AM I correct in saying this?

Question

Saturday is the original Sabbath? That is what it is right? And Christians worship on Sunday because that is the day God rose.

Let me ask you, where in the bible does it say to change the dates and time of what God's authority has put there? The worship and rest day is Saturday even Christ himself did this. So who changed the day to Saturday?

Answer 1

Saturday is the Sabbath. Plain and simple. It is the only day that God blessed and made holy. The pope claims to have changed the day to Sunday. There is some writings in the catholic church that explains how God became dissatisfied with the Saturday Sabbath, but the real reason they changed it was because they didn't want the association with the Jews....which they were persecuting at the time.

The Sabbath is Saturday and has always been Saturday and always will be Saturday. God does not change.

For those who say.."then why aren't we slaughtering animals for our sins anymore?".....Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice.... God did not change his mind in this case, he was pointing forward with the animal sacrifices to the ultimate sacrifice of His son.

EDIT: What Christ did on the Sabbath did not nullify it or say it wasn't important, it was to show that some people had taken it too far. Jesus showed that it was ok to do good on Sabbath and it was made as a day to spend with our heavenly Father. Not a day to starve or feel bad and do nothing.... but to rest and enjoy spending time with God.

Answer 2

I'm an atheist too, like one of the other answerers, but I have a different answer for you.

The Commandment God supposedly gave to Moses was to remember the Sabbath day, and to keep it holy. The gospels say that Jesus did this and that he recognized the traditional Jewish Sabbath, but it does not say He went to church. There was no Christian church at the time. Jews keep the Sabbath holy by following the orders on how to keep sabbath holy. No work from dusk to dusk, etc. Jesus didn't change this. In fact, he specifically said that no law of Moses would change until the end times.

The Adventists recognize this and do all of their Sabbath rituals on Saturday. So, a Christian who doesn't keep the Saturday sabbath holy is in violation of biblical edict. But they are still free to worship on Sunday and get dispensation by asking God's forgiveness in their prayers.

Ain't loopholes great?

Answer 3

No one changed anything. The apostles used to meet and worship on Sundays and on Saturdays. They sometimes even did this daily. You must be careful not to fall into the same sin as the Pharisees -legalism. They were so worried about the unimportant things that they forgot the most important things, and for that Jesus severely rebuked them. We, as Gentile Christians, need only to set one day a week aside for rest and to worship God. Do you really think that God cares which day it is? Do you really think that He would eternally condemn His Bride for setting aside Sundays instead of Saturdays? Do you not think that it is far more important to set one day, any day, aside to rest and to worship our Creator? Do you not think that Christians should be worshipping and have fellowship with God every day? One day of rest out of seven is for our own spiritual, mental and physical good. No one can last long working 7 days a week. The reason that Gentile Christians worship on Sundays is because Jesus Christ rose from the grave on a Sunday. This is merely a commemoration of that event.

Answer 4

Jews celebrate sabbath on Saturday. Christians set themselves apart by worshiping on Sunday because Christ rose on a Sunday. {educated guess BTW}

Answer 5

You are mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures.

"On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus."Luke 24

Bottom line is.

For the Christian, EVERYDAY IS TO BE HOLY (remember to keep the Sabbath holy)

We worship together and gather on Sunday because that became the custom in the New Testament and EVERY one of the four Gospels tells us that. But you can pick your rest day, no rule against it.

Answer 6

In Christianity, the Sabbath is a weekly religious day of rest as ordained by one of the Ten Commandments: the third commandment by Roman Catholic and Lutheran numbering, and the fourth by Eastern Orthodox and other Protestant numbering.

The practice is inherited from Judaism, the parent religion of Christianity; the Hebrew word Hebrew: שַׁבָּת‎ ("Å¡abbat", read in English as shabbat) means "the [day] of rest (or ceasing)" and entails a ceasing or resting from labor. The institution of the Old Testament Sabbath, a "perpetual covenant ... [for] the people of Israel" (Exodus 31:16-17), was in respect for the day during which God rested after having completed the Creation in six days (Genesis 2:2-3, Exodus 20:8-11).

Originally denoting Saturday, the seventh day of the week (or, more precisely, the time period from Friday sunset to Saturday nightfall), the term "sabbath" can now mean one of several things, depending on the context and the speaker:

* Saturday as above, in reference to the Jewish day of rest, also observed by some Christian groups;
* Sunday, as a synonym for "the Lord's Day" in commemoration of the resurrection of Christ, for most other Christian groups;
* Any day of rest, prayer, worship or ritual, as in "Friday is the Muslim Sabbath"

A person who observes Saturday as the Sabbath is known as a Sabbatarian.

The word is also infrequently used to describe the annual Jewish Holy Days observed by a minority of Christian groups, also called High Sabbaths or High Day Sabbaths (John 19:31): the First and Last Days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Eighth Day of the Feast.
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Answer 7

The Sabbath actually can fall on any day now that Christ has risen. Most Christians worship on Sunday because that's the day that Christ rose. Now man may have his Sabbath on any day he pleases. Romans 14:5 changed this.

Answer 8

I'll try, as an Atheist, to explain.

Supposedly, this mythical guy Jesus (1) gave people a new covenant and wiped out the Old Testament law. Since it was an OT law to honor Saturday as the sabbath, this was null and void as well. All that was left was to pick a day of rest, and some chose Sunday.

Nutty, huh?

Answer 9

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

Answer 10

And look what Jesus did on the Sabbath: healed many people, let his apostles pick wheat... the day was not important to Jesus. We are to celebrate him at all times.

The choice to make Sunday the formal day of worship was however made because that is the day that he was believed to have resurrected. Operating of course that the Julian calendar is the same as the Israelite calendar (which it wasn't).