Answering Objections to the Creation Calendar
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Please use this page as an educational device. If you can learn how to defend what you believe from Scripture or
from the historical or natural evidence, you will be that much more able to stand before your family, friends and
colleagues. Also, please understand, the truth is not for everyone. Some will hear, most will forebear. It is NOT
your job to convince or convict, that is the job of the Set-Apart Spirit of YHVH. It is your job to be faithful to the
evidence and a faithful witness. Just sow the seeds when a window of opportunity arises. The soil will prove itself.
The truth is never popular, so when sharing the truth, you can expect opposition. The best way to respond to this is
with patience, humbleness and the Word of YHVH. Don't be surprised when most are not impressed to obtain the
knowledge of this truth. At some point in their lives all men stumble over the truth. Most pick themselves up, dust
themselves off, and go about their business as if nothing ever happened.
There is truly nothing new under the sun. I have been collecting "objections" to the Creation Calendar for several
years now, and there are only a set number of objections that the nay-sayers seem to be able to come up with.
There are some very ill-conceived objections that spring from the infertile minds of some of the misguided
nay-sayers. These you can see in the various rebuttals I've made on the Hall of Shame web page of this site. I will
only cover the most common objections on this page. At some point, I may consolidate some of these objections, as
a few are a just a different shade of the same objection. But for now, I will cover all the bases I can. In no particular
order, here they are. Click on the argument to see what I hope is an intelligent and appropriate response...
1. The Lunar Sabbath completely destroys Seventh-day Sabbath keeping.
2. Lunar Sabbatarians base their interpretations of Scripture on the research of scholars who assert erroneous
positions.
3. The Lunar Sabbath theory erroneously holds that the week has been lost and taken over by the papacy.
4. If you observe the Lunar Calendar, the Sabbath can fall on any day of the week, causing a person to keep the
Sabbath on a day that is not sanctified by God, i.e. tuesday, thursday, even sunday.
5. The Sabbath cannot be regulated by the moon because the week was already well underway before the moon
was even created on day four.
6. The weekly seventh-day Sabbath has never been lost.
7. The falling of manna in the wilderness proves that the Sabbath cannot be based upon the Lunar cycle. Manna
fell for 6 days and Israel collected a double portion on the 6th day in preparation for the Sabbath. There is no
mention of the lunar Sabbath.
8. Keeping the Lunar Sabbath causes one to break the great Seventh-day Sabbath, the memorial of creation,
which goes back in unbroken sequence of seven days to that very first Sabbath of Genesis 2.
9. Lunar Sabbath keeping is utterly incompatible with the Fourth Commandment, which says nothing about
establishing the weekly, seventh-day Sabbath on a lunar cycle.
10. YHVH never calls the weekly Seventh-day Sabbath a mo’ed or one of the mo'edim. This is a term used to
describe the annual feasts.
11. The weekly Sabbath is not anchored in any movement of heavenly bodies such as the moon other than the
sun with its evening-morning daily sequence.
12. There are 1.530588 days left over every lunar month which messes up the seven day week, every month.
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16. In acknowledgement of this contradiction, some Lunar Sabbath observers have started referring to the leftover
days at the end of the month as “non-days.” BT
17. The Luni-solar calendar is Babylonian in origin.
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