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🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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While many commandments are fairly clear, how to “remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy” has been debated for millennia. Professor Gaye Strathearn from BYU Religious Education has researched this discussion during the centuries surrounding Jesus’s mortal ministry. This episode explores efforts to navigate the Sabbath day by Israelites in the late second temple period, and how we can learn from them to remember and keep the Sabbath holy today.
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0:00.0 | Hi there, my wire religion friends, Professor Anthony Sweat here from BYU Religious Education. |
0:04.4 | Welcome to another great episode of Wire Religion. |
0:07.5 | A few weeks ago, I was in upstate New York on a church history trip. |
0:11.7 | And as part of that trip, on Sunday, after we went to church, I might add, we went to visit |
0:17.2 | Niagara Falls. |
0:19.0 | And when I arrived, I just couldn't believe how busy it was for a Sunday afternoon. |
0:24.4 | The sheer number of people there amazed me as much as the falls itself almost. |
0:28.9 | While I was observing all these people, I had a thought crossed my mind along the lines |
0:32.7 | of, this day seems no different than an extended Saturday for most of these people. |
0:38.2 | And as I had that somewhat critical thought, another thought crossed my mind and it went |
0:42.9 | something like this, and you're guilty as charged with the rest in this crowd, buddy. |
0:48.1 | And perhaps my thoughts were right, perhaps they were wrong. |
0:51.4 | Even as I tell you this story, some of you who are listening may be thinking, oh good, |
0:55.1 | he went to church on Sunday, even on a trip. |
0:58.5 | Others of you might be thinking, what, he went to Niagara Falls on a Sunday? |
1:03.1 | That's so inappropriate for the Sabbath. |
1:05.5 | While somebody else might come back to that and say, well, he was worshiping by appreciating |
1:09.5 | the creations of God in nature. |
1:11.9 | And while somebody else might just say, hey, it's his business, leave him alone. |
1:15.9 | And there in my friends enters the difficulty of the command to remember the Sabbath day and |
1:21.0 | to keep it holy. |
1:23.1 | While many commandments are fairly clear, particularly the thou shalt nots, how to exactly keep the command |
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