If anyone out there can find a text from the bible were it said that the Sabbath day was change from the seventh day of the week to the first day I would be delighted.
2007-02-06 13:09:00 · 10 answers · asked by itzvigirl 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Sabbath was never officially changed.The early Christians did start meeting on a Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection,but they also kept the Sabbath.
"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days"
Romans 14:1-6
2007-02-06 13:19:55 · answer #1 · answered by Serena 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no biblical text changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.
The change came about because the Bishop of Rome, Victor, in the year 196 decided to placate the pagans of Rome who wished to worship Jesus by imposing the Roman custom of worshiping their sun god upon the all of the church. This compelled the church members to observe the Passover upon a Sunday. At some later date, it was decided to call the first day of the week the "Lord's Day".
For some reason, no one has ever changed the day of worship back but the Sabbath is still on the seventh day.
2007-02-06 14:24:56 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The number of days in a week, the names of the days, and the order of the days are all human artefact. While a seven day week is the norm internationlly, some people have different weeks. Parts of west Africa work on a four day week locally.
Some people regard Saturday as the sabbath, others regard Sunday as the sabbath, what does it matter? Don't forget that by the time people in California get to the sabbath, New Zealanders only have six hours of it to go. If there is a god, I doubt s/he would bother about such trifles.
2007-02-06 13:21:35 · answer #3 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sunday is not really the Sabbath. Jesus rose on that day, and his followers would meet on that day to worship after that, so it is often, more appropriately called "The Lords Day"
Since the Bible says that Jesus is our Sabbath rest, we are not bound to keep the seventh day as the Old Testiment believers were,although we are certaily free to rest on that day, or Sunday, or, Thursday.
If a family decides to have special rules limiting their activities on this day set aside for woship, that's a good thing. But, it is not biblically the Sabbath, it is biblically a day Christ rose and the Day the early Christians set aside for fellowship and worship.
2007-02-06 17:26:18 · answer #4 · answered by spit_316 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That law is GONE... It was SET ASIDE.
Ephesians 2:15 Through his body on the cross, Christ put an END to the LAW WITH ALL ITS COMMANDS AND RULES. He wanted to create one new group of people out of the two. He wanted to make peace between them.
Colossians 2:14 He wiped out the written Law with its rules. The Law was against us. It opposed us. He took it away and nailed it to the cross.
Galatians 2:16 ...No one can be made right with God by obeying the law.
Galatians 2:21 ...What if a person could become right with God by obeying the law? Then Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 5:4 Some of you are trying to be made right with God by obeying the law. You have been separated from Christ. You have fallen away from God’s grace... The ONLY verse that talks about falling from grace, and they did it by trying to follow the law!
Jesus said he didn’t come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. (Matt 5:17) The effect was the same. Once fulfilled it was no longer in effect. The very next verse, Matthew 5:18, looks forward to the time when the law would be set aside. "...Not even the smallest stroke of a pen will disappear from the Law UNTIL EVERYTHING IS COMPLETED." IF the law were intended to be permanent, the "UNTIL..." clause would be meaningless.
On the cross, Jesus' last recorded saying, "It is finished," is an important milestone. Because of Jesus life, Satan had been defeated. The law was finished and would no longer stand between God and mankind.
The 10 commandments along with the rest of the law ("commands and rules" from Ephesians 2:15) were "set aside" when they were fulfilled or completed at Jesus' resurrection. We are no longer bound by that law.
WESTCYDR: You mention "sun worship." That is exactly what Tertullian, a Christian who wrote "Ad Nationes" around 200 A.D. (around a century before the SDA's claim it was "changed to Sunday") said that some supposed that "the sun was the god of Christians" because they "make Sunday a day of festivity." http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/tertullian06.html Chapter XIII
2007-02-06 13:18:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember Jesus resurection was on Sunday, plus he said, that if a ship goes in a well that does not mean you will not run to save it only cause is saturday? He also said if you have ox and only cause is sabbath you will not stop feeding them. Its about theology. So in the Old testament was Sabbath in the new testamet is sunday the day Jesus Christ resurrect
2007-02-06 13:16:26 · answer #6 · answered by F. G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no verse in the Bible that mentions that change. It was the Roman Catholic Church that changed the Sabbath to the first day of the week.
2007-02-06 14:02:54 · answer #7 · answered by they're savages 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that the Sabbath refers to a particular day of the week. Hours, days, weeks ... they are all our measurments for time, not God's. As long as we take one of our days out of our week and dedicate it solely to worship, I don't think it matters.
2007-02-06 13:15:58 · answer #8 · answered by ◦Delylah◦ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This happened to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.
2007-02-06 13:18:16 · answer #9 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a day of Sun worship...
2007-02-06 13:15:31 · answer #10 · answered by XX 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋