Do you ever look for contradictions in your church or do you think it is wrong to do so?
2007-09-18 09:00:09 · 29 answers · asked by lucinniega 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The bible does not identify the sabbath as Saturday or any other day. The bible says that the sabbath is the seventh day. Which day is the seventh? It doesn't say.
Saturday is the traditional Jewish sabbath, Christians prefer Sunday and I believe Friday is the holy day for Muslims. Take your pick.
2007-09-18 09:06:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't call Sunday "the sabbath"...but I don't recall reading anything in the bible that said it was a specific day of the week...I only found the word "Saturday" once in the KJV and that was in the new testament.
The way I remember it, the 4th commandment said..."six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God". That may have been interpreted as "Saturday" because the literal seventh day on the calendar in place at that time was Saturday. However, I'm not convinced God cares about our calendar...he cares about "work six days" and "rest on the seventh". I just can't imagine why God would care if I worked Monday through Saturday and rested on Sunday or worked Wednesday through Monday and rested on Tuesday. As long as I'm being productive (working) six days a week and then take a day off work to rest and reflect on God, I'm keeping the Sabbath.
2007-09-18 16:20:34 · answer #2 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament clearly identifies many of the tenets of the Mosaic Law. And the New Testament clearly states that Christians are not bound by such laws. The New Testament also clearly states that the early Church met for worship on "the first day of the week". This is because the Apostles rightly decided that celebrating worship on the day of Christ's glorious Resurrection was more fitting than celebrating it on the day He lay dead in the tomb. The Sabbath is still on Saturday, and Jews still observe it then; and the Christian day of worship is still, as it always was, on Sunday.
2007-09-18 16:09:16 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because at the end in the fourth century, the first Roman Ruler to believe that Jesus was the son of God, did not like the fact that the sun worshippers where having fun killing Christians. (Sunday is named for the belief most popular then that the sun was a god. I was also taught that Wed-nes-day was the day of weddings, back then. Sat-tur-day maybe named after Saturn, in Rome) Anyway since he could not get them to stop killing the Christians, he ordered that that Christian Sabath be changed to Sunday. That way they would not stand out while they were going to and from church. He also ordered that the Christians take up a few odd beliefs of the sun worshippers. The killing was stopped. But the Sabath was not being obeyed as God ordered.
About 400 years ago, when the Bible was finely being translated and printed, so anyone could read it; those that read it relized the Catholic Church was NOT doing as the Bible said. So the new Proistant religuens started being made, that believe in following the Bible.
Today, most are not obeying the Bible and are just picking out their favorite lines and leave it at that.
Among the newer religuens are ones that start "Seventh Day"______ because they noticed what you have, found the reason for the change was not from God, thus they are worshipping on the real Sabath.
The Bible says the Sabath is from the time sets on Friday to the time it sets on Saturday. Anyone that dose any kind of work, from lighting a fire to feeding animals, cooking, shopping, or paying a servent or restront to work for you is sinning. Jesus made the exseption when one is sick, to take care of them.
Can you heed this and obey it?
Please forgive any mis-spelled words, the spell check is not working.
2007-09-18 16:29:43 · answer #4 · answered by geessewereabove 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Actually, it is because the Sabbath is Jewish. Some Christian sects (especially a first) worshipped on Saturday; however anti-Semitism led to it being moved to Sunday (the day Christ arose, so still a holy day). Similarly, Easter calendars were specifically designed so that Easter couldn't fall near the Passover (no mind that Jesus ate at Passover...)
Though the Church has forgone many of its cultural biases against Jews, this was established as a tradition that is now being followed. But, does it really matter? If society suddenly decided that Tuesday was the first day of the week, would Monday then become the Sabbath? Indeed, in the modern "work week" Monday is the first day, not Sunday.
It becomes even more confusing since the shift from the Julian to Gregorian calendars changed days too.
2007-09-18 16:07:46 · answer #5 · answered by Thought 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Apostle Paul clearly said that Christians could worship on any day that they wanted to (Romans 14).
You are contradicting yourself by observing the Old Testament sabbath, and yet trying to live by the New Testament.
BTW, Saturday is not really the Jewish Sabbath, since they go by a lunar calender, and we go by a solar one. the Jewish Sabbath doesn't always fall on Saturday (which is the Roman Sabbath), but they follow the Gregorian calender anyway for convenience.
2007-09-18 16:06:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very few Christian churches regard Sunday as the Sabbath but instead refer to it as "The Lord's Day" which is what day He was ressurected on. Paul first started preaching on the First Day of the Week (Sunday) according to Acts 20:7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.
And then later instructed (not commanded) us to meet regularly on that day 1 Cor 16:12 On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
He did not make it a new Sabbath but a meeting day.
2007-09-18 16:07:40 · answer #7 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Church does not celebrate Sunday as the Sabbath. It just celebrates Sunday. In Greek, as well as most Romance languages, "Saturday" is still "Sabbath."
2007-09-18 16:08:10 · answer #8 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Sabbath is what the Jews kept under the old law.
The early Christians worshiped on Sundays because that is the day that Jesus was resurrected.
It is now Tradition.
This has nothing to do with contradictions.
2007-09-18 16:05:04 · answer #9 · answered by Vernacular Catholic 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The Sabbath was the sign or token of the Mosaic law. Christians are not under the law, we are under grace. Of all the ten commandments, the Sabbath law was not repeated in the New Testament as a law that applies to Christians. We worship on Sunday in remembrance of the day Christ rose from the dead.
2007-09-18 16:10:17 · answer #10 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋