Why do Christians refuse to celebrate Shabbat(Sabbath) when it is given in Gen. 2(before Jews) and 10 comm?

Question

It's never changed, even in the NT. How can they read all about Shabbat and not celebrate?

Answer 1

Christians are blinded to the Truth. In their mind, there is a distinction between Jews & Christians.
Do you see their answers? Jesus never started Catholicism; man did. And, what about the 10 Commandments, which inculdes honoring the Sabbath?
Christians are SO clueless!

Answer 2

It says in the Bible that God rested on the 7th day. Since most people have jobs that require working Monday thru Friday and sometimes Saturday, Sunday is the day chosen to have church services.

There are many different religions and practices today. If a person attends a worship service when it is available at their place of worship then they are keeping the "sabbath". The 3rd commandment does not specify what day we worship, it just says we need to.

You have to remember that is how America became a country in the first place. People left other countries over religious persecution. So before you ask why people don't keep "your religious practices" maybe you should ask your elders why your family came here in the first place. Appreciate your freedom.

Answer 3

Quite simply, the Mosaic Law is no longer needed. It was part of the covenant between Almighty God Jehovah and his chosen people, the Israelites. The Israelites (or Jews) followed the Law to maintain a righteous standing before God. However, the Law was simply a "tutor leading to Christ" (Galatians 3:24). God used Christ to bring that Law to its end. Our having a righteous standing with God depends on faith in Christ, not on keeping a weekly sabbath

Rom. 10:4: “Christ is the end of the Law, so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness.”

The principal of observing a Sabbath should still play a part in a Christian's life. Rather than choosing a day to observe scrupulously, a Christian should take time to worship, take time for spiritual meditation and spiritual responsibilites. Any day of the week is appropriate to do these things.

Answer 4

Here is why we now celebrate the Sabbath on Sunday:

The Resurrection:
Luke 24:1 "On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb."

The tradition:
Acts 20:7 "On the first day of the week we came together to break bread."

The Spiritual reality:
Colossians 2:16 "Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day."


Jesus is "Lord of the Sabbath". He has kept this command perfectly on our behalf...legalistic observance is done. We live in Christian liberty, by the guidance of the Spirit.

God said, "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." (Hosea 6:6).

Compliance with "rules" means nothing. We walk by faith, trusting in God's grace.

Answer 5

Shabbat was a law given at Mt Sinai to the Jews. There was never a commandment for Christians to celebrate it.

Answer 6

Christians celebrate the Sabbath on Sunday. Does it really matter what day of the week, Saturday or Sunday? What if you only have Wednesday off of work, and that is your day of rest and worship? I don't think that's wrong. And to Crash Dummy, if you don't think there is any distinction between Jews and Christians, I'd say you are misinformed. Christians believe that Jesus is the fulfillment of the messianic prophecies. Jews don't.

Answer 7

God established Sabbath before He created the first human being. It was a kind of gift for the first people, Adam and Eve (who were definitely not Jewish) as it was the first day of their lives and they first rested and enjoyed God’s love, vicinity and everything He created and then started working in the Garden. By changing Sabbath into Sunday (which is obviously the day of sun), the real way of observing the day of rest was concealed behind the curtain. People who attend the church on Sunday today are (mostly) not aware that the whole day is supposed to be the meeting with God, with His word and with His creation. They would sit in their living rooms, watching movies and football, thinking perhaps that they rest, but in fact it is not the true rest God wants us to have. Sabbath is created so that we can devote our whole being, heart and body and mind to God. There is a belief that Sunday became the day of the rest because Jesus resurrected on that day, but did Jesus ever said anything similar? Was the change ever mentioned/predicted in the Bible?? “These words (10 commandments) the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added NO MORE.” Deuteronomy, 5.22
Many people mention Jesus and His disciples plucking grain during Sabbath to support their view that Jesus didn’t observe Sabbath. What kind of prove is that? If I were walking through the field on Sabbath, admiring the nature around me, and if I spotted ripe and supposedly delicious forest strawberries :), and if I plucked several and ate them, would that mean that I was working and not resting on that day? Every time Jesus did something “scandalous” in the eyes of the Jews on Sabbath, He wasn’t denying it, He was just trying to tell them they should enjoyed it and not feel the victims of it. Jesus did observe Sabbath (it was His custom as you can read in the New Testimony), so did His disciples as you can read in the Acts of Apostles. As for those who say Jesus abolished the law, let me remind them of the verse in the book of Revelation, chapter 14, verse 12:
“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” You can also read Isaiah, chapter 66, verses 22 and 23. OR Epistle to Jews, 10.15,16:
“Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put MY laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them.” – both verses from the New Testament.
Allow me to say one more thing in relation to the statement that it is not important which day we observe as the day of rest as long we observe one. Take yourself as example and imagine your birthday falls on, say, 12 of March. Now your best friend or your parents always bring you presents on 23 of August. You are thankful, their intentions are wonderful, but you gently remind them that your birthday is on 12 of March. Next year the same thing happens. You are not sure what is going on and you repeat the story about the birthday and March. The next year and every year they celebrate your birthday on the wrong day and what can you do – you reconcile with that if it isn’t that important to you or you can be angry with them for not listening to you and for being ignorant, indifferent or whatever. However, God blessed and sanctified Sabbath, giving it as a gift to the mankind (which, in these turbulent times we need more than ever). If we continue observing some other day, aren’t we acting as the best friend and parents from the story, proving ourselves careless of what God ordained?? The whole universe celebrates the seventh day – Sabbath and we are the only ones who are in disharmony.

Answer 8

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."

Answer 9

With all the confusion between different calendars, wouldn't it be nice to have Someone just say which day is the one to worship on? Whether it's Saturday or Sunday isn't the point, since the Lord can choose whatever day He wants. In my opinion, it is Sunday, because as a Mormon I believe in ongoing revelation, and living prophets in my church have confirmed the day of the Lord as Sunday in this dispensation. However, I am perfectly pleased to allow Jews and others to worship on Saturday or starting Friday night or however they wish to worship, as we believe in the freedom of people to worship God how they want.

Answer 10

"Keep holy the Sabbath"

We do. We just moved it to Sunday.