Sabbath and the Early Christians, Part 4

Sabbath and the Early Christians, Part 4

He also says the disciples taught the Jewish believers to abandon the law because faith alone is sufficient. But there were Jews who were trying to add the law, which is already past in its season, to faith. He said that this action is a mark of an unsound and unbelieving mind. He reasoned that it is impractical to keep both of them together because the law voids faith, overthrows the Gospel, and endangers those who do so. However, if you keep faith alone, you have not only established law but also unhindered the promise but if you keep even just a portion of the law, you are obligated to keep all commandments therein.

Sabbath and Early Christians, Part 3

Sabbath and Early Christians, Part 3

And with the demonstration that the old law has been consummated, Tertulian also says that observance of the Sabbath “is demonstrated to be temporary” and so what Christians observe is not a weekly Sabbath, which is a Sabbath temporal, but a Sabbath eternal. Calling the weekly Sabbath human rather than divine, carnal rather than spiritual, merely a prefiguring, a foreshadowing, a type which points forward to the future or what is to come.