2007-09-24 19:53:18 · 25 answers · asked by dlctile 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NOT Sabbath... The 2 are different things.
The earliest Christians assembled on the first day of the week. Well over a century before some falsely claim Constantine CHANGED the day to Sunday several Christians wrote describing the Sunday assembly, like Justin Martyr in 156 AD.
JEWISH Christians CONTINUED to attend Synagogue services on the Sabbath in order to teach Jews about Jesus. When the apostles and Elders in Jerusalem addressed the question of Non-Jewish Christians and the law, NOTHING WAS SAID ABOUT SABBATH:
The apostles and elders, your brothers, are writing this letter.
We are sending it to the non-Jewish believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia.
Greetings.
We have heard that some of our people came to you and caused trouble. You were upset by what they said. But we had given them no authority to go. So we all agreed to send our dear friends Barnabas and Paul to you. We chose some others to go with them. Barnabas and Paul have put their lives in danger for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. So we are sending Judas and Silas with them. What they say will agree with this letter.
It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to give you a load that is too heavy. So here are a few basic rules. Don’t eat food that has been offered to statues of gods. Don’t drink blood. Don’t eat the meat of animals that have been choked to death. And don’t commit sexual sins. You will do well to keep away from these things.
Farewell. (Acts 15:23-29)
2007-09-24 19:55:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
An interesting question, and one to which I am sure you will get various rationalizations from Christians who do not honor the Sabbath as instructed to do in the Ten Commandments. I'm not taking the side of Seventh Day Adventists or any other group, just pointing out the inconsistency (one of many) of modern Christian thought.
"We worship on Sunday because that's the Lord's Day," or "to honor Jesus' resurrection" or whatever. But neither the Bible nor Jesus, ever changed the commandment to honor the Sabbath. Neither God nor Jesus said it's okay to dishonor the Sabbath now and worship on a different day instead.
Nor, by the way, did God or Jesus ever withdraw the severe restrictions against working on the Sabbath.
But all that is inconvenient because of tradition, societal mores, or current religious teachings. So as usual we selectively decide which parts of the Bible to believe and follow. And so it goes...
2007-09-25 03:05:25 · answer #2 · answered by Don P 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some may mistakenly believe that Sunday is to be observed as a forced day of rest, but there is no Scriptural support for this assumption.
Neither is there Scriptural support to conclude Christians are required to observe the sabbath, seeing as they were never a party to that covenant that ended. You cannot be held to the conditions of a covenant you were not a party to.
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2007-09-25 10:34:02 · answer #3 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is worshipped 7 days a week in both, spirit and truth. To limit God to only, a Saturday ("Sabbath" - from the Old Testament) is limiting God to one Day. The 7th Day Sabbath (Saturday - from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday is strictly of the abolished, Old Covenant and replaced by the "spiritual" New Covenant . Wasn't it the adherents of the Old Covenant, who had Jesus Christ murdered ? Legalism is not what God wants - spirituality is ! The order for Christians is to worship God in the spirit - not be tied down and limited to the observance of days, customs, laws and the rule of the Old Covenant. If the Old Covenant was all we needed to please God with ... we would not have the New Covenant ! We are now, "spiritual Jews" - not physical ones !!! About GRACE ... not RACE !!!
Further; the "rest" is found in Jesus Christ - not a keeping of a Sabbath day (see: Hebrews, chapter 4 )
2007-09-25 03:08:32 · answer #4 · answered by guraqt2me 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some Christians do celebrate the Sabbath on Sabado (Saturday) and are called Sabbaterians. Seventh Day Adventists, for example
Sunday is the day of worship because of the timing of Christ rising from the dead, having been buried before the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at Sunset on Friday.
2007-09-25 02:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because Christians believe that Jesus was crucified on Friday, (after having celebrated the passover with his crew the night before), went into the grave, and rose on the third day, Sunday. They celebrate the resurrection, not the sabbath.
2007-09-25 03:00:15 · answer #6 · answered by Princess Picalilly 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
We should not think of Sunday as a Sabbath. Sabbath-keeping is NOT an intrinsic part of Christianity, whereas worship is. We may worship God on any day, but Christians have traditionally gathered for CORPORATE worship on Sunday, as it is the day on which Jesus rose from the dead.
2007-09-25 03:01:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because Jesus rose on the first day of the week. Remember, He was crucified on Friday and rose on Sunday. So, while the Jews continue to worship on the Sabbath (Saturday), Sunday became the new day of worship for those who follow Jesus.
2007-09-25 02:58:06 · answer #8 · answered by The Apple Chick 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Sunday is the first day of the week by convention in our calendar. It is human artefact, there is nothing special about it. Parts of west Africa have a four day week - first day, second, day, third day, market day. It works for them. We have adopted a seven day week but there is nothing to stop us going metric and having a ten day week if we want to.
Have your sabbath whenever you want it, it makes no difference at all.
2007-09-25 02:59:21 · answer #9 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It was because Constantine the Roman emperor changed it because pagans who were the majority back then worshipped sunday. So to ease the transition between paganism and the new religion of christianity, Constantine changed the original sabbath to sunday.
2007-09-25 03:00:05 · answer #10 · answered by hesahama 1 · 3⤊ 2⤋