If god rested on the seventh day why do people mainly go to church on sunday (the first day)?

Answer 1

This is a VERY IMPORTANT subject I know it is long, but PLEASE read it


I agree with KNOWBIBLE on this one Saturday is the Sabbath

I do have a few questions for admiralbob77


Where in the BIBLE does it call Sunday the Lords day?
Read below to find out what day is called the Lord’s Day

Did the Corinthians keep Sunday holy?
Acts 18 Says that Paul went to Corinth and taught them every Sabbath for a year and a half that’s 72 Sabbaths

Did the Gentiles keep the Sabbath?
Yes
Corinth in Acts 18
Acts 13:42
Acts 17:1-4

Did the Gentile ever keep Sabbath in the Bible?
No, its not in Acts or any other book of the Bible

Is the law a burden?
But whoso looketh into the perfect LAW OF LIBERTY, and continueth therein, he being a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed: James 1:25

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the LAW OF LIBERTY. James 2:12

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are NOT grievous I John 5:3

'If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, IF YOU CALL THE SABBATH A DELIGHT and the LORDS HOLY DAY HONORABLE, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your JOY in the Lord, and I will cause you to RIDE ON THE HEIGHTS OF THE LAND and to FEAST on the inheritance of your father Jacob.' The mouth of the Lord has spoken" Isaiah 58:13,14


Was the Sabbath created by God on Mt. Sinai?

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Genesis 2:2,3

The Sabbath was part of creation week


What does the Bible say about the Sabbath?

“ Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Exodus 20:8-11


Which day is the seventh day?

Saturday : the seventh day of the week
-Webster’s Dictionary


Are there other examples of God emphasizing the Sabbath?

He said to them, "This is what the LORD commanded: 'Tomorrow is to be a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Exodus 16:23

And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? See, for that the LORD hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day. Exodus 16:28-30
Both of these examples are before Mt. Sinai and the 10 commandments.
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Exodus 30:13


I am a Christian and I want to follow Christ. Did Jesus keep the Sabbath?

He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. Luke 4:16

Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" Matthew 12:9,10

They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. Mark 1:21

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. Mark 6:2

He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. Luke 4:16

Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath began to teach the people. Luke 4:31

On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues Luke 13:10


But isn’t Sunday the Lord’s day?

Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. Exodus 20:8

If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isa 58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Isa 58:13,14

For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. Matthew 28:8

So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. Mark 1:21

Then Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath." Luke 6:5


Did Jesus expect his followers to keep the Sabbath after he ascended into heaven?
Jesus speaking of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D.

Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. Matthew 24:20

Did the apostles keep the Sabbath?
Acts 13:14
Acts 13:42
Acts 13:44
Acts 16:13
Acts 17:2
Acts 18:4


But what about I Corinthians 16:2 “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”?

This verse says nothing about worship. What it is talking about is collecting money to distribute in Jerusalem (vs. 3)

If we look at Acts 18 Paul went to Corinth to build the Church

Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
Acts 18:11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

That is 72 Sabbaths.


But I thought the Gentiles went to Church on Sunday?
Acts 13:42
Acts 17:1-4
Acts 18


But aren’t we under Grace now?

“What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law but grace? God forbid” Romans 6:15

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Romans7:7

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Romans 3:31

Is there anywhere in The Bible that says to keep Sunday Holy?
No, The scripture can not be found.


Are we saved by the Law?
NO!! Absolutely NOT!!
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8,9

“What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law but grace? God forbid” Romans 6:15

Will we keep the Sabbath in Heaven?
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.


Did the calendar change effect the weekly cycle?
No
Thursday, October 4, 1582 was followed by Friday October 15
Did the calendar change? Yes. Did the weekly Cycle change? NO!

Who changed the Sabbath to Sunday
“The earliest recognition of the observance of Sunday, is a constitution of Constantine in 321 A.D.” Encyclopedia Brittanica

Emperor Constantine worshiped the sun god Sol invictis (the undefeated sun) on Sunday and decided to mix pagan worship with Christianity, the question is since when did Pagan monarchs decide Bible truth?


The only commandment that people want to do away with is the only one that starts with Remember.
Is it a burden to keep Sabbath Holy?
No, it is however a burden to MAKE Sunday, which is no where in the Bible called the Sabbath, Holy.

If God created it perfect in the Garden of Eden, Moses and the Israelites kept it, If God commanded us to keep it, God says to take joy in the Sabbath, He is upset when we don’t keep it, Jesus kept it, the disciples kept and taught others to keep it, and we are going to keep it in Heaven shouldn’t we start keeping it here on Earth?



What do ministers of the different Faiths say?

Presbyterian:
“Until, therefore, it can be shown that the whole moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand… The teaching of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath” - T.C. Blake D.D. Theology Condensed

Catholic:
“You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day we never sanctify.” - James Cardinal Gibbons

Catholic:
“Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did happened in the first century(actually 200yrs later). The holy day, the Sabbath , was changed from Saturday to Sunday… not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church’s sense of its own power… People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority should logically become Seventh Day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy.” –Saint Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel, May 21. 1995

Baptists:
“There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath was not Sunday. … It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week… Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament- absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week.”- Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, Baptist Manual

Pentecostal:
“Why do we worship on Sunday? Doesn’t the Bible teach us that Saturday should be the Lord’s Day?... Apparently we will have to seek the answer from some other source than the New Testament.” David A Womack, “Is Sunday the Lord’s Day?”

Lutheran:
“The observance of the Lord’s day [Sunday] is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the church.” – Augsburg Confession of Faith

Answer 2

A Direct quote from an Anglican minister:

"And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day .... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it."

As for the calendar being changes, the order of days never changed, only the number assigned to them.

Interesting info about the Didache too, but I think that you will find that it does not say what day "the Lord's day" is - just as Revelation does not. The first time any apocryphal book says the Lord's day is the first day of the week was the gospel of Bartholomew, and was believed to be written in the third century AD (some 300 years after the Didache and nearly 250 years after the youngest book in the New Testament, Philemon). Therefore, I do not see that the Apocrypha holds conclusive evidence that the apostles kept the first day holy as they would have been around 280 years old when "the Lord's Day" was first labeled as Sunday. Search the Bible and tell me what day is the Lord's Day.

"a Sabbath unto the LORD" (Exodus 16:23, Exodus 16:25, Leviticus 25:2, Leviticus 25:4, Matthew 12:18, Mark 2:28, Luke 6:5)

Answer 3

Because Jesus rose on the first day of the week, and the Book of Acts, along with all the patristic letters and the Didache of the first and second century, say that Christians worshipped on this day, which they call "The Lord's Day." Since church is about communion (1 Corinthians 11), and since communion is a ritual meal which itself is about the crucifixion and ressurection, it would make sense that the day he rose would be the day for communion, no?

There is no evidence of any kind that non-Jewish Christians EVER worshipped on Saturday. None. Nada. Nothing. There is plenty of evidence about Sunday however.

As to KNOWBIBLE's strange assertion at bottom: why then are the Catholics, other than the Adventists, the only people who provide Saturday worship? Because Catholic parishes also offer a Mass of obligation on Saturday afternoon, and not just Sunday...

Answer 4

When the Bible said, "Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy," it never said remember the Sabbath Day to go to Church.

I would go to church on any/every given day of the week, if it were possibly.

Why should it matter what day?
The Bible says, "forsake not the gathering as the manner of some is."

The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. When Jesus was physically here on earth, the Pharisee and scribes had His name in disrepute, over the fact that he did healing or plucked an ear of corn to eat (because He was hungry) on the Sabbath day.

Why do people like to make the Sabbath Day (the seventh day of the week, Saturday) a burden to themselves and for others?

I am a Sabbath keeper, not to be confused with "Seventh Day Adventists", I don't give credence to L.G.White.

The main reason for most people to go to Church on a Sunday, is convenience.

Answer 5

"What do Catholics say of Protestant Sundaykeepers?"
"They are obeying the authority, of the Catholic Church." (Rev.13:2)

"If protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church." --Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the cardinal in a letter of Feb.10,1920.

Here's what people say about going to church on Sunday:
"One says the Sabbath has been changed from the seventh to the first day of the week."
"Another says that the Sabbath commandment requires only one day of rest after six of labor, and hence there has been no change."
"Some reason that all ought to keep Sunday, because although, as they affirm, God did not appoint a particular day, yet aggreement is necessary; and to have any or every day a sabbath would be equal to no sabbath at all."
"Others, to avoid the claims of God's law, assert the Sabbath precept is one of those ordinances which was against us, contrary to us, blotted out, and nailed to the cross. Still, they admit that a day of rest and convocation is necessary, and therefore the day of Christ's resurrection, they say, has been chosen."
"Another class say they believe it is impossible to know which is the seventh day, although they have no difficulty in locating the first."
"Some are bold as to declare that Sunday is the original seventh day."
"Others, with equal certainity, say that those who keep the seventh day are endeavoring to be justified by the law, and are fallen from grace."
"Another class, with more liberal views, say they believe that every one should be fully persuaded in his own mind, whether he keep his day, or that, or none at all."
"Still again, as if having found the great desideratum or missing link in the argument, men credited with even more than ordinary intelligence, will sometimes declare that it is impossible to keep the seventh day on a round and rolling earth; yet strangely, they find no difficulty in keeping Sunday anywhere, and believe that this day should be observed the world over."

Answer 6

Because (at least according to my interpretation), Sunday is the last day of the week. Only since the calendar was changed did Sunday move to #1.

Answer 7

We are told to rest on the 7th day... so we rest. Sunday is the frist day of the week and we start our week by goiong to church.

Answer 8

Someone just made up a date like someone just made up time right now it is 4:25 but it could really be 10:57 .

Answer 9

christians know sunday is the first day of the week but its when christ was risen so that's why

Answer 10

If god isn't still creating, isn't he still resting? How does an infinitely powerfull being get tired anyway?

Answer 11

That change is part of the paganistic perversion of Christianity by catholicism.

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