• “With so much suffering and so many tragedies in the world today—war, hurricanes, floods, fires, homelessness, homicides, suicides, overdoses— there is much talk of resilience and the need to be resilient. But what does resilience really mean?”
Q: So, what is the solution to our planet’s man-made and natural
disasters, according to Psychology Today magazine?
A: Their response is to
secure a weekly day of rest for humans and the planet, or we will
perish. Notice how they proceed to explain the science behind Sabbath
rest and saving the world:
• “Ancient tradition, now, unfortunately, largely forgotten in the modern world, may give us some strategies to become more resilient. The ideas of the Sabbath and sabbatical have validity to improve the human condition.”• “A Sabbath or a sabbatical need not have a religious connotation. A secular Sabbath is as valid as a religious one.”• “As we move towards safety and recovery, so too we move into the other, the needs of the other person and the needs of the natural world around us. As we move the world towards safety and recovery, we build our resilience while we also build the resilience of the other—both people and the planet.”• “As we give time to ourselves for a Sabbath and sabbatical to build our resilience, we can also give time to our planet for regeneration, rejuvenation, recovery, and resilience.”• “As humans can tolerate some threat, the planet can also tolerate some threat if provided with periods of safety, but the planet cannot tolerate chronic sustained threat any more than we can.”• “During the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic we saw the amazing resilience of our planet from just one month of near-total shutdown of human activity. The shutting down of nonessential activities had a remarkably restorative effect for the planet. What if we disconnected from our cars and technologies, devoted time to rest, nourishment, and connection to both each other and nature for one day each week?”• “We may not, yet, be ready for these concepts, nor the adjustments to make a better reality. But at some point we will tire of our suffering and perhaps open up to them—or perish. Can we create a cultural contagion, a meme, of a respected secular Sabbath?”
Psychology Today has just outlined the “scientific” reasons why we
need a weekly day of rest for both humans and the planet....we
can see where this is going.
“The dignitaries of church and State will unite to bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the Sunday. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth; and even in free America, rulers and legislators, in order to secure public favor, will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance. Liberty of conscience, which has cost so great a sacrifice, will no longer be respected” (Great Controversy, p. 592).
Tragically, with all of the talk about restoring Sabbath rest and
making Sunday the preferred day, what is being lost in this discussion
is that Sunday, as a holy day, is solely dependent on the authority of
the Catholic Church. There is no indication in the Bible that the weekly
day of rest has been changed from Saturday to Sunday. Sunday was not
honored by Christ, the apostles, or the early apostolic church.
This means that our current society is openly and persistently
defying God’s commandments and the faith of Jesus, which affirms, “The
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God” (Exodus 20:10).
During
this controversy, the conflict between the first day, the Sunday of the
Papacy, and the seventh day, the Sabbath of the Lord, is on full
display.
Unfortunately, with the expectation of the Remnant people of
Revelation 12:17, the entire world has joined the side of rebellion
against the “Lord of the Sabbath” (Mark 2:28)."
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