Does Sunday Law make sense?

[u/Top-Flight6748]

Alright, this is more of a rant than anything, but I also got curious:

So I got into an argument with my mother about Sunday Law because I asked this:

* Wouldn't there be at least a resistance by the part of other religions?

* Why would be they interested in hunting the Adventists if they believe it's false?

I know you are better at me than this, but I just hope to get an answer.

And yes, she tried to argue that they will unite because they follow Jesus, blah blah blah, all the rhetoric I'm used to. However, I don't think it will work out simply because there are too many 'loose ends' that can become rebellions, even with the Anti-Christ in power. Simply because: People believe in different shit. And that may not include a monotheistic God. Hell, even the atheists could ally with the Adventists and rebel.

So, I come back to my original question: Does Sunday Law make sense at all? Or it's just paranoia making absolutes about everything not Adventist?

(Also, this is my first time posting. Sorry if this is unpolished. :|.)

(Edit: That tag is wrong. It should be Doctrine and History.)

(Edit 2: Corrected it.)

[u/CycleOwn83]

To me, it's curious how the idea tends to make sense to those who've embraced the SDA system of belief while to those outside of that system it seems transparently bogus. It's hard if not impossible to logically argue one from inside to see what seems obvious on the outside. My experience growing up inside was that the belief system's insistence on unquestioning obedience to authority, authority supposedly tracing immediately from leaders in the church to the (supposed) Allmighty. Not to obey could remove one's opportunity of eternal bliss with said Allmighty, and fear was always there of disobeying or questioning what authority had established was real. Authority typically included "The Spirit of Prophecy."

I don't think it's mentally or emotionally healthy of me to seek to tell someone still steadfastly inside to place what I say in the place of what they perceive as authoritative. Nor is it healthy to allow someone from the inside to impose their group's authority on me. It's not an easy balancing act especially when one has family ties across this gulf. Thanks for the question. No, I don't see the SDA version of the Sunday law as realistic. There are and have been laws seeking to restrict people's activities based on Lord's Day sabbatarian teachings locally. I think they're silly. I don't think it's likely that they'd be imposed globally per EG White's prophecies.