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Why was it changed to Sunday since there is no evidence in the Bible authorising such a change from the Lord's Day, Saturday to the suns day, Sunday?

2006-10-27 12:56:53 · 14 answers · asked by Terry 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

It is evident that the Rome changed they day of worship from Saturday to Sunday in honour of the Sun-god or baal. Christians keep all other 9 commandments of the the 10 given on Mount Sinai, written with the finger of God, JEHOVAH Himself. But christians delibrately refuse to obey the 4th Commandment which is the only commandment that points to JEHOVAH as the sole creater of this world.

Watch and pray, be not deceived for "till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot will fall out of the commandments".

Did you not know that whoever breaks one jot of the Law breaks it all. Satan is deceiving the world. Sunday worship is false.

2006-10-27 13:16:59 · update #1

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2006-10-27 13:27:26 · update #2

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The Bible supports the continual observance of the Sabbath(Saturday)

Why was the day changed?
Because Satan knows that if he can get people to break just one commandment then they are guilty of all. The problem is people have been tricked into believing a false doctrine that God changed the day or God does not care.


I am going to address the some of the above comments

1) The 10 commandments are not part of the Mosaic Law, they are seperate from the Mosaic Law

"And He declared unto you his covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even Ten Commandments; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone. AND the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. "
Deuteronomy 4:13

GOD Himself also makes a distinction between the Moral law and the Law of Moses
"If they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, AND according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them."
2 Kings 21:8

Both times it says God's law AND Moses’ law because there was a difference

Moses' Law was done away with BUT the Sabbath is NOT part of the Mosaic law it is part of God's eternal 10 commandment Law which can not be done away with.

In addition the Sabbath was not given to the Jews it was given to Adam and Eve Genesis 2


2) Sunday was never the the seventh day. The Seventh day has always been Saturday. The Jews have been keeping it continuously 1000s of yrs on Saturday

The United States Naval observatory as well as the Royal Observatory have both confirmed that the Sabbath (Saturday) we keep is the Same one that Jesus kept and the early church kept.

In addition chapters 22 and 23 of Luke say that the resurection took place the day after the Sabbath. If Sunday is the Sabbath then that would mean Jesus rose on Easter Monday.


3) There is no evidence in the Bible of the early church changing from Sabbath worship to Sunday worship, on the contrary there are multiple verses where the early church Including the Apostles the Jews and the Gentiles outside of Israel kept the Sabbath.
Acts 13:14
Acts 13:42
Acts 13:44
Acts 16:13
Acts 17:1-4
Acts 18:4

Someone mentioned not judging others about days of worship. I have to respectfully disagree, the chapter in question is Romans 14.
The commandment not to judge others according to days as stated in Romans 14 is not talking about the Sabbath it is talking observing days of fasts. Compare the chapter with Zechariah 7:4,5 and it becomes clear it is not talking about the Sabbath.


4) Nowhere in the Bible does it say that we should worship on Sunday due to the Resurection, God gave us Baptism to celebrate the death and resurection. Jesus did NOT give us a new day of worship for the Resurection HE gave us baptism Romans 6:1-4, Colosians 2:12, Galatians 3:27,1 Peter 3:21. Please provide the verse that says to worship on Sunday due to the resurection.


5) There is no reference to the 8th day observence by Christians in the Bible, the the only day of worship called eternal is the 7th day Sabbath (Saturday).


6) The Sabbath was made for man
Many people say “The Sabbath was made for man so we don't need it"

Genesis 2:18 says God made a “help meet” (woman) for man. if Man still needs woman he still needs the rest of the Sabbath (Saturday).


7)The day does matter God did not say "A" 7th day He said "THE" 7th day. "THE" is a definite article meaning a specific item.

God says worship on the Sabbath and people say “We want to worship on Sunday, God doesn’t really care which day you worship on as long as you worship, He isn’t specific.”

The first person to say God doesn’t care how we worship was Cain. God said offer a lamb for a sacrifice, but Cain said “I want to offer fruits, God doesn’t really care as long as you give something, He isn’t specific.”

Was Cain right?

If it didn’t work out for Cain why should we expect God to change His mind allow us to do the opposite of what He over and over again tells us to do? “I AM the LORD, I change not” Malachi 3:6.

We need to give God what he asks for


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2006-10-28 14:05:08 · answer #1 · answered by Conundrum 4 · 1 1

Contrary to what many Christians believe, Sunday was not observed by New Testament Christians as a day of worship. They kept Saturday, the seventh day of the week.

The question of how Sunday, the first day of the week, replaced Saturday, the seventh day of the week, as the main day of Christian worship has received increasing attention in recent years. One widely acclaimed study, for example, suggests that the weekly Christian Sunday arose from Sunday-evening communion services in the immediate postresurrection period, with Sunday itself being a workday until after the time of Constantine the Great in the early fourth century.[1] Eventually, however, Sunday ceased to be a workday and became a Christian Sabbath." Some simpler and more popular views are that either (1) Sunday was substituted immediately after Christ's resurrection for the seventh-day Sabbath, or (2) Sundaykeeping was introduced directly from paganism during the second century or later. But is either of these views correct? What do the actual source materials tell us

This link has more info that should answer your questions.
http://www.biblehistory.com/The%20Origin%20of%20Sunday%20Worship.html

2006-10-27 13:01:12 · answer #2 · answered by missourim43 6 · 0 0

Although many today refer to the Sabbath as Sunday, the Sabbath of the Bible was on Saturday. Even though many think of Sunday as the weekend, most modern calendars show Sunday to be the first day of the week. In the Old Testament, the Jews were commanded to rest on the Sabbath. Since Christians are not under the law we are not commanded to keep it. The Law of Moses was written for the Jews and was only to last until the time of Christ. In the Law of Moses, the blood of animals was required to atone for the sins of the people. These sacrifices were temporary. Now, we have the perfect sacrifice. God's only begotten son, being without sin, offered Himself as a sacrifice to forgive sins from the time of His death until His return. When Jesus died on the cross, the temporary Law of Moses was fulfilled and is no longer necessary.

2006-10-27 13:00:04 · answer #3 · answered by K 5 · 0 1

It's not changed Saturday is the Sabbath and Sunday is the Lord's Day. Most Christians worship on Sunday as the early church did in celebration of the Lord's Resurrection. It is important that we not judge other believers on this issue-( we are specifically commanded not to). Those who absolutely INSIST that this day or that day is the "right" one for corporate worship do not understand even square one of Christianity and should refrain from teaching until they get a reasonable grounding in the Word.

2006-10-27 13:02:18 · answer #4 · answered by TalkingDonkey 3 · 0 1

The sabbath is made for humankind. - Jesus. Christians have accepted his word and chosen Sunday to commemorate the resurrection. It is the observance, not the day which is commanded. That is why Jesus stressed the sabbath is made for us; not us for the sabbath.
If you want to bash Christianity - end of discussion. If you want to write in the spirit of the sabbath, waiting upon God, then we could converse at length on the shabby state of observance w/ restaurats open, sports leagues and the like.

2006-10-27 14:55:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It was probably changed to fit with everyone else's holy day being Sunday. Quite a lot of other religions back then worshipped the Sun so it wouldn't surprise me that their holy day was Sunday.

Remember Christianity is quick to absorb other holidays whilst rewriting the theme with something relating to Christ or God.

2006-10-27 13:13:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

in the beginning it was dark ,then the first 'day' then the 2de dark then the 2de day
i believe darkness heralds the next day at the end of the day ie the going away of the light heralds the next day to begin in the darkness unseen
thus sun'day began on saterday 'night'.
as sun'day is yet saterdays night day untill the night of the sunday were we to observe the proper day saterday began on friday sunset
to be safe i begin on friday night ,and end on sunday night
the importance of the proper observance is either important or it is not
i feel it is important thus say great question
please let me know when you got a concensus
then we can all somehow do it together
but then we get timesone differences
thus as the sunsets a new day is begun.

2006-10-27 13:40:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Many people believe the church had the right to make that change. They believe it was done in honor of the resurrection.

But you're right, there is no Biblical basis for the change. God's word still stands.

The seventh-day Sabbath was begun at Creation, and kept by both Jesus and his disciples, with no hint of a change.

2006-10-27 13:01:02 · answer #8 · answered by jewel_flower 4 · 2 0

Are you basing this because it said on the seventh day he rested? Well, Christians go by the 8th day and the thereafter--they do not just rest they enjoy eternal life with God. He is eternally at rest so the 8th day the day after the seventh is eternal. Back then that's all they had to look forward to for their rest from toil because when they died they just died but, now we have hope that life goes on past that 7th day of rest. (besides the fact but not leastly the fact that it is the day the Lord rose from the dead) (in this we hope!)

2006-10-27 13:16:15 · answer #9 · answered by Midge 7 · 0 1

I think it's because God rested on the seventh day after making the earth,and Sunday is the seventh day.

By the way great question.

2006-10-27 13:01:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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