Well if the majority says the sabbath is on Saturday, why are we celebrating it on Sunday?

Answer 1

Why do most people go to church on Sunday there are about 11 reasons but they are NOT supported by the Bible. The Bible says we should still keep the Sabbath(Saturday)

I will explain each of the 11 reasons below it may be a little long, but it will cover all the reasons. I do not want to offend anyone with what I say but I have to say what the Bible says.


The 11 reasons

1.The early church changed
NO WHERE in the Bible does the early church say “The new day of worship is Sunday” There is NO verse in the Bible to support this.

The early church kept the Sabbath
The apostles kept the Sabbath
Acts 13:14
Acts 13:42
Acts 13:44
Acts 16:13
Acts 17:2
Acts 18:4

the Gentiles went to Church on Sabbath
Acts 13:42
Acts 17:1-4
Acts 18


2.Sunday is the new Sabbath because of the resurrection
No verse in the Bible says worship on Sunday due to the Resurrection. God said that Baptism is symbol of the death and resurrection of Christ
Colossians 2:12
Romans 6:3-4
Galatians 3:27


3.Jesus fulfilled the law so the Sabbath is gone
Matt 5:17
"Do NOT THINK that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I HAVE NOT come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

does fulfill mean do away with or end

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to do away with them.
Isn’t that the contradictory?


4.We can’t tell which day
So, ENTIRE Jewish Nation all over the ENTIRE world woke up one morning and EVERY one of them forgot which day was the Sabbath?
That is not logical

The change of the calendar had no effect on the weekly cycle
The US Naval Observatory and the Royal Observatory both confirm the 7th day Sabbath(Saturday) is the SAME Sabbath that Jesus kept.

Mark 16 says that Jesus rose the day after the Sabbath. We all know Jesus rose on Sunday... so what day is the Sabbath?
Some people say “God didn’t name the days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday etc so we don’t have to keep it.”
Essentially what these people are saying is because we speak a different language from the Jews we don’t have to do what God says


5.It does not matter which day WE choose
God did not say "Pick a day to worship" He said "THE" 7th day is "THE" Sabbath. The word "THE" means a specific item.

The first person to say "It doesn't matter how we worship God" is Cain. Cain said "It doesn't matter how we worship God as long as we give something God will accept it. God does not care as long as you give and call it holy. Don't be legalistic Abel."
Was he right?
Is God specific about what He says.


6.It was only for the Jews, or The Jewish Sabbath is Saturday and the Christian Sabbath is Sunday
The Sabbath was given to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden 1000 yrs before the first JEW was born Genesis 2:1-3 if they were Jews we all are Jews and STILL need to keep the Sabbath

There is NO SUCH THING as "The Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sabbath". There is ONLY ONE Sabbath day regardless of religion, race, nationality or language. The 7th day Sabbath does not belong to the Jews it belongs to God, "I am Lord of the Sabbath" Jesus said. In addition "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord" Exodus 20:8-11


7.Sunday has always been the Sabbath
This contradicts the Mark 16 which says Jesus rose the day after the Sabbath on the first day of the week.

8.we are under the new covenant
Hebrews 8:7-12 says
For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.(What was the problem?) But God found fault with the PEOPLE and said "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a nEW COVENANT with the house of ISRAEL and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt (Why?), because THEY DID NOT REMAIN FAITHFUL TO MY COVENANT, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord. This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.

The Old Covenant- the people failed to keep their part “They said we will do it” Exodus 19:8 and they failed

The problem with the Old covenant was the people failed to keep it. There was nothing wrong with the law.

The Old Covenant was based on the people, God says “If you will...then I will” Exodus 19:5

The New Covenant is based on God, God says “I will and I will”

Where does God say that He is changing some of the laws? Where does God say that He is doing away with the Sabbath?

The New covenant, same law


9.Jesus broke the Sabbath
If Jesus broke the Sabbath then how can he say “I have kept my Fathers commandments John 15:10


10.We worship on the lord’s day … Sunday
Again, NOT ONE verse to support this claim, nor is there any verse in the Bible calling Sunday the Lord's Day. the only days called the Lord's day is the Sabbath(Saturday) and the day of Christ’s 2nd coming
Exodus 20:8
Isa 58:13,14
Matthew 12:8
Mark 2:28
Luke 6:5
Provide ONE verse that calls Sunday the Lord's Day


11.We don’t have to keep the Old law anymore we are under the spirit of the Law Love God and your neighbor
A) Is it ok to murder people? Is it ok to commit adultery? Or steal or worship other gods or be disrespectful to your parents? Then why are we getting rid of the only commandment that starts with “Remember”?

B)Does the Spirit of the Law void the Letter?
Spirit- don’t hate your brother
Letter- don’t murder

Spirit- don’t lust
Letter- don’t commit adultery

Spirit- Let you yes be yes and no be no
Letter- Don’t bare false witness

How can you keep the spirit and break the letter?

C) Jesus is quoting the “Old” Law when he says love God and your neighbor
Love God – Deut 6:5
Love your neighbor Lev 19:18

D) Mosaic law was done away with but the Mosaic law is different from the 10 commandments. The 10 commandments are eternal written in fire with the finger of God, Mosaic is temporary written by Moses.

12.We worship God everyday
This is a last ditched effort when people realize they have no Biblical basis to support violating God’s command by ignoring the Sabbath and worshiping on Sunday. It is a way to sound holier than thou willfully disobeying God

The disciples worshiped God everyday and they ALL kept the Sabbath.

Jesus prayed to His Father in Heaven everyday in addition to the fact that He is God and He still kept the Sabbath
Luke 4:16
Matthew 12:9,10
Mark 1:21
Mark 6:2 Luke 4:16
Luke 4:31
Luke 13:10

The Bible shows that If you worship everyday you STILL keep the Sabbath

Revelation 14 says that 3 messages go out to the world right before the end comes. The first message says worship the creator and then it quotes the 4th commandment.

God is calling his people to return to the commandments and worship Him as He has described. He wants His people to leave man made traditions and come back to His word.


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Answer 2

The sabbath day is on Sat. And Sunday is the first day of the week. I go to church on Sunday. I believe when man became modern the calender change. So society had to change. You know to keep up. Company's (most) are close on Sundays and start work on Mondays. If we worked on Sundays we would have Friday and Saturdays off not Saturday and Sundays off. Men choose to have the Saturday and Sundays which we call it the weekend. Do you kind of understand it now?

Answer 3

Jesus died on a Friday evening, because the Jewish leaders necessary all of it to be performed beforehand the start of the Sabbath, which replaced into the subsequent day and replaced into the most sacred Sabbath Day on the Jewish calendar, because it replaced into to be the observance of Passover. The very next day, the day after the Sabbath, is the day that the ladies human beings went to work out the tomb of Jesus to positioned the ointments on His body and positioned it to be empty, and then got here across that He replaced into resurrected from the useless. an exciting be conscious on the Greek note sabbaton, that's put in the plural right here in Matthew 28:a million: sabbaton is in many circumstances stumbled on interior the plural kind interior the hot testomony. hence, you may't reason from this one get at the same time of it being interior the plural that it ought to seek for suggestion from with more beneficial than one Sabbath day having exceeded, because this isn't an remoted incident considering there are dissimilar circumstances that this note is interior the plural and yet is singular in meaning. for that reason, Jesus' resurrection befell on the Sunday as we talk the Passover, which replaced into on the third day following His death on the bypass.

Answer 4

The answer to this question is rooted in long standing tradition. The Sabbath IS Saturday, but Christians celebrate Sunday as the day that Jesus rose from the dead, the day that hope was renewed, death was overcome and a way to heaven was made for all mankind.
Hope that answers your question!!

Answer 5

It never ceases to amaze me the number of Christians that really know so little about their own religion.

The Sabbath used to be on Saturday. It was changed by Constantine during his conversion of Rome into Christianity to Sunday.

Even the word Sun Day is to represent the worship of the Sun God.

It was done for the same reason that all Christians have done things for things like Christmas (Yule) and Easter (Eostre). To make it easier for the Pagans to convert to Christianity by having Christian holy days at the same time as the traditional Pagan holy days.

If you're going to be a fool, then at least be an educated fool. There's no excuse to be otherwise.

Answer 6

The Sabbath Saturday has never changed; man tried to change it to Sunday, but not God. Men want to observe Sunday for their own traditions as stated in Matt.15:9 "But in vain they do worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."
It also says it in Mark 7:7-9.
Verse 9 says "And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition."
Look what 1Timothy 1:7 says "Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm."

Now if we know Sunday is the first day of the week; why do people keep it instead of Saturday the seventh day? There are several reasons:

Look what EZEKIEL 22:26,28 say about these people. These are some excuses for Sunday Worship(Matt.15:9).

'One says the Sabbath has been changed from the seventh to the first day of the week.'

'Another says that the Sabbath commandment requires only one day of rest after six of labor, and hence there has been no change.'

'Some reason that all ought to keep Sunday, because although, as they affirm, God did not appoint a particular day, yet aggreement is necessary; and to have any or every day a sabbath would be equal to no sabbath at all.'

'Others, to avoid the claim of God's law, assert that the Sabbath precept is one of those ordinances which was against us, contrary to us, blotted out, and nailed to the cross. Still they admit a day of rest and convocation is necessary, and therefore the day of Christ's resurrection, they say has been chosen.'

'Another class say they believe it is impossible to know which is the seventh day, although they have no difficuty in locating the first.'

'Some are so bold as to declare that Sunday is the original seventh day.'

'Others, with equal certainity, say that those who keep the seventh day are endeavoring to be justified by the law, and are fallen from grace.'

'Another class, with more liberal views, say they believe that every one should be fully persuaded in his own mind, whether he keep this day, or that, or none at all.'

'Still again, as if having found the great disideratum or missing link in the argument, men credited with even more than ordinary intelligence, will sometimes declare that it is impossible to keep the seventh day on a round and rolling earth; yet, strangely, they find no difficulty in keeping Sunday anywhere, and believe that this day should be observed the world over!'
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"The OBSERVANCE of SUNDAY by the Protestants is an HOMAGE THEY PAY in spite of themselves to the AUTHORITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH."
Plain Talk for Protestants, pg.213.

It will "think to change God's Law" = Dan.7:25
GENERAL CATHOLIC CATECHISM
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http://family.webshots.com/photo/1339749760049373547pfqiuM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
http://www.truecatholic.org/baltp2.htm

"And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day...The reasons why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it."--Isaac Williams (Anglican) Plain Sermons on the Catechism, vol.1, pp.334, 336.

"If protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church."---Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal in a letter of Feb.10,1920.
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Answer 7

Sunday is not, strictly speaking, the Sabbath; it is "the Lord's day." The Apostles decided that non-Jewish converts to the Way of Christ would not be required to keep the Jewish ritual requirements. However, they met on Sunday, "the Lord's day," to commemorate the Resurrection.

Answer 8

"Sabbath" is a jewish concept, and has nothing to do with christianity. Saturday *is* sabbath.

Some early christians decided, in an effort to seperate themselves from their jewish origins, to gather together on Sunday, which they started calling "the lord's day." This became the standard practice of christians, but again it has NOTHING to do with the "sabbath." If you observed the sabbath, you'd have to follow jewish rules set down in the old testament for observation of the sabbath -- the list of rules is long and somewhat cumbersome. Your day to go to church has nothing to do with that.

That "commandment" in the bible: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." -- that's talking about the jewish sabbath day, not your Sunday church services.

Answer 9

We? You mean Jews observing the Sabbath!
Christians stopped the observing Sabbath same time they stopped fasting and all the other Mosaic Laws that Jesus done away with about 2000 years ago.
If you observe the Sabbath then you should fast from eating and not labour that day that represents doing work.

Answer 10

The Sabbath has always been on Sunday...I don't know who has been telling you it's Saturday...but it has always been and will always be on Sunday. By the way, GOD is the majority who claims this one. Good luck with your quest.