why don't most people keep the 4th commandment? (keeping the sabbath)?

Question

if God has changed the ten commandments to nine (even though He wouldn't because God is the same in the past, present, and future), wouldn't you think hewould make a big deal of it in the bible? I mean, not give us subtle signs that people pick out to refute the argument? if God was to take out one commandment, He would make sure we knew about it. And some people argue that the sabbath was made for the jews only, but the last time i read the bible, it sais that the sabbath was made for man. I think this would include everyone. God made the world in six day and rested on the seventh and commanded that we "remember to keep it holly". Why have so many forgotten? Why do most keep it on the first day (sunday) and not the 7th (on saturday)? If god didn't care which day we kept holly, he woulnd't have been so frank as to specify "the seventh day". and most people who go to church on sunday do not keep that day holly (resting from all activities). i just don't get it. thanks

Answer 1

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 2

Also, what does" keep it holy " mean ? Is there anything in scripture defining it as ( resting from all activities ) ? Does anything in scripture mention going to church ?
As for which day is the seventh, it depends on when you begin counting the days. If you call Monday the first day, then Sunday will end up as the seventh.
The calender, as we know it does not go back to the time of the commandments, therefore Sunday wasn't always the first day of the week.

Answer 3

most people consider monday the beginning of the week, it's the beginning of the 'work week'...
and is not sunday the last day of what has become commonly called the weekend? (the END of the week)
but if i was delivering pizza i might have tuesday and wednesday off, etc. well that would make wednesday the END of my week.
i think God's point was to take a day of rest and not kill yourself working 31 days a month.
and didn't Jesus say if your donkey fell into a well on the sabbath would you not work to save him?
or would you wait till the next day?
what if it was you're child or husband fell in a well?
also the calender was changed by about 12 days way back when,... so when is the REAL sabbath?
you picked one heck of a commandmend to think about!!!

Answer 4

Because most people just go to church and believe what they are told instead of actually reading & studying what the bible actually says. Its important to not follow the teachings and traditions of men, but to learn what God has told us and this is by studying what His word has to say.
The catholic church had a lot to do with making Sunday the observed day to worship, but even they know that Saturday the seventh day is the holy sabbath as do many churches, but it is out of conveinence that most are Sunday keepers and because thats what most of them have done for so long a lot of people dont even realize which day is the sabbath anymore.
I think we should spend time with Him every day, but according to His word the seventh day sabbath is to be remembered and kept holy.

Answer 5

God's commandments are NOT subtle ideas. They are His laws, His rules. We all choose to follow them or not. I might go to mass every Sunday but still choose to have an affair. I might choose to believe God is the only God but still choose to use His name as a swear word. I don't know of one person on this planet that has or currently is living by each commandment at once.

God created everything in 7 days. They weren't seven 24 hour days. A day to God could be 1000 yrs. Time doesn't exist to God. A million of our human yrs could be a blink of an eye to God. We'll never know exactly how long it took Him to do it all. BUT, after He was done He rested. He needed a break. We are to honor His work. We are to take some time and stop all of our humanly duties and give that time only to God. Pray to Him, talk to Him, thank Him for what we have, enjoy nature, birds, clouds, worship Him, talk with others about it and be is awe of Him and His work. We don't do that that often. Jews choose to make every 7th day holy, the Sabbath. That 7th day came to be Saturday for them after calendars were made. For Christians it's Sunday, for Muslims it's Friday. But we must have a day to rest from our hard labors and rejoice in the Lord. Going to mass for one hour isn't keeping the Sabbath holy. The Sabbath is a whole day, 24 hours. We can at least rejoice and honor God for 24 hrs out of a week. Can't we?

Answer 6

No, most churches believe that the Sabbath should be kept sacred. However, it's big business and the busy-ness of life that has kept us from refraining from any and all activities. Problem is, it's just not...convenient or even modern anymore to not do ANYTHING on Sundays (or Saturday, depending on what you believe). My paster usually does his mowing and yardwork on Sundays, because the busy life we now lead doesn't give us time to do it on any other day. Also big businesses?? Have people work now on Sundays...so they can keep making money. And then there are businesses that have to stay open on Sundays...Hospitals....grocery stores, gas stations.
Point blank -- too hard to follow strict Sabbath guidelines in the modern world.

Answer 7

Well, as long as you keep the day you set aside as the Sabbath (Saturday or Sunday) I know that God will understand. Plus, in the Bible Jesus said that all 'unnecessary' labor was to be set aside. He says in the Bible that if your animal were to fall into a hole on the Sabbath, would you go and retrieve it, or let it stay until the Sabbath were over? He continued on to explain that retrieving the animal would be the right thing to do because it is a necessary act of labor, just as it was a necessary act of labor when Jesus was healing the sick on the Sabbath.
~God bless

Answer 8

Has anyone else noticed this question was written and answered on the sabbath. I blame Yahoo I guess. I'm not taking any personal responsibility

Addendum: Sunday is the conventional seventh day of the week for Christians, even though the calendar may arrange it differently. Jews and Seventh Day Adventists observe Sabbath on Saturday, Muslims on Friday. The calendar is a creation of man, not God.

Answer 9

d u mean to all d people or just to the jews? cause the ten comman. (and of course- the bible) are just for the jews, not just for men, but to every jew-men, women and children, and it's true that not all the jews keep it... and that's really wrong...
now for ur question why on saturday:
G-d created the world in 6 days and on the seventh he rest from the work, that's why jews must keep holy the 7th day, without doing any work (there are laws for what is forbidden and what not), by keeping the sabbath they show that they believe in G-d, and in the fact that He created the world in 6 days and on the 7th He rest

Answer 10

When Jesus died on the cross, He instituted the age of grace. The law was given to Moses only to make us aware of sin, of how far we had wandered from the initial ideal that we were created to be. It also contained boundaries for a rebellious and headstrong Israel, to prevent them from hurting themselves and how to deal with those who grievously harmed others.

Some religious people within the community of the Jews immediately seized upon the law as a be-all of what God wants us to do to be good, or holy. Indeed, they began to add additional laws onto the original ceremonial and practical writings to make them "change with the times." In this way, legalism began to gradually become the real religion of the Jews, rather than honest expressions of affection and gratitude to the God who delivered them from slavery and bondage to the Egyptians.

Indeed, the Pharisees had so expanded the rules and regulations as to require people to not so much as make their own beds on Sabbath, because it's a day of "rest." One of the reasons that the Pharisees hated Jesus was that he pointed out how ridiculous these man-made requirements had become.

Jesus died to allow the grace of God to rule how we live. I believe that most Christians do honor the Sabbath, but not in the way that other think that they should. Isn't that a rather "Pharisee-like" way of thinking?