QUESTION 5: Is it the duty of Christians to put to death those who desecrate the seventh day?  -Num.15:32-36.  If Yes, who will be the public executioner?  If No, what will you do with the law?  -Ex.35:2.

ANSWER: No, it is not the duty of anyone to put any other person to death for breaking any of God's laws, including his Sabbath law.  I will obey the law.  No one today lives in a pure theocracy with God as the direct ruler.  Therefore, no one individual can take a life based on biblical laws or principles.  Only duly established governments may execute lawbreakers today.  However, God will see to it that the person breaking any of his laws will be destroyed unless that person repents and ceases to break his law to the best of his ability. A lawbreaker, in God's eyes, is a sinner.  Sin is lawlessness (1Jn.3:4).  The soul that sins will die (Ezek.18:20). 

QUESTION 6: Jesus journeyed and healed on Sabbath days—Matt.12:1-8; Luke 6:6-11; John 5:16, and it angered the Jews.  Why did he do this on the Sabbath and why did he answer them, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work"?  Jn.6:17.  [see Jn.5:17]

ANSWER: Good work is permitted on the Sabbath.  The Jews had heaped terrible restrictions and burdens on the people, all above and beyond what God desired.  Jesus rejected the Jews and their legalism.  Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Sabbath (Mk.2:27). He is in charge of it.  The Sabbath was made for all mankind as a tool to use for good works, primarily to worship God, and to rest.

QUESTION 7: Why did Jesus not require the young ruler to keep the Sabbath, when enumerating the commandments?-Matt.19:16-22; Mk.10:17-22.

ANSWER: Obviously, from the context, the rich ruler knew all of the Commandments of God.  Since Jesus only enumerated six of the Ten Commandments, it is just as obvious that he was concerned at that point with the man's relationship to other people, rather than his relationship to God, which the first four Commandments establish and define.  Since Jesus did not enumerate the other Commandments, do we presume that it is okay for us to worship other gods—and bow down to them?  Of course not.  Why single out the Sabbath command for interrogation and rejection?  This passage does not reflect on the Sabbath at all. 

QUESTION 8: When Judaizing teachers sought to bring Gentile Christians under the law, and the apostles and elders at Jerusalem met about this question, why did they stigmatize those teachers as "subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised and keep the law"- adding "to whom we gave no such commandment." -Acts 15:23,24.  Why did they make no mention of the Sabbath in their recommendation to the Gentile Christians? -vv 28,29.

ANSWER: This event in question was not meant to be a study in systematic theology.  The subject was narrow.  The context: "And certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, 'Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved' " (Acts 15:1; cf. vv.5, 24).  They made no mention of the Sabbath for the same reason they made no mention of God, graven images, lying, or murder: they did not apply at that time because the subject was circumcision, primarily.

QUESTION 9: Where in Scripture is there any command to any Gentile nation to keep the law of Moses?  -Now, no quibbling!

ANSWER: This is another thought-to-be clever question.  God does not command nations to repent.  He commands individuals to repent—persons from every nation.  "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because he has appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained.  He has given assurance of this to all by raising him from the dead" (Acts 17:30-31).  Repent: stop violating God's laws (sinning) and be obedient (1Pet.1:13-15). Indeed, no person is of God until he repents (Acts 2:36-40).  Before this occurs, the person is a sinner and a lawbreaker, destined for destruction (Matt.7:13-14).  "Then Peter opened his mouth and said: 'In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him' " (Acts 10:34-35).

FPH COUNTER QUESTION: What exactly is the "law of Moses"?  All the laws that were given at Mt. Sinai, were "laws of God" since he said they were his.  Moses was only a mediator, he was not the lawgiver.  (NO ANSWER EVER GIVEN)

COUNTER QUESTION 2: Where in the Bible is there any command to cease observing the seventh day and begin observing the first day?  Answer: Nowhere.

QUESTION 10: The Lord Jesus was in the tomb on the Sabbath; he rose from the dead on the first day of the week [maybe]; he appeared to his disciples twice on the first day of the week; the holy spirit came upon the disciples on the first day of the week—Acts 2:1; Lev.23:15,16; [OK] and the disciples came together to remember the Lord in the Breaking Of Bread on the first day of the week-Acts 20:7.  [This B.O.B was a regular meal!]

ANSWER: Wrong again.  They did not come together "to remember the Lord in the breaking of bread."  The phrase "breaking of bread" was merely a Hebraism used to indicate that a meal was taking place.  This is historical, provable fact.  However, even if all he writes is true, it does NOT tell us to dump the seventh day and replace it with the first day, does it?  NO. (Continued...)