Sabbath?

How do you keep the Sabbath? Do we have a vague guilt that we are not keeping it right. Which commandment is that? The fifth? I think it is the fifth.

Do we somehow rest on the Sabbath? Should we?

As a professor once scoffed, "Sabbath? Look and see what the Israelites meant by that? That is the seventh day. Has any Christian group ever kept the seventh day holy? No, we have almost universally taken the first day of the week as our holy day."

So if Sunday is our new holy day we have already broken the sabbath of the Old Testament. This commandment has been superseded by the New Covenant that Jesus gave us. Do we agree? But then we ask, "Are we to act like it the same sabbath of the Old Testament, only moved?"

Were the blue laws, that kept businesses closed on Sunday a good thing? Or were they a part of Christianity becoming a national religion, replacing show for actual heart felt faith?

I think that is the point. Now it is a matter of the heart. Jesus told us we would worship God in Spirit and in truth. That prophesy has come to pass. The outward observances of a shallow piety are not as important as the heart we give to God. We rest in God and that can be done in many way. Some will not look too pious.