Season 4 Podcast 132, In Defense of Christianity, “The Sabbath Day, Part VII, Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 3.”

Season 4 Podcast 132, In Defense of Christianity, “The Sabbath Day, Part VII, Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 3.” The final proposition is like the previous one presented in Podcast 129, Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 2.Proposition 13: The Lord hallowed the sabbath day. The words blessed and hallowed clearly overlap, but there are distinctions. Synonyms for blessed are—1.     consecrated, 2.     divine, 3.     exalted, 4.     glorified, 5.     holy,Synonyms for Hallowed are—1.     absolved, 2.     adored, 3.     anointed, 4.     blessed, 5.     celestial, Those are the same synonyms that Christ uses when describing his children. Keeping the Sabbath Day holy is a symbol of that blessed and hallowed state. There are two words in logic that are essential in determining a cause: necessary and sufficient. To be necessary means that the effect cannot occur without it. To be sufficient means that all necessary conditions are accounted for without any superfluous assertions. Keeping the Sabbath Day holy is necessary to reach a sanctified state, but it is not sufficient. As Christ said, Matthew 4:4“But he answered and said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”  Because of its importance much is said in holy writ concerning the Sabbath day. When the Children of Israel enter the Promised Land, they are commanded to keep the Sabbath which is The Law of Liberty:And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, sayingSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them When ye come into the land which I give you then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord  Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard and gather in the fruit thereof  But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land a sabbath for the Lord thou shalt neither sow thy fieldnor prune thy vineyard  That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed for it is a year of rest unto the land And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you for thee and for thy servant and for thy maid and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee And for thy cattle and for the beast that are in thy land shall all the increase thereof be meat  And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee seven times seven years and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth dayof the seventh month in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land  And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family