Sabbath-on the 7th day of the week?

Question

The 4th commandments says that Sabbath must be observed on the 7th day of the week.Many religions however observe the 1st day(Sunday).Which is which with sound proofs please.

Answer 1

Which Day Is the Sabbath?
Which day is the Sabbath? Since most churches observe Sunday as their day of rest and worship, many people assume that Sunday is the Sabbath.

The Fourth Commandment states: "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..." (Exodus 20:8-10).

God commanded that the seventh day be observed as the Sabbath. A glance at almost any dictionary or encyclopedia will show you that Saturday is the seventh day of the week, while Sunday is the first day of the week. The seventh day according to God's calendar is—and always has been—the Sabbath day. Although man has modified calendars through the centuries, the seven-day weekly cycle has remained intact throughout history. The days of the week have always remained in their proper order, with Sunday as the first day of the week and Saturday as the seventh.

"The oracles of God"—His divine words and instructions—were entrusted to the Jewish people (Romans 3:1, 2), and they have preserved the knowledge of the seventh-day Sabbath faithfully since well before Christ's time to this day.

No biblical authorization
How did Sunday become the primary day of rest and worship? Although the concept of rest has largely disappeared, most denominations continue to hold their worship services on Sunday. You can search throughout the Bible, but you will find no authority to alter the day of worship.

James Cardinal Gibbons, Catholic educator and archbishop of Baltimore in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was blunt about the change: "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 which we never sanctify. The Catholic Church correctly teaches that our Lord and His Apostles inculcated certain important duties of religion which are not recorded by the inspired writers...We must, therefore, conclude that the Scriptures alone cannot be a sufficient guide and rule of faith" (The Faith of Our Fathers, John Murphy Company, Baltimore, 1917, p. 89).

Did you grasp that? The writer admits that Sunday observance is nowhere authorized in the Bible and that the seventh day is the only day sanctified by the Scriptures. His justification for changing the day of rest and worship assumes that authority exists apart from the Bible to define the necessary truths and practices for salvation.

Change made after the New Testament was written
The change from Sabbath to Sunday was made long after the writing of the New Testament. No clear references to Sunday as a day of Christian worship are found until the writings of Barnabas and Justin, c. A.D. 135 and 150, respectively. Observance of Sunday as the primary day of worship appears to have solidified in the reign of Emperor Hadrian (A.D. 117-135), who harshly persecuted Jews throughout the Roman Empire. Hadrian specifically prohibited practices of Judaism, including observance of the seventh-day Sabbath.

These oppressive measures apparently influenced many early Christians in Rome to abandon the seventh day and turn to Sunday, historically observed by the Romans as a day of veneration of the sun. Within a few centuries Sabbath observance by Christians was virtually eliminated within the confines of the empire and replaced by Sunday.

Although the Protestant Reformation brought some doctrinal and administrative changes, observance of Sunday as a day of rest and worship continued from the Roman Catholic Church into subsequent Protestant denominations. Whereas the Catholic Church claimed authority to establish its own times of worship, Protestant churches generally justified Sunday observance on the grounds that the seventh-day Sabbath was replaced in the New Testament by worship on Sunday in honor of Christ's resurrection (see "Was Sunday the New Testament Day of Worship?").

As confirmed by Cardinal Gibbons above, there is no biblical authority for changing the day of rest and worship from the seventh day to Sunday. As shown throughout this booklet, Jesus Christ, the apostles and Jewish and gentile members of the early Church alike continued to observe the seventh-day Sabbath. This is the only day authorized in the Bible

Answer 2

The issue here should be: How do you keep the Sabbath holy & have you ever kept it perfectly? Please check up the Old Testament verses regarding what you shouldn't do on the Sabbath. If you can't keep the Sabbath perfectly, then why should the 4th commandment be retained at all? If you admit that you had broken the Sabbath before, why wasn't you stoned to death in accordance with the law of Moses? But of course it's wise to set aside your usual work on a particular day, on the Sabbath if you prefer, to study the Scriptures, go to church & fellowship with other believers so that you can maintain a close relationship with God.

Answer 3

Interestingly, the Sabbath was on a Saturday in the day of the Israelites. But Jesus came along and said that you don't need to observe the Sabbath any longer. In today's world, because of a break in a work week, a tradition of having a day off, meaning a Sunday, was transformed into being called a Sabbath day by Christendom. But Biblical, the Sabbath law was taken away by the break up of the Jewish covenant.

Answer 4

The Sabbath day was given to the Jews at Mt Sinai (Nehemiah 9:13-14), as a sign of their obedience to the Old Testament and the Law of Moses.

Today, we are not bound by that law. The example we have in Scripture is of people coming together on the first day of the week (Sunday), and no longer observing the seventh day (Saturday):

Jesus rose on the first day (Mark 16:9)
The church began on the first day (Acts 2, fifty days after Passover = seven weeks and one day)
The disciples came together on the first day (Acts 20:7).
They were to give on the first day (1 Corinthians 16:2).

While the early church went to the synagogues on the sabbaths to preach to them, there is no evidence of any of them going there to worship on the sabbath. In Acts 3, Peter and John went to the temple; if this was regular sabbath worship, where was everyone else?

Adventists (and other Sabbatarians) will typically claim that the Catholic church "changed the sabbath." How do they prove this? They quote Catholic sources. They don't accept them as authoritative for anything else; why would they accept these writings as authority for this, except for the fact that nothing else supports their claims. Long before the Catholic church was formed, the early Christians were meeting on Sunday; look at the ancient writers.

Answer 5

The Christian Faith now recognizes Sunday as the "Day of the Lord" and is the Christian "Sabbath" because this is the day Christ rose from the tomb.

Those religions stuck in the Old Covenant, such as Seventh Day Adventists and of course Judaism still observes the 7th Day of the week, Saturday as the sabbath.

But we all should remember, Jesus said, the Sabbath was made for man, Man was not made for the Sabbath.

Scripture even tells us, in Acts, "On the First Day of the Week, when the disciples gathered to break bread........" Can you see it? To "Break Bread" was a worship service "when the disciples Gathered.....and it was now being done on the first day of the week. Again, because this is the Day Christ Rose.

Jesus also told us, He makes all things new. This included.

Answer 6

The Sabbath simply means it is an ordained day of rest.

Originally denoting Saturday, the seventh day of the week, or, more precisely, the time period from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, the term 'sabbath' can now mean one of several things, depending on the context and the speaker:

Saturday, as originally, in reference to Jewish or historical observance;

Saturday, as above, as a day of observance for some Christian groups;

Sunday, as the day of observance for Roman Catholics and other Christian groups;

Saturday and Sunday as a day of relaxing;

Any day or time period for relaxing and enjoying God

Answer 7

you have asked a question that is very interesting and sure to get some goofy replies.
There are many and I do mean many different views as to which day is actually the 7th day. some consider sunday as the 7th day and then there are those who say it is Sunday.
All I have been ever able to see is that in the bible it just says on the 7th day rest.
would be a good research question that might take years.

Answer 8

It's all about obedience Rom 16:16 you belong to whom you obey. Any dictionary will tell you that Saturday is the 7th day. Remember there is one Lawgiver James 4:12. Go to this web site and order the free booklet on the sabbath.

http://www.yahweh.com/BookletRequestForm/Default.aspx

Answer 9

7th dAy Adventism is a cult, ellen g. white was a false prophet.. paul sAid speaking of the sAbbath, let every man beconvinced in his own mind...........

Answer 10

y don't u adventist hold the sabbatical year too? where's ur faith in God???? y do u hold it if Paul said noone should b judged about holding it or not??