Question:
Tractate Sanhedrin 58b says that “a Gentile who keeps the Shabbat deserves the death penalty”, does this include Sabbatarian Christians such as Seventh-day Adventists? Wouldn’t it be unfair to kill Sabbath-keeping Gentiles because they believe they should keep Shabbat?
Answer:
Seventh-day Adventists would not be liable for the death penalty, because they would have to keep it with all of it’s numerous laws and by-laws, and it is pretty inevitable that they won’t transgress the Sabbath.
This is not an issue because they are not keeping the Sabbath the way the Jews do.
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