Baptist Confession of Faith and the Sabbath?

[BrightCandle]

I was reading Spurgeon's edition of the Baptist Confessions of Faith and noted an apparent contradition. Here is the edition that I was looking at:

http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/creeds/bcof.htm

And here is the question: In the section dealing with the moral law it states in so many words that all Christians are bound to obey the ten commandments for as long as time shall last. And it also mentions that the ceremonial law were given till the death of Christ, and that they were done away with at that time, but not the moral law which the Sabbath is part of. But farther down in the confessional it states that the seventh day was the Sabbath from the creation to the resurrection, but from the resurrection forwards the first day of week is Sabbath. This is the contradiction: Since the Sabbath was not part of the ceremonial law, but part of the moral law, the ten commandments, why don't all Baptists keep the seventh day Sabbath?

Brooks

[TwinCrier]

We worship on "The Lord's Day" which is the first of the week. All the verses about worship and thithing are done on the first day of the week. The Sabbath is a day of rest, but as Jesus pointed out in Matthew 12:11 and Luke 14:5 it's not an excuse for laziness either.The 10 commandments are for our well being, not to be oppressive. There are some "Seventh-Day Baptists" though.
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days

[costlygrace]

That is, as Twin Crier said, an issue Baptists are divided on, but the majority are in favor of the first day. The purpose of the Sabbath is as a day of rest, but not rest from taking care of others' daily needs. (In other words, don't get callous or grudging just because it's the sabbath!!! :))

I have not seen convincing evidence of a change from 7th day to 1st day Sabbath. So I personally keep my Sabbath on the seventh day. I don't know if there are very many Quakers who do that, though it is not an important issue one way or another to most of us. That was a change I made a few years ago, and I found it to be much more restful, because a Sunday sabbath always seems to have to be cut short for one to be ready for the next week, whereas with Saturday you can just collapse at the end of the week and prepare for the next on Sunday.

However, the Bible makes it clear that there is liberty in Christ to keep it on either day. Colossians 2:16 "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days". Since it is one of the Ten commandments, I do not believe that it is optional whether or not to keep it, especially whether or not to give people who may be working for you a rest one day in seven. I believe that one of the main purposes is to prevent people from being worked beyond what they can handle.

[BrightCandle]

costlygrace:

I appreciate your reply. To be consistent, if as you propose a Christian can decide for themselves which day to kept the Sabbath on as long as they keep one day in seven, if we were to apply this principle to the other nine commandments, then could we not leave it up to the Christian to compromise the application of the commandment of adultery, stealing, using the Lord's name is vain, etc, etc. In other words, the Ten Commandments were written in a manner that were very straighforward and simple, and to change them to fit our personal preferences compromises their validity, and weakens their relavence to the Chrisitian and non-Christian world alike. Don't you think that God a good reason for saying to keep the 7th day?

Brooks

[BT]

Every Saturday, when my wife asks me to cut the grass, I argue that it is my Sabbath rest day. I should mention that it never works. Yet, I keep trying.