Why do people go to church on Sunday?

Question

The bible clearly says the Sabbath is Saturday. The only language that uses Saturday instead of Sabbath is English!

Answer 1

Why do most people go to church on Sunday? There are about 12 reasons but they are NOT supported by the Bible.

I will explain each of the 12 reasons below it may be a little long, but it will cover all the 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, or petecost etc
Ok and where does the Bible say worship on Sunday because of any of these events? NO WHERE
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.

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 bible is from the Old Testament which states the Jewish Sabbath which is Saturday. The week starts on Sunday through Friday making Saturday the Sabbath. However, the New Testament which brings in the Christian religion uses Sunday as the day of rest.

Answer 3

I had no idea! I thought the sabbath was always on Sunday. But maybe over time, people just adopted Sunday as the sabbath, after all English is the universal language

Answer 4

The Catholic Church follows the teaching and practice of the Apostles. In the 20th chapter of the Act of the Apostles, the church in Troas gathered on the first day of the week, Sunday.

Christians believe that Jesus fulfilled the Law of Moses. Therefore Christians are not held to the ceremonial parts of the Mosaic Law concerning of dietary purity and temple worship.

Christians are held to the moral law of God, some of which is expressed in the Ten Commandments.

The first Christians were Jews. They went to temple or synagogue on the Sabbath (Saturday) with fellow Jews.

Then they gathered on the first day of the week, the day on which Jesus rose from the dead (Sunday), with fellow Christians to tell stories of Jesus and share Eucharist. See Acts 20:7.

Later Gentiles joined Christianity. The Apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, decided that the Gentiles did not have to covert to Judaism. Therefore, they only attended on Sundays and did not have to abide by Jewish dietary laws.

This has been the practice ever since.

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

Because christians celebrate Jesus Christ the "Lord of the Sabbath" (Mk 2:27-28) the mediator of a new and everlasting covenant. We celebrate 'the Lord's Day' when three days after his Passion and Death, Jesus rose from the dead. We know from Scripture that Jesus' day of Resurrection was "the first day of the week" on Sunday - which Christians have taken from the earliest times to come together to celebrate Eucharist, to give thanks, to pray together, and to rest from work. Sunday is also honored since it is seen as a sign of the new covenant ushered in by Our Lord since it is the eight day following the Sabbath.
Jesus came together with his followers and had there on worship and meetings on a sunday.
Some religions do go to church on saturdays whose to say their better then any other religion. Some people go to church on sundays because they work all day saturday. So long as your taking time out for the lord and thanking him it shouldnt matter what day of the week. thats just my opinion

Answer 6

The book of Acts in the Bible says tha the Apostles began meeting on Sunday to commemorate the Lord Jesus' Resurrection.

And Jesus abolished the Sabbath. One day is no different than another, they're all the Lord's, says the book of Romans.

Answer 7

I been reading about, I'm believe that the Sabbath is the real day of the Lord; no because the traditions or law or calendars mess-up, but because God creation. He create the Earth in 7 days, no 8 or 10 or wherever; The Lord create the Sabbath, so you and me and everyone in this Earth; separate one day to worship him. That you stop worry about everything going on around you and stop and think about what he did for you, and thanks him for made this beautiful place for us.

Answer 8

A lot of religions rely on tradition and I guess most traditions moved their celebrations to Sunday and kept it that way, even if Saturday is the true Sabbath.

Answer 9

Because in Judaism the Sabbath is Saturday and Jesus (actually Joshua in the true translation of his Hebrew/Aramaic name into English) and his followers during his life time practiced the lords day of rest as Judeans did. It is only later after his death did this change. I would suggest you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath which will give you more detail on this subject that you can read.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 10

You for sure are unaware of international historic previous. The Catholic Church did not replace into into existence till 375 BC. way after the 1st century. The checklist of historic previous, from the Resurrection of Christ, Christians have continuously worshipped on the 1st day of the week (Sunday) and on no account on the Sabbath (seventh day). Sunday isn't a Christian Sabbath or an afternoon of relax, or a holy day to be saved. that's the day God demands all Christians to deliver mutually mutually to worship and devour the Lord's Supper (communion, wreck bread) Acts 20:7. Christians do not shop the ten commandment regulation of Moses. it is to not say that Christians are loose to scouse borrow, homicide and commit adultery, purely because of the fact the ten commandments have been abolished. No! Christians are under a sparkling regulation, a extra advantageous regulation, the regulation of Christ, (Gal 6:2) a extra advantageous covenant (Heb 8:6-7). a million Corinthians sixteen:a million-2 Now with regards to the series for God's human beings: Do what I advised the Galatian churches to do. on the 1st day of a week, each and every physique of you may desire to set aside a sum of money in holding together with his earnings, saving it up, so as that once I come no collections will might desire to be made. Acts 20:7 on the 1st day of the week we got here mutually to interrupt bread. Paul spoke to the human beings and, because of the fact he meant to leave the subsequent day, saved on speaking till ineffective night. Romans 14:5-6 interior an analogous way, some think of sooner or later is extra holy than yet another day, whilst others think of daily is alike. you may desire to each and each be totally confident that whichever day you elect is acceptable. people who worship the Lord on a definite occasion do it to honor him. people who devour any variety of foodstuff do in an attempt to honor the Lord, because of the fact they supply owing to God earlier eating. and people who refuse to devour specific ingredients additionally decide to thrill the Lord and supply owing to God