The Time Machine

Read selected witnesses across 21 centuries. Follow the differences between worship, weekly rest, fasting, and civil law. The sources record changing practices and competing arguments; they do not describe one worldwide switch.

A source can show what an author taught or a law required without showing what everyone did. Summaries and quotations are labeled below. History helps test the Sabbath argument; it does not replace its biblical foundation.

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Read the Sabbath argument in chapter 2.