historical origin of church on sundays.?

Question

What is the historical origin of having church services on Sunday? I dont think sunday is any different than any other day, and my bible says, "some dont esteem one day over another"... since everyday is God's day?
signed, the Non-Sunday-Stickler

Answer 1

The origin of Sunday; lots of references in this link below.
http://family.webshots.com/photo/2185524020049373547ccPExi

Sunday is different; if you have ever looked it up--you would know that it came from paganism. (Pagan means no religious beliefs; in the 1984 New Concise Webster's Dictionary--Pagan defined : "A heathen; one having no religious beliefs")
Satan's counterfeit Christianity
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw/booklets/tw-bk.cgi?category=Booklets1&item=1140203084
Why would you worship the pagan sun god
http://www.come2jesus.info/sunday.htm
http://www.albatrus.org/english/festivals/easter/pagan_origin_of_easter.htm
http://www.masters-table.org/pagan/sun2.htm
http://www.thercg.org/bics/rcgbic-022.html
instead of God's actual sabbath(2Pet.2:21; 1Jn.2:3-4) which is Saturday (4th commandment) that Jesus(Col.2:6; 1Pet.2:21) kept?
http://family.webshots.com/photo/1274818011049373547UFMpwB
The Bible commands Saturday as a day of worship; look at these:
Heb.3:18-19
18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Heb.4:1-13
1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Rev.14:7 points back to the 4th commandment in Exodus 20:8-11 which is the seal of God (ref. Rev.7:2-3)=
Rev.14:7 = "Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."
Which Day is the Christian Sabbath?
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw/booklets/tw-bk.cgi?category=Booklets1&item=1104414149

DANIEL 7:25 tells us "HE SHALL SPEAK GREAT WORDS AGAINST THE MOST HIGH, AND SHALL WEAR OUT THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH, AND THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS..."

ROM.1:25 = "WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE, AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOR EVER. AMEN."

Evidence: (Catholics know when the seventh day is)
"1. Is Saturday the 7th day occording to the Bible & the 10 Commandments.
"I answer yes.
"2. Is Sunday the first day of the week & did the Church change the 7th day--Saturday---for Sunday, the 1st. day:
"I answer yes.
"3. Did Christ change the day
"I anser no! Faithfully yours,
"J. Card. Gibbons"
--Gibbon's Autograph letter.
"Ques.--Which is the Sabbath day?
"Ans.--Saturday is the Sabbath day.
"Ques.--Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
"Ans.--We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."--Peter Geiermann, The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1946 ed.), p.50. Geiermann received the "apostolic blessing" of Pope Pius x on his labors, Jan.25,1910.
Bible Readings pg.194.

"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act...And the act is a Mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things." ---H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons.

{Note: Catholics even changed the time you do the Sabbath too. They say "midnight to midnight"; when the Bible says "evening to evening" according to Genesis 1:5,8,13,19,23,31 and Lev.23:32.}

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TEN COMMANDMENTS IN OLD TESTAMENT
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath. or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation that hate Me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep my commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ***, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
----See Exodus 20:1-18

Psalms 89:34 = "I WILL NOT ALTER NOR BREAK THE THING THAT IS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS."

The ten commandments
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw/booklets/tw-bk.cgi?category=Booklets1&item=1104416816
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TEN COMMANDMENTS IN NEW TESTAMENT
1. "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve." = Matt.4:10
2. "Little children, keep yourselves from idols." "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." = 1Jn.5:21; Acts 17:29
3. "That the name of God and His doctrine be not blashemed." = 1Tim.6:1
4. "Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day." "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath." "For He spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all His works." "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is ebntered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His." "For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in the earth." = Matt.24:20; Mark 2:27-28; Heb.4:4,9,10, margin Col.1:16.
5. "Honor thy father and thy mother" = Matt.19:19
6. "Thou shalt not kill." = Rom.13:9
7. "Thou shalt not commit adultery." = Matt.19:18
8. "Thou shalt not steal." = Rom.13:9
9. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" = Rom.13:9
10. "Thou shalt not covet" = Rom.7:7

AFTER JESUS'S DEATH
"Do we then make void thy law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." = Rom.3:31
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AS CHANGED BY THE PAPACY
1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.
(It will be observed that the second commandment as found in the Bible is left out.)
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
3. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
"A Doctrinal catechism," (Catholic) pg.174, has the following question and answer:---
"Q.--Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?"
"A.--Had she not such power...she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority."
4. Honor thy father and thy mother.
5. Thou shalt not kill.
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7. Thou shalt not steal.
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.
----See General Catholic Catechism

"HE SHALL THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND THE LAW."--Dan.7:25. R.V.

"That man of sin...who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." = 2Thess.2:3-4

"IF ANY MAN WORSHIP THE BEAST{Sunday} AND HIS IMAGE{teachings of Catholic Church} AND RECEIVE HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD,{affections} OR IN HIS HAND" {REV:14:9, refraining from labor on THAT DAY}.{See ECCLES.9:10; ROM.7:25.}
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw/booklets/tw-bk.cgi?category=Booklets1&item=1104415262

"The OBSERVANCE of SUNDAY by the Protestants is an HOMAGE THEY PAY in spite of themselves to the AUTHORITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH."
Plain Talk for Protestants, pg.213.

"Ques.--How prove you that the church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
"ANS.--By the very act of changing the sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of, and therefore contradict themselves by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church."
"Ques.--How prove you that?
"Answer.--Because by keeping SUNDAY they ACKNOWLEDGE the CHURCH'S POWER to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin." Douay catechism, page 59.

"The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday to Sunday." Catholic Mirror, Sept., 1893.

"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act...And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things." H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons.

"WE HEREBY AGREE...that such Sabbath (Sunday) observance laws for the District of Columbia MAY BE LOOKED UPON not only as MODEL SABBATH OBSERVANCE LAWS FOR AMERICA, but as model Sabbath observance laws for the REST OF THE WORLD."
Christian Statesman, Sept.,1927.
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See the two babylons by Alexander Hislop
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-&p=two%20babylons%20by%20alexander%20hislop
http://www.lcg.org/cgi-bin/tw/magazine/tw-mag.cgi?category=Magazine30&item=1104251669

The two Babylons in simplest form (pictures)
http://family.webshots.com/photo/2323904630051497771zfKXVS
http://family.webshots.com/photo/2805094620051497771MjqHdb

http://www.remnantofgod.org/flash/acssmenu.html

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Are the characteristics/clues of the Roman Catholic Church found in the Bible?

Does the Papacy fit all these characteristics:
1. Let's see; this church (REV.17:9)"sits on 7 hills" in Rome.
http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&oe=ISO-8859-1&client=pub-6807258685122891&channel=9400434304&cof=FORID:1%3BL:http://www.google.com/intl/en/logos/Logo_50wht.gif%3BLH:74%3BLW:163%3BLBGC:336699%3BLP:1%3BGL:1%3BLC:%230000ff%3BVLC:%23663399%3BGFNT:%230000ff%3BGIMP:%230000ff%3BDIV:%23336699%3BS:http://www.google.com%3B&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=7+hills+where+Rome+sites&spell=1
2. It wears (REV.17:4)"purple and scarlet".
http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&client=pub-6807258685122891&channel=9400434304&cof=FORID%3A1%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen%2Flogos%2FLogo_50wht.gif%3BLH%3A74%3BLW%3A163%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BLP%3A1%3BGL%3A1%3BLC%3A%230000ff%3BVLC%3A%23663399%3BGFNT%3A%230000ff%3BGIMP%3A%230000ff%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%3B&q=purple+and+scarlet+colors+of+Rome&btnG=Search
3. It is a (REV.17:5)"mother church", so it has daughters or other churches following her teachings.
4. It even has casted "all the truth to the ground" = DAN.8:12
5. It will "think to change God's Law" = DAN.7:25
*GENERAL CATHOLIC CATECHISM*
http://www.angelfire.com/sc/YJesusCame/page4.html
http://www.marianland.com/tencommandments/ten_commandments.html
http://www.padfield.com/1993/tencom.html
http://family.webshots.com/photo/1339749760049373547pfqiuM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
http://www.truecatholic.org/baltp2.htm
6. "All the world has followed it" = REV.13:12-15
7. It had a(REV.13:1-3)deadly wound that was healed
*Willis West's Modern History, (p.377).
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Note:
What is wrong with the sabbath?
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw/tw-mag.cgi?category=Magazine29&item=1104249357
In every case people assume Sunday should be the right day; why? Well you get different interpetations. The first one they say is that Jesus's death was Friday and rose Sunday to keep Sunday holy; is this really correct with your Bible? It is not!
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw/tw-mag.cgi?category=Magazine29&item=1104248897

A good foundation (1Tim.6:19) has solid ground evidence. The foundation should include 2Tim.3:16; Isaiah 28:9-10; 2Peter 1:19-21; 1Thess.5:20-21 & Ephes.5:9-10,13. To understand deeply--you must use these websites:
http://www.bbmhp.org/visaids/nt/crucweek.html
http://lcg.org/search/search.php?query=sunday&%24results_per_page=10&search=1

If you read Daniel 9:27; it says "he died in the middle of the week"; that would be Wednesday. This is followed by "3 days & 3 nights" = Matthew 12:40 which equals 1-24hr.day x 3days equals 72hrs. in grave. Next the Bible tells us it would be "after 3days and "not before = Matt.27:63-64 and Mark 8:31. It tells us in three days (John 2:19-21) and not after. The Bible also reminds us a day is 12hrs. not including the night(John 11:9-10). Remember also Gen.1:5 and Lev.23:32 tells us "evening to evening" is considered to be a day.

HEBREW CALENDAR-month of Abib or Nisan (APRIL 31AD)
**JESUS DIED WEDNESDAY APRIL 14, 31AD at 3pm.

Wednesday 14
Lord's Supper--Tues.Even
Put in grave Wed.Even
LEV.23:5--[14TH DAY=PASSOVER]
DAN.9:27--["DIED IN MIDST OF WEEK"]
JOHN 13:1; 18:39--[FEAST OF PASSOVER]
JOHN 19:14,31--[PREPARATION OF PASSOVER; NEXT DAY WAS A SABBATH HIGH DAY]
LUKE 22:13--[PASSOVER]
MATT.27:57--[EVENING CAME AND JOSEPH BEGGED THE BODY OF JESUS]
MARK 14:12; 15:42--[PREPARE TO EAT PASSOVER; THE DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH]]
LUKE 23:54--[SABBATH DREW ON]

Dictionary: Drew=to pull or drag. On=over & in contact with.

Thursday 15
Wed.Even= 1night
Thurs.Even=1day
Annual Sabbath
Feast of Unleavened Bread
NO WORK!
EXODUS 13:3,4,6,7--[NO LEAVENED BREAD; MONTH OF ABIB; ONLY EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD FOR 7 DAYS]
LEVITICUS 23:6-7--[15TH DAY; HOLY CONVOCATION]
MATT.27:63-64--[AFTER 3 DAYS]
**CLUE = MATT.26:5 --[NOT ON THE FEAST DAY]
ISAIAH 66:23

Friday 16
THURS. EVEN= 1 NIGHT
FRIDAY EVEN = 1DAY
PREPARATION DAY
MARK 16:1--[probably Thurs.Even--BOUGHT SPICES AFTER SABBATH]
LUKE 23:56--[PREPARED SPICES BEFORE WEEKLY SABBATH]
**NOTES--YOU HAVE TO BUY BEFORE YOU CAN PREPARE! ALSO IT TAKES ALL DAY TO PREPARE SPICES!

Saturday 17
FRIDAY EVEN=1 NIGHT
SAT.EVEN= JESUS ROSE! = 1 DAY
WEEKLY SABBATH
"SEVENTH DAY"= 7TH DAY
NO WORK!
GEN.2:2
EXOD.20:8-11
LEV.23:3
HEB.3:18-19; 4:1-11
MARK 2:27-28
REV.14:7,12
**NOTES= SABBATH IN ENCYCLOPAEDIA AMERICANA, VOL.24, PP.68-69 AND/OR DICTIONARY.

Sunday 18
SAT.EVEN
SUN.EVEN
"FIRST DAY"= 1ST DAY
GENESIS 1:5
MATT.28:1,6,13
MARK 16:6,9
LUKE 24:1,3,6
JOHN 20:1,19
**NOTE: COULDN'T OF BOUGHT BECAUSE MARY & MARY MAGDALENE WENT TO THE GRAVE AFTER THE SABBATH.
THE NEW AMERICAN ROGET'S COLLEGE THESAURUS--
DAWN=DARK, EVENING, TWILIGHT, ETC.

Now I know this is true because the MAJORITY(Matt.7:13) is always wrong. Also there's many clues that it wasn't a Friday crucifixion and a Sunday resurrection; look at 2Tim.2:18. But you will point out Mark 16:9 which says "Now when Jesus was risen[the perfect tense is correct here--he was already risen] early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene." Now the original Greek didn't have no punctuation. If the King James translators put a comma after the word "risen" and not after "week", this would make complete sense. The Centenary Translation renders it this way: "Now after his resurrection, early on the first day of the week he appeared first to Mary Magdalene
http://family.webshots.com/photo/2504347540049373547CSHBBj

Note: If everyone read the scriptures precisely with God's help then there wouldn't be false interpetations. Just because it might sound that it is right--that doesn't mean it is (talking about Sunday).
Another one they use is Acts 20:7, but if they did the research the disciples broke bread every day; where in this passage it says the change of worship was Sunday--it doesn't. It says "upon the first day of the week"; doesn't it? Now which day is before? Isn't it Saturday? Now look this was a sabbath Saturday evening service that lasted til Sunday. In the Bible; it tells us(Gen.1:5,8,13,19,23,31; Lev.23:32) a day begins when the sun goes down. {Example: before the sun went down it was Saturday; now this was a Saturday service until it became evening inwhich it would be Sunday--the service went into Sunday until midnight. Then at break of day on Sunday (v.11), he departed on his ship(v.13).}
If you looked in the 1984 New Concise Webster's Dictionary; it tells us: Sabbath = "the seventh day of the week, from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday, kept as a day of rest and worship by the Jews."
Now does it say in your Bible in Malachi 3:6 "For I am the Lord, I change not;..." So why in the world would he change the sabbath to Sunday when it tells us in Hebrews that he didn't change his sabbath.

Answer 2

In the Old Testament the law was to "Keep the Sabbath day holy." That's the sixth day of the day week though which would be Saturday. However, Jesus gave us a new covenant in the New Testament and it is no longer expected of us to keep the Sabbath day.

Jesus was crucified on Friday, and rose three days later which is a Sunday. Therefore Christians began gathering on Sundays as a rememberence of that. But like you said, every day should be kept holy. God never gave us a permit to ever not be holy. 98% pure isn't pure enough! (example, would you drink from a bottle of water that said 98% pure spring water, 2% sewer...?)

anyway, hope that helps.

Answer 3

Sunday became the celebrated day of the resurrection so the early church moved the day of worship to that day. The Jews worshipped on the Sabbath which begins at sun down on Friday and ends at sunset the next day. The early church wanted to separate from that practice by moving their worship to Sunday. I agree with you that God's intent was to insure that we set aside a day of rest once a week and the chosen day is of secondary importance. The point is that we are not to forget our Father in Heaven during our 7 day week.

Answer 4

Crystal's answer above is a good one... I might just add to it that the Lord Jesus was the fullfillment of the Sabbath. We as Christians still observe the Sabbath, it's just that it is no longer a day but Jesus himself. In other words our "rest" is in Jesus. That's why Christians aren't required to observe a "Sabbath day". And as many have pointed out, Sunday is based on tradition from the early church and because of the Lord's resurrection.

Answer 5

When we were in Sunday school, we questioned the teacher about the Commandment saying keep the Sabbath, which to the Jews was Saturday. She told us that the Christians used Sunday, because that was the day of the week on which Jesus rose from the dead.

Answer 6

Sunday is the day of Christ's glorious Resurrection. That is why the Apostles declared Sunday the day of Christian worship. They believed that it was more appropriate to celebrate worship on the day of His Resurrection than on the day He lay dead in the tomb, which had been (and still is) the Jewish day of worship.

Answer 7

According to what we see in the Book of Acts 20 : 7 " And on the first day of the week when we gathered together to break bread, Paul conversed with them since he was to go forth on the next day; and he extended his message until midnight.

Paul stayed in Troas for seven days (vs 6) but it was the first day of the week that they gathered together to break bread in rememberance of the Lord. This indicates that the apostles and the church considered the first day of the week ( Lord's day - Rev 1-10. not sunday as we say it ) as the day to meet together for the Lord.
This was the practice of the early church. Still... each day is to live unto the Lord. But this day was just set aside for all the believers to mainly break bread and remember the Lord and for all the believers to share ( each one having a word,song,hymn, tongue) for the building up of the Body of Christ.

Answer 8

Book of Acts. The church met on the "first" day of the week. In biblical times, this was Sunday.

Answer 9

The first Christians started worshipping on Sunday as that was the day of Christ's resurrection. It's tradition.

Answer 10

catholicism is the 1st church and it incorporates the instructions of apostles.. the sabbath of judaism isn't allowed in the christianity.. the christian church says there's no day of resting.. in accordance to the Church.. the social gathering of the final Supper each and every sunday because of the fact it comes from the Bible.

Answer 11

This the Day the Lord sat aside to keep Holy and to rest it states Seventh day keepth Holy