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For what purpose? I think you need to define some parameters. Your question is to ambiguous.
For what purpose? I think you need to define some parameters. Your question is to ambiguous.
I kept it thus to see what people would say. I am not so much thinkning about what it is used for but whether it is right to be used at all. I was told that people have to work to keep the internet running. Hence seeing we should not eat out upon the Sabbath because it will cause people to work should we be using the internet, whether to listen to sermons or to discuss on PB?
Is it permissible to use the internet upon the Sabbath?
For what purpose? I think you need to define some parameters. Your question is to ambiguous.
I kept it thus to see what people would say. I am not so much thinkning about what it is used for but whether it is right to be used at all. I was told that people have to work to keep the internet running. Hence seeing we should not eat out upon the Sabbath because it will cause people to work should we be using the internet, whether to listen to sermons or to discuss on PB?
For what purpose? I think you need to define some parameters. Your question is to ambiguous.
I kept it thus to see what people would say. I am not so much thinkning about what it is used for but whether it is right to be used at all. I was told that people have to work to keep the internet running. Hence seeing we should not eat out upon the Sabbath because it will cause people to work should we be using the internet, whether to listen to sermons or to discuss on PB?
Somebody has to work to supply electricity to you church on the Lord's day. I never given it much thought though before now. The internet has allowed me to have 'church' all the time.
The temptation is too great to use the internet and computer for other things not pertaining to Biblical/Theological reasons on the Sabbath.
Personally, I find my computer and internet something that can become an idol for me, as I well assume for many of you. Therefore, Sunday is a good day to keep that in check and focus on God.
For what purpose? I think you need to define some parameters. Your question is to ambiguous.
I kept it thus to see what people would say. I am not so much thinkning about what it is used for but whether it is right to be used at all. I was told that people have to work to keep the internet running. Hence seeing we should not eat out upon the Sabbath because it will cause people to work should we be using the internet, whether to listen to sermons or to discuss on PB?
I don't consider a medium a sin. It's what you do over that medium that constitutes a sin.
I don't consider a medium a sin. It's what you do over that medium that constitutes a sin.
I don't consider a medium a sin. It's what you do over that medium that constitutes a sin.
In this particular instance the commandment includes the medium since the positive precept of rest cannot be kept without also desisting from mediums which are employed for work -- "nor thy cattle."
This is where you and I will have to disagree. The cattle needs rest, a road doesn't. The internet is no more simply a medium for work than air is a medium for work simply because sound waves modulate over it when business is conducted between two men.
This is where you and I will have to disagree. The cattle needs rest, a road doesn't. The internet is no more simply a medium for work than air is a medium for work simply because sound waves modulate over it when business is conducted between two men.
Do we "have to" disagree? It is clear the animals are being seen as property, as in the tenth commandment. As Calvin comments, "Let us marke that it is not done for the brute beastes sake: but to the intent that men shoulde have a monument before their eyes, to bee the more touched therewith." (Sermons on Deuteronomy, 207.)
I don't own the Internet any more than I own the phone. I think the medium can be used in a way that does not turn aside to our own way on the Lord's day.
Somebody has to work to supply electricity to you church on the Lord's day.
Somebody has to work to supply electricity to you church on the Lord's day.
True, however some things are essential, is going online a necessity? Further, do people have to work on a Sabbath to maintain servers etc if we use the internet (I am not sure if that is true)? Works of mercy and necessity are lawful upon the Sabbath and them alone.
Still thinking out loud.