To the Seventh Day Adventist or to anyone who can answer?

Question

I just met a SDA and she told a little about what they believe. They worship on Saturdays, because that is the 7th day. And the seventh day is when God rested and called it the Sabbath. How do we know that our seventh day is the original 7th day? Wasn't it a long time before we started keeping track of time? I genuinely want to know the answer to this question. Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

The Jewish people are great historians. They keep accurate records. It is accepted by the majority of people that their calendar is accurate. It is part of their heritage and faith.


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Answer 2

Hi Anna! Great post. The Bible affirms the observance of the Bible Sabbath from Creation through the time of Christ. There is no indication from Scripture that there was any confusion regarding the day of worship itself. The Sabbath is mentioned repeately throughout the Gospels. Jesus himself kept the Sabbath(Luke 4:16. The Apostles were all Sabbath keepers(Acts 17:2; 18:4).

During the time of Christ Crucifixon there is mention of the Sabbath. Jesus died on what we commonly call Good Friday(day of Sabbath preparation)Mark 16:42 and then placed in the tomb.He laid there in the tomb throughout the Sabbath(Luke 23:56) and then rose on the first day of the(Easter Sunday morning)Luke 24:1-6. The original Sabbath is the Seventh day of the week and this cycle has never been altered since creation.

I am certain that Jesus would have indicated a change during his era if there had been any confusion or controversy regarding the calendar day itself.

There are over 15 million Seventh-day Adventists around the world. There are also millions of Jews around the world that uphold the Sabbath of the Lord.

Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy. God will bless you for being faithful in this regard. Don't allow well meaning Christian people to discourage from obedience to God's Holy word. Many Christians are open to this truth and there is a new wave of people returning to God's Sabbath rather than holding on to man made traditions.

Answer 3

there are so many answers to that question I'll give a few and hope that clears it for you once and for all.I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE LENGTHY BUT VERY EYE OPENING.

#1-the 10 commandment still stands today and he told us to keep the seventh day as the sabbath(exodus 20:8-11)(REMEMBER KEY WORD)
#2 God unto this day also keeps his sabbath and expects us to do the same.(GENESIS 2:1-4)
#3 we have proof that Christ kept the sabbath during the time her was on earth(mark 1:21,mark 6:2,luke 4:16 &31,luke 23:56,
#4 the bible says that christ rose on the first day of the week,the world celebrate that day on sunday(therefore the last which is the seventh must be saturday)(matthew 28:1,mark 16:2&9,luke 24:1,john 20:1,
#5 the jews still keep the sabbath and and use the hebrew calender and guess what day they keep (saturday)
#6 IN THE CATHOLIC CATECHISM
THEY WROTE THAT CATHOLIC CHANGED THE SABBATH FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY.i will give you some quotes from the catholic catechism to shoW their hypocrisy

#1 paragraph 2190 :The sabbath, which represented the completion of the first creation, has been REPLACED by Sunday which recalls the new creation inaugurated by the Resurrection of Christ.
paragraph # 641 Mary Magdalene and the holy women who came to finish anointing the body of Jesus, which had been buried in haste because the Sabbath began on the evening of Good Friday, were the first to encounter the Risen One. Thus the women were the first messengers of Christ's Resurrection for the apostles themselves. They were the next to whom Jesus appears: first Peter, then the Twelve. Peter had been called to strengthen the faith of his brothers, and so sees the Risen One before them; it is on the basis of his testimony that the community exclaims: "The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!"(this proves that Friday sunset to saturday sunset is the sabbath and even the catholic church knows it)

#7 we are expected to keep the sabbath when we go to heaven and in the new earth.(isaiah 66:22-23)

so tell me if we kept the sabbath before and we are the keep it in heaven(later) why don't we keep it today.

i hope this was a blessing

Answer 4

For one thing, we know that the weekly 7-day cycle has been going on for thousands of years; it is also kept by non-Christian and non-Jewish cultures around the world, as well as the fact that the Jews have been keeping the same 7 day cycle for thousands of years, and it has never changed for them.
Some people claim that the calendar has been changed; it was, but only the dates were changed. The weekly cycle stayed the same. Thursday the 4th was followed by Friday the 15th the year the Gregorian calendar was created.
There are dozens of languages around the world in which the word for "Saturday" means "7th" or "Sabbath", even in non-Jewish languages and cultures.
The 7th-Day Sabbath was instituted at Creation, about 2,000 before the first Jew ever appeared, so it couldn't have been instituted at Mt. Sinai. In fact, in the 10 Commandments, God said "REMEMBER the Sabbath day, to keep it holy". Why would He tell them to "remember" something that just started? He told them to remember, because He knew that sometime in the future, people would forget. The 7-day weekly cycle is the only measurement of time that doesn't rely on the movement of heavenly bodies. Where else would such a universal time period come from?

Answer 5

The first Christians kept worshiping on the seventh day, as the 4th commandment says we are to do. This is in the Bible.
At the end of th 4th century the first Roman Cesar that was Christian ordered the Sabbath to be changed to the first day of the week -Sunday. Because most of the Romans believed that the sun was a god and the most important, which is why the first day of the week is named after that fake god. These sun worshipers could easily tell when the Christians were going to church and were killing them for the fun of it. So everyone went to worship on the first day of the week. And most are today, because it is most peoples habit now.
I don't. I worship on Saturday because that IS when God told us too. This 7th day Adventist is not around my area.

Answer 6

Seventh-day Adventists, like Jews, observe Saturday as the Sabbath. They do not understand that we Christians are under a New Covenant with New Covenant signs.

The Old Covenant, the Ten Commandments (Deut. 4:13, Deut. 9:9,11,15; 10:4, 1 Kings 8:9,21), had the sign of Sabbath keeping. God predicted that He would change this covenant (Jeremiah 31:31). Christians are under a New Covenant. The New Covenant signs that we are to observe are baptism (Col. 2:11-12) and the Lord’s supper (Luke 22:19-20).

The Apostle Paul teaches that we are now under a New Covenant and under “the law of the Spirit of life that is in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:2). Our “Law” is the teachings of the New Testament. (Gal. 6:2)

Read Galatians it cleary states what a believers relationship to the Old Covenant (the Ten Commandments) is. Galatians 4: 24-5:1 are very clear about he differences between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant and we are to stand as a believer in Jesus Christ.

Two things you need to ask yourself when you are reviewing anything that someone says is "required" for salvation is:
1) Can a person who does not believe in Christ do this?
2) Is this a human work?

If it's something that an unbeliever can do then it's not part of salvation. If it's something that is akin to "helping God save you" it's not part of salvation either.

Salvation is linked only to Jesus Christ. It's about him and what he did not about what we can do to save ourselves.

If we could save ourselves than what did we need him for anyway?

Answer 7

We don't know everything that God told Adam and Eve. If they had been told from the time they were formed to keep the seventh day, then they probably would have devised a way to keep track of it; however, I don't remember God telling Adam and Eve to obey the seventh day to keep it holy. I think that first showed up in the Exodus from Egypt.

Since Adam was created on the sixth day, God would have had to tell him when to start counting.

Good question.

I consider it moot because Christians worship on the day that their savior came out of the tomb. That is a day to celebrate.
Sometimes I balk at the word worship anyway, we attend church to celebrate our risen savior and to learn more about Him and His Father in heaven.

phax, Monday is the day that most pastors I know take for a day of rest.

luvdalz68, the word sabbath simply means day of rest.
(Heb. verb shabbath, meaning "to rest from labour"), the day of rest.

grace2u

Answer 8

The Jews have been keeping the sabbath hollow for many centuries before we began the process and theirs is on Saturday. The worship on Sunday falls back to the Romans and their beliefs, that is a long & complicated story.

Answer 9

every culture all thru history has some method of keeping track of time, days, months..........Over 200 cultures have the same term for the day of rest /Sabbath...

the Sabbath has not changed nor moved since the time of creation.....Bible scholars and such have done the work to confirm this fact...

in any event...we are still under the Sabbath Law...man does not have the right or the authority to change the 4th commandment...remember the Sabbath Day and keep it Holy.....

and the misinformed Christians who are under this idea NEED to check their Bible knowledge ASAP...it is very important...sunday is not the day of worship...the apostles meeting on the first day of the week to break bread was to have a meal....you can not build theology on a verse taken out of context....

The Sabbath was a day of rest...Christ rested in the tomb....the first day of the week he arose... to go about his work of salvation....

we rest on the Sabbath and go to work on the first day of the week.....the Resurrection did not change the 4th commandment....

Answer 10

We know that Saturday, the seventh day of the week of the contemporary calendar is the Jewish Sabbath because of the Jewish people who have universally and with one consent observed, guarded and kept it in perpetuity since its inception as a covenant obligation.The Sabbath and the Jewish people exist side by side.

Answer 11

We don't know for sure that the days of the week are actually the same as they were in the Hebrew calendar. The calendar has been changed numerous times since the 1st century. In any event believers are no longer under the Sabbath law and most Christians choose to set apart Sunday or "the Lord's day" as a time to worship and honor God.

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.