Hi David, and thanks for your comments. I would to appeal to your desire for truth, and your acknowledgment that it doesn’t matter what either you or I say, it only matters what the word of God says. To begin with, the entire law of Moses, which includes the ten commandments, and all of the other laws contained in that covenant, was made only with the nation of Israel. The bible is so clear on that fact. Just one example should be enough. Jeremiah 31:31 & 32 says; “Behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will male a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers, IN THE DAY I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND, TO BRING THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT. My covenant which they broke! although I was a husband to them, declares the Lord.” Clearly, the old covenant was with the house of ISRAEL! However, the bible is also clear that God has always condemned indiscriminate killing, which we clearly learn from the example of Cain and Abel. We always need to be careful though, so that we don’t read something into a verse, that is neither said nor implied. That’s what you are doing Genesis 2:1-3. I would like you to accept something which is simply a fact, and not an opinion of mine or anyone else’s. When God said that He rested on the seventh day, and that He blessed it and sanctified it, no command was being given to any human being. And neither do we find any other instance of God commanding any person to treat the seventh day of the week, any differently from any other day. And we find no evidence that anyone DID treat the seventh day any differently, until God gave the command to Israel to do so. Genesis 2:3 is simply stating the fact that God blessed the day and sanctified it. But god was blessing HIS day, not ours! God blessed and sanctified the day in which He rested from HIS work of creation. Here’s a fact for you to think about. God’s seventh day, the day He rested, was NOT man’s seventh day. God’s seventh day, was only man’s second day. Was the second day that Adam and Eve existed called Tuesday? No. Does the bible tell us that God named the days of creation, as we have named the days of the week? No. The bible doesn’t say that does it? The bible calls the days; one day, the second day, the third day, and so on, through the seventh day. Keep this fact in mind here; God rested on the seventh day, and nowhere in the bible does it indicate that His rest has ended, as a matter of fact, the bible clearly indicates that God’s seventh day rest is still going on! That’s why Hebrews 4:1 thru 11, talks about man entering into God’s rest at the end of time. God’s seventh day is eternity. And if we remain faithful to Him, we shall enter into God’s rest, after the resurrection. God’s “seventh day” is still going on, and will go on eternally. Please follow me one step further.. The reason that God blessed and sanctified HIS seventh day, is because that “eternal day”, has been “set aside” as “the day of rest”, not only for God, but for all those who are faithful to God. You will not find one verse of scripture that tells of God commanding anyone to observe the Sabbath, until He gave the command to Israel. Once again, please acknowledge this fact; God’s seventh day is NOT man’s seventh day. When God set the nation of Israel apart, from all other nations, He gave them laws by which to live by. And one of those laws was to remember the Sabbath day, and to keep it holy. Israel was to treat IT’S seventh day as holy, just as God has treated HIS seventh day as holy. No one can change the fact that the law of Moses was given only to Israel. The command to not kill, has been given to all mankind, from the beginning of time. It was specified during the Patriarchal times, and under the law of Moses, and under the law of Christ. The same goes for adultery. God commanded one man for one woman back in the garden, and that has been restated in the new testament also. So then, while it is a fact that God has given some of the same laws to mankind, during all ages, the entire law of Moses was ONLY for the Jews. And that includes the Sabbath. That’s a law that was never given BEFORE the nation of Israel came to be, and has not been given since then either. Those are the facts of the bible. I would love to hear from you again on this topic or an any other also. Thanks so much for commenting. God bless you.

Thank you Adam. Once again, many people get confused trying to separate the physical from the spiritual. But we need to listen closely to what God says in His word, and not listen so closely to what other men say. God bless you in your efforts.