2007-02-10 08:26:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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."
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
2007-02-10 08:31:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The law and the custom of the Jews was to keep GOD's sabbath holy.
How could Paul establish a new day of worship in Acts 20:7 and then say: I believe all thinks written in the law, Acts 24:14 I have not offended the law of the Jews, Acts 25:8 I have comitted nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers. Acts 28:17
Was Paul lying to the Jews?
2013-10-10 12:53:49 · answer #2 · answered by jackie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the important section related to the Sabbath, is that all people, even God, needs to sit down down back. working constantly is undesirable on your physique and soul. So no remember what your faith is, conserving the sabbath as an afternoon of relax is stable for you, no remember what that day is. The seventh day adventist guy is right in what he says, yet he has ignored one factor. while God created the earth and set the sabbath aside as a holy day of relax, the only calenders in existence have been those that God made. this is the moon and the celebrities, "and that i've got made the heavenly bodies so as which you will understand while to reap, while to sow and while to return collectively on your gala's" So early guy in the previous calenders have been invented would have in basic terms had the moon to tell them while the Sabbath became. The moon passes with the aid of each and each quarter in a lunar week, that's fairly longer than a image voltaic week that our calender is in accordance with. each and each precise element of the moon (the recent moon, waxing gibbous, finished moon and waning gibbous) happens approximately 7 days aside (with some hours deviation meaning that it will no longer fall on precisely the comparable day a week via our modern-day calender) simply by fact the paintings of lunar gardening says that those precise ranges are sessions of low means and not acceptable for planting, they're the suited day of relax. they're the lunar sabbath.
2016-09-28 22:30:37 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 20:19-20 "That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly Jesus were standing there among them "Peace be with you" He said."
Where in the Bible does it tell us to go to church on Saturday? Do we have to go to church to keep a day holy?
2007-02-10 08:45:06 · answer #4 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The confusion starts with calling the congregation's building "the church".
In the Bible "the church" is the people. The word used in the NT is "ekklesia" which means the "called out ones".
The passage used to encourage us to meet with other Christians for worship is:
Heb 10:24-25
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
(from New International Version)
As far as meeting on Sunday, this was chosen because Jesus rose on the First day of the week......and we have the freedom to meet whenever we want in order to worship God.
Rom 14:5-6
5 One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord.
(from New International Version)
Acts 20:7
7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.
(from New International Version)
John 20:1-2
20:1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"
(from New International Version)
1 Cor 16:1-2
2 On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
(from New International Version)
2007-02-10 08:44:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They love to use Romans 14, to get you to break the Sabbath Day,
But Romans 14 starts out like this.... 1Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
2For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
3Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
If someone just starts learning of Jesus, and he is weak in Faith, don't force Laws on him. Jesus has received him. But, that doesn't mean, we are to teach him to break God's Commandments. Romans 14, never said, there is no HOLY DAY. The Sabbath Day is A DAY HOLLOWED BY GOD!
BLESSED BY GOD, It is the only day blessed by God. Genesis 2:3 2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
OUT OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, MOST CHRISTIAN THINKS ITS THE LEAST!
Matthew 5:19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
But Jesus warned about Breaking ONE of the Least of the Commandments, It Starts with Remember, Placed in the Middle of 10, and is the Longest! Why or Why will you delete it.
Written with the fingers of God, on Stones, Put in the Ark.
Its is prophesied that the Beast would change the Times and Laws. Read
Daniel 7:25
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The Sabbath day is Both a TIME AND A LAW!
ONE LAST THING...
We worship God EVERYDAY, but one Day STANDS OUT.
A DAY of REST. People don't understand, to Keep the Sabbath Holy is Resting. Observing the Sabbath Day, is Not making others work for you, don't spend money. Go to Church EveryDay if you wish, but Sabbath Day is a Special Day. Go to Church, as not to forsake the Assembly of Yourselves, since you have a Day of REST. REMEMBER YOUR CREATOR, STUDY, TEACH, BE JOYFUL. Receive a Blessing, as it is a blessed day!
2007-02-10 08:57:39 · answer #6 · answered by mornings_sunshine 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For a person to say That The sabbath day is not HOLY then they are calling G-d a liar!!
And they are calling his Son a liar because he said that everything the proceeds from the mouth of G-d That means that 4th commandment.
2007-02-10 08:47:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It does say to keep the Sabbath holy in the Bible. It also says somewhere in the New Testament to not "forsake" assembling together with your fellow Christians.
2007-02-10 08:31:26 · answer #8 · answered by rockinjesusfreak03 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are seeking the truth in a Bible I assume you are Christian.
Christians worship on Sunday as it is the day Christ resurrected. We are not under the law and do not worship God by traditions of man or law but in spirit and truth. We say by faith in the atonement and resurrection we are made new. We accept that Christ has come and the law is fulfilled through him. We are by faith in the Sabbath and have by faith entered God's rest and his kingdom.It is by faith as the world has not ended and we are yet in this world in our sinful flesh having faith that the work that has began will be completed knowing that he who endures to the end will be saved.
2007-02-10 08:37:34 · answer #9 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hebrews 10:25 - Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
2007-02-10 08:41:37 · answer #10 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋