Yes, The Note by Jay Slaughter IS the best reply to all the other comments. The Bible is our source of information for all people. Therefore the TEN

COMMANDMMENTS is what we are to follow. There has never been a change in the 7 day cycle since creation. Saturday the SEVENTH DAY is the true

day of worship intended . Read Exodus 20:3-17. Verses 8-11 covers the 4th commandment. Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep It Holy etc.

Seventh-Day Adventist DO NOT COMPROMISE GODS LAW, THAT GOD CREATED BECAUSE OF GOD REST AFTER HIS SIX DAYS OF CREATION GOD RESTED AND SANCTIFIED the last day of of HIS CREATION. GOD DAY OF REST AND WORSHIP CANNOT BE CHANGED BY MAN. DOES MAN THINK he is greater than GOD, How FOOLISH THINKING, READ THE BIBLE TRUTH OF GOD WORD, FOLLOW GOD INSPIRED WORD, NOT MAN. In Heaven GOD SABBATH ON SATURDAY THE LAST DAY OF THE WEEK WILL STILL CONTINUE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM HOLY CITY, (Isaiah 66:22-23). My brothers and sisters in Christ, please study GOD WORD, I Love you all, please understand the truth and see the last three angel messages to our world in Revelation 14:6-12 and understand the two beast powers in Revelation chapter 13, the first Beast powers is the antichrist PAPACY and the second beast power is the USA who will make an image to the first Beast and it can be seen today moving in that direction as the Pope power is working earnestly to draw back all pro-testant church’s back to Roman Catholic Church Power as was before, before it received its deadly wound in 1798 by a French leaders general, hence, the Roman Catholic Church since then has been working very hard getting it’s power from the dragon in Revelation chapter 13, intending to change times and laws, man’s so call Sunday rest and worship that is UNTRUE BIBLICAL WORD.

Our Messiah, Yahushua, is our mediator and forever Priest. Our bodies still need physical rest as well as our minds, hence the sabbath made for everyone and the creatures. I am human and my Creator did knows better and I delight in his 7thday rest.

I totally disagree with your premise Deb. You are assuming people who buy a franchised business are working on Sunday’s against their will. If they didn’t want to work Sundays then they should have never bought into that business. I am an SDA and would hope not a single SDA would support such a bill. It doesn’t matter if you are talking about work, worship, or anything else; if you are mandating it then it is wrong. You are them trampling on liberty and conscience. The Puritans left England over mandated worship, and then when they came to the New World they started to mandate worship again and even going as far as not allowing people to vote unless they were a member of the church. This changed when Roger Williams came along and stated that mankind has inalienable rights given by God, and that people should not be forced into going to church against their conscience. Roger Williams was actually very instrumental as the forefathers of our country put much of what he stood for as part of our Declaration of Independence. Any act of coercion or force are acts of Satan. God never forces anyone’s conscience. God could have squashed the rebellion in heaven, but he didn’t. Liberty is at the core of God’s government. He allowed Lucifer and the fallen angels to think and choose the way they did because God does not force the conscience. God is love, and true love requires freedom of choice and conscience. Just so you know, I would also never be in favor of this bill if it was to force rest on Saturday, even though I believe the 7th day (Saturday), is the true sabbath.

thank you Deb for Sharing your beliefs and thoughts.
I have to agree with some of your points, one should be free to choose whether they keep Saturday or Sunday as their day of worship or no day at all
Likewise, one should have a choice if they work on Saturday or Sunday, it is a free choice which our great God has given us. Which day God commands us to keep is another matter. As with each command we are free to choose, but there are consequences for our choices.
With the point in question, one should be able to choose if they work or not on Sundays and not have the government legislate this.
The issue for Adventist is that decreeing that one can’t work on Sunday is a precursor to greater things, ultimately that one has to worship on Sundays which we have seen in history before.
As for the change from Saturday to Sunday, I would encourage you to be able to support this assertion from scripture. The gospels were written some 20-60 years after Christ and no-where is it recorded Thus says the Lord that my day to keep holy is changed from Saturday to Sunday. Conversely Daniel 7:25 says that one shall seek to change times and laws. Also, if Gods laws could be changed Christ would not need to have been crucified.
May you have a blessed Sabbath.

We keep the sabbath out of obedience for our creator, for sanctification. Just like the tree in the garden the sabbath is a test of our loyalty, it is our seal that we are His. Jesus didn’t do away with the law he did away with the condemnation of it. He brought us back to true worship which is love. Isaiah 56

What do you mean? Observing sabbath is not taking the place of Christ. Is that what you mean?