Is Catholic justification of the destruction of Saturday Sabbath good enough?

Question

One example: "But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead" (First Apology 67 [A.D. 155]).
God made the world in six days and rested on the seventh, making an eternal day of rest for Jews and, through Jesus, all mankind. According to the words above, Sunday worship commemorates the beginning the beginning of God's work to make the world. So if its marks the beginning of a work, how can Catholics expect to pass it off as a day of rest to replace God's Sabbath?

Please note that nowhere in the Bible is Sunday made sacred, or the Saturday Sabbath made obsolete.

Answer 1

i dont think it is, Catholics try to change God's rules to their liking, and some keep saying that the law was only for the jews but if that is true then none of the commandments are for us which is just wrong, if God asked for the sabbath to be the day of rest and to KEEP IT HOLY then so be it, its strange cuz even catholics dont keep the Sunday holy or none other days as a matter of fact.

Answer 2

Not sure what this has to do with the RCC.
The Apostles worshiped on Sunday, broke bread, took offering had a meeting=church.

The Sabbath law was written anyway for the Jews.

Where was Jesus after his Crucifixion on Saturday? He was dead in the grave. As now the law is, dead in the grave. The law cannot save us since we are sinners and can't follow it to the letter. Only Jesus and his grace can save us. We as Christians are now under the law of Grace.
Ex. 31:16, 17: ?The sons of Israel must keep the sabbath, so as to carry out the sabbath during their generations. It is a covenant to time indefinite [?a perpetual covenant,? RS]. Between me and the sons of Israel it is a sign to time indefinite.? (Notice that sabbath observance was a sign between Jehovah and Israel; this would not be the case if everyone else were also obligated to keep the Sabbath. The Hebrew word rendered ?perpetual? in RS is ?oh?lam?, which basically means a period of time that, from the standpoint of the present, is indefinite or hidden from sight but of long duration. That can mean forever, but not necessarily so. At Numbers 25:13 the same Hebrew word is applied to the priesthood, which later ended, according to Hebrews 7:12.)

Rom. 10:4: ?Christ is the end of the Law, so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness.? (Sabbath keeping was a part of that Law. God used Christ to bring that Law to its end. Our having a righteous standing with God depends on faith in Christ, not on keeping a weekly sabbath.) (Also Galatians 4:9-11; Ephesians 2:13-16)

Col. 2:13-16: ?[God] kindly forgave us all our trespasses and blotted out the handwritten document against us, which consisted of decrees and which was in opposition to us . . . Therefore let no man judge you in eating and drinking or in respect of a festival or of an observance of the new moon or of a sabbath.? (If a person was under the Mosaic Law and was judged guilty of profaning the Sabbath, he was to be stoned to death by the whole congregation, according to Exodus 31:14 and Numbers 15:32-35. Many who argue for sabbath keeping have reason to be glad that we are not under that Law. As shown in the scripture here quoted, an approved standing with God no longer requires observance of the sabbath requirement given to Israel.)
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.

1 Corinthians 16:2
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.

Answer 3

You are using what is called black and white thinking. Just because the Catholic church erroneously and with faulty logic try to validate Sunday does not validate the sabbath by default for Christianity.

The old covenant, wherein the sabbath command is found, ended. That, and Christians were never a party to that covenant.

So for you to validate the sabbath, you would have to find where the law is required in the new testament church. In Acts 15, it was adequately demonstrated Christians are not required to keep the law, therefore they are not required to keep the conditions of that law, such as the sabbath.

Or perhaps you would care to explain how Christians are required to keep the conditions of a covenant they were never a party to. If you can do this, then perhaps you wouldn't mind making my car payments for me under the covenant I have with the finance company.

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Answer 4

I wouldnt think it all that important what day it is, as long as a rest every 7th day occurs. Rest every Wednesday!!

The calendar was created from a Pagan POV anyway.
A month is a Moonth, the Moonth is broken into its 4 phases. The 7th day thing is actually celebrating the menstrual cycle of the Goddess (Represented by the Moon). Then each day is named after Pagan Deities:
Sun's Day
Moon's Day
Tuiz's Day (AKA Zeus)
Wodin's Day
Thors Day
Frig/Freya's Day
Saturn's Day.

I attended a 7th Day Adventist Study group who claimed the Catholic Church changed the Sabath to Sunday, because they were really secretly Pagan and worshipped the Sun.
I asked if they worshipped Saturn, in that case, but the rules dont count then.

And who says we have the days correct anyway? Who counted "1"?

Answer 5

Because Jesus didn't hesitate to help those in need on the sabbath. Sunday is not a day of rest, it is a day dedicated to God's work, which may have been neglected the rest of the week.

Answer 6

I just don't think I'm going to be punished by God when I die for worshiping him on the wrong day. It doesn't seem like a big deal to me...I don't work or go to school on Saturday, so it is a day of rest, and then on sunday, I gather with fellow Catholics to praise and worship God....is there anything wrong with that?

Answer 7

Christians began meeting on the 1st day of the week back in Acts, several hundred years before the Catholic church was even thought of.
We have many good non-Catholic Seminaries whose faculty have studied this subject out. Sunday has always been the meeting day for Christians-never on the Sabbath.

Answer 8

Saturday is the Sabbath, Sunday is the Lord's Day




Catholic

Answer 9

Once again...the Sabbath was not ever intended to be the one-and-only "day of worship".....
It is a day of REST...read the commandment for yourself, and see.
As a Christian, I only worship God on days that end in "y"...

Answer 10

Where in the entire Bible does it say, "The Sabbath is on Saturday"? How do you know it wasn't on Tuesday?