Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach

ADVENTIST STICKING POINTS
8 th No stealing — 4 times
9 th No lying — 4 times
10 th Don’t covet — 9 times 2
If the Adventist position that the Sabbath will be the
ultimate test of all time, is true, if it will one day be the
final test of loyalty, if all true followers of Jesus will be
keeping it, if all who fail to do so will receive the "mark of
the beast," wouldn't it make sense that God would state it
clearly? Wouldn’t He repeatedly include it in His list of
moral “oughts” for Christians throughout the New
Testament? Wouldn't God warn and re-warn his disciples?
Wouldn't Sabbath breaking be included in the lists of sins
that Paul and the other New Testament writers stated and
restated so many times in their warnings to the new
believers? Why are there no instructions to “Jonas and
Janeius Gentile” about how to keep the Sabbath? Wouldn’t
God have seen to it that the instructions were clear and
precise as they are with the other nine commandments?
Wouldn't there have been at least some questions about
how to keep Sabbath in the Gentile world? Why would the
apostles just assume that they would know how to observe
Sabbath?
In my many years as an Adventist pastor, one of the
most common questions I was asked by new converts and
long standing members alike was, “What is OK and what is
not OK to do on Sabbath? 3 How can we do this right? How
2 J. Mark Martin, The Sabbath: Common Misunderstandings, Article
posted on website www.sdaoutreach.org.
3 Where to draw the line on Sabbath keeping issues has been a problem
for many sabbatarians. Many Adventist boarding schools years ago, did
not allow showers to be taken on the Sabbath. I grew up with certain
unwritten rules regarding Sabbath observance. It was OK to wade on
Sabbath, but not to swim. It was OK to ride bicycles, but not if there
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