Why do we rest on Sunday if Saturday is the Sabbath day?

Question

Can anyone give me some scriptures to support this? Currently, I go to a church that does worship on Sunday, but I’ve heard a lot of things from people who worship on Saturday, and I’m quite confused. I’d like at least 2 or 3 evidences in the Bible of the early Christian church who met on a Sunday, and if Sunday is the true day we should worship or should we worship on Saturday? I really want to know what the Bible says – not man’s interpretation please. Sorry for being a bit harsh there, but I need to know what God says and what the Bible says. So if anyone can clarify this and show me evidence from scripture, that would be extremely helpful! Thanks everyone! =D

Answer 1

: In Colossians 2:16-17, the Apostle Paul declared, “Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.” Similarly, Romans 14:5 says, “One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.” These Scriptures make it clear that, for the Christian, Sabbath-keeping is a matter of spiritual freedom, not a command from God. Sabbath-keeping is an issue on which God’s Word instructs us not to judge each other. Sabbath-keeping is a matter that each and every Christian needs to by fully convinced in his/her own mind.

In the early chapters of the Book of Acts, the first Christians were predominantly Jews. When Gentiles began to receive the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ, the Jewish Christians had a dilemma. What aspects of the Mosaic Law and Jewish tradition should Gentile Christians be instructed to obey? The apostles met and discussed the issue in the Jerusalem council (Acts chapter 15). The decision was, “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood” (Acts 15:19-20). Sabbath-keeping was not one of the commands the apostles felt was necessary to enforce on Gentile believers. It is inconceivable that the apostles would neglect to include Sabbath-keeping if it was still God’s command for Christians to observe the Sabbath day.

A common error in the Sabbath-keeping debate is the concept that the Sabbath was the day of worship. Groups such as the Seventh Day Adventists holds that God requires the church service to be held on Saturday, the Sabbath day. That is not what the Sabbath command was. The Sabbath command was to do no work on the Sabbath day (Exodus 20:8-11). Nowhere in Scripture is the Sabbath day commanded to be the day of worship. Yes, Jews in Old Testament, New Testament, and modern times use Saturday as the day of worship, but that is not the essence of the Sabbath command. In the Book of Acts, whenever a meeting is said to be on the Sabbath, it is a meeting of Jews, not Christians.

When did the early Christians meet? Acts 2:46-47 gives us the answer, “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” If there was a day that Christians met regularly, it was the first day of the week (our Sunday), not the Sabbath day (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2). In honor of Christ’s resurrection on Sunday, the early Christians observed Sunday, not as the “Christian Sabbath,” but as a day to especially worship and glorify Jesus Christ.

Is there anything wrong with worshipping on Saturday, the Sabbath? Absolutely not! We should worship God every day, not just on Saturday or Sunday! Many churches today have both Saturday and Sunday services. There is freedom in Christ (Romans 8:21; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:1). Should a Christian practice Sabbath-keeping, that is, not working on Saturdays? If a Christian feels led to do so, absolutely, yes (Romans 14:5). However, those who choose to practice Sabbath-keeping should not judge those who do not keep the Sabbath (Colossians 2:16). Further, those who do not keep the Sabbath should avoid being a stumbling block (1 Corinthians 8:9) to those who do keep the Sabbath. Galatians 5:13-15 sums up the whole issue, “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other."

Recommended Resource: Balancing the Christian Life by Charles Ryrie.

Answer 2

The Bible says:

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 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:
11 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.

The Sabbath was never changed to Sunday by God. Man changed the day, and we must obey God rather than man. I'm giving you a link to a website that will give you Bible-based answers concerning this topic. I'm also giving you a link to a book that you can read online that tells you how the Christian church began worshiping on Sunday, forgeting God's holy day. Saturday is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, for He never changed it.

God bless, I'll be praying for you!

EDIT: By the way, the Sabbath was instituted at Creation, before there were any Jews! It is a day that is to be dedicated to God by all people, Jew or Gentile!
Genesis 2:1-3
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 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.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

2ND EDIT:
Also, when it says the early Christians met together to "break bread" on the first day of the week, it doesn't necessarily mean communion. It means they got together for a meal! Also, where in the Bible does it say we can only have communion on the Sabbath?

There is no place in the Bible that says that the Sabbath was changed to Sunday. There are only a few stray verses where it talks about Christians meeting together on Sunday, but it doesn't say they were celebrating the Sabbath on Sunday. The fourth commandment is the only commandment that begins with the word "remember." Hmmmmm.....the Sabbath is an important issue in the OT. If God wanted to change it or make it unimportant, don't you think He would have come out and said it plainly? Saturday is still the Sabbath.

Hey, check out Ben Yeshua's answer. He's got some good stuff.

3RD EDIT:
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Answer 3

What got here approximately right it is which you bought right into a loaded question. The "day" replaced into not replaced. What replaced replaced into the covenants. The "old" covenant, of which you weren't a party to, ended, and a clean covenant began. the recent covenant does not require the observance of days. Christians are loose to worship every time and anyplace they want, and it is worshiping in spirit and in actuality. There are some who erroneously concluded Sunday could be dealt with like the sabbath, being a forced day of relax. yet Christianity isn't with reference to the "letter" of the regulation; that's with reference to the spirit of the regulation and the religious relax present day in Christ. The weekly sabbath replaced right into a shadow of Christ (Col 2:18 or 19). The sabbatarians use this logical fallacy of Sunday as against sabbath with the intention to benefit converts. that's an "the two / or" argument: If not A, then B, and rejects all different opportunities. What they reject is once you employ their very own good judgment against them. case in point, in case you bypass away Israel and head east to the Americas, the sunlight instruments an hour earlier for each 1000 miles you shuttle, hence this individual's sabbath might take place approximately 14 hours earlier than while it happens in Israel, and this brings you to Thursday evening at sundown with Friday being that individual's sabbath. Sabbatarians, having lost their severe thinking skills via their blind allegiance to sabbath protecting, at the instant cannot understand this paradox. Are you waiting to ascertain your brains on the door once you strengthen right into a sabbatarian? .

Answer 4

The reason why the Christian Church changed the Sabbath Day from Saturday to Sunday is because, Sunday is the Day that the Lord Had Risen.

That is why Sunday is also called "the Lord's Day."

Answer 5

Because we are not Jewish. The Sabbath is still when it always was, and Jews still worship on that day as the Mosaic Law commands. However, Christians are not bound by the Mosaic Law. The Apostles instituted Sunday as the Christian day of worship because it was more fitting that we celebrate worship on the day of Christ's glorious Resurrection than on the day He lay dead in the tomb. Which is why the Bible tells us that the early Church met for worship "on the first day of the week". If you want to know what God says, God told the leaders of the early Church, "he who hears you hears Me", and "whatsoever you bind upon earth is bound in heaven". Therefore, if we believe what the Bible says, listening to the Apostles is listening to God, and the Christian day of worship is bound in heaven. That's good enough for me.

Answer 6

First of all there is nothing in the NT to indicate that the church should hold the Jewish Sabbath. It was given to the Jewish people, never the church. It is the only one of the teen commandments that is not repeated in the NT.
Second, Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday
The church started on the day of Pentacost which was Sunday
The believers gathered to meet and present offerings on Sunday
The NT does not speak of the Sabbath for Christians but the "Lord's Day"
None of this is conclusive of anything, but there is still more evidence for meeting on Sunday than Saturday.
Look for NT evidence for meeting on Saturday and see what you can come up with.

Answer 7

Hello, Victory:

Daniel 7:25 tells us a man of sin would THINK to change times and law. That happened in the fourth century at the First Council of Nicea when Constantine passed the first Sunday law.

Notice the work THINK. That means the change was only mental, not actual. Although the Protestant Reformation revived forgotten truths like baptism by emersion and justification by faith, there are still some remnants of what Luther called "Rome's dunghill of decretals."

You asked for texts, and many responses will say we now keep the resurrection and Pentecost days as a N.T. Sabbath. No such scripture exists making that change.

Let me start by saying that FIRSTFRUITS in the O.T. prefigured Christ's resurrection and PENTECOST, the disciples receiving "power" 49 days later. BECAUSE THOSE EVENTS WERE TYPIFIED, SUNDAY WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS AND WILL NEVER BE THE NEW SABBATH as falsely claimed.

Now, let us take the only mention of Sunday in Luke's record in Acts of about 34 years of church history: Acts 20 tells of a Saturday-evening meeting (which is biblically the beginning of Sunday).

Note this point, Paul quits preaching at midnight, then walks all day Sunday, 24 miles from Troas to Assos. Before midnight, Luke and seven more disciples pull anchor, paddle to deep water, hoist sail, and sail about 100 miles around the penentula where they would meet up with Paul.

In other words, It was a farewell meeting and they waited until after the Sabbath's sacred hours to hike and boat--you should too.

The other text is 1 Corinthians 16 where Paul tells the saints to work on Sunday--that is his only mention of Sunday in all his epistles, also representing about 34 years of church history. He established that church in Corinth about six years earlier (see Acts 10) and he preached every Sabbath for 1 1/2 years there. Now he is planning to return. He knows that Epistle he sent ahead &, which is asking for an offering , will be read on the Sabbath. He tells them to gather their offering on Sunday. That means after church, on Saturday evening or Sunday a.m. to go to their grainery, bank, garden, storage room, etc., and "gather an offering by himslef (alone). Any church that keeps God's Sabbath day will schedule common events for after the Sabbath.

So you see, Victory, you are correct in questioning Sunday sacredness, and that is why I left a Sunday church three & 1/2 decades ago, and God's law is important because the Bible says if you break one commandment, you are guilty of breaking them all.

There is a Bible code that warns us of certain dangers, as well as proves Jesus is the Messiah. You will learn more from its revelation than you will ever hear from your preacher. See: http://abiblecode.tripod.com

If you have any questions, please e-mail them to me.
Shalom, Peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua

Edit:

This morning the world was still here, so Jesus did not abolish the law because He said it would be easier for heaven or earth to pass away than God's law change.

He said the Sabbath was made for MAN. It was made in EDEN, long before Moses. And God told ADAM and EVE that the Sabbath is BLESSED AND SANCTIFIED. In Isaiah 66:23 it says the Sabbath will be kept throughout eternity. And as I noted, the early church kept and guarded the Sabbath because, as John says in Revelation 1:10, I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day (The Sabbath).

Answer 8

here, let me explain this thing to you.

Most of the early Christian woshippers are the JEWS..they worshipped on
Saturdays. But, soon after, first half of 2nd century, Christians observed
and worshipped on Sunday until Constantine's decree went out..indicating rest on that day.

btw you know
"Contantine the Great"?
He's Constatine I, Saint Constantine..the first
Christian Roman Emperor.He became a Christian when

---some info about him--
Constantine was commanded in a dream to place the sign
of Christ on the shields of his soldiers.
When Constantine and his army were on their march toward Rome -
neither the time nor the location is specified -
they observed in broad daylight a strange phenomenon in the sky:
a cross of light and the words "by this sign you will be victor"
(hoc signo victor eris or ).
During the next night Christ appeared to Constantine
and instructed him to place the heavenly sign on the
battle standards of his army. The new battle standard
became known as the labarum.

After the vision,
he attributed his victory to the power
of "the God of the Christians" and committed
himself to the Christian faith from that day on,
although his understanding of the Christian faith
at this time was quite superficial. It has often been
supposed that Constantine's profession of Christianity
was a matter of political expediency more than of religious
conviction; upon closer examination this view cannot be sustained.
Constantine did not receive baptism until shortly before his death


He decreed this thing (a.k.a. Dies Solis) :

"On the venerable day of the Sun let the
magistrates and people residing in cities rest,
and let all workshops be closed. In the country
however persons engaged in agriculture may freely
and lawfully continue their pursuits because it often
happens that another day is not suitable for grain-sowing
or vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for
such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost."

so, this venerable day of the sun is, SUNDAY.


Sunday: the day Christ ressurrected and known as "Lord's Day".

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why rest?
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1. on history, Constantine's decree affected it alot.
2. on these bible passages:

Acts 20:7,
"On the first day of the week, when
we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them,
intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight."


1 Corinthians 16:2,
"On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come."


Colossians 2:16-17,
"So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths"

Revelation 1:10
"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet"

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.

hope it helped!

Answer 9

After the resurrection, the apostles began meeting on the Lord's Day. or the celebration of Resurrection day, rather than the Sabbath.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last:
(Revelation 1:10 - 11)

When Paul wanted to collect an offering from the church at Corinth, he asked them to gather the money on the "first day of the week" (1 Cor. 16:2).

"on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread" (Acts 20:7).

Answer 10

It is in remembrance if the resurrection from the dead of Jesus. Jesus rose on Sunday.The Sabbath day was to be a day of rest. God rested from creation on the Sabbath (Saturday.) But, since Jesus victory over sin and death gives us rest from sin and its consequences, which was completed on Easter Sunday the day of rest went from Sat to Sun..