Which day does Christ want us to keep for the sabbath, saturday or sunday, does it really matter??

Answer 1

One big thing all those opposed to keeping the original Biblical Sabbath Holy need to keep in mind is 1 John 2:4, whether or not you are interested in obeying God boils down to this one verse.

Our present day named "Saturday" is the true Biblical Sabbath. What God has made Holy no man has the right to change. Please let no one decieve you on this important topic!

Irregardless of what the others are saying above, Sunday is not the Christian Sabbath. There is absolutely no Biblical justification for Sunday being a day of worship. Sunday was taken from paganism. Sunday worship was introduced by the apostate church (Catholic) of Rome under the rulership of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Constantine was a worshiper of Mithra the Sun God and never repented of it. All who worship on Sunday are sharing in the worship of this false god. Deuteronomy 12:30-31.

All this can be easily proven by an internet search of articles with the above names and topics.

The idea that the resurrection was on a Sunday is also false and stems from a lack of knowledge of the Biblical Holy Days, which was supressed by the Catholic church. Read the Passion story in the Gospels, there were TWO Sabbaths that week. Why?

Now, Hebrews 4, read it carefully, it mentions the 7th day, not the first day, as the sancified day of rest. Please look at your calender and see which day is which. All other deceptions aside, the fact that the 7th day is mentioned is proof that the weekly Sabbath is what God intended us to understand and keep. The "Old" Testament is full of Gods displeasure over the Israelite's failures to obey His Torah, including the Sabbath. And, I want you to notice something interesting about verse 8 in different translations:

Heb 4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. (AV)
Heb 4:8 (AKJV) For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Heb 4:8 (BBE) For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.
Heb 4:8 (YLT) for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;
Heb 4:8 (Darby) For if Jesus had brought them into rest, he would not have spoken afterwards about another day.
Heb 4:8 (ASV) For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

Why the difference between "Jesus" and Joshua"? It is because the real English transliteration of the name of the Savior is Joshua from His name "Yeshua". So, Hebrews is saying, basically, that Yeshua (Jesus) did not give the millenial Sabbath rest that the folks above me are alluding to, and as verse 9 states, the Sabbath is still to be kept by the people of God.

Almost all "christian" churches agree that the 10 Commandments are valid........except for the 4th. Few realize that the 4th Commandment is a reflection back to Creation when the very first thing God made holy was the SABBATH. Thus the Sabbath pre-existed the Siani Covenant! Read Genesis. Read Matthew 5:17-19, what is Christ talking about? Matthew 5:17-19 is in there for our benefit. This is the Messiah, the Savior of the world talking. He did not intend for a single Law of God to be rescinded by His sacrifice for those who broke that Law.

Why is the Law important? Romans 3:20, 7:7, and others
What is sin? 1John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
What happens to sinners? Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death....
Because we are under grace, and remember that the above verses define sin and the penalty for it, are we free to do as we wish? Romans 6:15

What is the sign of the True Church, the Elect, at the end of the age?

Revelations 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Lets keep it simple, forget for a moment that there are aproximately 613 Commandments in the Torah and that Yashua says that the least of them has not passed away {Again, read Matthew 5:17-19 and really think about what is being said}, there still remains the 10. Lets suppose (falliciously) that all that there are, are the 10. Are Christians required to keep them? Please study the following verses. Will you take the plain word of the Apostles of the Christ and the Christ Himself over the false teachings of your chruches?

Rev 22:14, Rev 12:17, 1 John 5:2-3, 1Jo 2:3-4, 1 John 3:4, 1 Corinthians 7:19, John 15:10, Mark 7:7, Matthew 5:19.

The 4th Commandment states:

Exodus 20:8 Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.9 On six days do all your work: 10 But the SEVENTH day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you: 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

The Sabbath was the first thing God created to be Holy. What God has made Holy, no man has the right to change. It was Holy before Sinai, it was made for man when man was made {Mark 2:27, and others)

You really owe it to yourselves to study the following links before rejecting the True Sabbath any longer.

For a study on how Catholic doctrine came to be follow this link:

http://philologos.org/__eb-ttb/default.h...

Source(s):
http://www.cbcg.org/rome's_challenge.htm...

http://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/holy-...

http://www.biblestudy.org/godsrest/main....

http://www.ucg.org/booklets/ss

The Sinai Covenant restating that Law had no effect on something that existed from creation. God says He made that day Holy, not some other day, and if God has made something holy then you cannot void it by deceptions and smooth lies. There are those who teach "The Sabbath of Creation had no end"....horse pucky......Genesis 2:1 ¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.....now, where does it say here that the 7th day never ended? It make absolutely no sense based on the definition of "days" given in the preceeding account of the creation. Did God somehow suddenly change the way He was counting?

Answer 2

Christians did not change the Sabbath. The Sabbath is represented by Saturday. The Sabbath is much more than one day of a week. The Sabbath is the Lords rest. God does not need rest but rested for the salvation of the world.You do understand the meaning of the Sabbath? The Sabbath is the day of the Lord and we receive this salvation by faith today but the literal day of the Lord is the return of Christ and is his Millennial Kingdom he will establish on the earth. Christ fuliflled all of the law those who accept the atonement are by faith made new and in agreement wiht the righteousness of God. The Sabbaths were kept as shadows of the coming promise. As were the clean and unclean laws and the sacrifices.

Answer 3

THE SEVENTH DAY is the Sabbath, and the seventh day is not determined using a Gregorian calendar, but rather the calendar of Yahweh.

EVERY passage where the Sabbath day is identified within any particular month, the seventh day sabbath is falling on the 8th, 15th, 2nd, or 29th day of the month. There are over 70 examples. There are no examples of the weekly sabbath falling on any other day of the month. Sometimes, month after month.

Does it matter? Well, seeing as one of the reasons for the Assyrian captivity of the House of Israyl was that they had stopped keeping his Sabbath, I think it matters. But the fact is we are to enter into HIS Sabbatismos, His Rest. The outward sign that this would be accomplished is observance of the very day that represence such entrance.

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Answer 4

The seventh day. Saturday.
Exodus 20:4

Remember the sabbath to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor but the seventh is for the Lord your God.

Sunday1,Monday2, Tuesday3, Wednesday4, Thursday5, Friday6, Saturday7.

That is the correct days in order because Sunday was the first day of the week until someone decided to put Sunday as the last day of the week on the calendar.

Constantine is the one who created church on Sunday. Because he wanted to join christianity and pagan worship and he very well couldnt do that on saturday when the believers of Christ were already worshipping on saturday.

So sunday became the day of worship those who used to be pagain worshipers but were switching to some sort of christianity.

There is a book called constantine that will back this up. There is the bible and the commandments. There are Ellen G White books that will concur as well. Do some research you will learn alot.

I go to church on saturday. We are called Seventh day adventists. There are Seventh day baptists as well and Seventh day methodists. All the above worship on Saturday not Sunday.

Hope that helps.

Answer 5

According to the Bible, the Sabbath is a sign of covenant between Christ and His people. The Bible states that after the creation days, God rested on the seventh day and made it holy. The early Christians practice the seventh day as their Sabbath day. Roman Emperor Constantine during the council of Nicea change the Christian Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day of the week. The Jews of Israel and the Seventh Day Adventist Church are the ones that I know who are still practicing the Sabbath day. Does it matter, according to the Bible YES.

Answer 6

Your question is somewhat vague: Are you asking whether it matters if Saturday or Sunday are used as Sabbath Day, or are you asking if the Sabbath is necessary at all?

If the former, and if G-d is truly benevolent and just, then, "no", it doesn't really matter, although your clergy might not appreciate it if you show-up on the "wrong" day! ;)
(can you imagine the traffic jams if everyone observed the Sabbath on the same day?!?!) ;)

If the latter, then it would be breaking one of the commandments, which, one could only believe, would be self-defeating if G-d relented on that! ;)

Answer 7

Saturday is the sabbath and Sunday is the Lords day to thank Jesus for his gift it has nothing to do with the sabbath.

Answer 8

That's a hard question to answer. God did rest on the seventh day. Thatis why we have a week. Most Christians worship monday, because that is the day Jesus rose from the dead. I personaly believe that as long Christians set aside one day to gather together and help each other in Christ and worship as one body, that I think God will alow it. Of course this is something we should do every-day.

Answer 9

A Mormon's perspective:

For centuries the Sabbath day was the seventh day, but we believe it was changed to "the Lord's day" - the first day of the week, the day of the Lord's resurrection - in the very early days of the Church.

As you know, the first day of the week was the day that the Lord rose from the dead (Matt. 28:1-6) and appeared to his gathered disciples (John 20:19). Thereafter, the first day of the week was called "the Lord's day" (e.g., Rev. 1:10), and we see some evidence of the early saints gathering and preaching on the first day of the week. Acts 20:7 reports:

"And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them.... "

The New Testament, though, is not explicit about worship being changed from Saturday to Sunday. But other early Christian documents clarify this. The widely accepted early Christian documents, The Epistle of Barnabas and The Didache, show that the Sabbath was on Sunday:
"Ye perceive how He speaks: Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,] when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning on the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfullness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead. And when He had manifested Himself, He ascended into the heavens."
(Epistle of Barnabas 15, in ANF [Ante-Nicene Fathers] 1:147, brackets in original, as cited by Bickmore, p. 272.)
"But every Lord's day do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice."
(Didache 14, in ANF 1:62, as cited by Bickmore, p. 272.)

And Ignatius told the Magnesians to no longer observe the [former] Sabbath, but to live "in the observance of the Lord's day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death" (Ignatius, Magnesians 9, in ANF 1:62, as cited by Bickmore, p. 272).
In the second century, Justin Martyr described a Christian worship service:

"And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we have before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability.... 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."
(Justin Martyr, First Apology 67)
Where possible, Latter-day Saints continue to worship on this new Sabbath day, the first day of the week.

Answer 10

He specified the 7th day-- if it did not matter he would NOT have specified. The seventh day (Saturday) IS the Sabbath of God

Answer 11

God don`t want us to keep the sabbath. That was only on the old testment, before the sacrifice of Jesus. We are under a new alliance and don`t need the Law anymore. If you want to know more about the law read Galatians