why did people change the Sabbath?(from Saturday to Sunday?

Question

In Ex 20: the 4th commandment says that you shall work 6 days and keep the 7th day holy

Answer 1

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 2

As far as I know the Sabbath has always begun on Friday night at sundown and end Saturday night at sundown.. So who changed it? No the Lord's day is different. Most Christian churches , as a memorial, meet and hold services on Sunday. so where is the commandment to worship only on the Sabbath? I thought it was Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy? It's a day of rest.. That's what I do on the Sabbath.. I never thought getting ready and heading out to church was that restful... You better make sure you know the difference between the two days.... Jim

Answer 3

Constaintine's quorum decided to make all Christian holidays conform as much as possible to Sunday, the day Jesus rose from the dead.

Many still hold with Friday night to Saturday night.

JESUS, however, did work on the Sabbath. He healed on the Sabbath.

Do you think Doctors who are religious should let people rot and die on the Sabbath day?

Jesus asked that question of the Pharasee and he did not answer.

Well, do you! Should Doctors say, CALL ME TOMORROW today is the Sabbath I can't defiblirate you on this day.

Answer 4

Amen. The change should never have occurred. What a mess!

Read the Catholic Catechism. You will see that the Catholic church actually admits, by its own authority, that the change occurred. NOT by a single verse in the Bible!!!

Acts 13:42  ¶And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
43  Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
44  And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

GOD bless

Answer 5

First, I am no scholar, but I think we're all sort of missing the point here. Everything revolves around the Old, not the New Testament, as that was what Jesus was preaching with the Gospel of the Kingdom of God (not the Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus). The New Testament writings are the witness of Jesus and the Apostles teaching the application of the old testament and how Jesus restored it to His Father's original spiritual intent, and, in fact, raised the bar (which the physical nation of Israel did not get). It's not the "Jewish" calendar, by the way, it's God's. Read Leviticus 23 as He commands HIS festivals, not those of the Jewish nation.

Also, Jesus did say that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. The Greek word tranlated "man" in that verse means "human being", not Jewish man or the nation of Israel.

One last note. Too many people "pick and choose" the verses to "support" their theories of what God really meant. Why not just throw everything out the window (now THAT'S humbling) and let God speak to you. God does not contradict Himself...ever. That means that the Son cannot contradict the Father...ever. Example: Isaiah 66:22-23 states "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before Me saith the LORD."

The "new heaven" and "new earth" referred to are after the 2nd coming of Christ. That only happens one time in the Bible, folks. How can all flesh worship God from "one sabbath to another" if the Sabbath has been abolished? That being said...

1. The BIBLE gives no indication of any change of the Sabbath from the 7th day to the 1st.
2. Jesus was CRUCIFIED on a Wednesday (it was the Passover, daytime period which started the night before at sunset), not a Friday, as most of modern Christianity has gotten wrong (they assume Sabbath, so they assume Friday, because no one studies God's calendar any more). That day, the 14th of Abib (Jesus was, after all, Jewish in the flesh) ended at sunset, which started the week-long Feast of Unleavened Bread (the 15th on the Jewish calendar). The religious leaders wanted the bodies off the crosses before sunset because the first day of the week long feast was a SABBATH (a high day, as was the last day). This is still on Wednesday.
3. Jesus Christ, Himself, stated that the only sign he would give would be that of Jonah. As Jonah was in the belly of the fish for 3 days and 3 nights (look up the Hebrew in a concordance -- that's 3 literal days/nights or 72 hours), He would be in the tomb for the same period of time

That means 72 hours from just before sunset on Wednesday...when God, as Jesus was, said 3 days/nights, He meant exactly that. That brings us to just before sunset on SATURDAY.

This whole "Christian" concept of a Sunday resurrection just doesn't wash with the Word of God, of Jesus Christ himself. Go back and read it...do NOT take my word or anyone else's, for that matter, for it.

I am a child of God and I've had to do some pretty humbling repenting to God for having been deceived by satan, man, the so-called "church" and so on. I know that noone is doing it all right, and noone ever will. But let's at least all agree that man's interpretation has taken us off the true path and we would all do well to get back to the Word (and nothing but the Word).

Answer 6

This held true until Christ arose into heaven and HIS Followers baptized about 5,000 at Pentecost in Acts 2. We are told later, by the Apostle Paul that we are to meet on the First Day of the Week to Break Bread and to Give as we have been prospered. The Tithing went out the window too. The Sacrifices are no longer necessary as Christ is our Sacrificial Lamb who gave HIMSELF in our stead. The Sabbath is no longer to be worshipped, the First Day of the week takes it's place. Have a great weekend and a wonderful LORD's DAY!
Thanks,
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Mary,
I do not find this referenced in the Bible and I do not believe that it is true. You may be right but I certainly want to see it in PRINT!! I think that if this was the case that GOD would have told us so.
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Exodus 2,
The Catholics are not in charge of the BIBLE and never have been. Paul instructed the Churches in many things. Among them are the instructions that I gave above.
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Answer 7

God's resting on the seventh day was presented to the Jewish people as a congruent reason for keeping a day of the week holy. But now there was a cogent reason for keeping the Sabbath holy when Christ rose from the dead, which was the apex and the most convincing proof of the divine origin of his messianic mission.

But this event, the resurrection, took place not on the seventh day but on the eighth, that is, the first day of the Jewish week, which corresponds to our Sunday." After the Sabbath, and towards dawn on the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to visit the sepulchre." (Matthew 28:1. Cf also Mark 16:1-2; Luke 24:1; John 20:1).

The first day of the week therefore assumed a very special significance for the new dispensation, for the followers of Christ. They saw in the resurrection, greater reason to keep the first day if the week holy than the reason for keeping the seventh day holy. The first day of the Jewish week thus became the new, 'Lord's day' of the Christians. (Apoc. 1:10).

That is why, assemblies were held in the early Church were held on the first day of the week (our Sunday). "On the first day of the week we met to break bread." (Acts 20:7). "Every first day of the week, each of you must put aside what he can afford, so that collections need not be made after I have come." (1 Cor. 16:2).

May God bless you

Answer 8

The Sabbath is still on Saturday, it has not been changed. Christians worship on Sunday because that is the day that Christ rose from the grave, but it is not the Jewish Sabbath. Jews have always worshiped on Saturday.
Where do you get that it has been changed?

Answer 9

The early Christians would observe the Sabbath on Saturday and attend Temple or synagogue. On Sunday they observed the Eucharist. While at the Temple or synagogue, they would talk about Jesus. This upset the Jewish leaders who told them to choose either Jesus or the Jewish faith. They choose Jesus.
When the non-Jews (Gentiles) started to join and they had no Jewish background, they would worship on Sunday. Eventually Sunday won out since that was the day Jesus rose from the dead.

Answer 10

They didn't change the Sabbath day. It has always been Saturday. What Christians believe is that the Sabbath law was pointing to the rest that Christians receive in Christ and so we celebrate the Lord's day on Sunday when He was raised from the dead.

Colossians 2:11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. 16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

Hebrews 4:9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.