What does the term "sabbath day" mean to you?

Question

Do you keep the sabbath day holy? What does keeping that day holy mean to you? I like to hear other peoples opinions.

Answer 1

To rest in God, keep your heart and mind on him..........

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 Sabbatists who nowadays want to observe the Jewish holiday, forget that Jesus and the apostles had authority to interpret and to reform the laws of Moses.

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 CENTURY 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

Even if life gets in the way and you're too distracted and maybe neglect spiritual development in the hurly burly of existance, the Sabbath is an oppourtunity to remember it and act appropriatley.

Fortunatley, I'm lucky enough to be able to put directed effort into my belief most every day, and I don't observe Sabbath, but I often consider changing my habits and fasting and doing extra reading on the Sabbath.

As a concept, the term 'Sabbath' is applied to similar days in many varied religions, even if it's translated from a very different word.

Answer 4

The sabbath day in the Old and New testament was Saturday

Answer 5

sabbath means literally "rest", and it refers to the "seventh".
saturday comes from "saturn", the seventh planet, in spanish, saturday is sabado - sabbath.

I dislike that so-called christendom has made sunday the sabbath, in that sunday is the FIRST day of the week, not the seventh.

Romans 14
4. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
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. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

I give one day a week to God, but not always Saturday or Sunday.

Answer 6

I always believed that Saturday was the sabbath.It was the day God rested.But no one agreed with me.God just wants a day for people to rest and renew their relationship with Him.I love Sunday service at church.We spend time with God in praise and worship,reading the word,learning.It is a time of fellowship with God .
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Answer 7

SABBATH (săb’ath, Heb. shabbāth, Gr. Sabbaton, to desist, cease, rest). The weekly day of rest and worship of the Jews.

Answer 8

NOTHING......the sabbath day in in concordance with the mosaciac law.....REMEMBER: jesus fulilled the law.....in on of his parables when he healed the blind man on what was said to be the sabbath.......if your ox or *** were to fall in a ditch on the sabbath...would you not get him out? We know that if an ox were to fall in ditch, it would be hard work EVEN on the "sabbath"

Answer 9

i think it's a day to go to church, and spend time with family.
I don't think that a person should do unnecessary work, also.

Answer 10

It seems to mean making sure that no one, regardless of faith, can buy booze until Monday at 7 am.