is the sabbath really on a saturday and not sunday?

Question

i heard this before but never verified it. Can anyone tell me where to find this. Please, no comments about religion or such. I'm just asking for what day it is supposed to be.

Answer 1

The Sabbath begins at 6:00 PM (or sundown) on Friday evening, and lasts until 6:00 PM (or sundown) on Saturday.
This is still strictly observed (for the most part) in Jerusalem, and much of Israel.
Christians observe Sundays as a sabbath day of rest, but this is mere tradition.
Either way, Christians are not under compulsion:
"Therefore let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day - things which are a mere shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ." (Colossians 2:16,17)

Answer 2

It is not actually possible to answer this without commenting about religion, as sabbath is a matter of belief and dogma.

Its designation for when it occurs and how it is observed vary, again, as a matter of belief, doctrine and dogma. For some, Sabbath is Friday sundown to Saturday sundown; others observe it as Sunday, some as Saturday, some as other "day of rest" or religious observation.

Any answer which states definitively, "this is the Sabbath" is an answer made from within a particular subjective religious worldview. So - if you are a believer within a particular denomination or community - ask your religious teachers.

Fighting and quibbling about what day is the Sabbath is sad, shameful, and hilarious. Don't we all have more important concerns?

Answer 3

Jesus appeared on SUnday after the resurection, and on the next SUnday a week later the Holy Spirit came on a sunday at Pentacost
Communioon was served at a service on Sunday when Euticus fell out of the window
the collection was on SUnday
the last book of the Bible was given on Sunday

I don't think it was merely a Catholic invention and I don't think it is an essential belief and there is room for disagreement

in any case Sunday is the Lord's day, in some ways like a Sabath... not exactly.. in some ways faith in Jesus is the ultimate rest and Sabbath

Answer 4

The Jewish Sabbath starts on Friday evening and ends Saturday evening. Some of the current churches celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday. Most for some reason chose to do Sunday. I can't see that it makes much difference as long as there is one day chosen as the primary day of worship.

Answer 5

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]).


Ignatius of Antioch



"[T]hose who were brought up in the ancient order of things [i.e. Jews] have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord’s day, on which also our life has sprung up again by him and by his death" (Letter to the Magnesians 8 [A.D. 110]).


Justin Martyr



"[W]e too would observe the fleshly circumcision, and the Sabbaths, and in short all the feasts, if we did not know for what reason they were enjoined [on] you—namely, on account of your transgressions and the hardness of your heart. . . . [H]ow is it, Trypho, that we would not observe those rites which do not harm us—I speak of fleshly circumcision and Sabbaths and feasts? . . . God enjoined you to keep the Sabbath, and imposed on you other precepts for a sign, as I have already said, on account of your unrighteousness and that of your fathers . . ." (Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 18, 21 [A.D. 155]).

"But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead" (First Apology 67 [A.D. 155]).

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 6

Hello in Gen.2:1-3 the seventh day was set apart as blessed, hallowed, sanctified [set apart] and its the ONLY thing in the whole bible that has all there of those things, in the begining in Gen. chapter one it says evening and morning were the first day, evening and morning were the second day, sundown to sundown is the sabbath NOT the midnight to midnight thing and by the way 24 hours for the first day of creation, and in Rev.14:6,7 God's final message to mankind is a call to worship the Creator which the sabbath points too, also Rev 4:11 the basis of all worship it the fact God created us. In Eph.3:9 Jesus was that active agent in creation, in Exodus 20:8-11 we worship Him as creator by keeping that time holy, Mark 2:27-28 The sabbath was given to the human race 2300 years before the existence of the Jews as a memorial of all mankind, Luke 4:16 says Jesus Himself was a faithfull sabbath keeper, more questions bible lessons free www.amazingfacts.org OR www.itiswritten.com talk to me also [e-mail] God bless

Answer 7

The ancient Jews observed a Saturday sabbath.

The Christian Church moved the sabbath to Sunday, in honor of Jesus and his resurrection from the dead.

Some Christians still believe in doing things the old way, even though the old laws no longer apply.

Go figure!

Answer 8

Neither or both. Catholics can keep the Sabbath holy by attending mass on Saturday afternoon or on Sunday morning, afternoon, or evening. Sabbath isn't about a day but about a feeling...about worship. People love to get too engrossed about what really doesn't matter.

Answer 9

The Sabbath is Saturday. This is the Jewish holy day. Christians-who are not Jews-and do not keep the law- meet on Resurrection day, which is Sunday. This has always been the case. Sunday is not the Sabbath, and Christians are not Jews.
The Seventh Day Adventist, a pseudo-Christian cult, attempt to place Christians back under the law. They are wrong and always have been. They are a cult.

Answer 10

According to Judaism it is Saturday. In The Old Testament, which btw Jews don't call it (The Torah), it is clearly stated that G-d created the world in 6 days and on the 7th (Saturday) He rested, which is what we commemorate on the Sabbath. Later on in the Torah we are commanded to keep the 7th day- Saturday- as the Sabbath, or in Hebrew, Shabbat.
Christians changed the day later on