13. The Old Sabbath Repealed
By reading Rom. 2:12, 14-16, it is seen that there are two kinds of precepts: those that exist in man’s consciousness, independent of law to enforce them, […]
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Author: H. M. Riggle
H. M. Rigle was born February 18, 1872 in Pennsylvania. He was a pastor in the Church of God, and for 23 years he was president of the religious magazine the Gospel Trumpet. He and his wife Minnie also served as overseas missionaries for several years. Riggle wrote several books, but his book The Sabbath and The Lord’s Day specifically addressed the Seventh-day Adventist teaching on the subject. He died October 7, 1952, at the age of 80.
12. The Seventh-Day Sabbath as Mentioned in the New Testament
Since the “first” or “old” covenant—the law—that enjoined the observance of the seventh day, was abolished and ended at the cross, and the “new” and “better” covenant has taken […]
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11. The Decalog
The Seventh-day Adventists point the people to the Decalog as God’s eternal law, superior to all else, that which governs angels in heaven governed Adam in Eden, and will […]
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10. Moses the Mediator of the Law
“Mediate. — To interpose; to intercede.” — Webster. Then, a mediator is one who interposes or mediates between parties, one who stands in the middle between two. Mesites is […]
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Chapter 9: The Abolition of the Law
Adventists are continually crying, “God’s law [meaning the Sinaitic code] is unchangeable.” But Paul contradicts them, boldly stating “that there is made of necessity a change also of the […]
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Chapter 8: The Law
Sabbatarians are continually preaching, talking, writing, and arguing about “the law.” Yet in all the New Testament, while we have “preach the kingdom” eight times, “preach […]
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Chapter 7: Smith’s Two Covenants
“The very first transaction we find taking place between God and the Israelites after they left Egypt which answers to the definition of the word ‘covenant,’ must […]
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Chapter 6: The Covenant From Sinai Abolished
“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a […]
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Chapter 5: The Covenant From Sinai
We now come to the Sabbath as instituted in the Ten-Commandment law given on Sinai. With this law the Sabbath either stands or falls. A covenant was made […]
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Chapter 4: The Sabbath on a Round Earth
In their very nature all purely moral laws are universal and eternal in their application, are binding in heaven, in Eden, on Jews or Gentiles, saints or sinners, now […]
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Chapter 3: The Jewish Sabbath Ceremonial in Nature
“Ceremony. Outward rite; external form in religion.”—Webster. “An outward form or rite in religion; anything or observance held sacred.”—International Encyclopedic Dictionary. This is exactly what the observance of the […]
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Chapter 2: The Sabbath a Jewish Institution
Law-teachers try in every way possible to evade the fact that the Sabbath was only Jewish. To admit this would prove that they are trying to revive an abolished institution […]
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1: The Sabbath: When Originated And When First Enjoined Upon Man
The plan of redemption was conceived in the mind of God prior to the foundation of the world. It was a mystery then hid in him alone. Long ages […]
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