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In holding to a perpetuation of the literal seventh day for rest and celebration, Seventh Day Adventists, as such, do not equate its observance with [[legalism]]. They argue, rather, that, though legalism is possible in regard to any law, God was not being a legalist for having given, commanded, and enforced the seventh-day rest upon His own nation any more than for having given, commanded, and enforced the primary law (to have no other Gods but God). They further argue that the seventh day, in being the first thing which God called sacred in the human realm, is comparable to Adam’s own first words toward woman; such that the focus of the human creature’s life is not toward law at all, but toward what human life was made to be at its most joyous times; and, that, only by such extended and deep violations of the truths of these joys is even God Himself (like his wisely initiatived, humble representatives) finally induced to impose commands and enforcements concerning keeping them <ref>’’Matthew Henry’s Commentary on Daniel 3:16’’ [http://www.blueletterbible.org/commentaries/comm_view.cfm?AuthorID=4&contentID=1506&commInfo=5&topic=Daniel&ar=Dan_3_16]</ref>, lest the whole Earth be destroyed by the natural consequences of their violation <ref>''Revelation 11:18'' [http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Rev&c=11&v=18&t=KJV#18]</ref>

In holding to a perpetuation of the literal seventh day for rest and celebration, Seventh Day Adventists, as such, do not equate its observance with [[legalism]]. They argue, rather, that, though legalism is possible in regard to any law, God was not being a legalist for having given, commanded, and enforced the seventh-day rest upon His own nation any more than for having given, commanded, and enforced the primary law (to have no other Gods but God). They further argue that the seventh day, in being the first thing which God called sacred in the human realm, is comparable to Adam’s own first words toward woman; such that the focus of the human creature’s life is not toward law at all, but toward what human life was made to be at its most joyous times; and, that, only by such extended and deep violations of the truths of these joys is even God Himself (like his wisely initiatived, humble representatives) finally induced to impose commands and enforcements concerning keeping them <ref>’’Matthew Henry’s Commentary on Daniel 3:16’’ [http://www.blueletterbible.org/commentaries/comm_view.cfm?AuthorID=4&contentID=1506&commInfo=5&topic=Daniel&ar=Dan_3_16]</ref>, lest the whole Earth be destroyed by the natural consequences of their violation <ref>''Revelation 11:18'' [http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Rev&c=11&v=18&t=KJV#18]</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==