Why do Christians worship on Sunday when the Bible says the Sabbath is on Saturday?

Answer 1

The day was changed by people, not because God commanded it. God says to keep the seventh day, and never said anything different.


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Answer 2

The Lord's day is Sunday, the day of the resurrection. Although the Lord's Day is numerically the first day of the week, it actually represents the eighth day, which is the day of new beginnings.

The only place that keeping the Sabbath is commanded is in a covenant that the New Testament calls obsolete. True, the New Testament does not explicitly say that the Sabbath is obsolete. Instead, it says much more—that the entire old covenant is obsolete. It says that Christians do not have to keep the law of Moses. It says a large category of law is no longer required, and it never tells Christians to keep the Sabbath.

In Col. 2:16-17, Paul says, "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. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ."

Answer 3

Great question, one of my favorites. And unless you can answer it you should be a Seventh-Day Adventist.
Nowhere in the Bible do we find an explicit abrogation of the 3rd commandment, which refers to the Lord's Day -- which is Saturday. So, who said and on what authority : Let's move this to Sunday.
This is an argument for an authority. If you pick Tuesday as your day, on your own, you are disobeying. Doesn't matter that you still honor the Lord. The day is Sunday now.
Well there must have been a church, just one church, with authority to make it Sunday and to be considered as following Jesus in so doing. I won't go further because it will get controversial but I hope I've thrown a little light.
Almost forgot: The reason it was changed was because the Resurrection was considered the beginning of a new creation and so the day fixed in the old creation could be changed though of course -- since worship is a divine law -- not done away with altogether.

Answer 4

It all depends on when you start counting days of the week, of course.

But Christians began worshipping on Sunday to commemorate the day of week on which the resurrection took place. I don't think God really cares much whether we choose Saturday or Sunday, as long as we do something to keep the Sabbath.

Answer 5

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 6

The Sabbath is a covenant between God and the Jewish people. If you carefully study the prophetic significance of the feasts, you will find that the gentiles were prophesied to worship on Sunday according to the feast of Pentecost.

The disciples met on Sunday in commemoration of the Lord's resurrection. It is also the inaugural day of the church since Pentecost took place on the day after Sabbath (ie Sunday). This is also in fulfillment of the prophecy of Pentecost being geared for the gentile church seeing that it is the only feast to use leavened bread.

Leviticus 23:15-17
And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. 16 Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD. You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the LORD.

The Sabbath day was "the rest" that came through Christ. I ceased working for my salvation when I accepted Him as Lord and Savior.

Hebrews 4:10
For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

So if you are not "resting in Jesus" I can understand your need to try and work for your salvation through the keeping of the law.

Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/keeping_the_commandments.pdf

SnakEve - The Hebrew Shabbat is on Saturday. The first day of the week is Sunday.

Answer 7

Every day of the week is the Lord's day, not just Saturday or Sunday. Worship is for every day.

Colossians says that people who try to push one day over another, are wrong.

Answer 8

Please explain to me why Christians cannot worship on Sunday, or any day for that matter.

Are you implying Christians are required to keep the conditions of a covenant law they were never a party to, such as the sabbath?

If so, then what of the rest of the old covenant?

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Answer 9

"SATURDAY the True Lord's Day
Changed by Antichrist
Dan. 7:25"

Answer 10

Where on earth does it say Saturday? Are you sure you're not just looking at calendar (made by heathens) and assuming Saturday is the seventh? Because I assure you, most people feel like their week ends on Sunday.