Sabbath rest or sabbath worship? – Part 2

In my previous post, I looked at how the Bible never calls the sabbath a day of worship. I’ve challenged Adventists to show me where the Bible says it is a day of worship. Needless to say, there were no responses forthcoming that actually provided me with biblical evidence of the Adventist claim. Also, needless to say, there were responses … I was provided with several passages that don’t say that, but which Adventists felt they had to share to convince me of their “truth”.

Adventists could list thousands of such verses – every single verse in the Bible is a verse that fails to show that the sabbath was meant as a day of worship.

Let’s look at a few provided to me (all from the KJV).

Exodus 20:11 – For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

• No mention of worship.
• No command to worship on the day.

Daniel 7:25 – And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

• No mention of worship.
• No command to worship on the day.
• Only a connection to changing times and laws, something that fits Antiochus Epiphanes.

Luke 4:16 – And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

• No mention of worship.
• No command to worship on the day.
• Simply a statement that attending synagogue discussions was one of Jesus’ customs. Jesus’ customs are not biblical commands from God. Otherwise we’d all have to wear sandals.

Acts 17:2 – And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures

• No mention of worship.
• No command to worship on the day.
• Again a mention of a custom (manner, habit) Paul had. Paul’s habits are not biblical commands from God. It amazes me how much Adventists can read into the word “custom”.

One Adventist closed off his response to my request: “This generation demands a miracle“

Little did he realise that by criticising me for requesting biblical references, and refusing to provide them, he was acknowledging that it would take a miracle to find such biblical references. They don’t exist.