Why do most Christians attend church on Sunday?

Question

The 4th commandment states:

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath day of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work; you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Did Jesus keep the Sabbath as a part of God's law?
Luke 4:16:

"And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: and, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read."

If we are not to worship and honor the Lord on the sabbath then what does this commandment mean?

Positive responses only are appreciated.

I DON'T KNOW IF I AM BEING MISUNDERSTOOD, BUT THE SABBATH IS SATURDAY NOT SUNDAY, THAT IS WHY I AM POSING THE QUESTION.

I want to thank all that have actually ANSWERED the question. I was asking this question to merely get a different perspective on which day is the Sabbath and which day we are supposed to worship on. I was looking for different opinions which I have received. I have learned some new things. THANK YOU!!!

Answer 1

I honor the sabbath from sundown Friday night, to sundown Saturday night. I go to church on Sunday, because that's when they have services. Was it wrong for Constantine to change the sabbath to Sunday in order to make it easier to convert the pagans who worshipping their false gods on Sunday? Of course, but many people have no clue that's why it changed to Sunday. Some think it was because Christ rose on Sunday, but that's just an excuse the church came up with many years after the fact. A lot of people think the fact that its traditional for christians to go to church on Sunday makes it okay, regardless of what the commandment says. Jesus came to fulfill the law, not change it. He never said a thing about any of the commandments no longer being in effect. I figure if He held the sabbath on the correct day, its the least I can do.

See, Whirling whatever is totally taken in by all the excuses for not honoring the sabbath, to the point of making it seem that its not even important. Apparently, a lot of christians seem to think God is just irrelevant, that His laws have no value or meaning. That even though nowhere in the bible it says its okay to change the sabbath, even though Jesus and all His disciples honored the correct sabbath, (yes, the disciples held the correct sabbath after the ressurection), they feel they are excempt from this, because they've decided to make their own rules, and change one of the 10 commandments. The amazing thing is they've done it without the benefit of a prophet, saint, angelic presense on anything, they've taken it upon themselves to change God's commandments or to say they aren't even mandatory. Really takes some big ones.

For example, Whirling whatever states the following as meaning its perfectly okay to change the sabbath:

Acts 20:7: apparently because they ate together on Sunday, he takes this to mean it was called the sabbath, even though it does not say that at all.

1 Corinthians 16:2: Talking about collecting tithing, nothing about it being the sabbath.

Col. 2:16: Letter to a church in Greece telling the people not to let the people there judge them for the day they have their sabbath, (at the time pagans worshipped on Sunday, so they may have been given a hard time for worshipping on Saturday. Apparently, Whilrs just didn't understand what was being said here.

Revelation 1:10: The wording "The Lord's Day" is used, but not designated as being Sunday, just another wording for the sabbath. Does in no way say the Lord's Day is Sunday.

Answer 2

Some religious organizations (Seventh-Day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists, and certain others) claim that Christians must not worship on Sunday but on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. They claim that, at some unnamed time after the apostolic age, the Church "changed" the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.

However, passages of Scripture such as Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Colossians 2:16-17, and Revelation 1:10 indicate that, even during New Testament times, the Sabbath is no longer binding and that Christians are to worship on the Lord’s day, Sunday, instead.

The early Church Fathers compared the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of the rite of circumcision, and from that they demonstrated that if the apostles abolished circumcision (Gal. 5:1-6), so also the observance of the Sabbath must have been abolished. The following quotations show that the first Christians understood this principle and gathered for worship on Sunday.

Answer 3

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 4

They believe that is a Christian requirement and may fail to realize that the Sabbath day was a part of the old Mosaic law covenant given to the Hebrews. Exodus 31:16,17. The Sabbath day was actually acknowledged between sunset on Friday through Saturday. The new covenant outlined in Matthew 22:35-40, Romans 10:4, 13:8-10 tells Christians that the laws fulfillment is love. See also Colossians 2:13-16, Galatians 4:9-11. But if they wish to attend Church on that day to congregate that is their option.
The Sabbath day was intended to be a rest day as was the seventh day after Gods creation( how long who knows)
Christ did away with the Mosaic law covenant when he died. Colossians 2:14. Every day should be a holy day to believers by observing the laws fulfillment of love.

Answer 5

Jesus appeared resurrected on Sunday Jesus appeared on Sunday the week after The HOly SPirit came on Pentacost, a Sunday The last book of the Bibloe was given on a Sunday The apolstle Paul asked for a collection for the needy every Sunday Euticus fell out of the window on a SUnday as Paul spoke sounds like.. a good reasons.. this is not an essential belief although I think it is true... there is room for disagreement based on concience and the very most important Sabbath is is not a day but enterring into the rest of faith, glorifying God, leaning on the work of Jesus on the Cross, believing for eternal life

Answer 6

From what I understand, since Jesus rose on a Sunday, Christians held THAT to be the Sabbath day to differentiate themselves from the non-believing Jews. I think, that we should still honor the Sabbath, but I don't know that it really matters so much if it's Sunday or Saturday. These are legalistic things that Christians shouldn't be divisive about. But I've often wondered the same thing.

Answer 7

Jesus appeared on Sunday at the resurection
Jesus was seen the next Sunday a week later
The HOly SPirit came on Pentacost, a Sunday
Paul the apostles ordered collections for the poor taken on Sunday, the Lords day
Eutichus fell out of the window on SUnday
Revelation(no s please) was given on a Sunday

I think I can see why in good concience someone would believe the Lord of the Sabbath, made Sunday the Lord's day

it is not the most important issue and resting on the work of Jesus on the cross by faith is a more important Sabbath, than how you celebrate the Lord's day and there is room for differences of concience

Answer 8

I'm not getting your question. Are you wondering why if we are told to not work on the Sabbath, that people are going against that since they go to church?
If you are not at work on the Sabbath Day, you have the time you need to go to church and study the Word of God.
The Sabbath was made for man, not God. He knows our nature. People will work instead of setting aside time for Gods Word, because they will make money. Its necessary for God to tell us, since we are a greedy ignorant bunch, to put aside our temporal needs for a day and study the Word so as to mature our Spiritual sides.
As you stated, Jesus went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read. Read what? The Word of God. Thats your example right there. Unfortunately in many cases, folks go to church on Sunday, but learn absolutely nothing about what Scripture says. So, those who just attend a church service without learning Gods Word there, are going for nothiing, unless they just like the social side of it. But if nothing of Gods Word is taught there, you would be just as well to go to a good baseball game.
For the "what its worth" department.
Have a great day -

Jan

Answer 9

The lord of the sabbath rose from the dead on the day after the sabbath and sent the comforter on the day after the sabbath,initiating the Church Age

Answer 10

In Jewish tradition, Saturday is the sabbath. For some reason the Christian sabbath became Sunday. I'd be interested to know when this change happened and why.