when did the roman catholic pope think to change laws and times.?

Question

The catholics attempted to change laws and times. Specifically they messed with the 4th commandment, and instituted sunday worship, and moved the 1st day to the 7th day of the week. I am asking exactly when did they re-write the 10 commandments. I need year and month if you can.

Answer 1

There are actually three versions of the Ten Commandments, Jewish, Catholic (and Lutheran), and Protestant.

With the new revelations of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the early Catholic Church, a slightly different emphasis was placed on different commandments.

Then 1500 years later, the Protestant in objecting to certain Catholic practices, once again changed the emphasis of the Ten Commandments.

+ Jewish Ten Commandments (before 1000 BC)

1. I am the Lord your G-d who has taken you out of the land of Egypt.
2. You shall have no other gods but me.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your G-d in vain.
4. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy.
5. Honor you mother and father.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Source: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Torah/Ten_Cmds/ten_cmds.html

+ Catholic (and Lutheran) Ten Commandments (about 100 AD)

1. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
3. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it, you shall not do any work.
4. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ***, or anything that is your neighbor's.

Source: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt1ind.htm

+ Protestant Ten Commandments (about 1600 AD)

1. You shall have no other gods but me.
2. You shall not make unto you any graven images
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
4. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
5. Honor your mother and father
6. You shall not murder
7. You shall not commit adultery
8. You shall not steal
9. You shall not bear false witness
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor

Source: http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Bible%20Studies/10%20Commandments.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Perhaps if you knew more about the Biblical Origin of this "change", that would answer your question:

Isaiah 1:13 - God begins to reveal His displeasure with the Sabbath.

Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2,9; John 20:1,19- the Gospel writers purposely reveal Jesus' resurrection and appearances were on Sunday. This is because Sunday had now become the most important day in the life of the Church.

Acts 20:7 - this text shows the apostolic tradition of gathering together to celebrate the Eucharist on Sunday, the "first day of the week." Luke documents the principle worship was on Sunday because this was one of the departures from the Jewish form of worship.

1 Cor. 16:2 - Paul instructs the Corinthians to make contributions to the churches "on the first day of the week," which is Sunday. This is because the primary day of Christian worship is Sunday.

Col. 2:16-17 - Paul teaches that the Sabbath was only a shadow of what was fulfilled in Christ, and says "let no one pass judgment any more over a Sabbath."

2 Thess. 2:15 - we are to hold fast to apostolic tradition, whether it is oral or written. The 2,000 year-old tradition of the Church is that the apostles changed the Sabbath day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.

Heb. 4:8-9 - regarding the day of rest, if Joshua had given rest, God would not later speak of "another day," which is Sunday, the new Sabbath. Sunday is the first day of the week and the first day of the new creation brought about by our Lord's resurrection, which was on Sunday.

Heb. 7:12 - when there is a change in the priesthood, there is a change in the law as well. Because we have a new Priest and a new sacrifice, we also have a new day of worship, which is Sunday.

Rev 1:10 - John specifically points out that he witnesses the heavenly Eucharistic liturgy on Sunday, the Lord's day, the new day of rest in Christ.

Matt. 16:19; 18:18 - whatever the Church binds on earth is bound in heaven. Since the resurrection, Mass has been principally celebrated on Sunday.


We Catholics didn't mess with anything. You simply don't understand Catholic belief as it pertains to the Sabbath. Instead of automatically assuming you are right and 2,000 years of Catholicism is wrong, learn to be prudent and give the benefit of the doubt.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church has never re-written the Ten Commandments.

That's what the Protestants did, by splitting the First Commandment up into two Commandments, and then bunching IX and X together.

The Protestant 2nd Commandment -- Thou shalt not make any graven image -- is actually part of the First Commandment, which forbids worshipping anything other than God alone.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church lists the entire Commandment, including the part about not worshipping graven images.

That part usually doesn't appear in list form for reasons of brevity. So it's not true that the Catholic Church "removed" the "graven images" part. Read the Catechism, and you'll see it's there.

As for IX and X, Protestants have bunched those together into X -- even though they deal with different sins, one with lust and the other with envy.

So, Protestants have two Commandments (I and II) that deal with the same sin (idolatry).

Meanwhile, they have one Commandment (X) that deals with two entirely different sins.

The Catholic version is really the more sensible one, if you compare both versions of the Commandments to what's in Exodus.

And no, the Catholic version is not the changed or re-written version. The Protestant version is.

Answer 4

Your question is impossible to answer properly. According to ancient documents the Sunday worship seems to have been original for worshiping Jesus. In your bible there is a place where a boy falls out of a window and is brought back by one of the apostles. You'll note that this worship took place on Sunday. Anyway, if those early Christians took the 3(?)rd commandment literally, they would have continued worshiping on Sunday for the rest of their lives. The didache indicates that it was firmly in place as early as 70 AD. The Catholic church "changed" the Sabbath in about 1500. The change appears to be perfectly defensible, and could be considered to be done by the apostles.

Answer 5

The Catholic Church is still as it has been since Christ started it.

Catholics haven't changed anything, that's a lie made up by Atheists.

I find it sad that Protestants have to resort to using the Atheist version of history to bash Catholics.

Answer 6

The 4th Commandment is: Honor thy father and mother.

What has that got to do with the Sabbath?

Answer 7

I am not catholic, but i would like to know where you got your information? Did you check it out before you believed it?
Be more specific.

Answer 8

Hey, god in his holy church, thru the church he can change the commandments. Look at how many contradictory and inconsistent things are inthe bible.

Answer 9

Probably early on when Constatine started them in 325ad.

Answer 10

To the Michael X guy...you're saying that the church had god tell them what to do? What were they smoking cuz I really want to see this...