When did Jesus change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday?

Question

I've searched and searched and haven't seen why we have Sunday services and not Saturday services. People have told me that Jesus changed it but never gave me a verse or reasoning. My research has found that the Catholic church changed it. If so then why do non-catholics observe the Sunday worship instead?

Paperback: Thanks for your contribution. However Paul met Jesus. Acts 9:4-6. Thanks

Duh 2: Why do you have to be rude? I do read the scriptures (e.g. Ex 20:8-11). I've heard the moons theory before. That's not part of my question. Obviously you're the one being lead on by a church since you cited one. I'm citing the Bible. Snap!

Oh, and Saturday is the seventh day. Just cuz we don't use a Jewish calendar doesn't mean it's not the seventh day.

New Order: Soooooo the catholic church did it. That's what I said. Thanks for the answer but it still doesn't answer my question, just compliments my research.

Denise: Jesus said we didn't have to observe the Sabbath? Where?

Amy: That says that we shouldn't allow other people's judgements sway us from the truth. It's basically talking about religious zealots who are removed from the truth. It doesn't say "you don't have to observe the sabbath anymore". Thanks a bunch but I need more specific scripture than that.

Edit: I'd like not to hear about Jesus's resurrection as a reason for the Sabbath change. That doesn't explain anything and a Sunday resurrection doesn't make sense. Do a search on Yahoo answers about the Sunday Easter scam. You'll see some detailed explanations of how Jesus couldn't have risen on Sunday.

Paperback. When did Paul say he lied about all of this? The book of Exodus was written hundreds of years after the event. The Israelites didn't know they were going to be written into a book. Is the Exodus false?

Johnny Dangerous: So are you implying that today's churches are sinning by worshipping on Sunday? You're saying that they changed it with no scriptural reasoning or authority.

Hogie: I wish I could be like you. Instead of giving any sort of reference you disproved everything I said just by saying it. Are you a self-proclaimed Pope or something? Were the names "ignorant" and "hypocrite" taken when you got an account on Yahoo? I'm going to go to Italy to let them know that Constantine and Pope Pius had absolutely nothing to do with the changing of holy days. I'll tell them Hoagie sent me.

Hoagie, look in the mirror. Everytime someone tells me that Jesus changed the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday they don't have proof. Nothing. Ironically that's the same amount of proof you gave me. There is no difference between them and you. All I want is the truth. All you want to do is retaliate against it. Please don't answer any of my questions ever again unless you have some proof to back up your claims instead of emotional jargon.

Answer 1

Jesus never changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday; man did. This person is the Pope or better known as the Papacy that has tried to change God's Law.

DANIEL 7:25 tells us "HE SHALL SPEAK GREAT WORDS AGAINST THE MOST HIGH, AND SHALL WEAR OUT THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH, AND THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS..."
ROM.1:25 = "WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE, AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOR EVER. AMEN."
http://www.truecatholic.org/baltp2.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/sc/YJesusCame/page4.html
http://www.marianland.com/tencommandments/ten_commandments.html
http://www.padfield.com/1993/tencom.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
Screensaver with verses (Old Testament Law, New Testament Law and how it was changed by Papacy)
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(Dan.7:25) by taking out the 2nd commandment and replacing the sabbath Saturday with Sunday (which is the 3rd commandment in the catechism)and by adding covet to the 9th. He also changed the time of when you do worship; Catholics say midnight to midnight while in Gen.1:58,13,19,23,31 it says "evening to evening".
Evidence: (Catholics know when the seventh day is)
"1. Is Saturday the 7th day occording to the Bible & the 10 Commandments.
"I answer yes.
"2. Is Sunday the first day of the week & did the Church change the 7th day--Saturday---for Sunday, the 1st. day:
"I answer yes.
"3. Did Christ change the day
"I anser no! Faithfully yours,
"J. Card. Gibbons"
--Gibbon's Autograph letter.
"Ques.--Which is the Sabbath day?
"Ans.--Saturday is the Sabbath day.
"Ques.--Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
"Ans.--We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."--Peter Geiermann, The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1946 ed.), p.50. Geiermann received the "apostolic blessing" of Pope Pius x on his labors, Jan.25,1910.
Bible Readings pg.194.

"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act...And the act is a Mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things." ---H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons.

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Not all christians worship Sunday; some do worship on Saturday. I do; my church is called The Living Church of God.
http://www.lcg.org/beliefs.shtml
The one's that do worship on Sunday believe that Jesus changed the day when he was risen on Sunday, but wait a minute it never tells us in the Bible that Jesus rose on Sunday; it tells us he rose Saturday Evening-so there's one error.
http://www.lcg.org/cgi-bin/tw/magazine/tw-mag.cgi?category=Magazine29&item=1104248897
Other errors include twisting contexts to mean one thing when it doesn't mean that. There's several instances of these.
One instance is 1Cor.16:1 people site saying see there was an offering on the first day; that's why we keep it. Is that really what it's talking about? No. This text in 1Cor.16:1 talks about a famine that was happening. More details on this and other texts they give in this site below:
http://www.lcg.org/cgi-bin/tw/booklets/tw-bk.cgi?category=Booklets1&item=1104414149

Answer 2

Hello, Sunday is celebrated as the Sabbath because the early church fathers of the Roman Catholic Church changed the day of celebration of the Sabbath to Sunday - The Day of the Sun. Constantine - the real first Pope, and a Roman Emperor, was more interested in uniting the Roman empire politically by uniting all the religions of the time under one unified state religion, he chose Chrisitianity as the up and coming religion of the times. Just because you have the might to do something, does not mean you have the right to do something. Sun day is the ancient pagan day named for the pagan practice of Sun Worship, based in the astrological science of the planets. As Christianity is an offshoot of Judiaism, they both started with Saturday sabbaths. There is no biblical proof of the right to change the day officially. The Catholic church claims they had the right to change it, and that most other Christian denominations still use it is proof that they were justified and right for doing so. The Protestants just kind of inherited Sunday worship. The true Sabbath is Saturday, but the main issue is do you hold the Sabbath sacred and holy which ever day you celebrate? Jesus Christ himself, told us that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. In the times to come the true Sabbath will be reinstated. Until that time, Do what is right in your own heart, and allow others to do the same, so that it is not sin unto you. Reg

Answer 3

PAGAN SUN WORSHIP AND CATHOLICISM
THE PAGAN SUN WHEEL, THE OBELISK AND BAAL

Because they are the whore in Revelation that sits on many waters this is the Devils churches. The Devil said he is going to be like the Most High. See the Sabbath is a sign of God true people. But Sunday worship is a sign as well it is a Mark of the beast. See the beast which is the devil and his church uses Sunday for their Sun worship. Jesus said I came not to destroy the Law and the Prophets but to fulfill the Law. The Sabbath is the true day of worship of the Lord this is why when judgment day happens. Jesus will say I never know you depart from me you worker of sin and death. But the sabbath is not the only thing that man and the devil have changed. See people believe in all this so called holi-days but they are not of God. See God has his 7 Annual Holy Days that we must keep forever. Man also changed time. See a lot of people believe 12am to 12pm constitute a day that is not exactly true. Because God days begins in the evening and ends and evening so sun set to sun set is a day in Gods eyes. Okay lets look at another lie. That the new year start in January. How can a new year start when everything is still dead. The earth is still dead meaning it is not green people wake up. The new Year start in the month of Passover the month of Abib which is March/April. The Lies run deep but people refuse to read for themselves to find out the truth. It is there for all to find but many and called but few are chosen.

Answer 4

I totally agree. I think non-catholics worship on a Sunday because of pure laziness and lack of understanding. The catholic church are the ones who changed Sunday from being the first day of the week to the seventh, and nothing was done. Rather than read their bible and see that no where does it say that Jesus changed the Sabbath day, most Christians will just go along with it and believe what they are told by their pastors and priests.

Answer 5

I wish I had a dime now for every time someone asked this intellectually dishonest loaded question.

In your "research" which pope "changed" the day? What council?

The Catholic church "claims" they changed the day, but there is no evidence they officially ever did.

So much for your "research."

Why don't you do some real research and discover what happened to the old covenant and all the commandments that go with it.

Too much trouble for you?

Were Christians ever a party to that old covenant? No, they were not. So by what twisted logic would you conclude Christians are bound to keep the sabbath at all?

And did that covenant end? What happens to a covenant when either party to it dies?

Did God in the personage of Christ die? Is he not described as having been the God of the old covenant?

Try doing some real research.

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Your claim is that they "changed the day" which they never did. Try looking more closely in regards to what they actually did, and not what you say they did and what some of them claim they did as opposed to what they actually did.

Sunday is still Sunday, and Saturday is still Saturday; the seventh day of the week.

And it is STILL a red-herring argument and totally irrelevant to the issue of whether Christians should keep the sabbath or not, regardless of what people do in relation to the first day of the week.

Yours is one of black and white thinking that rejects any other possibilities. Either Sunday or Saturday.

Your ad hominem response is so typical. You can't deal with the facts, so you attack the opposition. In this, you are in good company. The Pharisees, et.al. did the same to Christ.

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Answer 6

Neither Jesus nor the Roman Catholic Church changed it; the practice developed from the very earliest days of the Christian movement. What happened was this: The first Christ-followers were Jews who accepted Him as the promised Messiah, and like Him, continued to honor the Sabbath on Saturday by attending synagog and following certain restrictions about work and travel (even though Jesus had re-interpreted such legalisms, as, for example, we see at the end of Mark 2 and beginning of Mark chapter 3). Anyway, being good Jews and still accustomed to these practices, the early believers did not travel to the places of Christian worship until after sundown when the travel limits no longer applied. At about the same time, as the Gospel spread to Gentiles who did not have any connection to these Sabbath travel limits, the day of Christian worship was settled on Sunday, 'the first day of the week,' for that is the day Jesus rose from the dead. In so doing, He inaugurated a New Creation, and that is the other reason it's on Sunday, the first day of the week - to recognize that in Christ, a new creation is possible in us and in the world.

Answer 7

We have the freedom to worship on any day, be it Sunday, Saturday, or Wednesday.

The New Testament very specifically says that we are not bound by the Sabbath as the Jews were in the Old Testament (Colossians 2:16-17). That is the reason many Christian churches do not observe a Sabbath on Saturday.

They do have Sunday as a regular day of worship, but this day was freely chosen by the church. The principles of the moral law as expressed in the 10 Commandments are, of course, still in force.

Answer 8

I thought Constantine changed that when they were working it out so Christianity could work in Rome. I suppose Saturday was market day or something in Rome.

Also passover was changed to Easter just cause by him as well.

Makes you wonder about what else came or was lost to this. I would be scared if that was my religion since much is relaying on Constantine, Romans, personal interest, voting system used for books, etc.

Answer 9

Jesus did not change the Sabbath...he came to fulfill the law...

man made religions gave themselves false authority to change God's laws....

we are now under grace, but we are still required to follow the laws.... the ten commandments, the Sabbath, the food laws were not thrown out the window....

if such a change were to be.... there would have been a serious sermon on the mount regarding such.....

there was no mention of any change of anything...

read revelations....

Answer 10

Jesus never changed the Sabbath, the christians did when did rose on the third day this is why christians go to church on Sunday.