is keeping the sabbath a ceremonial law a moral law or a dietary law?

Question

It says this in the bible some place pleas tell me

I keep sabbath because of all the reasons you point out thank you

Answer 1

The Sabbath is one of the Laws of God as written by Him with His finger. The Sabbath was the first holiday ordained by God for all mankind...back in Genesis. It is moral and just, and is one of the ways we can fulfill the law as stated that we should love God with all of our being from Matthew 22:37-39. When we obey God's Law, it shows whom we serve. It does not save us...since salvation is by God's Grace.

Answer 2

It is one of the ten commandments. Each of them is still valid, so the sabbath should be to. It is THE LAW. The one inscribed by the finger of God. It does not fall under any of those headings. It is the non negotiable part of God's law. Ex. 20 is where to find the commandments.

EDIT: if I had to pick one of the points mentioned above, It would have to be Moral law. The main reason is that it can not be a ceremonial law because those were fulfilled at the cross. ( I believe Jesus is a high priest who is in heaven performing the ceremonial tasks instead of earthly priests- Technically they were not done away with, the responsibility just changed hands- but that is for a different topic. LOL) It also can not be a dietary law because it does not involve food or the rules surrounding acceptable food. Therefore having excluded the other two types of law, it must be a moral law. (providing those are the only choices)

EDIT: After searching the exhaustive concordance of the King James version of the bible, the word Moral is not used. However, after looking up the definition of Moral Law, this is what I have come to understand:

The basic meaning of the word "moral" is: relating to, or capable of making the distinction between right and wrong.
The Ten Commandments do just that. In a simplistic and straightforward way, they clearly make the distinction between right and wrong behavior. It focuses on specific areas of human behavior and says, "Thou shalt do this, and Thou shalt not do that." The moral law makes it very easy for us to understand how we OUGHT to behave ourselves.

With this in mind, Sabbath is an example of Moral Law.

Answer 3

Scripture does not make the distinctions regarding points of law being moral, ceremonial, sacrificial, etc. This was a covenant law, and to break one point was to be guilty of all; the whole law.

Jesus cites the sabbath both in the context of what we would call ceremonial and sacrificial law. No where is the sabbath treated as a moral law; a moral law being one where there is never a justification for violating it.

You keep the sabbath? Then you have fallen from grace. You state by your belief and action that Christ is not enough; the Holy Spirit is not enough; you have to keep points of a covenant law you were never a party to, and a covenant law that ended upon the death of Christ. You shame Christ by choosing the shadow over the reality. According to Romans 7, you cannot be bound to both.

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Answer 4

Moral Law. Christ upheld the moral Law in the New Testament.

Matthew 5:17,18
Luke 4:16


Keep the Sabbath(Saturday) holy.

Visit your local Seventh-day Adventist church for more information on God's Sabbath.

Answer 5

I think that it it is a moral law - in that it should be a way of life. Keeping the sabbath is not just about attending church, it is about refraining from un-necessary labour - both your own and that of others (for example not eating out or going to the movies etc). The sabbath day is a day of rest.

Answer 6

You will see a range of opinions on this!

My personal thinking is that it is part of the moral code, it is one of the 10 Commandments.

Many believe, and I have no issue with them, that Jesus destroyed the law. I think it was the ceremonial (sacrificial) law that He destroyed. I have yet to meet a Christian who thinks that the remaining nine commandments have been destroyed. Jesus worshiped on the traditional seventh day Sabbath..

Answer 7

The Sabbath law is a ceremonial law that was pointing to the rest that believers can find in Christ.

Hebrews 4:3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, "They shall never enter my rest.'" And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world. 4 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: "And on the seventh day God rested from all his work." 5 And again in the passage above he says, "They shall never enter my rest." 6 It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience. 7 Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;

That doesn't mean that people should work 7 days a week or not set aside a day of worship for God. It just means that we are no longer under the law and that we don't have to stop work on Friday evening at 6pm until Saturday evening at 6pm or that we can't gather up some sticks or have a cooking fire during those hours.

Numbers 15:32 While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, 34 and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him. 35 Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp."

Exodus 35:3 Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."

Answer 8

to me keeping the Sabbath meant that we should do all we can to try to attempt to be holy + to follow God's words + to honor Him, pray to Him, appreciate Him. The church has instilled on us that this also meant for us to go to church. God didn't say we had to leave money in the basket for a church offering. Man has created many religious laws, and have forgotten about many other important things. I try to keep the Sabbath everyday by being a good if not better Christian, + affect someone's life in a positive way. Sorry I am a very strong Christian, but I do not go to church. God's church is in my heart, in my soul. Where I try to keep it holy.

Answer 9

Ceremonial

"Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ."
- Colossians 2:16-17

Answer 10

It is neither.
Keeping the Sabbath is one way the Jewish nation acknowledges its covenant with G-d.
G-d gave the rest of the world seven laws, known as the Seven Noahide Laws, which do not include the Sabbath.
http://www.noahidenations.com/