If God's law says to obey the Sabbath (Exodus 20: 8-11), why do Christians keep Sunday?

Answer 1

Good question, Tish, you have obviously been reading your Bible.
There is an On-line publication: (see link in Source) where the Catholic Church meticulously explains the fallacy of Sunday worship and belittles Protestants for observing “their” Sunday. Why? Because they changed God’s law over 1,000 years before the Reformers gleaned forgotten scriptural truths.
What they do not tell you is Bible prophecy says a "man of sin" will change the law concerning time (Daniel 7:25). History bears this truth as the early church in Rome initially kept both Saturday and Sunday to avoid being stigmatized as rebellious Jews (“Claudius [Caesar] had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome”—Acts 18:2). Later at the First Nicene Council, the Church dropped Saturday and legalized Sunday sacredness, calling it the “Lord's Day.”
They said: "All things that the Bible commands to do on the Sabbath, these we have changed to the ‘Lord's Day’ [Sunday]” (Eusebius, commentary on the Psalms, in Migne, patrologia Graeca, Vol. 23, COLS. 1171, 1172). Perhaps you did not know this insult on God’’s integrity—puny, fallen man changed His law.

The Koran also endorses keeping the commandments—Good works--that is how one enters the Kingdom according to Muhammed—and it frequently mentions the Sabbath; unfortunately, they, have also deviated from God's sacred day for a human “Friday.” The writings of the Bible prophets, which they profess to believe says Saturday will be kept throughout eternity, see Isaiah 66: 22-24: “From Sabbath to Sabbath shall all mankind come and worship before me says the Lord. “

The last verse of Isaiah 66 says: They will look upon the corpses of those who transgress against God. Yes, it is a sin to break or change God's law and "pay day" is coming for all liars (see Revelation 22: 14,15). You see, good works will not get anyone into heaven, but by God’s grace, Angels and men love serving their beloved Commander.

SUNDAY WAS ACTUALLY “NAILED TO THE CROSS” -- In the epistles of Paul and Luke, they only mention Sunday (first day) one time each in about thirty years of church history. It was not a sacred day for them, nor did the early church observe it.
Concerning Sunday sacredness, in the Old Testament, Firstfruits was to be kept on the "day after the Sabbath (Sunday)" (Leviticus 23:15, etc) as was Pentecost, seven Sundays later. In other words, THE SUNDAY RESURRECTION AND PENTACOST EXPERIENCE WERE PREVIOUSLY TYPIFIED IN THE OLD TEATAMENT. Therefore, literally fulfilling on Sunday, those symbolic Sabbath days" are…. Yes, Sunday was NAILED TO THE CROSS" (Colossians 2:14). Did you catch that? There is no such thing as a holy resurrection Sunday, weekly Pentecost Sunday, or Easter assembly. IT IS JUST NOT IN THE BIBLE, only in the minds of nostalgic Christians. Sunday Christians also use the following Bible texts in a vain attempt to prove Sunday sacredness.

Carefully read Acts 20, it lists another misunderstood event when nine disciples were at a Saturday-evening-meeting at Troas.
In the Bible, Luke used Jewish reckoning of “first day” at sunsets, not the pagan-Rome midnight to start days (an “evening” example is Luke 23:54-56). Before midnight (actually our Saturday evening) eight “evangelists (verse four)” including Luke, left by boat for Assos. That means they did not desecrate the Sabbath, but sailed about 100 miles around a peninsula after sundown Saturday—and Paul finished his sermon at midnight (the beginning of Sunday) then talked until sunrise and he walked all day to Assos Sunday morning, about 24 miles--hardly a sacred-Sunday church service with the evangelistic team boating and Paul hiking all day; yes, they were guarding the Sabbath’s sacredness in those texts.

The other misused text is 1 Corinthians 16 where, in over 30 years of Paul’s writings, he mentions “Sunday” once. This is in a letter written about four years after he preached and established that Corinth church ( Acts 16:13 recalls that he had preached on Sabbaths there when founding that church).
Later he planned to visit Corinth and sent this epistle ahead by courier. He knew that letter would be read on the Lord’s Day (Saturday--Matthew 12:8: "For the Son of man [Jesus] is Lord even of the Sabbath day"). And like today in churches keeping the Sabbath sacred, and when work is needed, Paul told them to collect their offering "by himself" (alone) on Sunday. That is a good time to go to your grainy, storage shed, bank, etc, and PREPARE an offering for next Sabbath. Paul was safeguarding the Sabbath's sacredness in 1 Cor 16: 1-3, and like those who now observe Saturday, they schedule Sunday work for after sundown on Saturday evening. Yes, Paul did not make void the least of Jesus' Father's commandments as Jesus prohibited (See Matthew 5: 19)—he was guarding the Sabbath commandments from desecration.

Early historical references of Sunday observance are quoted by “first-dayers” to support Sunday sacredness , but they are from "compromisers" from the two Roman Empire capitols, Alexandria and Rome.—Yes, perversion of God’s commandments is historically documented. Sadly, intimidation also leads many to transgress the Sabbath today—they do not like to be considered “Jewish”, but it was, like the marriage ceremony, established at creation (Genesis 2:2,3) about 2,000 years before Abram, the first Jew. More on this in the last day Bible code published Online at www.revelado.org/revealed.htm
It shows the “key” to open that “code” in the only part of the Bible that says: "these words are sealed until the end of the days." You will be amazed!!!

Blessings and peace in Jesus, One-Way

Answer 2

If you look back in History the Jewish and Gentiles both worshiped on the Sabbath from Friday at dusk to Saturday at dusk. When the church started-- first forming-- they set aside a day to gather things that were set aside for the Lord and this was Sunday now known as The Lord's Day. It is not the synagogue's day. I am not sure of all the factors that have lead to this, but we do know that there were persecutions and the the two groups fought. They must have given up on each other or formed lines of acceptance and rejection. We don't meet with them anymore. A scholar friend of mine told me that in the OT times contracts often had the essential part of the contract in the middle. And anyone reading the contract would scan to the middle to see if these terms were fulfilled.
He explained it in legal terms of the times. He sited a certain section in the Hebrew and the text on the Sabbath were about equidistant from both ends. He also believed that the following the Sabbath was the essence of the contract and now it has been fulfilled and is not needed any more.
I think that it will not serve as a work for us but It will please God if we worship with the proper understanding of Grace and Law. On the last day of the week with rest.

Answer 3

The question is "What is the sabbath"? Most people do not know their Bibles well enough to even know what a sabbath is. Most think the sabbath is Saturday. Wrong! A sabbath is a rest.There were many sabbaths in the Bible, one of which was the Jewish "Saturday", but the were many other sabbaths such as at hoildays, and festivals, and a few others that took place throughout the week. Holidays such as passover always started with a sabbath regardless of what day of the week it was. So Christians also take one day a week to rest in or with God, and we start counting fromt he beginning of the church and very seven days have a rest in God. The church started on sunday, the first day of the week. The jews numbered from the first day of passover in Egypt.
Exodus 12:1 Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 "This month shall be the beginning of months FOR YOU; it is to be the first month of the year TO YOU. The church started on pentacost, which was 50 days after Passover, (7 weeks plus one day) Sunday.

Answer 4

Because the apostle Paul said that under the New Testament, we could meet on any day that we wanted to (Romans 14:5-8; Col. 2:15). Since Jesus rose on the first day of the week, and since the book of Acts has Paul meeting for worship on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7), so do we.

Besides, Saturday is not really the Mosaic sabbath anyway. The Romans go by a solar calendar, and the Jews go by a lunar calendar, so the Western Saturday and the Jewish Sabbath don't always match up.

Answer 5

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 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 6

I don't know Sunday is a Pagan day of Sun Worship not the sabbath which was Saturday in which the Lord God said remember this day and keep it holy. I don't recall the Bible saying pick a day to worship and we will call it the sabbath.

Answer 7

The Sabbath law was a ceremonial law and not a moral law. It was pointing to the rest Christians could find in Christ from trying to be justified by the law. Christians are no longer under the old covenant of the law but under the covenant of grace.

Colossians 2:13 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.

Saturday was and is the day of the Sabbath. Christians go to church on Sunday not to keep the Sabbath but to celebrate Jesus' resurrection from the dead. Sunday is the Lord's day, not the Sabbath.

Answer 8

it doesn't matter what we call the day. The idea of keeping the Sabbath is a kindness God did to all mankind to take time out for rest, relaxation, family & friends. And as a society, we picked Sunday to try and give the most people the day off to keep the Sabbath doing whatever restores them.


It's not the day, it's the practice that is important. Pretty good advice, don't you think?

Answer 9

Colossians 2:16-17 Let no man therefore Judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days, 17: Which are a shadow of things to come. Romans 10:4 Jesus Christ is the END of the LAW. -------1st Cor. 16:1-2 Now concerning the collection for the saints(tithing) as I have given order to the churches of Galatia even so do ye,(This is something Paul said under God's guidance even unto the churches a Galatia & not only at Corinth.) 2: Upon the first day (Sunday) of the week, let every one, (That includes Everyone) lay by him in store(Church) as God hath prosper him------We worship on Sunday because Christ rose from the dead on the 1st day of the week(Sunday).

Answer 10

In Exodus it means to keep the sabbath holy.

Any day can be the sabbath as long as you keep one day a week to God. It is the sacrifice that matters.

Sunday is chosen because in our dispensation it is the day that most have off which is the last off the week- in addition it is symbolic to the last day that God rested.

It is a promise that if you read the book of Mormon God will manifest the truth of the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints through the manifestation of his holy spirt.

Then that will give you solid guidlines to follow as apose to trying to figure why and what. You will have some guidance.

Good luck and god bless
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Answer 11

Christ said the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

In other words, the point is to set aside time to rest and reflectand pray--which day that is isn't the point. By custom Christians set aside Sunday because that's the day of the week Christ rose.