Sabbath day?

Question

My wife's family are seventh-day adventists and hold that the only sabbath day is saturday. I disagree with them because I feel yu can worship anyday you want. The followers of Christ broke bread and had sermons on sundays. What do you think?

Answer 1

They are free to do as they please, however:
"Allow no one therefore to be your judge in regard to eating or drinking, or the observance of a festival, or a new moon or a Sabbath.
These are shadows of thing to follow, but the body is Christ." (Colossians 2:16,17)

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.

The Didache

"But every Lord’s day . . . gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned" (Didache 14 [A.D. 70]).

The Letter of Barnabas

"We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead" (Letter of Barnabas 15:6–8 [A.D. 74]).

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 3

The problem is with the definition of "Sabbath" day. It means literally, the seventh day, and was the day of rest. Sunday does not replace the sabbath day. It is something else.
However, the epistle to the Hebrews teaches us that by comoing into Christ, we have already come in to our sabbath, thus it is completed for us in Christ. We are no longer under that law. as the same epistle teaches us, these things were a "shadow of things to come". Christ is the completion.
So as Christians we on longer stop everything on the sabbath. It no longer applies. However the physical need for one day in seven still is very real. The believers in the New Testament met on the first day of the week (Sunday) - it seems it was in remembrance of the day of resurrection, signifying a new start. We can follow that example.
While the day of the week on which the church meets to worship does not seem all that important, I am concerned about the 7th Day Adventists felt need to be obeying the Old Testament laws that were actually accoomplished in Christ. They need to learn the new principle of grace.

Answer 4

On an online game I used to play, I had a seventh-day adventist friend and we talked about this as well. It does say flat out to keep the sabbath day holy, and that it is the last day of the week (which is our Saturday). But who is to say that our Saturday is the last day of the week. I thought until about 4th grade that Sunday was the last day of the week and Monday was the first day of the week. As long as we choose one day a week, does it matter which it is?

Answer 5

Jesus asked one of the Pharasees if he would pull out a cow or bull that fell into a well on the Sabbath. They could not give him an answer.

Jesus asked if it was allowed to cure a person on the Sabbath, they could not give him an answer.

God said after working 6 days take a day of rest. That's sufficient.

Is it wrong to be here and Y/A and ask or answer questions on the Sabbath?

Answer 6

I think that being a Christian makes EVERYDAY the Sabbath. Sunday is the Lord's day, they day we gather in worship and then we rest.

the SDA's have a few problems, being hung up on the Saturday Sabbath is just a distraction from their real problems.

Answer 7

They broke bread every day - that's what they called eating. They didn't have sermons on Sunday's either. You should study it out more and pray about it. What you think, they think or I think doesn't matter...what the Bible says and what God thinks does.