Why don't Christians keep the Sabbath day holy?

Question

I'm wondering, because in the Bible, this is a Saturday. Somewhere along the lines, because Christians believe Christ rose again, somebody decided to switch it to Sunday. Jesus himself said to keep the Sabbath holy, and so did God..........so I'm just curious as to why church isn't on Saturday then?

Answer 1

The sabbath was not "switched" to Sunday. Sunday became a day of corporate worship. Some people, out of ignorance, applied the characteristics of the Sabbath to Sunday.

Jesus "kept" the sabbath because Jesus was born under the law.

Nowhere does Jesus tell Christians or his followers to keep the sabbath, or any of the law, and neither did God tell Christians to keep the sabbath and law. God told Israel, through the medium of a covenant, to keep the law and sabbath. You cannot impose the conditions of a covenant on Christians they were never a party to, and in any event, that covenant ended.

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Answer 2

the Roman emperor Constantine chnaged it . He wanted all worship to coincide so he declared sunday(the day pagans worshipped the sun) to be the official day of worship. After a few decades it caught on and now many christians are brought up that way. They don't want to change it because our whole society revolves around that. But when God is ready to restore all things He will cause it to be changed. Some christians quote the scripture where it says they met on the first day of the week. But that was not established church doctrine just an informative statement. Some say we are now in a spiritual sabbath(rest) and everyday is a spirtual restday(sabbath). But just as we do not disobey the other commandments we probably should not disobey this one either.It starts out with the word 'remember'. To complicate matters, the official day begins at sunset. So the sabbath day actually begins friday night. The catholic church claims they have changed it and the fact that protestants observe it is proof they have authority over the protestants. You can see why we need Jesus to come and staighten all this out.

Answer 3

16 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. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
( Colossians 2 )

Paul said that we can worship anytime, Jesus said that we can worship anywhere:
21 Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
( John 4 )

So whether we worship on Sunday, or any other day, we are not to judge each other on this issue. So please, if you are a Christian, pay attention to this. This arguing over this is unfruitful and devisive.

Answer 4

CCC 2174 - Jesus rose from the dead "on the first day of the week." Because it is the "first day," the day of Christ's Resurrection recalls the first creation. Because it is the "eighth day" following the sabbath, it symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ's Resurrection. For Christians it has become the first of all days, the first of all feasts, the Lord's Day (he kuriake hemera, dies dominica)—Sunday:

Sunday—fulfillment of the sabbath

CCC 2175 - Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ:
Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the sabbath, but the Lord's Day, in which our life is blessed by him and by his death.

CCC 2176 - The celebration of Sunday observes the moral commandment inscribed by nature in the human heart to render to God an outward, visible, public, and regular worship "as a sign of his universal beneficence to all." Sunday worship fulfills the moral command of the Old Covenant, taking up its rhythm and spirit in the weekly celebration of the Creator and Redeemer of his people

Answer 5

Jesus fulfilled the law. Ergo, the time of the 10 commandments were fulfilled with the resurrection of Jesus. The fulfillment of the law doesn't give us a license to sin, however.

Worship was moved from the Sabbath to Sunday around the time of Constantine.

Some denominations observe the Sabbath on Saturday.

Answer 6

We don't really know which day is the sabbath! The Lord rested on the seventh day but which day was the seventh? If He began creation on a Tuesday then the sabbath day would be the following Monday and so on. It was in the Law of Moses that we read that the Lord ordered the Children of Israel to observe the sabbath and keep it as a day of rest, for both them, their servants, and their oxen etc., and that there was to be no work whatsoever performed.
We also note here that the Lord has clearly stated that the the observing of the Sabbath is in fact a covenant between Himself and the Children of Israel. Exodus 31 V16-17 state; "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed." We see from this that the sabbath was a covenant between the Lord and the Children of Israel and never between the Lord and the Gentiles (us)
Christians observe Sunday as the day they give to the Lord and rest themselves. I hope this helps. God Bless!

Answer 7

you're actually not a occasion to the old covenant. The old covenant ended, and the hot covenant began. The old covenant develop into what Israel develop into given seeing as they have been faithless, stiff-necked and rebellious. The apostle Paul wrote that the regulation develop into not of religion. in case you rather want an better faith, you do not bypass approximately it by utilising attempting to maintain old covenant factors of regulation. The sabbath develop right into a shadow of something one enters into with the aid of faith. (Col. 2:sixteen-17; Heb 4). choosing the shadow is to reject faith. .

Answer 8

the sabbath day was the day for worship in the old testament.When Christ died on the cross the old testament worship was done away with & thats why Jesus came to do.He died & we gather on the 1st day of the week Sunday to worship Acts20::7---The sabbath was on saturday.

Answer 9

We celebrate it on sunday because that is when Christ rose from the dead.

That is our Sabbath. It's still once every 7 days, isn't it?