Theological Branch: Literary Criticism


Topic: Sabbath as Tautology

A statement that is always true is called a tautology. A tautology is part of logic in propositional mathematics called _sentential form_ in abstract mathematics. While a statement that is always false is called a contradiction, meaning that it is always false regardless of it's settings.

 In grammar a tautology is a statement that iterates a phrase. 

Isaiah tells us clearly without any doubt that the Sabbath has neither cultural nor racial bounds to it. The Sabbath is not a Hebrew or Jewish institution. A Eunuch is someone who is either lacking the ability to bear children by reason of emasculation or ritual castration(a practice done in false religions), OR he can be considered a minister of government(politician).
 
Isa 56:3 KJV Neither let the son of the stranger(non Hebrew), that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.


The above statement is tautological. It's true regardless of one's circumstances. The Sabbath was created by God in Genesis irrespective of race, tribe, culture or religion. The Seventh Day Sabbath was created to service the needs of people. 

The most effective way of applying needs based theology is to have those that join themselves to the Lord keep the Sabbath. Isaiah uses a Eunuch as input though they are generally considered useless, but with respect to Sabbath observance, there is a precedence over culture, religion and gender. 

From that he constructs a valid proposition which underlies a divine axiom that when we "...Keep the Seventh day Sabbath..." we are as it were:

*Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil....Isa 56:2 KJV*

*Jesus Christ made a similar proposition about the relationship with those that join themselves to the God of the Sabbath Day.*

Mar 2:27 KJV And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

This statement is a tautology. Meaning that it's always true regardless of historical context, Sitz Im laben(sociological setting), race, gender, tribe and educational status. 

The Seventh Day Sabbath was made for man tautologically speaking.

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