lord’s day” according to Revelation 1:10 had to be the Sabbath. It is the only day so designated and claimed by God in the Bible. In writing the Ten Commandments, God called it “the Sabbath of the Lord.” Lucium who was an early church historian wrote, “In the year 325, Sylvester, Bishop of Rome (AD 314-337), officially changed the title of the first day, calling it the Lord’s day.” (Lucium, Historia Ecclesiastica, p. 739) One would ask why Sylvester would make any claim about changing the title of the first day if the term “Lord’s day” was already widespread before his edict. It was in fact early in fourth century when Sunday was officially named the “Lord’s Day” which was about 200 years after some of the so called early Church fathers in Alexandria and Rome first changed to Sunday in fear of persecution and against God's will. Note carefully the following Catholic quote: “St John speaks of the Lord’s day (Rev 1:10) but he does not tell us what day of the week that was, much less does he tell us what day was to take the place of the Sabbath ordained in the commandments. St. Luke speaks of the disciples meeting together to break bread on the first day of the week. Acts 20:7. And St. Paul (1 Cor 16:2) orders that on the first day of the week the Corinthians should lay in store what they designated to bestow in charity on the faithful in Judea: but neither the one or the other tells us that this first day of the week was to be henceforth a day of worship, and the Christian Sabbath; so that truly the best authority we have for this ancient custom is the testimony of the church. And therefore those who pretend to be such religious observers of Sunday, whilst they take no notice of other festivals ordained by the same church authority, show that they act more by humor, than by religion; since Sundays and holidays all stand upon the same foundation, namely the ordinance of the (Roman Catholic) church.” — Catholic Christian Instructed, 17th edition, p. 272-273. Was the Sabbath only for the Jews? This falsehood has gained such strength that multitudes of Christians refer to it as the “Jewish Sabbath.” But nowhere do we find such an expression in the Bible. It is called “the Sabbath of the Lord,” (Exodus 20:10) but never “the Sabbath of the Jews.” Luke was a Gentile writer of the New Testament and often made reference to things which were peculiarly Jewish. He spoke of the “nation of the Jews,” “the people of the Jews,” “the land of the Jews,” and the “synagogue of the Jews.” Acts 10:22, 12:11, 10:39 and 14:1. But please take note that Luke never referred to the “Sabbath of the Jews” or the “Jewish Sabbath” and we do find that he mentioned the Sabbath repeatedly. Christ unmistakably taught that “the Sabbath was made for man.” Mark 2:27. It does not say the Sabbath was made for Jews. Some say since it was made for man we can choose not to keep it. The fact is that all the Commandments were made for man. So does this mean we can choose to ignore all of them? Of course not! Man was made on the sixth day and the only reason that we have a seventh day is because God added it for a Sabbath rest for man. It was made for man at creation so what has changed? Nothing! The Pharisees thought the Sabbath was made just for them so Jesus was correcting them and said the Sabbath was made to be a blessing for ALL man and not a day of legalistic rules that they had turned it into. Picking corn on the Sabbath for a meal was a necessity and not unlawful. The fact is that Adam was the only man in existence at the time God made the Sabbath. There were no Jews in the world for at least 2,000 years after creation. It could never have been made for them. Jesus used the term “man” in the generic sense, referring to mankind. The same word is used in connection with the institution of marriage which was also introduced at creation. Woman was made for man just as the Sabbath was made for man. Certainly no one believes that marriage was made only for the Jews. The fact is that two beautiful, original institutions were set up by God Himself before sin ever came into the world; marriage and the Sabbath. Both were made for man, both received the special blessing of the Creator and both continue to be just as holy now as when they were sanctified in the Garden of Eden. Note that the “children of Israel” God was angry with for not keeping the Sabbath in Exodus 16:25-30 were not Jews either. They were Abraham’s seed just as we are. Galatians 3:29, “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” We are in fact spiritual Jews! See also Romans 2:28-29. Jesus was the One who made the Sabbath in the first week of time. There was a reason for His claim to be Lord of the Sabbath day (Mark 2:28). If He is the Lord of the Sabbath day, then the Sabbath must be the Lord’s Day. John had a vision on “the Lord’s day,” according to Revelation 1:10. That day had to be the Sabbath. It is the only day so designated and claimed by God in the Bible. In writing the Ten Commandments, God called it “the Sabbath of the Lord.” Exodus 20:10. Adam and Eve were not Jewish. “God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.” Genesis 2:3. Sanctified means “to be set apart for holy use.” This was pre-sin and the only ones in Eden to “Sanctify” the Sabbath were Adam and Eve. The other Nine are not “Just for the Jews.” Does idolatry, murder, stealing and adultery apply only to Jews? The Sabbath is also for the “stranger” who are Gentiles. Exodus 20:10. In “the new earth ... from one Sabbath to another, shall ALL FLESH come to worship before me, saith the Lord.” Isaiah 66:22-23. Grace saved Gentiles kept the Sabbath. “The Gentiles besought that these words be preached to them the next Sabbath ... Paul and Barnabas ... persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.” Acts 13:42-43. Luke was a Gentile who kept the Sabbath. Luke was the only Gentile writer in the New Testament. He travelled with Paul and wrote, “On the Sabbath we went out of the city by a river side.” Acts 16:13. It was the Creation Sabbath. Both Luke and Paul knew it. See also who changed the Sabbath to Sunday or is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday for further proof that it predates Judaism. This argument has also led many to believe the Sabbath existed only for a limited period of time following creation. But is this a fact? Actually, the Sabbath could never be just a type or shadow of anything, for the simple reason that it was made before sin entered the human family. Certain shadows and typical observances (ordinances) were instituted as a result of sin and pointed forward to the deliverance from sin. Such were the sacrifices employed to symbolize the death of Jesus, the Lamb of God. There would have been no animal sacrifices had there been no sin. These offerings were abolished when Christ died on the cross, because the types had met their fulfilment (Matthew 27:51). But no shadow existed before sin entered this world; therefore, the Sabbath could not be included in the ceremonial law of types and shadows. The ceremonial laws were temporary but all of God’s moral law is eternal as it mirrors His loving, unchanging Holy character. He is “the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” Hebrews 13:8. Paul referred to the temporary system of ordinances in Colossians 2:14-16 as being “against us” and “contrary to us.” He tied it to the meat offerings, drink offerings and yearly festivals of the law that were “blotted out.” It is true he referred to sabbaths also in the text, but take careful note that he called them “sabbath days (note also the original Greek here is plural) which are a shadow of things to come.” Were some sabbath days blotted out at the cross? Yes, there were at least seven yearly sabbaths which came on certain set days of the month, and they were nailed to the cross. They were shadows and required specified meat and drink offerings. All of these annual sabbaths are described in Leviticus 23:24-36, and then summarized in verses 37 and 38: “These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: beside the Sabbaths of the Lord...” The Scripture differentiates between the annual, shadowy sabbaths and the weekly “Sabbaths of the Lord.” The ceremonial sabbaths were only for the Jews and were blotted out at the cross as they had been added as a consequence of sin. But the Sabbath of the Ten Commandments was hallowed before sin and Jews and later incorporated into the moral law written by the finger of God. It was eternal in its very nature as love is everlasting. The Sabbath was made for man Christ taught that “the Sabbath was made for man.” Mark 2:27. Some seem to think that since Jesus said this that we can choose not to keep it or choose our own day. But this is just another excuse for treading the Son of God underfoot. (Hebrews 10:26-29) Note also that Jesus did not say the Sabbath was made for “Jews.” He said the Sabbath was made for “man” meaning all people! The People's New Testament (1891) by B. W. Johnson “The Sabbath was made for man. The Sabbath rest; that is, a rest of one day in seven was made for man, not for Jews only. This implies that it is to be a universal institution; that the good of man requires it, and that it is not an arbitrary enactment, but a wise and benevolent provision for the welfare of the race. Experience shows that men are happiest, most moral, most prosperous and healthiest where it is devoutly observed.” Man was made on the sixth day and the only reason we have a seventh day of the week is because God added it for a Sabbath rest for man. Hence the Sabbath was made for man at creation so what has changed? Absolutely nothing! The fact is that all the Commandments were made for man. So does this mean we can choose to ignore all of the other Commandments as well? Obviously not! So what was happening when Jesus said this? The Pharisees assumed the Sabbath was made just for them so Jesus corrected them stating that the Sabbath was made to be a blessing for ALL man and not a day of legalistic rules that they had enforced. They had accused Jesus of breaking the Sabbath by picking corn for sustenance and so Jesus pointed out that the Sabbath was made to be a blessing to man and not a burden. This statement of Jesus in Mark 2:27 is not some magical subclause that annuls the fourth Commandment! Picking corn on the Sabbath for nourishment was a necessity. It was not wrong for Jesus to heal the sick and to meet human needs on His Holy Day. (Matthew 12:10-12) Jesus said that not even a comma of the law is going to change (Matthew 5:17-19) and Isaiah prophesied “The LORD … will MAGNIFY the law…” (Isaiah 42:21) not make the law less strict by allowing us to pick and choose if we want to obey a Commandment or not. God Commanded, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy ... the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Exodus 20:8-10. Were the Ten Commandments abolished? It grieves me to say that it is commonly taught, without any scriptural authority, that the Ten Commandments were abolished at the cross. Proponents of this belief never stop to realize that, if there is no law, there is no transgression as Paul plainly states in Romans 4:15. This would mean that no one has sinned since Christ’s death, and therefore, we would have no need for a Saviour! God’s law is a gift to mankind, yet humanity thanklessly rejects it. As good and glorious as this law is, human nature is hostile to it. (Romans 8:7) Selfishly, it wants to have everything which God’s way of life brings but it rebelliously resents travelling the road God demands one should take to obtain His blessings. Paul writes in Romans 7:12 that “…the law is holy, and the Commandment holy and just and good.” Notice how God’s moral law (The Ten Commandments) is a reflection of God’s most beautiful and Holy character. To declare that the God’s moral law is no longer relevant is an insult and attack on God, His Holy character and love. See more detailed chart on the Ten Commandments Compared to God's Character. God’s Law equals God’s Character » Romans 16:26: God is Eternal » Psalm 111:7-8: The law is Eternal » Luke 18:19: God is Good » Romans 7:12: The law is Good » John 4:24: God is Spiritual » Romans 7:14: The law is Spiritual » Deuteronomy 32:4: God is Just » Romans 7:12: The law is Just » Psalm 145:17: God is Righteous » Psalm 119:172: The law is Righteous » 1 John 3:3: God is Pure » Psalms 19:8: The law is Pure » Matthew 5:48: God is Perfect » Psalm 19:7: The law is Perfect » I John 4:8: God is Love » Romans 13:10: The law is Love » I John 1:5: God is Light » Proverbs 6:23: The law is Light » Psalms 48:1: God is Great » Hosea 8:12: The law is Great » Deuteronomy 32:4: God is Truth » Psalm 119:142: The law is Truth » Isaiah 5:16: God is Holy » Romans 7:12: The law is Holy When God led the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage, He delivered to them in fiery majesty the Ten Commandments. This holy law was spoken by God, written by God, recorded on tables of stone, and is of eternal duration. At the same time another law, of temporary usage, was also delivered to the children of Israel. This law dealt with the ceremonial rites of the Jewish sanctuary service, and concerned itself with a system of religion that passed away at the cross. Large sections of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy describe in detail this temporary ceremonial code. This Law can easily be identified in the Scriptures. It talks about circumcision (a religious Jewish rite), sacrifices, offerings, purifications, ceremonial holy days, and other rites associated with the Hebrew sanctuary service. Let the Bible explain itself and clarify the differences between these two laws. See a more detailed chart on the Ten Commandments and the Ceremonial Law. The Moral Law (The Ten Commandments) The Ceremonial Law (A temporary Jewish law) 1. Spoken personally by God. Exodus 20:1-22 1. Spoken by Moses. Exodus 24:3 2. Written by God's finger. Exodus 31:18 Exodus 32:16 2. Written by Moses hand. Exodus 24:4 Deuteronomy 31:9 3. Written on stones. Exodus 31:18 3. Written in a book. Exodus 24:3, 7 Deuteronomy 31:24 4. Handed by God its writer to Moses.Exodus 31:18 4. Handed by Moses its writer to Levites. Deuteronomy 31:25-26 5. Deposited by Moses "in the ark." Deuteronomy 10:5 5. Deposited by the Levites by the side of the ark. Deuteronomy 31:26 ARV 6. Deals with moral precepts. Exodus 20:3-17. 6. Deals with ceremonial ritual matters. (See Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers & Deuteronomy) 7. Reveals sin. Romans 7:7 7. Prescribes offerings for sins. (See Leviticus) 8. Breaking of the law is sin. 1 John 3:4 8. No sin in breaking, for now "abolished." Ephesians 2:15. (Where no law is, there is no transgression. Romans 4:15) 9. Should "keep the whole law." James 2:10 9. Apostles gave no such commandment to "keep the law." Acts 15:24 10. Because we "shall be judged" by this law. James 2:12 10. Not to be judged by it. Colossians 2:16. See also what is the law in Galatians. 11. The Christian who keeps this law is "blessed in his deed." James 1:25 11. The Christian who keeps this law is not blessed. (See for example, Galatians 5:1-6) 12. "The perfect law of liberty." James 1:25 (Cf. James 2:12) 12. The Christian who keeps this law loses his liberty. Galatians 5:1, 3 13. Paul said, "I delight in the law of God." Romans 7:22 (Cf. verse 7) 13. Paul called this law a yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1; 4:3, 9 (See Acts 15:10) 14. Established by faith in Christ. Romans 3:31 14. Abolished by Christ. Ephesians 2:15 15. Christ was to "magnify the law and make it honorable." Isaiah 42:21 15. Blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us. Colossians 2:14 To the unbiased reader of God’s Word, it becomes more than clear that the Ten Commandments are binding upon all men for all time in every place, whereas no man is bound to keep the Ceremonial Law, often referred to as the ordinances that were fulfilled in Christ. The Ceremonial Law with its sacrificial system pointed the people to the coming of Christ. Every time the blood of a beast was shed in the old Jewish temple, it was a dramatic reminder to the onlooker that One would come and die for his sin. Hence, John the Baptist pointed to our Lord and declared the significant words, “Behold the Lamb of God.” When He died on Calvary’s cross the veil of the great temple curtain was torn from top to bottom, to signify that the entire ceremonial system was forever finished. Matthew 27:50-51. No longer do the priests need offer up sacrifices. The One great and perfect Sacrifice was offered that Friday afternoon, when the true Passover Lamb bowed His head and died. When He cried out, “It is finished”, the old Ceremonial Law that pointed the people to His sacrificial death was nailed to the cross. But NOT so with the Ten Commandments. There was nothing temporary about them. They are to last as long as heaven and earth. Matthew 5:17-19 This is how Matthew 5:17-19 reads, “Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to destroy but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, Till the heaven and the earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any way pass from the Law until all is fulfilled. Therefore whoever shall relax one of these Commandments, the least, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least [by those] in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven.” Jesus certainly did not have any intentions of making any change; in fact, Jesus condemned men who taught that it was acceptable to break God’s law, and commended those who taught the necessity of keeping it. This one passage alone is the absolute proof that the Sabbath was not abolished or the day changed and everything else has to be misunderstandings or intentional excuses to justify why we don’t need to obey one of God’s Commandments. Jesus said, “…Till the heaven and the earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any way pass from the Law…” This is what The People’s New Testament (1891) by B. W. Johnson comments in regards to the meaning of a “Jot” or “Tittle.” One jot or tittle. Jot means the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, while tittle refers to a simple turn by which one letter is distinguished from another. The expression, “jot or tittle,” was proverbial for the smallest part. Some say, “To fulfil the law is to bring an end to the Ten Commandments and abolish them.” There is overwhelming evidence that proves this is absolute nonsense, such as this passage would contain more contradictions than we could count. If fulfilling the law ends the law then the law is destroyed, yet Jesus declares in Matthew 5:17 that He did not come to destroy the law. Not only did Jesus not come to destroy the law but He actually came to magnify it. We should not be strangers to this fact as we are given a Messianic prophecy that tells us that Christ would in fact do exactly this. Isaiah 42:21, “The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will Magnify the law, and make it HONOURABLE.” In the remainder of Matthew chapter 5 we see how Jesus has without a doubt magnified the law. We note the following; Matthew 5:19 from not only obeying the law but teaching it also, 5:21-22 from do not kill to not being angry with your brother without cause, 5:27-28 from do not commit adultery to being guilty of adultery if you look at a woman lustfully, 5:31 from divorcing by a letter to any man who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality, causes her or anyone who marries the divorced woman to commit adultery, 5:33-37 from not breaking oaths made to the Lord to do not swear at all, either by heaven or earth or by Jerusalem. And do not swear by your head, let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No, 5:38-42 from an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth to turning the other cheek and if someone sues you for your coat, give them your cloak also, 5:43-45 from love your neighbour and hate your enemy to love your enemies and bless them that curse you and pray for those that are spiteful and use you. Does this give the impression that Jesus came to destroy the law or that fulfilling the law ends it? What truth seeker could possibly come to that conclusion after reading this passage? If this was so, then all the following things have also ended. Clearly this is NOT possible! These scriptures also use the same Greek word G4137 used in verse 17. Matthew 3:15 “…it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.” John 17:13 “…that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” 2 Thessalonians 1:11 “…and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power.” Philippians 2:2 “Fulfil you my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love…” John 17:12 “…that the scripture might be fulfilled.” Colossians 1:25 “…which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God.” 2 Corinthians 10:6 “…having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.” Thayer definition for G4137: 1) to make full, to fill up, i.e. to fill to the full. 2) to render full, i.e. to complete. 2a) to fill to the top: so that nothing shall be wanting to full measure, fill to the brim. 2b) to consummate: a number. 2b1) to make complete in every particular, to render perfect. 2b2) to carry through to the end, to accomplish, carry out, (some undertaking). 2c) to carry into effect, bring to realisation, realise. 2c1) of matters of duty: to perform, execute. 2c2) of sayings, promises, prophecies, to bring to pass, ratify, accomplish. 2c3) to fulfil, i.e. to cause God’s will (as made known in the law) to be obeyed as it should be, and God’s promises (given through the prophets) to receive fulfilment. The most relevant part for the word “fulfil” in Matthew 5:17 in the Thayer dictionary is “2C3.” Jesus did not come to destroy the law; He obeyed and carried out the law to the full and magnified it! Jesus never contradicts Himself. If this word “fulfil” meant destroy, Jesus would be saying “I did not come to destroy the law I came to destroy the law!” So is the law only for the Jews? Does it apply to New Covenant Christians? Notice Acts 7:38-39 five chapters after the start of the New Testament church. This is Moses who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us, whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. Speaking to the Jews, Stephen, a converted Christian, says that God gave these “living oracles...to us,” Christian and Jew. They are still in effect today as a complete spiritual law, and we Christians and or Jews do not have the authority to choose which ones we want to obey. This event on Mount Sinai was the basis for making the Old Covenant, but what is the basis of the New Covenant? “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” Hebrews 8:10 (quoting Jeremiah 31:33). From all the above proofs, two points are clear. 1. God’s Ten Commandments (not the Nine Commandments and one suggestion) is not a temporary law designed to end or become obsolete at the cross or any other time. God’s moral law can no more change than God’s character can. He is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8. 2. His law is not a special law for one nation only. God is not a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34; Romans 1:16). Neither Gentiles nor Christians are excluded from the laws of God. (e.g., Exodus 12:38, 48-49; Isaiah 56:1-3, 6-7) Is Jesus our Sabbath rest ending the Sabbath? Jesus cannot give us physical rest. We get this rest by keeping the Sabbath as God Commanded, not how we decide is acceptable. The proponents typically use the passage below but usually stop before verse nine. If they don’t, then they certainly never give you the honest meaning, if any, of the word translated “rest” in the KJV Bible. Hebrews 4:1-5 “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.” Below is the remainder of this passage. Hebrews 4:6-9 “Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remaineth therefore a [Sabbath] rest to the people of God.” The word “rest” in Hebrews 4:9 is the Greek word “sabbatismos.” The King James and New King James Version and a few other Bibles render the word as “rest” while the Amplified Bible the ASV, NASB, NIV, RSV and NRSV and several other translations somewhat more correctly render that word as “Sabbath rest.” A few Bibles such as the Darby translation transliterate the word as “Sabbatism.” Its literal translation however, is “Sabbath observance” and “The Scriptures” translated by The Institute for Scripture Research render it as such while the Thayer dictionary and the Bible in Basic English give the equally literal phrase “Sabbath keeping.” See also “the Sabbath from creation to eternity.” Speaking of the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D. which was nearly forty years after the cross, Jesus says pray that you do not have to flee persecution on the Sabbath day. (Matthew 24:20) Why would you need to worry about physically fleeing on the Sabbath if it was just resting in Jesus? See Sabbath in the New Testament or Ten Commandments and the Sabbath in the New Testament for more. The following facts prove the Sabbath does remain a physically rest and that the excuse Jesus is our Sabbath rest is just one more fallacy from our adversary. 1. The Greek word for “rest” (sabbatismos) in Hebrews 4:9 unquestionably refers to a physical rest and a literal “Sabbath keeping” or “Sabbath observance.” 2. It was more than 30 years after the cross that Luke wrote that when the body of Christ was being prepared, “they rested the Sabbath day according to the Commandment.” (Luke 23:56) The New Covenant was sealed by the blood of Jesus on Friday night when He died on the cross, and yet Luke says they were still physically keeping the Sabbath according to the Commandment and after the New Covenant had begun. Any lawyer and the Word will tell you that it cannot be changed after the death of a testator. This one alone kills this appalling excuse! 3. Isaiah 66:22-23 says we still physically keep the Sabbath in the New Heaven and Earth. 4. Jesus words show that everyone would still be physically keeping the Sabbath at 70 A.D. (Matthew 24:20) 5. The Sabbath cannot be a spiritual rest if one had to worry about physically fleeing on this day. 6. Our Creator knew man needs a physical rest at least one day a week and Jesus as our Lord does not change that requirement. 7. God and His law changes not. Hebrews 13:8, Psalms 111:7-8, Luke 16:17. Previous Back to Contents Next Top

All trinity studies Previous Download Next What is the difference between Godhead and Trinity What is the difference between Godhead and Trinity? So what does the word Godhead mean and can it be used in place of the word Trinity? The fact is there is no relationship with the Trinity and the word Godhead at all as you are about to find out. Godhead refers to God the Father. And making this issue a little more confusing, Godhead is often a word used by those with the non-Trinitarian truth for lack of a better word to use in opposition to the word Trinity. More and more Trinitarians are using the word Godhead in place of Trinity thinking that changes what it is. But calling the Trinity by another name will never change what it is. You can call a cat a dog but it will still be a cat. And you can call the Trinity the Godhead but it will still be the Trinity! The word Godhead is found in 3 verses in the King James Bible which are translated from three different Greek words that have slightly different meanings but all basically mean the same thing. In Acts 17:29 the Greek word translated Godhead is “theios” (G2304) and means to be godlike and hence divine. Acts 17:29 KJV “Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.” The same Greek word is used in the verse below but has been translated to the word “divine.” 2 Peter 1:3 KJV “According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue:” In Romans 1:20 the Greek word translated Godhead is “theiotēs” (G2305) and refers to the divine nature. Romans 1:20 KJV “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” And in Colossians 2:9 the Greek word translated Godhead is “theotēs” (G2320) and means deity as in the state of being God. Colossians 2:9 KJV “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” So the word Godhead speaks of the “Divine nature” of the Father which has been given to the Son and hence is in the Son as we find in Colossians 2:9 above. Thus Jesus being the firstborn over all creation (Colossians 1:15), and being brought forth from the Father, He has the same “Divine nature” as His Father. Thus Paul states that the fullness of the “divine nature” of God dwells in His Son. Colossians 1:19 KJV “For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;” John 5:26 also tells us that the Father gave life to His Son. “For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself.” John 5:26. If Jesus had always existed alongside the Father as the Trinity doctrine claims, then God could not have given life to His Son as He would have always had life. But Scripture reveals this is impossible. And so neither does the word Godhead explain the non-Trinitarian position in opposition to the word Trinity. It has been the only real option in lack of a better word to use for the non-Trinitarian view. The Trinity doctrine states that there are three co-equal (equal in every respect), co-eternal (the same age), omniscient (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerful) gods, who are not three gods, but one god. By the words of the Athanasian Creed it is, “the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three gods but one God.” In other words. 1+1+1=1 ! So a 3 in 1 and 1 in 3 god which means the Father cannot really be a Father and the Son cannot really be a Son, which denies the Father and Son which the apostle John called antichrist. And hence the Holy Spirit is supposedly a third god that makes up the one god rather than being the actual Spirit of the Father and Son just as we have a spirit. So the Divine nature of the Father referring to the ONE true God does not and cannot equal 3 gods yet alone a 3 in 1 god. Thus Godhead does NOT equal Trinity in any way whatsoever! Godhead refers to God the Father and His Divine nature which dwells in His Son because Jesus Christ is His Son. See “Does Godhead mean Trinity? - Prove All Things” below for more information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9HxDgBZl-U Previous All trinity studies Next Back to top

返回研究目录 上一篇 下载中文 Read in English 下一篇 耶稣有一位上帝-耶和华，天父上帝 耶稣有一位上帝 -- 耶和华, 天父上帝 哥林多前书8章6节- 然而我们只有一位上帝，就是父，万物都本于他，我们也归于他；并有一位主，就是耶稣基督，万物都是藉着他有的，我们也是藉着他有的。 启示录3章12节- 得胜的，我要叫他在我上帝殿中作柱子，他也必不再从那里出去。我又要将我上帝的名和我上帝城的名（这城就是从天上、从我 上帝那里降下来的新耶路撒冷），并我的新名，都写在他上面。 哥林多前书15章28节- 万物既服了他(上帝)，那时，子(耶稣)也要自己服那叫万物服他(上帝)的，叫上帝在万物之上，为万物之主。 以弗所书4章6节- 一上帝，就是众人的父，超乎众人之上，贯乎众人之中，也住在众人之内。 约翰福音20章17节- 耶稣说：“不要摸我，因为我还没有升上去见我的父。你往我弟兄那里去，告诉他们说：我要升上去见我的父，也是你们的父；见我的上帝，也是你们的上帝。” 以弗所书1章3节- 愿颂赞归与我们主耶稣基督的父上帝，他在基督里曾赐给我们天上各样属灵的福气。 哥林多后书11章31节- 那永远可称颂之主耶稣的父上帝知道我不说谎。 彼得前书1章3节- 愿颂赞归与我们主耶稣基督的父上帝，他曾照自己的大怜悯，藉耶稣基督从死里复活，重生了我们，叫我们有活泼的盼望, 约翰福音17章3节- 认识你独一的真神，并且认识你所差来的耶稣基督，这就是永生。 以弗所书1章17节- 求我们主耶稣基督的上帝，荣耀的父，将那赐人智慧和启示的灵赏给你们，使你们真知道他。 哥林多前书11章3节- 我愿意你们知道，基督是各人的头，男人是女人的头，上帝是基督的头。 罗马书15章6节- 一心一口荣耀上帝、我们主耶稣基督的父。 约翰福音12章44-45节- 耶稣大声说：“信我的，不是信我，乃是信那差我来的。45 人看见我，就是看见那差我来的。” 约翰福音20章31节- 但记这些事，要叫你们信耶稣是基督，是上帝的儿子，并且叫你们信了他，就可以因他的名得生命。 约翰福音20章21-22节- 耶稣又对他们说：“愿你们平安！父怎样差遣了我，我也照样差遣你们。” 22 说了这话，就向他们吹一口气，说：“你们受圣灵。” 约翰福音14章10节- 我在父里面，父在我里面，你不信吗？我对你们所说的话，不是凭着自己说的，乃是住在我里面的父作他自己的事。 约翰福音14章24节- 不爱我的人就不遵守我的道；你们所听见的道不是我的，乃是差我来之父的道。 马太福音27章46节- 约在申初，耶稣大声喊着说：“以利，以利！拉马撒巴各大尼？”就是说：“我的上帝，我的上帝！为什么离弃我？” 启示录3章5节- 凡得胜的，必这样穿白衣，我也必不从生命册上涂抹他的名，且要在我父面前和我父众使者面前认他的名。 “人子耶稣基督不是主神全能者，但基督和父是合而为一的。”——（怀爱伦著，《文稿140》，1903年） “祂【基督】不是父，但神本性一切的丰盛，都有形有体的居住在祂里面。”——怀爱伦著，《信函8a》1890年7月7日 “上帝为基督的父；基督乃上帝的儿子。基督已蒙赐与崇高之位。祂得以与父同等，上帝所有的旨意没有不显明给祂儿子的。”——怀爱伦著，《教会证言》卷八，原文第268页。 上一篇 返回研究目录 下一篇 到最頂

返回研究目录 上一篇 下载中文 下一篇 圣经里的安息日是哪一天？ 说到安息日呢，各个教派都有各自的看法，各说纷纭。许多基督教派和天主教一样，都称安息日为星期日，基督复临安息日会则说是星期六，而另一些基督徒则说安息日是任你选择的任何一日，都可以是安息日。还有一些人则宣称，我们必须遵守月相安息日。简单来说，月相安息日（Lunar Sabbath）就是每一次月朔之后的第七日就算为安息日，再过七日之后就是第二个安息日，依此类推，直到下一次的月朔，又开始新一轮的循环。 这导致每个月的安息日都会落在不同日，这个月可能落在星期四，而下个月则可能落在星期二。那么到底哪个说法才是真理呢？圣经所谓的安息日是哪一日呢？星期六还是星期日？我们可以自由选择把安息日定在哪一日吗？还是说我们必须使用阴历来得出安息日是哪一日呢？ 今天我们就要来探讨这些问题以寻找真相，以确定我们应当遵守的是哪一日。今天我就给大家介绍五个证明安息日是星期六的理由。 五个证明安息日是星期六的理由： 第一，犹太人素来遵守星期六为安息日 这其实是非常重要的，因为犹太人从几千年以来都一直遵守着星期六，每周的第七日为安息日，从未改变。自从摩西上西奈山从上帝手中领受了十条诫命，而以色列民又从摩西手中领了上帝的律法之后，他们就一直遵守着第四条诫命的安息日，直到今日依然如此。 大家必须知道，安息日的时间段是从星期五的日落开始直到星期六的日落才结束的。因为根据圣经的说法，一日的开始和结束都是在日落。我们在圣经的开头，创世纪这本书中就首次看到了这个概念。上帝在创世的时候顺序以黑夜和白昼视为一天。 创世纪 1：5 上帝称光为昼，称暗为夜。有晚上，有早晨，这是头一日。 换句话说，以晚上作为开始，也就是日落标志着第一日的开始，而随后的日子也同样以日落作为开头和结束。这是上帝在最初所设立的原则。把一日的开始和结束定在午夜12点是人为的杰作，其实是罗马人设立的。 第二，耶稣在星期日复活 圣经里有关耶稣复活的记载能帮助我们辨认哪一日是安息日。 马可福音 16：9 在七日的第一日清早，耶稣复活了，就先向抹大拉的马利亚显现，耶稣从她身上曾赶出七个鬼。 众所周知，耶稣是在星期日复活的。因此，所谓的复活日就落在星期日，是为了纪念基督的牺牲与复活。因此，圣经里七日的第一日是指星期日。既然星期日是第一日，那么可想而知，第七日就必定是星期六了，因为圣经说，安息日是每周的第七日，也就是现今的星期六，而不是每周的第一日即星期日。 出埃及记 20：8-11 “当记念安息日，守为圣日。六日要劳碌作你一切的工，但第七日是向耶和华你上帝当守的安息日。这一日你和你的儿女、仆婢、牲畜，并你城里寄居的客旅，无论何工都不可作，因为六日之内，耶和华造天、地、海和其中的万物，第七日便安息，所以耶和华赐福与安息日，定为圣日。” 第三，天主教把安息日从星期六改成星期日 罗马天主教曾多次公开承认他们把圣经里第七日的安息日改成第一日的星期日。其中一个例子是在天主教教义教理详解中找到。 “问：哪一日是安息日？ 答：星期六是安息日。 问：为什么要守星期日代替安息日？ 答：我们守星期日代替星期六的原因是(公元 336年)天主教在老底嘉大公会议上将星期六的神圣性转移到了星期日…… 问：为什么天主教以星期日代替星期六？ 答：教会以星期日代替星期六是因为基督在星期日从死里复活，圣灵是在星期日降到使徒身上。 问：教会借着什么权柄以星期日代替星期六？ 答：教会以星期日代替星期六是完全借着耶稣所赐她的神圣权柄而行！ （彼得•耶尔曼神父《天主教教义教理详解》第50页） 天主教宣称他们有凌驾于圣经之上的权柄，因此有权力把安息日从星期六改成星期日。但事实上没有任何人或教会有权柄改变上帝的律法，就算是天主教也没有这种权力。上帝的律法是神圣永不改变的，祂也从不曾赐给任何人权柄来改变祂的诫命。 申命记 4：2 所吩咐你们的话，你们不可加添，也不可删减，好叫你们遵守我所吩咐的，就是耶和华你们上帝的命令。 第四，星期六这一天在许多语言中被称为安息日 你知不知道星期六，在世界各地许多语言中的名称相等于安息日，词根也都源自安息日的希伯来文shabbath和希腊文Sabbaton？ 比如说在西班牙语，一周的第七日，即星期六被称为sabado，英文翻译过来就是Sabbath，安息日的意思。在俄罗斯的俄语当中，第七日则被称为Subbota，词根也同样是源于希伯来文shabbat或希腊文Sabbaton，该国守安息日的人被称为Subbotic。马来语和印尼语的第七日都被称为Sabtu，这也与马来语或印尼语的Sabat相似，就是安息日或安息的意思。 这只是许许多多例子中的几个罢了。事实上，在超过100种中古代和现代的语言中，一周的第七日的命名都与Shabbat安息日极其相似。为什么呢？难道这纯粹是巧合吗？肯定不是的！ 其中的原因很简单，由于挪亚的后裔分散在全地上，遍布各个大大小小的国度，虽然他们的语言被混乱了，以至都说不同的语言，但是他们都保存着安息日的知识，并且知道上帝的安息日是在第七日，也就是今天的星期六，因此，他们都以安息日来给第七日命名。我觉得这实在是太奇妙了！ 第五，根据现代权威词典，星期六一律被视为第七日，也是安息日 你要是到在线英文词典dictionary.com搜寻Saturday的话，这里就说，星期六，一周的第七日。同样的，你搜寻Sunday的话呢，它就会告诉你，星期日是一周的第一日。那么你要是到任何汉语词典的软件或网站去搜寻安息日，那里就会说： “《圣经》记载，上帝在六日内创造天地万物，第七日完工休息。犹太教尊这天为圣日，名叫安息日（即星期五日落到星期六日落的一昼夜时间）。这一天礼拜上帝，不做工作。基督教以星期日为安息日，又称主日。” 英文词典也一样，它说：“每周的第七日，星期六，是犹太人和一些基督徒休息和进行宗教活动的日子。这里他还引用了出埃及记20：8-11，即第四条诫命。” 但是第二个安息日的定义是“每周的第一日，星期日，大多数基督徒守这一日，以纪念基督的复活。” 这根本不是圣经的教导，而是跟从罗马天主教的传统。因为我们之前也谈过，天主教滥用自己的权柄，更改了或尝试去更改上帝的安息日，从第七日转变为第一日。 绝大多数的基督教派都说他们遵守第一日，即星期日为安息日，作为纪念基督复活的日子。但是圣经从未教导我们这样做！况且，圣经也不曾说过，第一日已经成了新的安息日，因为耶稣在那一日复活。这个论点是完完全全压根没有任何圣经根据的。 此外，安息日是不能也不可能转变为另一日的。其中一个最明显的原因是因为安息日是给我们纪念上帝的创造大工的，大家可以参考出埃及记 20：8-11。 简单来说，上帝用了六日的时间来创造天地万物和人类的始祖，因此在第七日便安息，祂就赐福予这一日，把它定为圣日，以作为人类纪念上帝伟大的创造大工的日子。倘若上帝有意要设立另一日为安息日的话，比方说星期日，那祂就必须重新创造天地万物，并在星期日安息，再把这一日定为圣日了。只要这事情一天没有发生，那么安息日依然是星期六，每周的第七日。 谈到月相安息日Lunar Sabbath呢，其中一个论点就是，既然犹太人的节期都是根据阴历的，那么安息日也必须根据阴历来设定。但是这也不是根据圣经的教导的。因为圣经里的安息日是根据七天周期的循环，而不是每个月周期的循环。 总而言之，各种证据都显示，圣经里的安息日，确实是星期六，每周的第七日。我们来简单地总结一下。根据圣经，安息日是第七日，耶稣则是在第一日复活，也就是星期日。犹太人千百年来持续遵守着安息日，而他们所遵守为安息日的日子恰恰是星期六。 星期六在许多国家的语言里都与安息日的希伯来原文Shabbat一词相同。各权威词典也告诉我们，星期六是一周的第七日。罗马天主教更承认把第七日的安息日改为第一日，这乃是一项圣经从不支持的更改行动。 说到一些人认为他们可以随意挑选任何一日作为安息日的呢，圣经说，安息日是第七日，而不是七日的任何一日。这神圣的日子是上帝所定下来的，轮不到我们自作聪明，擅自为上帝挑选日子，这样做相当于把自己当成上帝，甚至凌驾于上帝之上。 安息日这个课题其实非常的广阔高深，可以探讨的资料和经文也多不胜数。但是今天我们暂且谈到这里，我们在下一期将继续研究攸关安息日的课题，从圣经中寻找相关安息日的真理，并解开大多数基督徒对安息日所持有的迷思与误解。 愿上帝赐福每一位。 上一篇 返回研究目录 下一篇 到最頂

返回研究目录 上一篇 下载中文 下一篇 有关安息日的二十三个真相 在基督教界里，其中一个最大的争议是攸关安息日的课题。大家都在争论不休，各说纷纭。那么到底安息日是星期六还是星期日？它是否被改变了？如果是的话，那又是怎样发生的呢？安息日是不是单单给犹太人的？新约圣经的基督徒必须遵守安息日吗？今天我们就来找出这些问题和许许多多其他问题的答案，从圣经里找出关于安息日的真理，以解开大多数基督徒对安息日所持有的迷思和误解。 1. 守安息日是顺从上帝的第四条诫命 根据圣经的证据，遵守安息日是上帝十条诫命的一部分，更准确地说，是第四条诫命。 出埃及记 20：8-11 “当记念安息日，守为圣日。六日要劳碌作你一切的工，但第七日是向耶和华你上帝当守的安息日。这一日你和你的儿女、仆婢、牲畜，并你城里寄居的客旅，无论何工都不可作，因为六日之内，耶和华造天、地、海和其中的万物，第七日便安息，所以耶和华赐福与安息日，定为圣日。” 2. 符合圣经的安息日是星期六 我们在上一期的视频中也探讨过了5个证明安息日是星期六的证据和理由。错过的朋友可以回顾一下‘圣经里的安息日是哪一天’这视频。 简单来说，安息日是从星期五日落到星期六日落，因为圣经表明一日是从日落或晚上开始，直到第二天的日落结束的。我们可以到圣经里的第一本书去追溯su4这个概念的起源。 创世纪 1：5 “有晚上，有早晨，这是头一日。” 创世纪 1：8 “有晚上，有早晨，是第二日。” 把一日的开始和结束定在午夜12点是人为的杰作，其实是罗马人设立的，而现今世界各国都采用了这种计时系统。 第四条诫命清楚地说明安息日是第七日。那么耶稣既然是在第一日也就是星期日复活的，那么第七日的安息日就必然是星期六了。 马可福音 16：9 在七日的第一日清早，耶稣复活了，就先向抹大拉的马利亚显现，耶稣从她身上曾赶出七个鬼。 另外，犹太人千百年来持续遵守星期六为第七日的安息日，从旧约时代就一直延续到今日，从未改变过。 3. 安息日不仅是为犹太人设立的 许多基督徒宣称，安息日是给犹太人设立的，与我们基督徒有何相干。这简直是大错特错。圣经从未说明安息日是单单给犹太人的。世上最先遵守安息日的人就是亚当夏娃，而他们并不是犹太人。 创世纪 2：1-3 天地万物都造齐了。到第七日，上帝造物的工已经完毕，就在第七日歇了他一切的工，安息了。上帝赐福给第七日，定为圣日，因为在这日上帝歇了他一切创造的工，就安息了。 安息日早在犹太人存在之前老早就已经设立了。事实上，安息日是在六日的创造之工完毕之后，在第七日就设立了。再加上第四条诫命说第七日是向耶和华你上帝当守的安息日。这个圣日是属于耶和华上帝的，是祂的安息日，而不是属于犹太民族的安息日。 以赛亚书 56：6-7 “还有那些与耶和华联合的外邦人，要侍奉他，要爱耶和华的名，要作他的仆人，就是凡守安息日不干犯，又持守他（原文作“我”）约的人。我必领他们到我的圣山，使他们在祷告我的殿中喜乐。他们的燔祭和平安祭，在我坛上必蒙悦纳，因我的殿必称为万民祷告的殿。” 这里所说的再清楚不过了吧，上帝在旧约时代交给犹太人的任务，包括了把福音传给外邦人，使他们也能够信奉真理并遵守安息日。另外，圣经也说： 马可福音 2：27 “安息日是为人设立的” 这里的人是指世人，所有的人，不分种族。安息日是为全人类设立的，而不仅是为了犹太人。 4. 上帝嘱咐我们“当记念”安息日 在十条诫命里头，第四条诫命是唯一一条上帝命令我们当记念的诫命。就像上帝早已知道世人会忘记似的。可悲的是，现今大部分世人都已经把安息日忘得一干二净了。大多数教会和牧师还告诉信徒们干脆把安息日给忘了吧，因为那是旧约的一部分，或说那只是给犹太人设立的，又或者说旧的安息日已经换成新的星期日了。 他们预备了数不清的理由或借口，为的是要导使信徒们把第四条诫命，即第七日的安息日给忘掉。 但这些都是与上帝的指示互相对立的，都不符合上帝的话语。上帝说的是：“当记念”。 5. 安息日是不能改变的 许多基督教派都相信安息日是因耶稣复活而从一周的第七日修改为一周的第一日，即星期六换成了星期日。这都是人所造出来的谎言，而不是上帝的旨意。圣经从来不曾告诉我们说，由于耶稣在第一日复活，因此从那天起安息日就正式修改为第一日了。他们的这项教导是完全没有圣经根据的。 反之，圣经清楚地告诉我们，上帝的律法或命令是永不改变的。例如，上帝在诗篇里说了这么一句话。 诗篇 89：34 我必不背弃我的约，也不改变我口中所出的。 有什么话是从上帝口中所出的呢？就是十条诫命。上帝在向摩西宣告十条诫命之前，出埃及记 20：1这么说： 出埃及记 20：1 上帝吩咐这一切的话： 因此，第四条诫命的安息日是永不改变的，因为上帝说，祂不会改变祂口中所出的话，而十条诫命正是祂亲口宣告的。另一个铁证是耶稣在马太福音5：17-19所说的这段话。 马太福音 5：17-19 “莫想我来要废掉律法和先知；我来不是要废掉，乃是要成全。我实在告诉你们，就是到天地都废去了，律法的一点一画也不能废去，都要成全。所以，无论何人废掉这诫命中最小的一条，又教训人这样作，他在天国要称为最小的；但无论何人遵行这诫命，又教训人遵行，他在天国要称为大的。 这太棒了，就是说到天地都废去了，律法的一点一画也不能废去，都要成全。耶稣表明自己来的目的，不是要废掉律法。有人可能会说，耶稣成全了律法，所以我们就不需要再遵守律法了。这是错误的解经法。在这里，耶稣以成全一词来与废掉一词形成对比。废掉表示不需要再遵守了，那么成全的意思肯定不相同，因为成全是与废掉的结局相反的。其实，成全的意思是落实和实践，使律法成为完全，使祂成为我们遵守律法的榜样。 6. 耶稣自己守了安息日 路加福音 4：16 耶稣来到拿撒勒，就是他长大的地方。在安息日，照他平常的规矩进了会堂，站起来要念圣经。 耶稣素来都遵守上帝的诫命，从未违背任何一条律法，包括第四条的安息日诫命。祂每逢安息日都会到会堂去敬拜祂父上帝。 作为相信基督的基督徒，我们是不是应该跟从基督的榜样呢？ 7. 耶稣的死证明上帝的诫命是不能废除的 其中一个能证明安息日，或整套十条诫命不能被废除的最强有力的证据，就是耶稣在十架上的牺牲。耶稣为我们而死，因为世人都违背了上帝的律法，圣经说违背律法就是罪，而罗马书告诉我们，罪的工价乃是死。 约翰一书 3：4 凡犯罪的，就是违背律法；违背律法，就是罪。 罗马书 6：23 “因为罪的工价乃是死” 我们无法靠着自己去尝还这重大的罪债以满足律法的要求，唯有痛苦地等待死亡并失去永生的结局。由于上帝爱世人，祂赐下了祂独生儿子来为我们牺牲，为我们偿还罪债。朋友们，想一想，如果上帝能改变祂的律法，甚至把祂律法废除的话，那么祂肯定会这样做，以免无辜地牺牲祂宝贵的儿子，不是吗？祂大可以废除律法，使我们免于因违背律法所带来的刑罚，如果真能这样做的话，上帝的儿子就不必下来代替我们而死了。因此，耶稣在十字架上的牺牲明显地证明了上帝的律法确实是无法改变的。 大多数的基督徒都误用了耶稣的死来证明律法已经废除，但是真理却恰恰相反。主耶稣的死反而进一步证明了律法是不能废去的。再加上刚才我们已经看了耶稣亲口所说的话，澄清祂下来不是要废掉律法，还说就算天地都废去了，律法的一点一划也不能废去。 8. 上帝赐福与安息日，定为圣日 安息日不能改变的另一个原因是上帝以一个不能撤回的祝福来赐福予这一日。上帝对这一极其特别的日子做了三件事，就是祂在这一日安息了、便赐福于这一日，并把它定为圣日。你知不知道上帝所赐下的祝福是无法撤消或逆转的吗？当摩押王巴勒鼓动先知巴兰去咒诅以色列民的时候，巴兰在民数记 23：20是这样说的： 民数记 23：20 我奉命祝福，上帝也曾赐福，此事我不能翻转。 上帝所赐的福是无法反转的。不管有多少人再怎么强词夺理地说安息日已经被废除了，但第七日的安息日依然是上帝所赐福的，而且永远都是，因为祂未曾从这一日撤回这项祝福，以后也不会这么做。 更何况上帝没有赐福于另一日，或在另一日安息，把那日定为圣日。所以说，将另一日成为新的安息日这种教导是极其荒谬，擅自妄为且没有任何凭据的。倘若上帝有意设立另一日为安息日的话，比方说第一日星期日，那么祂就必须重新创造天地万物，然后在第一日安息，再赐福于第一日，把它定为圣日，否则的话，第一日星期日永远都不会成为神圣安息日的。 可是如果上帝在第一日就安息了，那么这就意味着创造大工根本还没有开始，祂就安息了，可是没有动工，何来安息呢？而且也不会存在七日的一周循环了。这是完全说不过去的。 再说，上帝不仅仅是赐福与这一日，还把它定为圣日，即是把这一日分别为圣。把这一日定为圣日也意味着上帝以自身的临格和同在赐福与这一日。 出埃及记 3：2-5 “耶和华的使者从荆棘里火焰中向摩西显现。摩西观看，不料，荆棘被火烧着，却没有烧毁。摩西说：“我要过去看这大异象，这荆棘为何没有烧坏呢？”耶和华上帝见他过去要看，就从荆棘里呼叫说：“摩西！摩西！”他说：“我在这里。”上帝说：“不要近前来，当把你脚上的鞋脱下来，因为你所站之地是圣地。” 当上帝临格在火焰当中的时候，荆棘地就成为了圣地，圣洁的土地，所以上帝吩咐摩西把鞋子脱下，以示尊重。由此可见，安息日是圣洁而神圣的，表示上帝以一种特殊的方式来赐福这一日，即是祂的临格和同在，而我们可以在安息日凭着信心来到上帝的面前，蒙受祂的祝福。 9. 安息日使我们与上帝更加亲近 事实上，安息日这特别的日子能让我们与上帝建立更密切的关系。再加上不光是安息日这一日被上帝分别为圣，连守安息日的举动也对我们成圣的过程大有帮助。 以西结书 20：12 又将我的安息日赐给他们，好在我与他们中间为证据，使他们知道我耶和华是叫他们成为圣的。 安息日是个证据，显明上帝是那叫我们成圣的一位。叫我们成圣的意思是使我们在品格上越来越像上帝。这就是上帝在我们每个人身上的旨意。 利未记 20：26 你们要归我为圣，因为我耶和华是圣的，并叫你们与万民有分别，使你们作我的民。 安息日怎么能帮助我们塑su造更圣洁，更像上帝的品格呢？这一天能让我们把所有属世的事物放下，专心地寻求上帝、与祂相处、敬拜祂、研读祂的话语、并且经历祂的同在。我们藉着仰望祂，就会改变成祂的形象。这也必能坚固我们与上帝并祂儿子之间的关系。 守安息日在我们与上帝亲近并建立关系这件事上是有必要的。就好比任何情侣或夫妻之间的感情。两人若要更加了解，要有更好的感情，那么花时间相处是必要的过程。这就是为什么上帝设立了每周特定的一日，好让我们能与祂建立美好的关系，也让我们能与其他信徒们联络彼此之间的感情。这一日是上帝所拣选的，因为祂是智慧的上帝，祂的安排是最好的。再加上祂知道要是让我们自己来选择日子的话，肯定会出现混乱和纷争的局面，而大多数人也必定会忽略我们对上帝所当尽的本分。 安息日固然重要，但是我们也不能忘记每天的灵修，安息日不能取代每日的灵修，而是把它提升，加强。 10. 撒但竭尽所能地攻击和破坏安息日 撒但除了费尽心思地去破坏我们每天的灵修之外，还特别渴望破坏上帝所设立的圣安息日，因为他知道这样做必影响我们与上帝之间的关系，并且进一步把我们引向灭亡之路。撒但对上帝和祂的安息日极其憎恨，我们从他创造了这么多破坏上帝的身份并破坏祂的圣日的谬论，就可以看出这一点。 事实上，撒但每时每刻都在全心全意地破坏上帝最初在伊甸园所设立的两个制度。一个是一男一女的婚姻制度，另一个就是第七日的安息日制度。狡猾的魔鬼以同性婚姻和一夫多妻制破坏上帝所设立的美好婚姻制度，并以不同的日子来取代安息日，特别是星期日，所谓的伪安息日。之后我们会更深入地探讨这一点。 11. 星期日不是新的安息日 刚才我们也稍微谈过，耶稣的复活并没有把星期日变成新的安息日。许多人宣称星期日已经成为了新的安息日，我们应该在那一日聚会和崇拜，因为耶稣在那日复活。但是这是圣经从未教导过的。你翻完整本圣经，从第一页到最后一页，肯定找不出任何证据来支持这一点。今天我就要向守星期日的基督徒发出一项挑战，要求你找出一节经文，以证明新的安息日因耶稣在星期日复活而从星期六修改为星期日了。但是我可以向你保证，这所谓的证据是不存在的。 除此之外，上帝根本没有必要把星期日变为安息日来纪念耶稣的复活，因为安息日实际上是纪念创造的，而上帝也已经给了我们另外几种仪式来纪念耶稣的复活。其中之一就是洗礼，洗礼的其中一个用意就是纪念耶稣的死、埋葬和复活。 罗马书 6： 3：4 岂不知我们许多人受浸归入耶稣基督，是受浸归入他的死吗？所以，我们借着浸礼归入死，和他一同埋葬，原是叫我们一举一动有新生的样式，像基督借着父的荣耀从死里复活一样。 另一个纪念耶稣的死和复活的仪式就是圣餐礼。 哥林多前书 11：23-26 我曾传给你们的，原是从主领受的，就是主耶稣被卖的那一夜，拿起饼来，祝谢了，就掰开，说：拿着吃，这是我的身体，为你们掰开的，你们如此行，为的是记念我。晚饭后，他也照样拿起杯来，说：这杯是用我的血所立的新约，你们每逢喝的时候，要如此行，为的是记念我。你们每逢吃这饼，喝这杯，是表明主的死，直等到他来。 因此，我们每逢吃这饼喝这杯，就是纪念耶稣的死和祂的复活，祂为我们所作的伟大牺牲。这些都是圣经所给我们的例子和榜样。我再次强调，圣经从未说过安息日因耶稣的复活而变成了另一天，这是与上帝的话语互相矛盾的。倘若有这么重要的改变，圣经怎么可能一言不发，完全保持缄默呢？ 12. 新约使徒时代的基督徒都守安息日 耶稣的门徒在星期五安葬了耶稣的遗体之后，那时已经是靠近黄昏了。圣经说： 路加福音 23：56 “她们就回去，预备了香料香膏。她们在安息日，便遵着诫命安息了。” 假如耶稣所立的新约废除了安息日的话，那么耶稣的门徒为什么还在安息日遵着诫命而安息呢？如果安息日已经被修改或废除了的话，那么这个时间点应该是圣经作者宣布这一点的黄金时机啊。圣经作者可以说，门徒在第七日继续从事各种事务，因为安息日已经被修改或废除了。但是圣经作者并没有这么说，反而显明了他们仍继续遵守安息日。 就连耶稣本身在死后也都依旧遵守安息日，一直到星期日才复活，耶稣在安息日一整天都呆在坟墓里安息，这并不是什么巧合，而是一个见证，他为我们显明遵守安息日的重要性。另外，使徒行传也告诉我们说，使徒保罗按例在安息日向犹太人和外邦人宣讲真理。 使徒行传 13：42 他们出会堂的时候，众人请他们到下安息日再讲这话给他们听。 使徒行传 13：44 到下安息日，合城的人几乎都来聚集，要听上帝的道。 我可以理解，保罗为什么在每个安息日继续在会堂里向犹太人传福音，因为犹太人依然遵守安息日，甚至到今天依然如此。但是如果安息日的确已经被修改或废除的话，那么保罗就没有理由在安息日持续与他们聚会了。他可以轻易邀请外邦人，在每个星期日都回来与他聚会。使徒约翰也一样遵守了安息日。 启示录 1：10 当主日，我被圣灵感动，听见在我后面有大声音如吹号，说： 主日就是安息日，一周的第七日，即是星期六，而不是如大部分基督徒所宣称的主日为一周的第一日，即是星期日。 以赛亚书 58：13，14 “你若在安息日掉转（或作“谨慎”）你的脚步，在我圣日不以操作为喜乐，称安息日为可喜乐的，称耶和华的圣日为可尊重的，而且尊敬这日，不办自己的私事，不随自己的私意，不说自己的私话，你就以耶和华为乐。耶和华要使你乘驾地的高处，又以你祖雅各的产业养育你。”这是耶和华亲口说的。” 耶和华上帝称安息日为祂的圣日，而耶稣是安息日的主，因此主日相等于安息日，而不能说安息日是一日，主日是另一日。可见这是多么大的误解啊。接着，希伯来书也告诉我们： 【钦定本】希伯来书 4：4，9 论到第七日，有一处说：到第七日上帝就歇了他一切的工。... 因此，必有一个安息为上帝的子民存留。 这里说的安息是指安息日，说明安息日必为上帝的子民存留。这对相信圣经的信徒们而言，安息日从未被修改，更未曾被废除。 13. 耶稣要我们守安息日 耶稣亲口暗示门徒将在以后的日子里继续持守安息日。祂在警告门徒关于即将来临的灾难，并命令他们在耶路撒冷城被围困之时必须赶紧撤离到山上去的时候说了以下这句话。 马太福音 24：20 你们应当祈求，叫你们逃走的时候，不遇见冬天或是安息日。 耶稣所预言的围城事件发生在公元70年，即是耶稣复活升天了四十年之后才发生的。假如安息日已经不重要了，或已经被废除了，那么为什么耶稣还叫他们祈求在逃难之时不遇见安息日呢？明显的答案就是，安息日依然是那么重要。这神圣美好的一天，本是让我们安息并思念属天的和关于上帝的事的一天，但是如果要我们用这一天的宝贵时间来逃难的话，那就违反安息的意义了。 顺便提一提，在公元70年耶路撒冷被罗马军队围攻的时候，有超过一百万名犹太人被杀害，而被掳掠的也有数十万之多。但是奇妙的是，没有一位基督徒失去性命的，因为他们遵从主耶稣的话语而行，因此顺利逃过了一劫。 耶稣不仅仅叫他的门徒遵守安息日，祂更是在启示录中命令末时耶稣复临之前的子民也一样遵守安息日。在第一天使的信息中，我们看到： 启示录 14：6-7 “我又看见另有一位天使飞在空中，有永远的福音要传给住在地上的人，就是各国、各族、各方、各民。他大声说：‘应当敬畏上帝，将荣耀归给他，因他施行审判的时候已经到了，应当敬拜那创造天、地、海和众水泉源的。’” 这里说的最后一句，应当敬拜那创造天、地、海和众水泉源的，是与第四条诫命中的内容非常相似的，那里说：耶和华造天、地、海和其中的万物。既然守安息日也证明了我们是敬拜创造主的，那么三天使信息的一部分也呼吁我们遵守安息日，在这一天敬拜上帝。 但是我要澄清一点，第一天使的信息不仅仅是叫人离开虚假的安息日而遵守真安息日，更叫我们离弃假神，回归独一真神父上帝，敬畏祂，并承认祂的主权。而敬拜上帝的一部分，便是在正确的日子来敬拜祂。很多人误以为第一天使的信息仅仅是与敬拜的日子相关，但是更重要的是，这日子指出了哪一位才是真神。待会儿我们会更深入地探讨这一点。话说回来，耶稣在三天使信息的结尾处再次给我们揭晓了一项关于守诫命的真相。 启示录 14：12 圣徒的忍耐就在此，他们是守上帝诫命和耶稣真道的。 由此可见，末时的圣徒，就是那些忍耐到底而胜过兽和兽像的，他们是守上帝诫命和耶稣真道的。既然守安息日是上帝诫命的一部分，那么不守安息日的人便不能成为圣徒的一部分了。 14. 我们将来在新天新地也要遵守安息日 以赛亚书 66：22，23 耶和华说：“我所要造的新天新地，怎样在我面前长存，你们的后裔和你们的名字也必照样长存。每逢月朔、安息日，凡有血气的必来在我面前下拜。这是耶和华说的。 我们在新天新地也必遵守安息日，那如果我们要进入新天新地的话，那么我们现在就要开始守安息日了。那些不愿记念安息日的人，可以说是不想过新天新地的生活了。大家可能会想，既然旧约时代的信徒们都守了安息日，而以后信徒们在新天新地也必守安息日，那么现代的基督徒为什么大部分都不守安息日呢？我也时常思考这个问题。答案很简单，他们已经被仇敌给迷惑了。正如我们之前所谈过的，撒但朝思暮想着如何去破坏上帝的安息日和其他九条诫命，因为他知道违背律法就是罪，而罪的工价乃是死。圣经甚至说，我们要是违背律法中的一条，那么我们便与犯了众条没有任何区别了。 雅各书 2：10 因为凡遵守全律法的，只在一条上跌倒，他就是犯了众条。 撒但比我们任何人都要熟悉圣经，他也清楚知道他自己的结局已近在眉睫，因此他现在的终极目标，就是要尽可能把上帝所有的子民引向灭亡之路，让我们陪同他一起葬身火湖。 15. 不守安息日会把我们引向灭亡 圣经固然说，我们不能单靠行为得救，单靠遵守律法也不能使我们赚取救恩。 以弗所书 2：8，9 你们得救是本乎恩，也因着信；这并不是出于自己，乃是上帝所赐的；也不是出于行为，免得有人自夸。 但是很多基督徒似乎无法理解的是，虽然我们不靠行为得救，但是我们会因行为而灭亡。圣经说罪的工价乃是死。因此，一个人若承认了耶稣为他生命的主，却依然活在罪恶和叛逆的生活中，持续违背上帝的话语，那么这人必定走向灭亡。 人走向灭亡不仅仅是与他们的行为有关，因为实际上他们是拒绝了耶稣。接受耶稣等同于接受祂的主权过于我们自己的主权，且让祂进来在我们生活中掌权。顺服祂及跟从祂的话语而行，就能显出这一点来。但是有意违背祂话语的人，是在公然拒绝耶稣的主权，拒绝让祂成为他们的主。而这最终只能使一个人走向灭亡的可悲结局。 话说回来，我们多次提到，圣经说违背律法就是罪，而罪的工价乃是死。那么违反安息日就是违背律法而犯罪，而犯罪之人，结局就是失去永生而灭亡。同一个概念也能应用在其他九条诫命上。有多少人相信一个人可以持续杀人、犯奸淫、拜偶像或其他假神而还可以进入天国的呢？肯定没有人会这么认为对吧！？为什么呢？因为这些行为都违背了上帝的十条诫命或律法。 但是有个非常奇怪的现象，每当我们谈到守安息日，即是十条诫命的第四条时，就似乎变成例外了。许多人都认为我们可以随意尽情地违反安息日，而依然还可以进入天国。为什么有这种矛盾呢？我觉得这种现象是极其不可思议的。 试想象一下，当我们分享有关上帝律法的课题时，比方说，谈到除了上帝以外我们不可有别的神时，绝大部分的基督徒就会同声说阿们，你说的没错。或者说到我们要孝敬父母时，大家都会说，对对对，确实没错。再说到我们不可作假见证陷害人时，大家就高唱哈利路亚，那是真理。 但是一转眼，当我们说当记念安息日，守为圣日时，奇怪的现象就开始发生了，大家就会马上转口说，哦！这十条诫命已经废除了，我们现在已经活在新约恩典时代了，因此不需要守安息日了。为什么那么不一致呢？为什么持双重标准呢？希望大家好好思考这一点。 话说回来，我们若明知故犯而不断违背律法又不悔改的话，是有可能进不了天国的。我们在生活中所犯的罪，都必须奉耶稣的名祷告，向父上帝认罪，祈求赦免，并且为罪懊悔。不然的话，这些罪在审判中就不被耶稣的血所洁净和涂抹了。这样的话，我们依然必须为这些罪承受后果和付上代价，就是被扔进火湖里。 16. 圣经预言了安息日将被人修改 圣经早就预言，但以理书第7章中的小角--敌基督势力--会尝试修改上帝的律法。 但以理书 7：25 “他必向至高者说夸大的话，必折磨至高者的圣民，必想改变节期和律法。...” 这里所指的无疑是罗马天主教。这个制度向至高者说夸大的话，圣经里的上帝原是独一真神，但他们却把上帝变成三一真神。圣经说上帝是一位，他们却说上帝是三位一体。不但如此，天主教还宣称教皇是与上帝同等的。他们多次公开承认教皇是上帝在地上的代理人，甚至说教皇相等于上帝本身。 他们也曾经折磨至高者的圣民，即是在中世纪的黑暗时期，任何不向教皇制度的势力低头和顺服的，都被逼迫、折磨和处死。无数的改革派信徒都被他们残忍地杀害，甚至当众被绑在木头上，被活活烧死。 论到那小角必想改变节期和律法这一点呢，上帝的律法中只有一条是与节期有关的，就是第四条诫命的安息日。天主教多次承认他们以教会的权柄更改了上帝的安息日。 “上帝的教会认为把安息日的庆典和遵守移到星期日是合适的。” 《特利腾大公会议之要理问答》第402页，1937年修订版（首版1566年） 事实上，他们还胆敢地修改了诫命中的好几条，安息日就是其中一条。天主教要理也多番承认了这一事实。你要是拿天主教版本的十条诫命和改革派圣经的十条诫命作一比较的话，你必然会发现他们已经把第四条诫命的安息日修改和缩写成主日，以隐瞒圣经教导的第七日之安息日，即是星期六。他们所谓的主日其实是星期日，这根本不是上帝的指示，这一日更不是主的日子。 如果你觉得这还不够离谱的话，请注意看第二条诫命，上帝明明禁止我们雕刻和跪拜偶像这条诫命已完全被删除了。原因很明显，为了方便天主教徒来敬拜耶稣、马利亚和所谓圣徒们的雕像，还有各种各样的圣物偶像。 接着，他们还把第十条诫命一分为二，以弥补他们十条诫命的短缺，因为删除了第二条诫命后他们就只剩下九条了。 因此，那些随从星期日敬拜的基督徒其实是在向敌基督者罗马天主教势力低头，顺服于他们的权柄之下了。 17. 安息日包含了上帝的印记 也许很多人都听过兽的印记，但是你知道上帝也有祂的印记吗？圣经称它为永生上帝的印。 启示录 7:2-4 我又看见另有一位天使，从日出之地上来，拿着永生上帝的印。他就向那得着权柄能伤害地和海的四位天使大声喊着说：“地与海并树木，你们不可伤害，等我们印了我们上帝众仆人的额。”我听见以色列人各支派中受印的数目有十四万四千。 论到上帝末时的圣徒，有十四万四千人，他们的额头上要受上帝的印。启示录在另一处这样形容圣徒额上的印记。 【钦定本】启示录 14：1 我又观看，见羔羊站在锡安山，同他又有十四万四千人，都有他父的名写在他们的额上。 上帝的印记实际上就是祂的名。众圣徒认识真神，相信祂，并且有祂的品格烙lao印在他们心上。因此，有真神父上帝的名印在他们的额上。那么这又与安息日有什么关系呢？安息日把我们引向创造主，使我们敬拜真神。 以西结书 20：20 且以我的安息日为圣。这日在我与你们中间为证据，使你们知道我是耶和华你们的上帝。 安息日是我们与上帝之间的证据，证明我们认识耶和华上帝，而是属于上帝的。上帝的印具体来说，不仅仅是安息日这么简单，还包含上帝的名，而第四条诫命所指的安息日恰恰就包含了上帝的名在内，因为真神和属于祂的日子是息息相关的。 一位统治者的印章，或王的盖章，通常包含了三个元素，即是他的名、他的称号、和他的管辖范围。 比方说，当耶稣被安放在墓穴里之后，罗马兵丁在堵住入口处的石版上盖上了罗马政府的印章。上面无疑写着本丢彼拉多，犹太巡抚的字样。 如果我告诉你这印章的三个元素也都出现在第四条诫命中，你会觉得惊奇吗？上帝在宣告祂的安息圣日的时候，诫命中也包含了祂的名，叫耶和华；祂的称号，叫创造主，因为祂创造了万物；祂的管辖范围，是天、地、海和其中的万物。 出埃及记 20：11 因为六日之内，耶和华造天、地、海和其中的万物，第七日便安息，所以耶和华赐福与安息日，定为圣日。 因此，守安息日的诫命包含了上帝的印记在内，并且还为我们指出了真神是谁。相反的，兽的印记则是假神和虚伪的安息日。说白一点，就是三位一体神和星期日敬拜。这是兽和兽像主要推广的谬论，并且时候将到，他们要执行星期日法令，强迫世人在星期日必须敬拜三位一体神。 神和神的日子是分不开的。末时的议题将会是上帝的印记和兽的印记之间展开的斗争，即是真神和真安息日对垒假神和伪安息日。许多安息日会信徒只专注在敬拜的日子，却忽略了重点，就是所敬拜的神。事实上，我们有可能在正确的安息日上敬拜了虚假的神，请大家谨记这一点。 在此我必须澄清一下，三位一体神和星期日敬拜，在此时此刻还不是兽的印记。必须等到兽颁布了星期日法令之后，人们才会被迫做出决定性的选择，要么接受上帝的印记，要么接受兽的印记。两者只能二选一，没有第三条路可走。若想要知道更多关于星期日法令的话，大家可以观赏我曾经上传过的视频，名为星期日法令。 因此，我们若想得到上帝的印记而不想得到兽的印记的话，我们现在就必须开始守安息日和敬拜真神了。再加上刚才我们已经看过的，那些胜过兽的圣徒们都是遵守上帝诫命的。 18. 安息日是上帝至高权柄的证据 以西结书 20：20 且以我的安息日为圣。这日在我与你们中间为证据，使你们知道我是耶和华你们的上帝。 当我们遵守安息日时，我们事实上是在用行动来证明我们衷心顺服和相信上帝为宇宙万物的创造主，并归服于祂至高的权柄之下，因为安息日把我们引向创造主耶和华父上帝。那么那些选择不遵守安息日，反而遵守星期日为主日的人又怎么样呢？ 坦白说，那些不愿遵守上帝安息日的人，实际上是在公然拒绝上帝的权柄和命令。那些选择守星期日的，则是归服于那把安息日从第七日改为第一日的，这不是上帝所为，而是罗马天主教的所为。他们甚至还批评和讽刺改革教派，因为改革教派自称遵从圣经所有的话语，但反过来他们却追随了天主教的教义和传统。 “改正教徒……接受星期日替代星期六以此作为公共礼拜的日子，他们乃是在效学天主教……但是改正教徒的思想似乎并没有意识到……藉着遵守星期日，他们乃是在接受那教会发言人——教皇——的权威。”——(《我们的星期日来宾》1950年2月5日 19. 我们没有权利擅自挑选一日作为安息日 我们刚刚谈到守安息日的人是顺从上帝权柄的，而守星期日的人则是顺从天主教教皇的权柄的，那么那些宣称我们有自由权可以随意挑选一周里的任何一日为安息日的又怎么样呢？ 这并非一个普遍的现象，但是我也听过有些人真的是这样相信的。他们推理说，既然安息日是为人类而设立的，那么我们自然有权利可以自由选择我们心目中认为最合适的日子作为安息日。只要是一周内的其中一天，不管是哪一天都没关系。只要守得真心，上帝就会悦纳。那么这种说法到底符合圣经吗？我来打个比方，你自然会看清楚答案的。 起初，上帝告诉亚当夏娃，园中的果子他们都可以随意吃，唯独是分别善恶树上的果子是禁果，他们万万不可吃。如果他们俩心想，只要我们不吃任何一棵树上的果子，不管是哪一棵树都好，都没关系的。既然果子都是为人类而设立的，那么我们自然有权利选择任何一棵树上的果子作为禁果。若他们真是这么做的话，你认为这种做法符合上帝的旨意吗？可想而知，当然不行啊，上帝说哪一棵就是哪一棵，根本轮不到他们为上帝做主。 再说了，我们在行为上顺从上帝的话语，表示我们对祂顺服和充满信心。再想想看乃缦的故事。他全身长满了大麻风，上帝却吩咐先知以利沙叫乃缦到约旦河中去沐浴七回，他就必康复。原本他不愿意服从，他还说了以下这句话。 列王记下 5：12 大马士革的河亚罢拿和法珥法，岂不比以色列的一切水更好吗？我在那里沐浴不得洁净吗？”于是气忿忿地转身去了。 最后他还是选择顺从上帝而得了医治。朋友们，想想看，如若他随从自己的意思，说哪一条河都可以，没关系，只要选择其中一条，或自己认为最合适的一条，那么你认为他会得到医治吗？我相信没有人会认为上帝无论如何都会医治他吧！还有一个非常合适的例子，是该隐和亚伯献祭的故事，大家可以自行研究。总而言之，我们不应自作主张而忽视上帝清楚的吩咐和指示，因为上帝才是全知的，祂拥有最高的智慧和最美好的旨意，是超乎我们所能理解的。 话说回来，如果你选择了一个自己喜欢的日子作为安息日的话，你便是悖逆了上帝，不听从祂的指示了，你是以自己的权柄来取代上帝的权柄了，你事实上是在敬拜你自己。这就是为什么圣经说： 耶利米书 17：9 人心比万物都诡诈，坏到极处，谁能识透呢？ 箴言 14：11 有一条路人以为正，至终成为死亡之路。 【钦定本】诗篇 118：8 信靠耶和华，强过信任人。 20. 守安息日不是律法主义 真相就是，遵守上帝的诫命不是律法主义，不是靠行为得救。坦白说，如果每当我听见有人声称守安息日是靠行为得救的一种方法或是律法主义时，我就会得到十令吉的话，那么我肯定早就财务自由或发达成为富豪了。 讽刺的是，这场争议一般都是来自各个守星期日的基督教派。他们常说，守安息日是靠行为得救，但同时他们自己却守星期日为安息日，但又不认为这有什么矛盾，也不认为守星期日是靠行为得救。这是为什么呢？请问谁能告诉我？ 事实上，当一个人选择顺从上帝，随从祂的旨意行，并不代表这个人是靠着行为得救，或想要赚取救恩。这一切都在乎你的动机和出发点。如果你是因爱上帝，感激祂赐下独生子来拯救世人，而愿意回应他的爱并作祂所喜悦的事的话，这怎么可能是靠行为得救呢？这正是耶稣自己在约翰福音 14：15中所吩咐我们做的。 约翰福音 14：15 你们若爱我，就必遵守我的命令。 另外，约翰一书也记载说： 约翰一书 5：3 我们遵守上帝的诫命，这就是爱他了，并且他的诫命不是难守的。 再说，我们守安息日的意义就是休息一天，不做任何工，所以若坚持说在安息日休息是靠行为得救的话，这根本是说不通的。事实上，守安息日乃是表明我们对上帝创世之工的完毕和整个救赎的计划充满信心。我们再来看一段经文。 希伯来书 4：10 因为那进入安息的，乃是歇了自己的工，正如上帝歇了他的工一样。 21. 新约并没有把安息日废掉 绝大多数的基督徒都对新约持有好些误解。他们误以为新约废掉了安息日，甚至把全部十条诫命都废除了。但这实在太离谱了。 希伯来书 10：16，17 “主说：‘那些日子以后，我与他们所立的约乃是这样，我要将我的律法写在他们心上，又要放在他们的里面’；以后就说：‘我不再记念他们的罪愆和他们的过犯。’” 注意，这里完全没有任何暗示说律法已经废除而不必遵守了，反而主要将祂的律法写在我们心上，又要放在我们里面。这意味着我们会爱上帝的律法，时刻记在心里，不断思想，并且尽心尽力地去顺从，选择依靠上帝的力量来遵守这律法。注意罗马书是怎么说守律法的人的。 罗马书2：14，15 没有律法的外邦人若顺着本性行律法上的事，他们虽然没有律法，自己就是自己的律法。这是显出律法的功用刻在他们心里，他们是非之心同作见证，并且他们的思念互相较量，或以为是，或以为非。 这表明当某人按着律法上的指示而行时，上帝的律法就已经刻在他们心里了，因为一个人要是喜爱上帝的律法，他就必自然按着律法的指示和要求而行。这是显而易见的。因此，我们怎么可能用耶稣把律法刻在我们心里这个事来证明祂已经把律法废除了呢？这根本就是自相矛盾。再加上要是耶稣把一样东西放在我们心里的话，那就表明这样东西是无比贵重的，是我们不可忘记，必须切记的。 22. 大部分基督徒对安息日持有误解 其中一个导致许多基督徒对安息日持有越来越多误解的原因，就是他们对某些经文的误解，因为他们听信了那些带有成见或企图的神学家和传道人对这些经文的注释。这些是违反上帝的一群人，而且事实上是撒但在背后启发他们曲解和滥用这些经文来支持他们在攻击上帝律法上的论点。我们现在就来探讨其中几个因素。时间关系，我们将不看所有被滥用于攻击安息日的经文，但我们会概括几个较普遍的。 歌罗西书 2：16，17 所以不拘在饮食上，或节期、月朔、安息日，都不可让人论断你们。这些原是后事的影儿，那形体却是基督。 因为这节，他们就说，这显示我们不应该论断那些选择不遵守安息日的人，又说安息日是后事的影儿，都是指向基督的，因此基督来了以后就不必再守了。但是这节真的是论到上帝在第四条诫命中吩咐我们遵守的第七日安息日吗？ 肯定不是的，其实他是论到每年的安息日，这是仪文律法的一部分，是犹太人年度节期的一部分。你要是不知道的话，圣经提到了几种安息日，一种是每周的第七日的安息日，即是十诫的其中一条。另一种是年度安息日，即是犹太人仪文律法的一部分，那么这个部分都已经废除了。 关于犹太人的这些节期和年度安息日，大家可以参阅利未记第23章。其中一个例子是犹太人的新年。 利未记 23：23-25 耶和华对摩西说：“你晓谕以色列人说：七月初一，你们要守为圣安息日，要吹角作纪念，当有圣会，什么劳碌的工都不可作。要将火祭献给耶和华。 那么我们要怎么知道歌罗西书那几节确实是论到犹太人节期中的安息日呢？很简单，第17节称它们为后事的影儿，我们必须明白影儿是什么，就是指向将来的弥赛亚或救世主的预表。第七日的安息日肯定不是影儿，因为这是上帝在最初的时候，在人类还没有犯罪之前就赐给亚当夏娃的。而那时他们根本就不需要一位救主。 所有指向耶稣的影儿都是在人类犯罪之后才赐给世人的，以让他们得盼望，仰望那将来要拯救他们的救主。比方说，人类犯罪之后，上帝就指示他们要把羊羔献上，以便预表耶稣为那无罪的羔羊，为世人牺牲的一位。另一节被曲解的经文是 罗马书 14：5，6 有人看这日比那日强，有人看日日都是一样，只是各人心里要意见坚定。守日的人是为主守的；吃的人是为主吃的，因他感谢上帝；不吃的人是为主不吃的，也感谢上帝。 看了这段经文，有人就会说，你守哪一日都没关系，只要守一日就可以了。但是我们注意到，安息日一词根本没有出现在这一节里。这里所论到的日子更可能是禁食的日子或犹太人的节期。 保罗这封信是写给一班信心还不怎么达标的罗马信徒的，再加上他们还要应对那些要求基督徒必须遵守摩西的律法而受割礼的犹太人。保罗也许想告诉他们说，犹太人的这些节期都是预表基督的影儿，且都已经废除了，因此在这方面，不存在这一日比那一日更重要的说法。 另外一点就是，犹太人有他们禁食的日子，一周两日。他们视某些日子比较神圣，所以就会在那些日子禁食。因此，保罗基于这一点才告诉他们说，这样的观念是错误的。反安息日的人喜欢用的另一段经文是使徒行传 15：19，20。 使徒行传 15：19，20 所以据我的意见，不可难为那归服上帝的外邦人，只要写信吩咐他们禁戒偶像的污秽和奸淫，并勒死的牲畜和血。 有些人甚至还大胆地说，皈依上帝的外邦人不需要遵守任何律法，他们只需注意以上这几个事项就可以了，那就是禁戒拜偶像、奸淫、食用勒死的牲畜、和吃血。如果事情真是这样的话，那就与许许多多的经文产生矛盾了。比如说启示录 22：14。 启示录 22：14 那些遵行他诫命的有福了，他们有权去到生命树那里，也能从门进城。 因此，使徒行传 15：19，20其实是特别应对或概括这些议题的，就是关于禁戒拜偶像的污秽和奸淫，并食用勒死的牲畜和血。这里没有提到律法和安息日，并不代表这些都被废除了，因为圣经其他部分都已经清楚概括了关于安息日和律法的事项。比如说哥林多前书6：9，10。 哥林多前书6：9，10 你们岂不知不义的人不能承受上帝的国吗？不要自欺，无论是淫乱的、拜偶像的、奸淫的、作娈童的、亲男色的、偷窃的、贪婪的、醉酒的、辱骂的、勒索的，都不能承受上帝的国。 保罗在这里谈到了十条诫命中的至少五条。这就清楚地显明上帝依然要我们遵守祂的诫命，当然这也包括了安息日在内。 有些人又强词夺理地说，每一天都应该成为我们的安息日，这只是真理的一半。我们的确要在每一天，藉着查经、祷告和唱诗来敬拜上帝。但是如果我们守每一天为安息日的话，我们肯定会失去工作，甚至根本没钱养活自己，因为第四条诫命吩咐我们在安息日安息，无论何工都不可作。 因此，只要我们运用一点逻辑思考的话，这个论点就站不住脚了。可见撒但的谎言何等经不起推敲，这就是为什么我们必须清楚地明白真理，才能看穿谬论。 23. 每一个时代都有守安息日的信徒 你知不知道，守安息日的信徒不是近期才出现的，而是一直都存在着的。很多人误以为自从基督复临安息日会创立以来才有人开始遵守第七日为安息日的。这是一个完全错误的观念。历史证明，打从使徒时代开始一直到今天，世界上都有着许许多多坚守安息日的信徒。 事实上，世界历史的第一个人亚当就已经开始守安息日了。这根本不是什么新鲜的教导，而是上帝最初的旨意。因此，上帝的信徒从世界的起初一直到世界的末了，都忠心地遵守着上帝的安息日和其他九条诫命。 朋友们，安息日和上帝的身份在末时将会成为最大的争议和议题。整个善恶之争都围绕着上帝的身份和上帝的圣日。这也离不开上帝的印记和兽的印记这个议题。简单来说，末时的人类只能分成两派，一边厢是敬拜独一真神父上帝并遵守祂安息日的义人，另一边厢则是敬拜三位一体假神并遵守伪安息日或星期日的恶人。 我再强调，安息日从来没有被废除或修改，我们也没有权利选择自己喜欢的日子作为安息日。虽然许多人费尽心思想要证明这些论点，以破坏上帝的安息圣日，但是这一切都是徒劳无功的，因为他们没有圣经的支持和认证。上帝藉着祂儿子和众先知一次又一次，不断重复同样的真理，就是上帝要我们对祂保持忠心，服从祂的诫命，直到世界的末了，始终不掉转脚步。 总结来说，今天我们从圣经里得知守安息日，一周的第七日即星期六，是顺从上帝的第四条诫命。安息日不仅是为犹太人设立的，而是为全人类而设立的，但是唯有忠于上帝的子民才会愿意遵祂话语而行。 上帝嘱咐我们“当记念”安息日，纪念上帝为我们的创造主，纪念祂为我们独一的真神，并且藉着这一日与上帝更加亲近。 安息日是不可改变的，因为它是上帝亲自设立的，祂也赐福与这一日，定为圣日。耶稣自己守了安息日，不管是活在世上的时候，或是死了之后。 新约时代的基督徒也都遵守安息日。另外，耶稣的死证明上帝的诫命是不可废除的，不然的话，耶稣就不必为我们而死，以偿还罪债了。 撒但不断竭尽所能地去攻击和破坏安息日，为的是以自己的日子取代上帝的日子，他要我们忘记上帝的命令，甚至忘记创造主本身。最后，星期日不是新的安息日，耶稣的复活并没有把星期日转变为安息日而消灭了原有的安息日，这也是撒但的谎言，以迷惑世人，把我们引向灭亡。 总而言之，上帝所设立的安息日必永远站立。愿每一位都能看清安息日的真理并揭穿撒但普世的谎言，让我们回到上帝所命定的日子，听从祂的话，跟从祂的旨意而行，做祂眼中看为正的事。 愿我们今天就做出明智的选择，站在上帝和祂儿子正义的一边，而逃避即将来临的兽印记，并违背上帝的可怕后果。愿我们培养爱上帝的心，选择顺服祂的话语和旨意，因为上帝先爱我们，为我们舍弃了自己至亲至爱的儿子，来拯救我们脱离罪恶的刑罚，让我们借着他得着永生的盼望。愿天父赐福与每一位，阿们。 上一篇 返回研究目录 下一篇 到最頂