Dr. Richard Jensen

I would like to take a moment and thank my wife, Dana. Her patience and support during the long hours I have devoted to this project have given me courage and strength. Not only has she edited much of the material on this site, which I deeply appreciate, her love has been my joy.

This site is motivated by my somewhat unusual perspective on the importance of the Bible Sabbath. I have a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara. My area of specialization is ethics. I am also competent in logic, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, and history of modern philosophy, and I have taught philosophy at several universities in past years. I have found the Bible Sabbath to be an essential topic of study because I have been driven to see its significance in the course of my own philosophical investigations.

In a nutshell, I cannot find believable a purely naturalistic account of cosmology, and I find the theory of evolution to be daunting in its convoluted, circular, and inconsistent explanatory attempts. So, over time, I have felt pushed into some sort of theism. Once there, an investigation of mystical religions has left me foundering on seemingly intractable epistemic questions, and the "blind" nature of such faith seems quite unappealing to my philosophical nature. So, rejecting purely mystical accounts of the cosmos, I have arrived at proposition-based religions.

Once I am in the realm of propositions to consider, it is a lengthy but achievable project to consider various religions' sets of claims and sift for inconsistencies and explanatory holes. This project has led me to place my faith in the Bible as the revealed Word of God. While it is true that many people seem to find inconsistencies in the Bible as well, I have found that there is a linear correlation between the quantity and depth of Biblical study and the quality and depth of belief in the Bible as the Word of God. This is to say that those who study the Bible least are the ones who are most hasty to claim that the Bible has serious flaws and inconsistencies. My own study of the Bible has led me to recognize that there are consistent responses to the various claims of Biblical inconsistency.

Once I am a Bible-believer, I see a beautiful harmony of doctrine from the first to the last page of the Bible. Thus, I base doctrine upon the entire range of passages related to a given subject, rather than generating doctrine from "proof texts". When the Bible is viewed as a harmonious and consistent whole, it speaks clearly and forthrightly about God's claims upon one-tenth of our income and one-seventh of our time. I see the Sabbath, then, as an ongoing acknowledgment of God's lordship and sovereignty, and I see it as a symbol of my willingness to rest from my own efforts to achieve righteousness by works, as I place my entire trust in the mercy and grace of my Saviour, Jesus Christ. Well does Jesus call Himself "the Lord of the Sabbath," as His merits and grace are for the believer the only source of rest, peace, and hope. In the Sabbath I see the Lord of creation, the answer to the deepest cosmological questions; and I see the Lord of recreation, the answer to the questions of my own salvation.

Because of the joy and peace I have found in my own discovery of the Sabbath message, and because I have seen so much misinformation spread far and wide as "truth," and, finally, because I am a philosopher above all and love the truth above all, I dedicate this site to those who wish to consider the Sabbath as an objective study. Let all who enter this site prepare to seek the truth above all things.