antabanta posted:Keith posted:Amral posted:From my Sunday school days I think he called the 7th day, the day of rest. The day of rest has been used as the day of worship.
I've to disagree with you depending on how you define the words "rest". As mention in the above post the Hebrew word translated “rested” in Genesis 2:2 includes other ideas than that of being tired. In fact, one of the main definitions of the Hebrew word shabat is “to cease or stop.”
We have to read carefully, it's written in Exodus 20: 9-10,
"9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:".
On the seventh day we stop doing what we did for the past six days, we are to cease all labor. Many of us use the seventh day to attend services to worship and to have fellowship with one another some even spend the day visiting families etc. As long there is no manual labor you are keeping the seventh day holy as was instructed by God.
So "rest" in your context would be, "a day of no manual labor".For whom did God need to keep the 7th day holy?
You have proven my point, you do have a problem comprehending. Go back and read and get some understanding then come back and lets reason.