Regarding sabbath?

Question

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shall you labour and do all your work. But the SEVENTH-DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD YOUR GOD......." Exodus 20:8-10

isn't the seventh day saturday....so why do so many christians worship on sunday??

even Jesus worshipped on Sabbath (the seventh day)

God never changed the day, so what right do we have to change it?

There is no scriptural authority to change the sabbath day from saturday to sunday. Why do we worship on sunday? Please tell me why? who changed it and why? I heard Roman Catholic church was the one to intitiate this change. But I only HEARD pelase tell me why it was changed and by who also when.

Answer 1

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The Sabbath of Creation is the seventh day Sabbath, 6pm Fri to 6pm Sat.

The Sabbath of Redemption is the first day of the week, 6pm Sat to 6pm Sunday. Others called it the Lord's Day.


Now with the new light, read Exo 20 and then Deu 5, what can you see re: the giving of the commandment to keep the Sabbath? Can you see it spiritually??

The keeping of the Sabbath (of Redemption) is not a SDA thing. All true Christians would have kept the Sabbath of Redemption. If you are well verse with the Scripture and the book of Hebrews, you should know. It had nothing to do with the RCC either.

If you are really interested, Mr Thomas Shepard, A Puritan Pastor wrote Theses Sabbaticae. You may get a copy from Amazon.com

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the works of Jonathan Edwards - The change and the perpetuity of the Sabbath.


PS: It is a very common false notion amongst professing christians that Sabbath was given to the Jews. These folks do not even have light to understand Gen ch 1 and 2!! Pastors, missionaries, professors of theology........The Sabbath was instituted at Creation, and NOT at Mt Sinai!!! That shows how much light is there in Christendom today, and what darkness there be, it is flaunted as light! Matt 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!


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Answer 2

The Sabbath is on Saturday. Saturday is the Seventh day of the week. I use to attend church regularly on Sundays for many years until I learn the real truth regarding the Sabbath. I am now a Seventh-day Adventists. The Sabbath begins sundown Friday and end sundown Saturday. I will be worshiping the Lord this coming Sabbath.

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy.

Exodus 20:8-11.

Answer 3

I wish I had a dime for every time this "question" has been posed on here.

No one ever changed days. Yours is what is known as a red-herring question.

The seventh day is still the sabbath day, and the first day is still the first day; Sunday.

If people worship on Sunday, what is that to you? You have something against Sunday? People are not free to worship whenever they want? Oh... it's Thursday... I can't worship God for another two days!!!

And are you claiming Jesus only worshiped the Father on sabbaths? He never worshiped the Father on any other day?

The Catholic church claims they changed the "day" but there is no evidence to support this. What Pope? What decree? What council? All their literature dating back to their origins contain no such declaration.

Now a question for you. God commanded Israel through a covenant law to keep the sabbath. When did God command you?

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Answer 4

From what I've read there were several reasons why it was changed.

1) Because early Christians recognized that Jesus rose on the 8th day (which would be Sunday) that's the day they chose to worship.

2) The Bible just says six days you work, rest on the seventh ... it does not say the seventh day is Saturday.

3) The emporer Constantine in 321 AD issued an edict declaring Sunday as a day of rest when shops would close, but it was a civil edict, not one of the church. Part of the reason for this was to separate Christians from Jews (they were at the time being persecuted) as well as to stop folks who were both pagan and Christian to stop celebrating the "Sun" day as a pagan holiday.

4) There are 2 instances in the New Testament that shows the disciples coming together to break bread, to collect money, etc. on Sunday.

In all honesty, does it matter which day as long as you follow the command to work six days then rest the seventh? Isn't the idea to give us one day of rest for our bodies, our minds and our souls?

Answer 5

The Catholic Church did cause the change however, you missed the point. The creative week is seven days. A day with the Lord is like a thousand years. Recorded history goes back to four thousand BC. Plus two thousand years since Jesus equals six thousand years or six days. The Sabbath is a type and shadow for the Millennium. The Sabbath day, when Satan is bound, is the day that God can rest. Are you ready?

Answer 6

We aren't to worship a "day" of the week. Christ became our Sabbath(rest) and our atonement, our everything in completeness.

One should rest everyday in the WORD, not just on a Saturday or Sunday..

Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Christ didn't worship a Sabbath, but went into the synagogues and taught.

Answer 7

That is about resting in the Lord.It certainly isn't Saturday or Sunday at the same time all over the world.If it were a day,many would be breaking it.And who gets the right to say their timezone is God's timezone.God is outside of time.

Answer 8

Saturday is indeed the Sabbath....it is a day of rest, that doesn't mean that worshipping on Sunday is wrong as long as REST occurs on the SAbbath...

sunday Worship celebrates the RESSURECTION,,since Jesus was at REST on the sabbath

-God rested on the seventh day...
-"it is finished.."-Jesus [just before sundown and beginning of SHAbbat

edit: for all those who think I'm a legalist[the 5 thumbs down gave it away]: I concede we're not under the law..but isn't it still a good idea to honor your father and mother, to not kill, steal or commit adultery? Why would following the 4th commandment be anti-Christian??

Answer 9

There is no "scriptural authority" for Christians to keep Shabbat anyway - it was given to the JEWS as a sign of the Covenant between us and God. And there is no such thing as being "grafted in" to us, sorry. Nor is there any need to be. This idea of being "grafted in" is a false Church invention.

Non-Jews were given their Path to Righteousness by God on Mt. Sinai as well, and this is by living as a Noahide (Righteous Gentile).

The Noahides are to worship the God of Israel side by side with us equally by this method. It is the Noahides who will have a hand in rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem, as well.

This is all that non-Jews need for Righteousness -- not believing in some pagan god/man human blood sacrifice for sin - this has never been the role of the Messiah, it comes from ancient paganism which the Church adopted.

Please see: http://www.noahide.org

Non-Jews are always welcome to take the day off if they like, and remember God, but this is not the same thing as the Jewish observance of Shabbat as a sign of the Covenant.

Answer 10

So you are one of the Seventh Day Adventists?

I worship God every day. But join with my congregation on Sunday. It's a tradition that was started with the disciples meeting on Sunday following Christ's crucifixion. He appeared to them on that first Sunday and appeared again the following Sunday. Doesn't this seem to you that God was blessing their Sunday meetings? They continued to meet on Sunday as a commemoration of his resurrection, and we continue that tradition today. But churches also worship on other days, some Saturday evening, some Wednesday, etc.