Why do Christians celebrate Sunday as the Sabbath when the Bible CLEARLY states the Sabbath was a Saturday?

Question

i was told it was changed to Sunday in or around 321 A.D. by Roman Catholics. If this is true, we are all committing a huge sin, cuz nowhere in the Bible does it authorize any man to change the most Holy day of all. BUT it does mention the Antichrist will "...think to change times and Laws" meaning the Laws of the Lord, which i also noticed Catholics leave out the Second Commandment, change the Fourth and split the Tenth to cover for leaving out the Second. Sounds like Law changing huh? Then i find this doing more research:
"The Roman [Catholic] Church...reversed the Fourth Commandment by doing away with the Sabbath of God's Word, and instituting Sunday as a holiday" - Nicholas Summerbell, History of the Crhistian Church, 3rd edition,1873, p.415 [Christian Church (Christian Connection)]. To me this sounds like our good ole friend the Pope, may just be the Antichrist trying to gain leverage to doom us all. what u think?

Answer 1

You are correct in that it was men that changed it to Sunday, God certainly didn't. I have researched this also and there is not one single verse in the Bible authorizing changing it to Sunday.
If you look into the verses commanding that the Seventh day sabbath be kept it is called a "perpetual covenant" well, to my knowledge always or forever hasn't ended yet. And Jesus said the Sabbath was "made for man" he didn't narrow it down.

Gen. 2: 2-3 (Notice “God created and made”)

Ex. 20:11 He “Hallowed” the seventh day of every week. He made it Holy.
Ex. 31:13 & 17 It’s a sign between God and his people. Also, He “sanctified” it. Which means to ‘set apart, for Holy use or purpose.’

Prophecy! Isaiah 56:2-3 and 58:13-14

The Lord’s Day is the Sabbath…… Mark 2:28, Luke 4:16

Our Lord never changes Hebrews 13:8

As far as I know “The first day of the week” only appears eight times in the New Testament. Of course, I could be wrong but it’s eight times that I’ve ever found so far.

Matt. 28:1 I believe that this was written about 6 years after the New Testament church started. It says after the Sabbath drawing “toward” the first day of the week. So the Sabbath was still the day before the first day of the week.

Also, Mark 16:1
Luke 23:56 & 24:1
John 20:1

John 20:19 Some say that this was a religious service celebrating the resurrection but it says they were assembled for “fear of the Jews” and they all lived together in this upper room Acts 1:13. They couldn’t have gotten together to celebrate the resurrection because they did not believe that Jesus was risen! Mark 16:4, Luke 24:37, 39,41

Acts 20:7 It says Paul preached until midnight. In the Bible the days began and ended at sunset, so it was actually Saturday night. (according to our time) And he spoke till midnight because he was going to leave the next day. And about when he “had broken bread and eaten” I can’t find where it says anywhere that this was considered The Lord’s supper. The Lord’s Supper was done at Passover. In more than one place to “break bread” means to eat a meal.

Luke 22:16 Then 24:30 This wasn’t the Lord’s Supper, it was a meal--”He sat at meat”
Also notice Acts 2:46


And Paul worked weekdays and kept the Sabbath!! Acts 18: 1-11

Also, I know many think that The Lord's Day is for worship but if you look at Revelation and see just exactly what it's discussing and the things that are going to happen and compare it to prophecy in the OT the The Lord's Day is also known as "The Day of the Lord". And it's not discussing a worship service when it says that!

Answer 2

Christians do not celebrate Sunday as the Sabbath. They celebrate it as the "Lord's Day". IT is presented in the Bible as the fist day of the week which was the day the church was started on (Pentecost which was 49 days after the passover sabbath) and the day that the Lord rose on, and the day that they met together, all stated in the bible. Sorry but the Bible came 300 years before the catholic church came into existence so the catholic church did not start Sunday as the Lord's Day
By the way, the ten commandments were written to Israel, not the church, all of which were repeated to the church in the New Testament except for "remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. You need to do some more Bible study.

Answer 3

Wow, I must commend that you are very knowledgeable first of all. It is true Saturday is the Sabbath. There are those who say that as long as you work for 6 days and rest on the seventh then that would be your sabbath day whether it's Sunday or not. The Catholic I beleive may have changed it, like you said. Another reason is that there are those who say that since Christians are those who are the followers of Jesus Christ do not have to make it that holy. This rule only applied to the Isrealites. But there you could see where there is a flaw. Whether it is a sin or not it is not up to anyone on the Earth to judge or decide. There are many people who think that the current Pope could be the one, but yet again all we have is the word of God and be prepared.

Answer 4

Acts 20:7, "On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight." On the first day they gathered. This was not unheard of at the time of the apostles. A point may be raised that Paul frequented Synagogues on the Sabbath but what better time would you find Jews to convert?

The Jerusalem Council did not tell believers to keep the Sabbath in Acts 15.

Romans 14:5, "One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind."

Colossi ans 2:16, "Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath."

Galatians 4:9-11, "But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain."

It would be a great tragedy to work on the day the Lord commanded us not to work. This is a great in-house debate (a debate between Christians). Also, if Christ had fulfilled this commandment and, through His resurrection on the first day, shifted the Sabbath to Sunday then it would be an equally great tragedy to deny His resurrection by refusing to worship on the newly consecrated day.

Answer 5

Sunday observance is a product of paganism. If found its way into the Christian church many years after the original Apostles died. At that time, Sunday was the rest day of the pagan Roman Empire in which the popular religion was Mithraism, a form of sun-worship. In the course of time, (during the second, third and fourth centuries) multitudes of sun-worshippers joined the church. And when the Emperor Constantine ruled (AD 306-337) it became quite fashionable to follow his example and become a Christian. Sad to say, however, most of the multitude who joined the church weren't truly converted. They had little or no love for the truth as taught in the Bible, and they naturally didn't want to give up their pagan ways - and days - for anything which was at variance with their cherished heathen traditions. Besides, these unconverted members in the church had soon outnumbered the faithful. This gave them the power to implement their wishes and so the popular traditions of paganism were brought into the church and the truths of the Most High were slowly pushed aside. The church leaders - many of whom were themselves devoid of the Spirit of God - reasoned, that in order to appease and keep their congregations, the traditions of heathenism should be "christianised," given sacred titles and accepted into Christian worship. Thus it was that Sunday - the venerable day of the Sun God - along with a host of other pagan practices, too numerous to deal with in this article, was adopted by the fallen church and hailed as the New Christian Sabbath - the LORD'S DAY!.

Sunday observance, inshort is an "heirloom from heathenism," a pagan tradition which unlawfully entered the Christian Church centuries after the early Apostles died. It has absolutely no Scriptural authority whatsoever!

We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church in the Council of Laodicea (AD 336) transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday

Answer 6

The Sabbath of the Old Testement was a "shadow" of the Sabbath to come in Christ Jesus. Read Hebrews chapter 4. The Sabbath in the Old Testement symbolized a rest for God's people. But now that Jesus has came and died for us, we have entered into the rest that God really desired for us. Remember the Tabernacle, the Law, and the ceremonies back then were just a shadow of the greater things to come when Christ is revealed. Now, that Jesus has given those who believe in Him rest, every day is a Sabbath. So, it does not matter which day your worship on. Read, I believe Colossians 2: 8. It says, "Therefore let no man judge you in regard to a holy day and so forth and so forth. Paul already addressed this issue in Colossians.

Answer 7

Do you really think no work should be done on the Sabbath? I worship God everyday not only on the most Holy days of all.

Whether it was Sunday, Saturday or Even Friday, I belive, that many people had misinterpretted the meaning of the Sabbath.

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.

The word is also infrequently used to describe the annual Holy Days observed by several Christian groups, also called High Sabbaths or High Day Sabbaths (John 19:31): the First and Last Days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Eighth Day of the Feast.

Answer 8

because Jesus is the Lord of the sabath and after the resurection

was seen on Sunday
was see the next Sunday a week later
the Holy spirit came on Sunday at Pentacost
the apostle collected offereing on Sunday
Eutichus felloutta the window at a church service on a Sunday
the last book of the Bible was given on Sunday

the Pope cant take credit for making it Sunday
given the list above

Answer 9

No, it was changed much earlier than 321. In fact, by the time John wrote the book of Revelation, Sunday was already called the Lord's Day as opposed to Saturday (Christ arose on Sunday). Paul wrote, in Romans, that the Christian is no longer required to celebrate Sabbaths (also alluded to in Hebrews since the Christian has already entered "the Sabbath rest"). Therefore many Christians don't refer to Sunday as the "Christian Sabbath" but rather just "The Lord's Day" or simply "Sunday."

Answer 10

Well, it says 7th day. According to our calendar it's Saturday. But our calendar has changed a couple of times just within the past 2000 yrs. And that verse is written according to the Jewish Lunar (religious) calendar.

The Catholic Church didn't change it initially... a Pagan Emporer did. Constantine the Great. The Catholic Church just made it official when Rome fell and they took over. The pope of today merely holds on to traditions of the Church, as if God himself made it ok because they use the "Christian" title.