How do we know which day is really the sabbath?
2007-05-08 07:47:45 · 6 answers · asked by down4christ_girl 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Sabbath day is on Saturday.
The Catholic Church teaches how the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the first day of the week (Sunday) replaces the Sabbath as the day of ceremonial observance of the Commandment to keep the Lord's Day holy.
Here is the link: http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt1art3.htm
The Catholic Church follows the teaching and practice of the Apostles. In the 20th chapter of the Act of the Apostles, the church in Troas gathered on the first day of the week, Sunday.
The first Christians were Jews. They went to temple or synagogue on the Sabbath (Saturday) with fellow Jews.
Then they gathered on the first day of the week, the day on which Jesus rose from the dead (Sunday), with fellow Christians to tell stories of Jesus and share Eucharist. See Acts 20:7.
Later Gentiles joined Christianity. The Apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, decided that the Gentiles did not have to covert to Judaism. Therefore, they only attended on Sundays and did not have to abide by Jewish dietary laws.
This has been the practice ever since.
With love in Christ.
2007-05-11 18:46:22 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
But which day of the week is the Sabbath?
The seventh day of the week (Saturday) is the Sabbath.
"The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God." Exodus 20:10. "And when the sabbath was past, ...very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre." Mark 16:1, 2.
The Sabbath is not the first day of the week (Sunday), as many believe, but the seventh day (Saturday). Notice from the above Scripture that the Sabbath is the day that comes just before the first day of the week.
Who made the Sabbath and when?
God made the Sabbath at the time of Creation.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it." Genesis 1:1; 2:2, 3.
God made the Sabbath at the time of Creation, when He made the world. He rested on the Sabbath and blessed and sanctified it (set it apart for a holy use).
2007-05-08 08:01:49 · answer #2 · answered by Eric T 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Great question!!
Over 120 of the major dialects of languages, including spanish, use the word "sabbath" in thier respective language to identify the seventh day of the week, which we call Saturday. The Jewish to this day still keep the same day that we call Saturday regardless of thier individual stance on Jesus Christ. Every calendar change involved a change in the days of the month, and didn't change the cycle of days. It's a historical fact.
2007-05-11 22:37:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The day is different depending on the religion you practice. For Jewish people is Friday, Seventh Day Adventist it is Saturday, for many Christians it is Sunday. Then of course if you are wiccan you have 8 sabbaths throughout the year.
2007-05-08 09:11:22 · answer #4 · answered by Nelly 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The sabbath is sundown Friday until sundown Saturday.
The jews have been keeping the sabbath for thousands of years.
2007-05-08 07:56:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Being a judaic christian muslim, I refuse to work Friday/saturday/sunday
2007-05-08 08:18:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋