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The Christian Sabbath.
The Bible tells us that God sanctified the seventh day Sabbath as a day in remembrance that He’s the Creator of Heaven and Earth. It says, Exodus 20:8-eleven “Remember the sabbath day, to maintain it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: However the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work…”.
So if God ordained Sunset Friday to Sunset Saturday, the seventh day as the Sabbath, why do most Christians go to Church on Sunday?
Who changed the day to Sunday, and when? Did Jesus? Is it spoken of within the scriptures? Was there a new commandment written to amend the fourth commandment after Jesus died? Will we preserve Sunday in honor of his resurrection?
It has been firmly established by numerous historians and theologians that the books of Matthew and Luke have been written between 60 and 80 AD. Which means if the Sabbath had changed to Sunday after Jesus demise, then it ought to have been recorded by these Bible writers. Instead though we see that relatively than inform us of any change to the day, Luke as a substitute he states in Luke 23:56, “…And so they rested on the Sabbath in line with the commandment.”
Jesus Himself in His prophecy concerning the destruction of the temple, which occurred in about 70 AD, when He was speaking to His Disciples said Matthew 24:20, “And pray that your flight will not be in winter or on the Sabbath.” This exhibits conclusively that Jesus knew that the Sabbath would still be in existence a few years after the cross.
Historians also verify that the seventh day Sabbath was stored by each Jews and Gentiles, till around a hundred and twenty AD. At the moment the persecution of the Jews became so nice that many Christians in some areas determined to start holding Sunday, so as to attempt to differentiate themselves from the Jews, who were still faithfully protecting the Sabbath of the Lord. Some Christians started to use the excuse that it was in honor of the resurrection, as there was no scriptural foundation for this change. At the moment Christians in areas outside the Roman empire continued to maintain the true seventh day Sabbath of God.
In 321 A.D. Constantine, who was a pagan, became Caesar in Rome. As he started to see the balance of power shift from paganism to the Church he handed the first regulation enforcing Sunday worship in 321 AD. Sunday in fact was the day that the pagans stored holy in their worship of the Solar god. {Two} years after passing this regulation Constantine joined the Roman Catholic Church and began mingling paganism with Christianity. The pagans have been very involved with idolatry, so he took many of the statues of their gods and gave them Christian names, like St Peter and Mary. It was properly after four hundred AD before Sunday ultimately took on the title of the Lord’s Day.
In many documents, papers and books written by the Roman Catholic Church, they openly take credit for shifting the sanctity of the Seventh day Sabbath to Sunday, by their very own authority, which they consider is above that of the scriptures. Listed here are some examples.
“Protestants…settle for Sunday reasonably than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change…However the Protestant mind does not seem to comprehend that…In observing the Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope.” Our Sunday Visitor , February 15, 1950.
“From this we may perceive how nice is the authority of the church in deciphering or explaining to us the commandments of God – an authority which is acknowledged by the common follow of the whole Christian world, even of those sects which profess to take the holy Scriptures as their sole rule of faith, since they observe as the day of relaxation not the seventh day of the week demanded by the Bible, but the first day. Which we know is to be kept holy, only from the tradition and instructing of the Catholic church.” Henry Gibson, Catechism Made Simple, 2, 9th edition, vol. 1, p. 341-342.
“It was the Catholic church which…has transferred this rest to Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord. Subsequently the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) church.” Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Discuss In regards to the Protestantism of As we speak, p. 213. “Sunday is our mark or authority…the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” Catholic Report of London , Ontario, September 1, 1923. “The authority of the church might therefore not be sure to the authority of the Scriptures, as a result of the Church had changed…the Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, however by its own authority.” Canon and Custom, p. 263.
So it appears that evidently if Christians maintain the Sabbath on the seventh day, we’re following the commandment of God, but when we hold Sunday, we’re following the traditions of man. Does that really matter?
The Bible says in Mark 7:6-9 “Jesus answered them, “How proper Isaiah was when he prophesied about you! You are hypocrites, simply as he wrote: ‘These folks, says God, honor me with their words, however their heart is de facto far-off from me. It is no use for them to worship me, as a result of they train human guidelines as though they had been my legal guidelines!’ “You place aside God’s command and obey human teachings.” And Jesus continued, “You’ve a clever method of rejecting God’s legislation so as to uphold your personal teaching.” It seems clear that Jesus wanted us to stand agency on the teachings of the scriptures, and never on any non secular traditions instituted by man.
All Bible references are from the King James Version.
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