About J.E.P. & Editorial Standards

The Sabbath They Kept is a personal work of Christian witness and historical argument. It is published under a pseudonym, but not without responsibility. Every claim, interpretation, correction, and remaining error belongs to the author.

About J.E.P.

J.E.P. is a pseudonym. I remain employed, and public religious writing can affect workplace relationships, professional opportunities, and personal safety. The initials preserve a reasonable boundary between this work and my private life. They do not shield the argument from examination or transfer responsibility to an institution.

This book does not speak for my employer, a church, a denomination, or a university. Personal experience can explain why a question matters, but it does not prove the book’s disputed claims. Readers can examine the fuller account in From New Age to Christianity: One Seeker’s Journey.

Why This Project Exists

The project has one governing aim. It seeks to make the strongest honest case for seventh-day Sabbath observance and to distinguish what Scripture and historical sources establish from what the book argues. Commandment-keeping is presented as fruit, not the price of salvation.

Scripture explicitly identifies the seventh day as the Sabbath and records no command transferring that sanctity to Sunday. Continued seventh-day obligation is a cumulative theological conclusion, not a grammatical fact supplied by one verse. The New Testament also contains real first-day evidence and passages that many Christians understand as granting liberty concerning sacred days. The book presents those disagreements before reaching its conclusion.

Editorial Standards

Fidelity to Truth

I would rather narrow or remove a claim than make it stronger than Scripture, a source, or the historical record allows. Conviction does not turn an inference into a quotation or a disputed interpretation into a demonstrated fact.

Integrity

I distinguish what a source states, what the evidence cumulatively suggests, and what I hold as a confessional interpretation. The project does not claim an endorsement, credential, review, or institutional authority it has not received.

Transparency

I identify material uncertainty, document sources, and explain relevant limitations. Verification means that the cited source supports the attributed wording. It does not mean that every conclusion drawn from the source is thereby proved.

Charity and Conscience

I aim to state Catholic, Orthodox, Reformed, Baptist, Lutheran, Adventist, other Sabbatarian, and secular objections in forms their serious advocates would recognize. The book may disagree with an institution or argument without judging the sincerity or final standing of the people within it. Its durable public principle is resistance to coerced worship and protection of conscience.

Stewardship

Time, abilities, influence, money, and rest are entrusted by God. They should be used faithfully rather than treated as possessions that justify endless production. This work must not consume the obedience it commends.

How Claims Are Handled

1. Demonstrated textual or historical fact: The prose states the fact directly and cites a source that supports the exact wording.
2. Cumulative theological conclusion: The prose identifies the conclusion as the book’s argument, gives its material premises, and represents the strongest opposing reading.
3. Named confessional interpretation: The prose identifies the tradition that holds the interpretation and does not present it as the text’s explicit statement.
4. Speculation: The claim is removed unless the uncertainty itself materially helps the reader understand the evidence.

This distinction governs the book’s disputed subjects. These include universal Sabbath obligation, historicist prophetic dating, the 538–1798 correlation, remnant identity, textual preferences, the intermediate state, and future Sunday enforcement. The book states its conclusions, but it does not hide the level of argument required to reach them.

Sources and Audit Method

Source verification is claim-specific. Each material historical claim should identify the speaker, the source’s genre and authority, and the exact passage that supports the wording. It should also state the limits of what may be inferred. A work’s presence in the complete bibliography records that it was cited. It does not certify every interpretation of that work.

No employer, church, denomination, university, or named independent reviewer endorses this book. Remnant Thread Press is the publishing imprint used for the project. It is not an ecclesial or academic credential.

Publisher and Licensing

Remnant Thread Press is the publishing imprint for The Sabbath They Kept. It identifies the source of the edition without implying a larger staff, denominational sponsor, or independent review board.

The website’s reuse terms, Scripture-quotation statement, edition information, and permissions context appear on the Copyright & Licensing page.