Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists

ELD. CANRIGHT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SABBATH AND SUNDAY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

CANRIGHT VS. THE SABBATH

“A great and radical change in the mode of worshiping God is now introduced. The new wine of the gospel must not be put into the old bottles of the Jewish law, nor the new covenant patched on to the old. (Mark 2:21, 22.) Hence, ‘there is made of necessity a change also of the law’ (Hebrews 7:12), which was only a school-master to bring us unto Christ’ (Galatians 3:24), who ‘is the end of the law’ (Romans 10:4). Now we are to hear Jesus (Matthew 7:24), and keep his commandments (John 14:15, 21); for we ‘are not under the law’ (Romans 6:14).” RCASDA 57.1

“Sabbatarians think they have a fair argument in the Acts. Here the seventh day is always called ‘the Sabbath,’ and it is evident that the Jewish Christians still observed it, and met with the Jews in worship on that day. From this it is concluded that all Christians should keep that day too. This is based on the false assumption that whatever customs and laws of the old covenant were still observed by the Christians after the resurrection, must be binding upon the church now.” RCASDA 57.2