Did Paul keep GOD'S Sabbath or Sunday?

Question

Based on GOD'S word was Paul a Sabbath keeper or a Sunday keeper?
I can't find any examples or instructions in GOD'S word for christians to celebrate the discovery of our Savior's empty tomb on Sun day morning.
.Paul never assembled on Sun day morning nor did he instruct christians to do so.

GOD Bless,

Answer 1

Paul was a Sabbath keeper & so were all who followed him as he followed Messiah Yeshua. The ones who came later corrupted the Scriptures & followed lies.

The 2 mentions of 1st day are not proof of SUN day worship at all.



"IF YOU LOVE ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS" very simple & easy. DWYD. Do what Yeshua did!

Answer 2

Your questions/statements are based on some false premises. Paul continued keeping the law so as to be able to influence other Jews. The real issue though was whether gentile Christians should undergo circumcision and keep the law, or not. In Acts 15, it was decided they did not have to keep the law, and that law included the sabbath command.



To say one is a "Sunday keeper" misses the purpose behind the "keeping" of Sunday, which is really a misnomer. The early church gathered on Sundays for the purpose of communal prayers and worship only. It was not considered or used as a day of rest.



You state, no man was ever given the authority to change a command from God. You are so right. So why would you insist gentile Christians keep old covenant commandments, seeing as they are not a legal party to the old covenant? Just as you have no authority to change a command from God, you have no authority to impose commands of God onto those whom God has not imposed those commands.



Your comment regarding Acts 20:7 ignores the fact that the writer was Luke; a gentile, who was writing to a gentile audience. There is no reason to believe he would write from a Jewish perspective regarding a Saturday evening gathering.



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Answer 3

Yes Paul was a Sabbath keeper. But he also meet and taught on the first day of the week. The first day of the week on the Jewish calendar is Sunday. Many examples of this (Sabbath which is Saturday being the last day of the week and the first day of week Sunday) in your bible. Examples of the disciples meeting are Acts 20:7 and 1 Corinthians 16:2 and I am sure there are more these are just two I know off hand.

Answer 4

... so what day do you propose the Sabbath should be seen on?



Sabbath is not a specific day of the week (and it certainly doesn't mean "Saturday" as some people think). It is just a regular -- usually weekly -- day of worship. It could be Tuesday.



The 7-day week was actually established by the Babylonians long before Judaism took hold. A lunar cycle is about 28 days long and there's about 7 days between each major phase of the moon (new, first, full, and third). The bible doesn't indicate in any one place where in that cycle the Sabbath should be observed.



So, given that, your question doesn't make any sense.

Answer 5

The disciples meet on Sundays.



Acts 20



7 Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.



And the fourth commandment was a sign as the circumcision and rainbow was. That why Jesus could change the Sabbath to The Lords Day. He did all He could do to show the Pharisees that the Sabbath was over and out.



MIMI

Answer 6

The switch from Saturday to Sunday probably came about a little later when Christians had been thrown out of the Temple and were having to make their way as a religion, not as a Jewish sect. Paul is very, very early in this process, so it is no surprise that he didn't get into that stuff.



I have no need to ignore things that do not show up, so far as I can discern (ahem) in the Bible.



I say, if it makes sense, go for it.



If you know why Christians made the switch, you know it's based on good sense.

If you do not know why the switch was made, you might be tempted to throw stones....

Answer 7

By faith we are saved, not by anything else.



By faith we are saved, not by anything else.

2 Corinthians 3:6,7. Notice the commandments, and insisted compliance to the letter of the law, is called ministry of death written on stone.

Mark 2: 25-28. David violates sanctioned law yet Christ says it's o.k. Man has preeminence over the sabbath. Romans 14: esp 5,6,14. THis whole argument states it doesn't matter what you do, just as long as its done unto the Lord. THe whole book of romans is about law verses faith. If you insist on a day that must be complied with, or else....you are insisting on the letter which kills, the ministry of death. Do you not understand that the ten commandments can not save, were never meant to. They are only a mirror which shows us ourselves, what we lack and they point to the need of Christ and then we walk according to Spirit, which is freedom, not by law, which is bondage.

Again...By faith in Christ we are saved, not by anything else.

Answer 8

Christians place way too much emphasis upon Paul's "hard to understand" letters:



2Pe 3:15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,

2Pe 3:16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are *hard to understand*, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.



- Paul is NOT our God:



Deu 5:12 Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yehovah your God has commanded you.



Eze 20:20 And keep My sabbaths holy, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am Yehovah your God.





- Acts 20:7 is in context to Paul beginning the counting of the Omer upon the first day of the week "after the Sabbath" following "Unleavened Bread" for the seven Sabbaths leading to the fiftieth Day of Shavuot / Pentecost (Feast of Weeks) as instructed in the Torah.



Act 20:6 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of *Unleavened Bread*, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

Act 20:7 *On the first day of the week*, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. ...



Act 20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on *the day of Pentecost*.



Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the *Feast of Unleavened Bread* to Yehovah; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ...



Lev 23:15 "You shall *count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath*, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.

Lev 23:16 You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to Yehovah.



http://www.karaite-korner.org/omer.shtml





- In 1 Corinthians Paul was making a collection on the first day of the week because for the Day of Shavuot / Pentecost ("Feast of Weeks") the men are not to arrive in Jerusalem "empty-handed" according to the instructions of the Torah:



1Co 16:2 On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.

1Co 16:3 And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to *Jerusalem*. ...



1Co 16:8 But I will stay in Ephesus until *Pentecost*,



Deu 16:16 "Three times a year all your males shall appear before Yehovah your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the *Feast of Weeks*, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before Yehovah *empty-handed*.

Answer 9

Governmental Organization of Deviants does not have Sabbath.

Answer 10

Yes.



For those are in Christ Jesus have fulfilled the law.

Answer 11

he didn't keep the law Jesus fulfilled for him

Answer 12

and i should care about this WHY?