Why do many Christins teach that Sunday is the New covenant sabbath and it's a sin to work on that day?

Question

A quote from Rome herself:

The obligation of rest from work on Sunday remained somewhat indefinite for several centuries. A Council of Laodicea, held toward the end of the fourth century, was content to prescribe that on the Lord's Day the faithful were to abstain from work as far as possible.


http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14335a.htm

Answer 1

No law = No sin imputed: Romans 4:15; 5:13
Christ "is the end of the law": Romans 10:4
Christ is not the mend of law: Luke 5:36,37
So there is no sabbath law in place now.

Sunday is the first of the week (seven).
If first holy, the lump (week) also: Rom 11:16
Firstly pure grace is seven things: James 3:17;
And the first of the seven things is peace-able.

Revelation takes place on a Sabbath;
evident by seven benedictions therein.
But such would be a black sabbath of law.

Passover week has two Sabbaths;
One is annual and one is weekly.
The weekly is considered higher.
Yet there is a third aspect...

Jesus answered them (concerning the Sabbath):
My Father worketh hitherto, and I work(hitherto): John 5:17.
So he did not consider their Sabbath to be "The Sabbath".
For The Sabbath is neither annual nor weekly, but eternal.

On 7th Day: God ended blessed & sanctified, then rested;
But allegorically as if God rested his case of law vs grace.

It's now the "third day" = the seventh day = the last day.
Converted Peter allegorically compares two days for it:
1. The day of the LORD ... Law (for an eternity)
2. The day of God ... Grace (for an eternity)
Saying we should be looking for and hasting unto #2;
As if comparing the day(light) of this God vs that God.

Amos 5:18 concurs with Converted Peter:
The day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

1John 1 concurs with Converted Peter:
The day(light) of that God is light having no darkness at all,
and that is what we have heard of him from the beginning.

To wit, "that God" was in "Christ" reconciling the world: 2Cor5

Only what began can end. Law began, and law ends.
His Grace is eternal, has neither beginning nor end.

So then, we'll go with Grace for The (eternal) Sabbath.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 2

Christ fulfilled the Mosaic Laws, but the Ten Commandments are commandments, not laws, and are as valid today as they were in Moses' time.

We Christians use the Sabbath on Sundays because it was the Lord's day when He was resurrected. Furthermore, the fourth commandment of keeping the Sabbath day holy is still pertinent.

If a person doesn't have to work on Sundays because of their job then the Sabbath should be honored. Many people must work on Sundays and that is acceptable to make a living, but recreation, excessive traveling, and riotious living on the Sabbath is not acceptable.

Answer 3

Abstaining from work on the Sabbath is one of the Mosaic Laws of the Old Testament.

I know of no Christian church that teaches it is a sin to work on the Sabbath. If a person has a job that requires them to work on the day they consider a Sabbath, they have no choice, obviously. If a farmer has cattle to feed, he can't let them go hungry because it's the Sabbath, nor would God expect him to do that.

Mosaic Law has been fulfilled by Christ, dear one. Christians live under God's Grace of the New covenant. Only Jews lived under the law.

Christians are called to keep EVERY day holy, not just one called the Sabbath.

God bless!

Answer 4

It is said that we should honor the Sabbath and keep it holy. It isn't a sin to work. Rome is the Catholics' authority; Christians don't really listen to the pope. Sunday was just the day chosen; it could just as easily been called "Monday" or "Thursday." The important part is respecting the day of the Lord.

Answer 5

Does anyone really think that God cares if a person works on a Sunday? This type of petty quibbling is beyond ridiculous. What about doctors? Many people might be dead if medical personnel didn't work on Sundays. What about Vets? Who wants their dog to die just because the veterinarian is enjoying his Sabbath? What about firemen? Should they let a building burn, perhaps with trapped and frightened people, simply because it is Sunday?

I have noticed that radically religious people enjoy making silly rules in order to complicate life as much as possible, taking phrases from the Bible and trying to impose them on the modern world. The Bible was written before big hospitals, before veterinarians, before firemen, before the explosion of our population. If everyone took Sunday off, it would be a calamity.

Wake up, people. Realize that God is intelligent, understanding, merciful, and kind. He is not some petty office holder on a township council, thinking up ridiculous rules for the populace to follow. Love God all week. Work when it is necessary. He will know what is in your heart.

Answer 6

Christ is the morning sun he is the light,sunday is the day of the sun,the old Hebrew accepts any day as Sabbath as long as a day is aknowledged fro such a purpose when one cannot by anyother means worship on the prescribed day,a note here is sunday the priest is working and what we call saturday he is in sabbat preparing with the lord.

Answer 7

Jesus healed on the Sabbath and he was without sin. The new Sabbath(Sunday) is because we know Jesus rose from the dead on that day...therefore we worship on that day, the Lord's Day. Working is not a sin. However, if you can rest on that day and not work that is a blessing. The Lord said, 6 days shall you work, and rest on the 7th....He didnt mean, work monday thru saturday and rest on Sunday....or work sunday thru Friday and rest on Saturday....he just meant, work hard on 6 and rest on the 7th.

Answer 8

I think as long as one day each week is designated and observed as a Sabbath day, then the Lord's will is being obeyed. As Jesus teaches us, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath."

Answer 9

"If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." Isaiah 58:13-14

Answer 10

In answer to your question.... why is it a sin to work on that day? I don't know because the same Christians that say that have no hesitation about SHOPPING on their sabbath. You won't work yourself, but you'll make your co-workers work when they are sick because you won't fill in! Also, you will patronize restaurants and make non-Christians work. We are supposed to lead by example - some example that is.