Question:
Did God change the Sabbath from the 7th to the 1st day, or did man and when was it done?
2010-11-26 18:45:31 UTC
Christians today, of all faiths have a duty to defend, not their faith but the truth. God said "Search for me with all you heart". This is a tough challenge, but we all want to please God who said I change not?
Why do I think the Sabbath is important? Because it is the memorial of creation. It reminds us who God is and how we got here. After all that is the one day God asks us to remember.
Fourteen answers:
Susanna LIVES
2010-11-26 18:53:34 UTC
the church tried to change The Lord's Day Sabbath to sun day. as Daniel said they would "think to change times and laws" (Daniel 7:25) No one can actually change God's law, they only 'think' they were doing it. The converts catechism Doctrine pg. 50 tells us this"Question: which day is the Sabbath day?" Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath Day. Question: why do we observe sunday? Answer: because the church changed the day from Saturday to sunday.: There has been NO command from Jesus, the desciples, or in the Bible to keep any other day but the 7th Day Sabbath of Jesus. the RCC church however, has declared it is above the Bible and has established her own mark of authority and allegiance-a counterfeit Sabbath. "Of course, the Catholic church claims that the change was her act. And that act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters." James Cardinal Gibbons.

Another statement: Sunday is our mark of authority...the church is above the Bible, and this transferrence of the Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.: Catholic Record, London Ontario, Sept. 1, 1923. On May 31, 1998 John Paul II issued an Apostilic Letter called Dies Domini - The Lords Day. Section 67 says "Christians will naturally strive to ensure civil legislation respects their duty to keep sunday holy.

We ask the papacy, "Did you really change Sabbath to Sunday?"

She replies, "Yes, we did. It is our symbol, or mark, of authority and power."

We ask, "How could you even think of doing that?"

It's a pertinent question. But the question the papacy officially asks Protestants is even more pertinent. Please read it carefully:



"You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! but by whom? Who has authority to change an express commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said, Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day, who shall dare to say, Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on the seventh day; but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its stead? This is a most important question, which I know not how you can answer. You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet in so important a matter as the observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the ten commandments; you believe that the other nine are still binding; who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your own principles, if you really follow the Bible and the Bible only, you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered." 11



11Library of Christian Doctrine: Why Don't You Keep Holy the Sabbath-Day? (London: Burns and Oates, Ltd.), pp. 3, 4.



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Happy Sabbath:-)
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2010-11-26 19:36:40 UTC
The Sabbath is the 4th Commandment that seperates us into God's People....Those who believe that the law has been done away with...are mistaken....Matthew 5:17...The law will not pass away until the heaven and earth pass away....The Change of the Sabbath was in 379AD by Roman Emporer Constaintine....He was a Sun Worshipper...so he changed the Sabbath to Sun-day...To give thanks and praise to the Sun god....this change has no biblical authority whatsoever.....The

Sabbath during the End times or the Tribulation period ....will be a test for all....if you continue to worship on Sunday > You get the Mark of the Beast.....If you Work on Saturday > You get the Mark of the beast.....and the Mark of the Beast is simply this...Honoring Sunday as the conterfiet day of the Sabbath ....Sabbath is mentioned 210 times in the Bible and is in 23 Chapters ....Wonder Why ???



The Sabbath shall be a sign between God and his people...and shall be kept for all generations...Exodus 31:13



http://www.markbeast.com/



http://www.biblestudy.org/prophecy/what-is-the-mark-of-the-beast.html



http://www.whochangedthesabbath.com/



http://www.sundaylaw.net/books/other/brfthc/chapter_090.htm
2010-11-26 19:48:06 UTC
I agrees with "Susanna Lives" comments below as to how it came to be that most Christians keep Sunday rather than Saturday. I would like to add a few more in response to others who have responded that the 7th day was for the jews only or that the new covenant does away with keeping Sabbath or that the day was changed to the 1st day.



Why do so many Christians claim that keeping the 4th commandment is irrelevant or that it doesn't apply to NT believers yet they say the other 9 are to be kept. After all, would any good Christian think it is ok to commit adultery or kill? Yet they claim the 4th Commandment doesn't apply or that it was changed, or it is legalistic to keep. Is it possible that since the Sabbath as the 7th day exists since creation (read Genesis), not since Moses went up the mountain, that the reason God starts this, and only this, commandment with the word "remember" is because the Israelites had forgotten while in Egyptian captivity to keep the Sabbath and that God knew at some point, Christians would also forget?



If the actual day doesn't matter, then why at both creation and in the 4th commandment did He specify which day we are to keep? If Jesus changed the Sabbath in the NT, why didn't He tell the disciples but instead He said "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Matt 5:18-19



Also note that the gospel writers clearly outline that the day Christ resurrected was on the first day and all Christians acknowledge Easter Sunday in honor of the resurrection so it is agreed that the resurrection was on Sunday. That said, this leaves that Christ was resting in the tomb on the previous day, Saturday or the 7th day, and here we see that even in His death, Christ rested on the Sabbath. Matt 28:1 says "In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre". Something as important as a change to one of the 10 commandments would surely have been mentioned in the scriptures and yet it is not.



The new covenant of the NT is that Christ has been sacrificed for our sins and therefore the sacrificial system of the OT is no longer required. This is evidenced by God tearing the curtain to the most holy place of the temple when Christ died (Matt 27:51). When you actually read Col 2:14 is says "having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." The 10 commandments were not handwritten by Moses but rather by the finger of God. The handwritten laws were the ceremonial laws of the OT which were done away with at the cross.



We do not get to ignore the importance of obedience simply because we are saved by grace. Grace gives us the possibility of eternal life but we must accept that gift and show God our appreciation of the gift by doing His will. Read the epistles of John if you think that obedience is not required of Christians. Even Revelation 14 tells us that the saints "keep the commandments of God".



If you wonder whether keeping the 7th Day Sabbath matters, simply ask yourself whether doing what God asks of us is important. It isn't legalistic to not murder and it's not legalistic to honor God on the day He asks. Remember that what Eve did was in reality a small sin in that she simply ate a piece of fruit from a tree God said not to. Eating fruit isn't wrong, not doing what God asks is wrong.



If you are sincerely looking for answers to the Sabbath question and the history of how it changed to Sunday and why it matters, please go to www.SabbathTruth.com.



May God bless as you read His word and remember to pray that the Holy Spirit interpret it, not the traditions of men.
manzaneira
2016-10-28 14:22:09 UTC
Yahweh prepares each and each and every weekly Sabbath spiritually - so we cant, as Christians, declare yet another day, which includes the daylight worshiper's day, Sunday, as our Sabbath. The Sabbath might want for use to achieve actual relax from our labors so as that we may be able to proceed to be healthful. it truly is likewise the day that we interrogate our spiritually status with Yahweh and our households for which we are the non secular head. If we learn the Jewish customs then we've a superior concept on what to do and pray, which consists of advantages on relations contributors. it truly is an afternoon that we concentration inwardly on Him and our households really. So actual relax and non secular introspection is what's all about - our properly-being - our Father providing for us - the Sabbath made for guy.
Hogie
2010-11-26 19:02:12 UTC
God did not ask us, or command us, to remember or keep the sabbath. The sabbath was something God commanded the Israelites to remember and keep via a covenant that was made between them. We were never a party to that covenant.



Where God said, "I change not" did you ever bother to read the rest of the chapter? God did not do what He said He would do should the Israelites fail to keep the covenant, namely utterly consume them. If He had, God's overall plan would not be carried out. Later, God ended that covenant, as foretold in Jeremiah 31:31-4 and later, instituted the new covenant also according to His plan will. So God changes covenants, and even left a remnant of "Jacob" BECAUSE He changes not.



Yet your take on this would have us believe that "God changes not" when it comes to covenants. Okay then, God would have utterly consumed Jacob, according to that covenant.



Getting back to your first "loaded" question. Loading a question is one of the many ways people foster deceptions. Is it your goal to deceive? Neither God or man "changed the sabbath day. What changed were the covenants, and God did it. The new covenant does not require the observance of days, such as the sabbath. The sabbath was the sign between God and the Israelites in relation to the "old" covenant that was between them.



The sabbath was a shadow of the rest we find in Christ (Col 2:16-17; Heb. 4). Why do you want us to observe the shadow when we can have the reality; our rest in God, entering into God's rest.



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djmantx
2010-11-26 18:55:45 UTC
The Mosaic law remains Saturday.. no one changed the law. Jesus is the Lord of Sabbath and fulfilled the law.The Sabbath is more than a Mosaic law.

None of the law is changed. We do not worhship God in rituals of law but now are free to worship in spirit and in truth.

It is not the ritual God loves but the faith the ritual represented.

It was not the slaughter of the lamb that God enjoyed it was the faith in God and the coming lamb of God that the ritual represnted.. a Christian accepted the atonement of Jesus Christ and have by faith entered his rest. This day you have today by faith and you will have this day literally when you are resurrected and made new.
bella
2010-11-26 19:06:38 UTC
The sabbath was a very important time in the life of the Israelites, God put the sabbath into place

during the time of Moses as part of the ten commandments, a reminder to the Israelites of their deliverance from slavery.

However we as christians are no longer under that sabbath law.

Colossions chapter 2 verse 14 says " the hand written law " ( ten commandments) was figuratively nailed to the torture stake when Christ died, he fullfilled all the law.

Christians are under a figurative sabbath in that they rest from their own selfish works everyday putting the doing of Gods will first in their life.
G C
2010-11-26 18:49:11 UTC
The Sabbath (which is Saturday) was part of the Old Law that was to be in effect until the Savior came. Now, we are under a New Law and Sunday (the day of Resurrection) is the honored day as set by God.
shahidameen
2010-11-26 18:55:33 UTC
Patrick, I hope you are sincere in your question. I was like you very very much. It is God who changed that!!!. The 7th day represents the law. our salvation is not thru the law. Jesus alone, without the help of Moses is able to save the sinner. "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested ... Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law" Rom.3:21-28
2010-11-26 19:38:30 UTC
I think it was Saul/Paul who joined Christianity to destroy it from within.

He declared that no code of conduct was needed after the sacrifice of

Christ whom he raised to the level of son of God although he was the one

who never believed in him when he was on earth. People are either gullible

or are simply not interested in digging out the REALITY from fiction. I read

in my holy book that willfully ignoring Sabbath lead some people to reduce

to apes. Those people who think Christians are no more bound by code of

conduct any more are misleading people to hell.



M J Iqbal
2010-11-26 18:47:05 UTC
Calenders did that. God also never said whether the Sabbath was a "Saturday" or "Sunday" either.
?
2010-11-26 18:48:58 UTC
Isn't it a trivial thing, when christian religions are arguing over which day is the sabbath day when there are starving people, diseases, wars, and other evils they should be taking care of.
2010-11-26 19:16:10 UTC
Many countries consider Sunday to be the seventh day of the week.
?
2010-11-26 18:48:04 UTC
never heard of it


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