Abram Herbert Lewis - Spiritual Sabbathism
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NO-SABBATHISM AND THE SUNDAY 1 45<br />
There were, then, a God of Imperfection and<br />
Law, and a God of Perfection and Love. The good<br />
God had sent his son to earth. Clothed not in flesh<br />
but in the spiritual likeness of the flesh,<br />
the Son had<br />
revealed to men the God of Perfection and Love.<br />
But Jehovah, the Demiurge, the creator of evil<br />
had he not said, in Isaiah, "I create evil"— ? —had<br />
failed to recognize the Son of the true God, and had<br />
caused him to be nailed to the cross. The son came<br />
to destroy the law of Jehovah, and Jehovah slew<br />
him.<br />
Hence Christians must renounce Jehovah, and<br />
every phase of his law. They must renounce the<br />
special sign of Jehovah, the Sabbath. They must<br />
even renounce marriage, for this too was the work<br />
of Jehovah, creator of the flesh.<br />
Such was Marcionism, a religion of impatience<br />
and destruction.<br />
§20. Justin, TertiiUian, the Didache.—It Is impossible<br />
to dogmatize concerning the complicated<br />
mixture of motives and processes which, in the first<br />
century, brought Sunday into repute.<br />
Biblical reasons<br />
were not among them, for (as is now admitted<br />
by eminent critics and as our notes will show) the<br />
New Testament nowhere asserts that Sunday was a<br />
day of public worship or that It was the day of the<br />
resurrection. Jewish Christians continued to ob-
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