For Christians who Observe and Remember the Sabbath, how do you fulfill these commandments?

Answer 1

I used to be a Christian, and my family still is. My Dad has a business, but he never opens on Sunday. Although according to the Bible, Saturday is the Sabbath, as you know, Christians have come to treat Sunday as the "Sabbath."

When I was a Christian, I would get all my homework done before Sunday so that I would not have to do it then. I would spend time reading the Bible and listening to sermons on tape. I attended church. That's how I observed Sunday.

Later, I came to be aware that Sunday is not the Sabbath, and I became concerned to move my observance to Saturday.

The truth of the matter is that the early Christians were mostly Jews, and they had not yet split apart from their Jewish brethren and they therefore would observe the Sabbath on Saturday, like all the other Jews. Then, they would meet with their Christian friends on Sunday to share a meal.

When Christianity became a mostly Gentile movement, the Sabbath observance was not kept up, because of course, Gentiles never observed the Sabbath - and St. Paul did not require them to. But the Sunday meeting WAS kept up.

Later, people started to think of Sunday as somehow fulfilling the commandment to keep the Sabbath. But in actuality, the Sabbath is one of those laws that Paul was very clear did not need to be kept by Gentile Christians. Paul only stressed upholding the ethical laws, and not those ritual laws which make the Jews distinctive as a people.

A later "Pauline" author wrote Colossians (this has been attributed to Paul, but most scholars believe that Paul himself did not write it).
Check out this verse from Colossians 2:16-17:
"Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ."

See, there were "Judaizers" among the Gentile Christian communities claiming that Christians must follow all the Jewish laws, and they were criticizing them for not keeping the Sabbath. But Colossians says pay no mind to them.

By the way, I think Sabbath observance is great, and in line with the Bible - but Christian theology cannot really support Sabbath observance, because of the verses I just mentioned, and so on.

Answer 2

You don't work on the Sabbath, which by the way is Saturday not Sunday.

Answer 3

Christians are not bound by the Fourth Commandment. Any who say otherwise are ignorant of the Law of Messiah.

Answer 4

Gosh, I must be loosing it, I don't remember the Sabbath. Is that when everybody gets that black smeared on their heads ? Or is it when we eat the corned beef and cabbage ?

Answer 5

No work, go to Holy Mass, pray, spend time with family.

Answer 6

I worship on the first day of the week.

Answer 7

I remember the Alamo