Samuele Bacchiocchi

IT IS an accepted fact that the Holy Scriptures belong to the whole of the human family. But does each tribe, nation, and continent cherish a sense of belonging to the Word of God? Africans came in direct contact with the Bible in the days…

A THESIS currently being espoused and defended by numerous scholars is that the change from Sabbath to Sunday observance took place in Jerusalem, the mother church of Christendom. The apostles themselves, it is claimed, were responsible…

A major reason for the existence of my church is to lead men and women into a deeper relation ship with the Saviour through rediscovery of the meaning and blessings of Sabbathkeeping. Though we here today may differ on the day on…

This article is the third in a four-article series dealing with the New Testament's position on the perpetuity of the seventh-day Sabbath. Dr. Bacchiocchi began the series by surveying the three prevailing views: the New Testament…

In the first article in this series, Dr. Bacchiocchi said people generally view the New Testament as either abrogating, transferring, or confirming the seventh-day Sabbath. He argued that the New Testament's portrayal of the basic continuity…

A glance at the hundreds of treatises produced since the Reformation on the Sabbath/Sunday subject would convince anyone that the Sabbath has had no rest. J.A. Hessey's bibliographic survey lists more than one thousand treatises for the period…

It is often said that "behind every great man there is a great woman." This saying applies both to the vital role wives play in the success of their husbands and to the inestimable molding influence mothers exert on their children's future…

Few biblical doctrines have been as much under fire throughout Christian history as has the seventh-day Sabbath.

In his two-volume bibliographic survey of the Sabbath/Sunday literature from the Reformation…

In the previous article (May 1997) we examined how the Sabbath served in Old Testament times to typify the Messianic redemption to come. The existence of a redemptive typology of the Sabbath has led many Christians to conclude that we no…

The human heart longs for a constant reassurance of divine forgiveness, acceptance, and salvation. We want to know, "Has God really forgiven and saved me?" In the Scripture, the reassurance of divine forgiveness and salvation is communicated…

It is generally assumed that the Roman government largely ignored Christianity until A.D. 62, that is, up to approximately the first half of Nero's reign, treating it at best as one of several Jewish sects. This article argues instead that…