Is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday?

Question

and WHy?

Answer 1

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 2

The Sabbath is Saturday. The word sabbath comes from the Hebrew word shabbat, which means Saturday.

In Spanish, "Saturday" is sabado (the Sabbath day) and Sunday is domingo (the Lord's day).

Answer 3

The Sabbath is Saturday,"and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;and rested on the seventh day", Genesis 1:1;2:2;3. Technically Sunday is the first day of the week. The Sabbath is a day for praising God and becoming acquainted with him. Christians use Sunday as the Sabbath because that was the day Jesus resurrected.

Answer 4

just to set a few posters straight:

Sabado in Spanish means EXACTLY Shabbat. Direct from Hebrew to Latin, no stopover in Greek. Same in Portuguese, Latin, Russian. Greek Sambaton (notice the slurring' of the pure B to a mB sound, very typical consonant shift) From Greek you get into the Latin Samedi and Germanic Sambstag.


The word comes from the Hebrew root "to sit or rest", and it is also the number Sheva Hbr. or Eng SEVEN (= sieben, GR , notice the slurring from German b to English bV), same as the German Leben - Eng Life and Germ Leib = Eng Loaf (of bread)

So from a linguistic as well as historical point of view, I'd say it's hands down that the Sabbath is "Saturday".

Now as to who worships what when, well that is a matter for another posting. But in this posting, be clear, the words mean what they mean and they tell their own story.

Answer 5

That is a highly charged question ..

You get a different answer from:

7 day Adventists
Catholics
Jews
Muslims

Answer 6

sabado doesn't mean sabbath!!