The Sabbath in the New Testament: Answers to Questions
Overview
In The Sabbath in the New Testament, Bacchiocchi summarizes and updates his extensive research by presenting four reasons for believing that the seventh-day Sabbath was kept throughout New Testament times. In the second half of the book, Bacchiocchi answers a variety of questions often asked at his popular Lord’s Day Seminar. Questions deal with historical, theological and practical aspects of Sabbath keeping. Clear, straightforward, and insightful, The Sabbath in the New Testament is a valuable reference manual. As a non-theological addendum, this edition also includes a chapter from Bacchiocchi, Anna, containing her family’s favorite Italian Sabbath recipes.
Top Highlights
“Bible is Jewish. If a person chooses to reject the revelation which God gave to the Jews, he will have to reject the whole Bible because all of it was given to Jews. The Sermon on the Mount, the Olivet Discourse, and the Great Commission were all spoken to Jews. The reason is that the Jews were the race chosen by God to receive and communicate His truth to other nations (Deut 28:9–10; 7:6).” (Page 109)
“The parallelism suggests that Paul equates the keeping of God’s commandments with a working faith and a new life in Christ. The Christian, then, is under the law as a revelation of God’s ethical standards for his life, but he is not under the law as a method of salvation. Paul rejects the law as a method of salvation but upholds it as a standard for Christian conduct.” (Page 69)
“Paul emphasizes not only the method of salvation, that is, righteousness by faith apart from works of the law, but also the standard of salvation, that is righteousness which is manifested in the obedience to God’s commandments through faith in Jesus.” (Page 110)
“Jews could be converted by the thousands because their acceptance of Jesus of Nazareth as their expected Messiah meant to them not a reneging of their religion, but the realization of their Messianic expectations.” (Page 17)
“By destroying the evidence of our sins, God has also ‘disarmed the principalities and powers’ (2:15) since it is no longer possible for them to accuse those who have been forgiven.” (Page 78)
- Title: The Sabbath in the New Testament: Answers to Questions
- Author: Samuele Bacchiocchi
- Series: Biblical Perspectives
- Volume: 5
- Publisher: Biblical Perspectives
- Print Publication Date: 2000
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Sabbath › Biblical studies
- Resource ID: LLS:SBBTHNWQSTNSWRS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:32:39Z