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The ‘‘sacred rock ’’ beneath the dome of the Mosque of Omar
in Jerusalem. On it is supposed to be a footprint of Mo-
hammed, another of the queer superstitions about religion
wrong ideas because they know not and heed not
the Scriptures of truth. A knowledge of Scripture
is our only safeguard today against error, just as
the use of the square is the carpenter’s only sure
way of cutting the board true.
Among many that might be mentioned, let us
look at eight ‘quaint’ religious ideas that the public
does not question: Christ was born December 25.—
Easter is the exact anniversary of Christ’s resur-
rection.— Sunday is the Sabbath, or Lord’s day.—
It makes no difference what day you keep, just so
you keep one day in seven.— The soul of man is
immortal and every person has a never-dying
soul to save.— People go to their reward at death.—
The righteous go to heaven when they die, and the
wicked go into everlasting torment at death.
Basgp ONLY ON RUMOR
HESE beliefs have been handed down from
century to century and passed from mouth to
mouth without challenge until the average person
accepts these ideas as unquestioned truths, and really
thinks that the Bible teaches them. But as a matter
JULY, 1929
By John Lewis Shuler
of fact, all these ideas are wrong and nomn-Biblical.
Christ wasnot bornon December 25. The Scriptures
present evidences that plainly show that His birth
did not take place in December. The coming of the
Son of God into this world as a babe was an event
of supreme importance for our redemption; and, if
we would be saved, we must give that glorious
event its proper acceptance in our belief. But there
is not even a hint in all the Bible that we are to ob-
serve any special date in honor of that event.
Our Lord’s resurrection did take place on the first
day of the week, commonly called Sunday. But
a little thought must show that next year the anni-
versary of His resurrection would come on Monday.
Two years afterward, it would fall on Tuesday, and
so on, on a different day of the week each year, just
like the American Fourth of July, as the anniver-
sary of the independence of the United States. The
anniversary of our Lord's resurrection would, as
a rule, fall on Sunday only once in seven years.
The resurrection of Christ was absolutely necessary
to make our salvation sure, but the Bible does
not even hint that we are to observe any day of the
week or of the year in honor of that event. Scrip-
ture does teach us that we are to show our faith in
His resurrection by the ordinance of baptism.
(Colossians 2: 12; Romans 6: 3-5.)
THE TRUE LORD'S DAY
UNDAY is not the Sabbath or the Lord's day.
Sunday is the first day of the week—the day on
which God started to make the world. In the Ten
Commandments, as proclaimed by God’s own voice
and engraved by Him upon lasting stone, the sev-
enth day — the last day of the week, on which God
rested, the day we call Saturday —is plainly de-
clared to be the Sabbath of the Lord and God’s
holy day. Sunday is not the Sabbath or the Lord’s
day, because God did not rest on that day, God did
not make that day holy, and He has never set it
apart or commanded man to observe that day.
The seventh day is the only week day to which
any sacred title is ever given in the Bible. It is the
only weekly rest day that God has ever commanded
man to observe. It is the only day that Christ our
Lord, as Creator, ever rested on, or ever blessed, or
hallowed, or set apart for men to keep. These six
immutable and unanswerable facts forever establish
that the seventh day, commonly called Saturday, is
the only true Sabbath day, or Lord’s day.
The idea that it does not (Continued on page 33)
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