Greetings Chips1024,
The simple answer to your question is that, whatever else that an individual is trusting in as a requirement for salvation, then they are not trusting in Christ, but in their own efforts. By this, a person is basically saying that Christ's sacrifice was insufficient, because I have to do this to complete it.
That said, a person can keep a specific day as special to God and another can consider every day the same, a person can only eat vegetables, another can eat anything, just as the scripture states. It is only when a person performs those works as being mandatory for salvation.
Anytime a person brings in some other requirement alongside of Christ's sacrifice as mandatory to obtain or maintain salvation, then they are not truly trusting in Christ.
We are saved by trusting in Christ as the One who provided salvation for us, completely and fully. This keeps our eyes on Christ and not on our own works/efforts.
Should we have a desire for good works? Absolutely! But for the purpose of glorifying God. And by doing so we are also building up our treasures in heaven.
I hope that this is beneficial
The question is why is keeping the seventh-day sabbath considered to be Salvation by Works?
The simple answer to your question is that, whatever else that an individual is trusting in as a requirement for salvation, then they are not trusting in Christ, but in their own efforts. By this, a person is basically saying that Christ's sacrifice was insufficient, because I have to do this to complete it.
That said, a person can keep a specific day as special to God and another can consider every day the same, a person can only eat vegetables, another can eat anything, just as the scripture states. It is only when a person performs those works as being mandatory for salvation.
Anytime a person brings in some other requirement alongside of Christ's sacrifice as mandatory to obtain or maintain salvation, then they are not truly trusting in Christ.
We are saved by trusting in Christ as the One who provided salvation for us, completely and fully. This keeps our eyes on Christ and not on our own works/efforts.
Should we have a desire for good works? Absolutely! But for the purpose of glorifying God. And by doing so we are also building up our treasures in heaven.
I hope that this is beneficial