Are the Scripture proofs to show us the "traditional way" of keeping Sunday holy?

Question

Does the pope have biblical authority to stand on?

Was Sunday called "The Lord’s Day" from Apostolic times? No. Not one apostle calls Sunday, "The Lord’s Day".

Why tradition and scripture rather than just scripture?

Answer 1

There will not be any direct words from scriptures to my knowledge which would cause anyone to believe that Christ changed the Sabbath to "The Lord's Day". This is "purely a creation of the Roman Catholic Church" circa 364 AD. In fact, many of those accused of heresy in the history of the Church, and the Protestant movements and reformation kept the Sabbath according to the Holy Bible. They were tortured and killed as Constantine had given the Holy Roman Empire the authority over the civil authority. Since the beginning of time as we know it, God gave man the Sabbath, which was a memoriam for us to appreciate God, and His creation (Genesis 2:1-3). A few thousand years later, he wrote the 10 Commandments on two stone tablets with his finger, and gave them to Moses to give to those people who follow God. The 10 commandments included the Sabbath. When Jesus Christ was on this planet, he observed the Sabbath as it was meant to be observed, by helping people, and communing with God the Father. Today, many Christian organizations observe Sunday, according to the Catholic Church. However, most of them do not keep that day holy at all, they go about their shopping before and after church. Many even work before or after church. Like the claim the Catholic Church has been using since it's beginnings, the 10 Commandments were done away with at the cross. However, Jesus gave us the 10 commandments in a format which summarized the first four and the last six into two commandments. Those were to "...love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind...You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:37-39. In Matthew 22:40, Jesus further stated that "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." With that in mind, try also to remember this...Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill (he came to fulfill prophecy). For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all (prophecy) is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:17-19. Jesus also quoted from the old testament, and he kept the Sabbath. According to Matthew 12:8, and Luke 6:5, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. Now if Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath, why would he do away with it? Check the source below...I have done much research on this subject. The Pope has no authority.... The Bible teaches that the apostate will attempt to change times, and the traditions of man will take the place of the doctrines of God.

Answer 2

Following the completion of His creative work, the Lord instituted the Sabbath rest (GEN 2:1–3). The importance of this rest is reiterated many centuries later, when God stressed to Moses, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy” (EX 20:8). The cessation of labors on the seventh day, the Sabbath, is an important institution in the Old Testament. This fact has prompted the questions: Why doesn’t the church celebrate the Sabbath? After all, isn’t it a biblical imperative? Why does the church worship on Sunday instead of Saturday? It is a good question. Here now is the answer.

Believers in Messiah assemble together in honor of the day when the Lord rose from the dead. Our worship isn’t according to the pattern given to the Jewish nation at Mount Sinai; rather, we are partakers of the New Covenant, not the Old Covenant given to the children of Israel (JER 31:31–34). Ours is a covenant of grace and worshipping on a prescribed day is not part of the package. Nine out of ten of the original Ten Commandments are repeated in the New Testament, but only the one about the Sabbath is omitted.

We feel that there is strong scriptural ground against the selection of an elevated Sabbath day since we are saved under a covenant that has no such day! Rather than prescribe one day as superior to another, (COL 2:16), we celebrate the Lord every day. We are to pray without ceasing, to walk with the Lord on a daily basis…

True believers worship the Lord in spirit and in truth (JN 4:23). When we gather together corporately to worship the Lord really isn’t essential to our faith. There are some who make much out of what day we shall worship. Some stress worship on Saturday. We shouldn’t get into disputes with them, but with Christian kindness, we must pursue the things that we all have in common. (ROM 14:1–5)

If some wish to worship on Saturday, fine! If other on Sunday, that’s fine, too! There really isn’t a New Testament biblical mandate one way or the other. As a word of caution to those who insist upon a certain day as better: there are words of rebuke in the New Testament against those who would trouble the Church by seeking to bring believers under bondage to the religious practices of the Old Covenant (GAL 2:4,6). The Church is not under the Old Testament legal system. It’s as simple as that. The Apostle John says it best, “For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (JN 1:17).

How then are we, believers in Messiah, to understand the Sabbath? We have a Sabbath rest and the author of the book of Hebrews has much to say about it. What is that rest? The New Testament describes that rest as a state of being at rest with the Lord, saying “For we who have believed do enter into rest…” (HEB 4:3)

Answer 3

Many parts of the New Testament have Jesus saying it's suddenly OK to work on Saturday. While there is no actual proscription for treating Sunday as the "new" Sabbath, it's generally done that way out of rememberance for his return from the grave being on Sunday. As for Mulims, the closest thing to a Sabbath would be the tradition of Friday prayer differing from that of the rest of the week; however, this is not necessarily to be interpreted as the same thing as "keeping Friday holy" in some different sense.

Answer 4

There is a scriptural basis for calling Sunday the Lord's Day.
Here they are: Acts 20,7; 1 Corinthians 16,2; Colossians 2,16-17; and Revelation 1,10.
These verses indicate that even during New Testament times, the Sabbath is no longer binding and that Christians are to worship on the Lord's Day or Sunday which is also the day Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
Have a grace filled day

Answer 5

In the Acts of the Apostles we read of the celebration of the Eucharist on Sunday. "On the first day of the week, we met to break bread." (Acts 20:7)

But the early Christians did not participate in "the breaking of bread" as a matter of obligation. Their Sunday observance consisted more in keeping the day holy by avoiding sin than in taking part in a religious service or abstaining from physical work. A second-century writer, Justin Martyr (c.100-165) says: "If there is any perjurer or thief among you, let him mend his ways? in this way he will have kept a true and peaceful Sabbath of God."

In 321 Emperor Constantine promulgated laws prohibiting public work on Sunday. From the Council of Laodicea (370) came the first Church law prescribing worship and abstaining from physical work in order to keep the Lord's day holy. The third council of Orleans (538) also dealt with the same subject.

Since the mass is the highest act of homage to God, it naturally became the central act of worship on Sunday. Embodying the tradition of Sunday Mass, the old Code of Canon Law laid down as an obligation incumbent on the faithful that they should attend Mass and abstain from servile work on Sundays and feats of obligation (Can.1248).

God Bless You

Answer 6

Genesis chapter 2 verse 2, it says : Thus the heavens and the earth and all their army came their completion" 2 And by the seventh day God came to the completion of his work that he had made, and he proceeded to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had made. 3 And God proceeded to bless the seventh day and make it sacred, because on it he has been resting from all his work that God has created for the purpose of making. True Christians recognize that all of us were born sinners and that it is only by faith in the sacrifice of Christ that anyone can have righteous standing with God. They endeavor to take to heart and apply all the teachings of God's Son. The humbly accept counsel and reproof from God's Word the Bible. By such a course of life they avoid the " pattern of disobedience " of the Jewish nation.

Answer 7

Saturday
You know, if the Jews don't have everything correct and on the point (as far as Jesus) they do have the Sabbath correct and have kept it.

Answer 8

it may not say Sunday was the sabbath, but it clearly says that WE do NOT judge according to sabbath.

Answer 9

sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
America has it wrong.