Sunday Worship

[yiannii]

Why do Christians keep Sunday as our holy day where in scripture Saturday is said to be the holy day?

[p0lar_bear]

Because Sunday is the day that Jesus rose from the dead. Sunday became the "eighth day," the completion of the work of creation.

[yiannii]

is that in the bible?

[Dave]

1 Corinthians 16:1-2 -- Christians giving money for the collection on the first day of the week.

Acts 20:7 -- Paul preached to Christians at Troas whose practice was to meet to break bread on the first day of the week.

John 20:19, 26 -- Jesus, after His resurrection met with the disciples on the first day of the week.

Romans 14:5-6 -- Paul, when discussing which day to meet, did not say that you must meet on the Saturday Sabbath, (as SDAs say),rather: "Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."

Seventh Day Adventists claim that the Catholic Church after Constantine in 320 AD changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. This is false. We have at least ten citations from the early Church Fathers from 90 to 300 AD who all say that the practice of Christians everywhere was to meet on Sunday, not the Jewish Saturday Sabbath. These include:


St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch (110)
St. Justin Martyr (100-165)
Epistle of Barnabas (120-150)
St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (178)
Bardiasan (born 154)
St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (200-258)
Eusebius of Caesarea (315)
Peter, Bishop of Alexandria (300)
Didache of the Apostles (70-75)
Epistle of Pliny (112)

See also Catholic Answers: Quotes from the Church Fathers regarding the Sabbath


In stark contrast, SDAs have no early quotes to show that early Christians met on Saturday.

Col. 2:16-17 shows conclusively that the sabbath law is no longer binding:
"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."

SDAs claim Paul kept the sabbath because he went to synagogues on sabbaths. This is faulty reasoning, however. It does not prove he consciously kept the sabbath law any more than his going to the feasts in Jerusalem proves he kept the laws governing feasts.

The actual reason Paul visited synagogues on the sabbath was to preach the Gospel to the Jews. See Acts 13:14-44; 16:13-14; 17:2-4; 18:4. "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures."

Isaiah 56:1-7 and 58:1-13, which are used by SDAs to support the doctrine of a sabbath-preaching last days remnant church, say absolutely nothing about such a thing.

Other texts to consider in dealing with the question of the sabbath include
Colossians 2:13-17; Galatians 4:9-11; Romans 13:8-10, 14:4-6,10,12,13.

[NewReformation]

Another funny teaching of the SDA...it ranks right up there with "Christ wasn't God," and "The spirit of Christ was unconcious after He died."