By causing men to violate the second commandment, Satan aimed to degrade their conceptions of the Divine Being. By setting aside the fourth, he would cause them to forget God altogether. God's claim to reverence and worship, above the gods of the heathen, is based upon the fact that He is the Creator, and that to Him all other beings owe their existence. Thus it is presented in the Bible. Says the prophet Jeremiah: "The Lord is the true God, He is the living God, and an everlasting King. . . . The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion." "Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. The portion of Jacob is not like them: for He is the former of all things." Jeremiah 10:10-12, 14-16. The Sabbath, as a memorial of God's creative power, points to Him as the maker of the heavens and the earth. Hence it is a constant witness to His existence and a reminder of His greatness, His wisdom, and His love. Had the Sabbath always been sacredly observed, there could never have been an atheist or an idolater.

Satan havde til hensigt at fornedre menneskenes forestillinger om Gud ved at få dem til at overtræde det andet bud. Ved at tilsidesætte det fjerde bud ville han få dem til helt at glemme Gud. Guds krav om, at menneskene skal ære og tilbede ham i stedet for hedningernes guder, beror på, at han er Skaberen, og at alle andre væsener skylder ham deres eksistens. Således fremstilles det også i Bibelen. Profeten Jeremias siger: "Herren er Gud i sandhed, han er en levende Gud og en evig konge ..... Guder, der ikke har skabt himmel og jord, skal forsvinde fra jorden og under himmelen. Han skabte jorden i sin vælde, grundfæstede jorderig i sin visdom, og i sin indsigt udspændte han himmelen." "Dumt er hvert menneske, uden indsigt; hver guldsmed får skam af sit billede; thi hvad han støber, er løgn, og der er ikke ånd deri; tomhed er de, et dårende værk; når deres hjemsøgelses tid kommer, er det ude med dem. Jakobs arvelod er ikke som de; thi han har skabt alt." Jer. 10, 102. og 14-16. Sabbatten er et minde om Guds skabermagt og viser hen til ham som skaberen af himmel og jord. Derfor er den et stadigt vidnesbyrd om hans eksistens og storhed, visdom og kærlighed. Hvis sabbatten altid var blevet holdt hellig, havde der ikke eksisteret nogen ateister eller afgudsdyrkere.