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Here is a post from my old friend..:)




  1. In Colossians 2:16-17, Paul explicitly refers to the Sabbath as a shadow of Christ, which is no longer binding since the substance (Christ) has come. It is quite clear in those verses that the weekly Sabbath is in view. The phrase "a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day" refers to the annual, monthly, and weekly holy days of the Jewish calendar (cf. 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 31:3; Ezekiel 45:17; Hosea 2:11). If Paul were referring to special ceremonial dates of rest in that passage, why would he have used the word "Sabbath?" He had already mentioned the ceremonial dates when he spoke of festivals and new moons.
  2. The Sabbath was the sign to Israel of the Mosaic Covenant (Exodus 31:16-17; Ezekiel 20:12; Nehemiah 9:14). Since we are now under the New Covenant (Hebrews 8), we are no longer required to observe the sign of the Mosaic Covenant.
  3. The New Testament never commands Christians to observe the Sabbath.
  4. In our only glimpse of an early church worship service in the New Testament, the church met on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7).
  5. Nowhere in the Old Testament are the Gentile nations commanded to observe the Sabbath or condemned for failing to do so. That is certainly strange if Sabbath observance were meant to be an eternal moral principle.
  6. There is no evidence in the Bible of anyone keeping the Sabbath before the time of Moses, nor are there any commands in the Bible to keep the Sabbath before the giving of the law at Mt. Sinai.
  7. When the Apostles met at the Jerusalem council (Acts 15), they did not impose Sabbath keeping on the Gentile believers.
  8. The apostle Paul warned the Gentiles about many different sins in his epistles, but breaking the Sabbath was never one of them.
  9. In Galatians 4:10-11, Paul rebukes the Galatians for thinking God expected them to observe special days (including the Sabbath).
  10. In Romans 14:5, Paul forbids those who observe the Sabbath (these were no doubt Jewish believers) to condemn those who do not (Gentile believers).
  11. The early church fathers, from Ignatius to Augustine, taught that the Old Testament Sabbath had been abolished and that the first day of the week (Sunday) was the day when Christians should meet for worship (contrary to the claim of many seventh-day sabbatarians who claim that Sunday worship was not instituted until the fourth century).
  12. Sunday has not replaced Saturday as the Sabbath. Rather the Lord's Day is a time when believers gather to commemorate His resurrection, which occurred on the first day of the week. Every day to the believer is one of Sabbath rest, since we have ceased from our spiritual labor and are resting in the salvation of the Lord (Hebrews 4:9-11).
 
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Let no man judge you in respect to a holy day, new moon, or sabbath. If I were to respect my fathers wishes would I do them or not do them? You show respect through an action.

So, I am not suppost to let anyone judge me in my respect for following the holy days (festivals), new moon, or the sabbath.

These are a shadow of things to come. If you were in the army and you were outside staring at the ground and you saw a generals shadow would you go into a salute and as soon as looked up at the general stop? no, you'd get in some trouble.

so what is a shadow? only a faint image of a reality. That means that those thing are much much bigger.

The sabbath was the only holy thing created "in the beginning" for all of mankind to follow.

The NT never mentioned sabbath being followed as a command because Jews already follow the sabbath why tell them again when they can just read the Torah.

Before Israel everyone was a nation/Gentile. There were those that followed the Lord in every family line. (exp:Nimrod, Melchizedek)

Genesis 2:3

After the Jerusalem council on circumcision Paul immediately circumcised Timothy. They never mentioned the sabbath instead they said the Torah is preached in the synagogues every sabbath so they could learn there.

The church met all throughout the week. Remember that shabbat is from eve to eve, and the followers met after going to the synagogue which would have been the eve of the 1st day. Actually there is not one place in the bible that says to worship Messiah, he is the Lord in flesh and you can not worship something corruptible.

The Gentiles werent condemned because they already met in the synagogues and celebrated shabbat, they were called God fearers. Paul wrote letters not to teach them the gospel he wrote them to correct what they were doing wrong.

Is the sabbath a special day? or is it a holy day? in the KJV it doesnt even use the word special he says you observe days, months, years, and times. This is right after telling them that they were turning back to beggarly elements the context for that can be found in v8 "In the past you did not know God, and so you were slaves of beingswho are not gods."

again in Rom 14:5 he no where refers to the holy day. He refers to certain days. This is addressing weakness to Judaism as we see from the whole chapter and find the main point/context from 13:8

The early church fathers were not the early church fathers, they were men who claimed to be, they were Nicolatians who took the verse about Peter getting the Keys to the Kingdom out of context.

The resurrection happened on the 1st day because that is the only way to fulfill the feast of first fruits which on that day the firstfruits went to paradise. Messiah did not raise during the day he rose during the night/eve.

Hebrews 4:9-11 just shows that we should continue celebrating shabbat on the 7th day.
 
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Which of the Ten did Jesus quote. Again, I get no answer.

no one answered because you didnt direct it towards anyone.
Messiah talks about some of the ten and some of the other commands in the sermon on the mount. Even in 5:19 he addressess the least of the commandments which is a Hebrew concept because the sabbath was known as the least of the commandments since its the easiest to follow, after all how hard is it to do nothing.
 
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Which of the 10 Commandments did Jesus quote when he told of them?

Very important stuff! A lot of Judaizers miss this crucial point and every time I've asked, they've never responded. Is it that damaging?

And in terms of the law, Jesus summed it up: Love your God and Love your neighbor. That's all I need to worry about.

Jesus confirmed He is Lord of the sabbath, thus He claimed ownership of it. Jesus did not "quote" the 3rd commandment either so does that mean it was invalidated in some way?
 
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Sunday is the first and eighth day. It has nothing to do with the seventh day Sabbath. It has nothing to do with resurrection falsely claimed on Sunday morning.

This is what it has to do with:

Lev. 23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day [shall be] a sabbath, and on the eighth day [shall be] a sabbath.

Jn. 20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the first [day] of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you.

Jn. 20:26 And after eight days again (counting inclusively is Sunday to Sunday) his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: [then] came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace [be] unto you.

And all this time I thought the 4th commandment had to do with worship.

None of the verses you provide say to worship on Sunday. If you stick with what the bible says, and refrain from implying meaning that isn't meant to be implied than you find yourself without excuse as to why you don't honor the sabbath as we have been commanded to do.

These things were written for our instruction. Tabernacles is God with us. Heb. 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. This is where we are now. Eighth day is Sabbath per the Bible. Peace unto you.
 
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These things were written for our instruction. Tabernacles is God with us. Heb. 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. This is where we are now. Eighth day is Sabbath per the Bible. Peace unto you.

In John 20 verse 19 we are told the disciples were gathered for "fear of the Jews." Eight day later, properly counting would mean the "eigth day" would actually be "Monday" not Sunday.

With that being said where is it ever said, even one time in either the OT or New, that Jesus replaced the sabbath day?

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Source: William L. Gildea, "Paschale Gaudium," The Catholic World, 58 (March, 1894), 809. [FRS No. 100.]

"The church took the pagan philosophy and made it the buckler of faith against the heathen. She took the pagan, Roman Pantheon, temple of all the gods, and made it sacred to all the martyrs; so it stands to this day. She took the pagan Sunday and made it the Christian Sunday. She took the pagan Easter and made it the feast we celebrate during this season.

Sunday and Easter day are, if we consider their derivation, much the same. In truth, all Sundays are Sundays only because they are a weekly, partial recurrence of Easter day. The pagan Sunday was, in a manner, an unconscious preparation for Easter day. The Sun was a foremost god with heathendom. Balder the beautiful, the White God, the old Scandinavians called him. The sun has worshippers at this hour in Persia and other lands. "Some of you," says Carlyle, "may remember that fancy of Plato’s. A man is kept in some dark, underground cave from childhood till maturity; then suddenly is carried to the upper airs. For the first time he sees the sun shining in its splendor overhead. He must fall down, says Plato, and adore it." There is, in truth, something royal, kingly about the sun, making it a fit emblem of Jesus, the Sun of Justice. Hence the church in these countries would seem to have said, "Keep that old, pagan name. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified." And thus the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder, became the Christian Sunday, sacred to Jesus. The sun is a fitting emblem of Jesus. The Fathers often compared Jesus to the sun; as they compared Mary to the moon, the beautiful moon, the beautiful Mary, shedding her mild, beneficent light on the darkness and night of this world—not light of her own; no Catholic says this; but—light reflected from the sun, Jesus."


Source: Franz Cumont, The Mysteries of Mithra, trans. by Thomas J. McCormack (reprint: New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1956), pp. 167, 191. [FRS No. 95.]

[p. 167] Each day in the week, the Planet to which the day was sacred was invoked in a fixed spot in the crypt; and Sunday, over which the Sun presided, was especially holy…

[p. 191] [The worshippers of Mithra] held Sunday sacred, and celebrated the birth of the Sun on the 25th of December.

Source: H. G. Wells, The Outline of History, pp. 499, 512, 513. Copyright 1920 and 1921 by The Macmillan Company, New York, and by H. G. Wells. Used by permission of Prof. G. p. Wells. [See FRS No. 110.]

[p. 499] The observance of the Jewish Sabbath, again, transferred to the Mithraic Sun-day, is an important feature of many Christian cults…

[p. 512] During this indefinite time [the 1st and 2d centuries] a considerable amount of a sort of theocrasia seems to have gone on between the Christian cult and the almost equally popular and widely diffused Mithraic cult, and the cult of Serapis-Isis-Horus. From the former it would seem the Christians adopted Sun-day as their chief day [p. 513] of worship instead of the Jewish Sabbath.

Source: H. Lamer, "Mithras," Wo¬rterbuch der Antike (2d ed.; Leipzig: A. Kröner, 1933). Used by permission. German.

Concerning the power of the Mithras cult we still have evidence in the fact that it is not the Jewish in the fact that it is not the Jewish Sabbath that is the sacred week-day, which Christianity, coming out of Judaism, had nearest at hand, but Sunday, dedicated to the Sun-god Mithras.


Source: Walter Woodburn Hyde, Paganism to Christianity in the Roman Empire, pp. 257, 258, 260. Copyright 1946 by University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. Used by permission.

[p. 257] Modern Christians who talk of keeping Sunday as a "holy" day, as in the still extant "Blue Laws" of colonial America, should know that as a "holy" day of rest and cessation from labor and amusements Sunday was unknown to Jesus… It formed no tenet of the primitive Church and became "sacred" only in course of time. Outside the Church and became "sacred" only in course of time. Outside the Church its observance was legalized for the Roman Empire through a series of decrees starting with the famous one of Constantine in 321, an edict due to his political and social policies rather than, as Eusebius thought, to religious ones. For he took the day not because of the Christian custom of meeting then to commemorate the Resurrection but from "the venerable day of the Sun" (Mithra), and especially in order to give to Roman slaves respite from labor which their Semitic brothers had enjoyed for centuries. So much confusion in identifying Sunday and the Sabbath has been inherited by Britain and America through Puritan influence that it seems well to recapitulate the well-known facts…

As the Jewish element in the Church waned the Christians came to feel the need of a fixed day for [p. 258] meetings to replace the Sabbath. Then Sunday, like other pagan festivals such as Christmas, came gradually into being, first as a fit day for worship and later one for rest…

[p. 260] Parallel to the Church movement … but independent of it another had been developing in the State which after an obscure past culminated in Constantine’s decree of 321 when the observance of the "day of the Sun" was imposed on the Empire, a decree marking an epoch in the history of Sunday as the beginning of both civil and later of ecclesiastical legislation. Now dies Solis , sacred in various solar cults and notably in Mithraism, was to play a role as the Christian Sunday as Christmas did a little later.
 
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Source: Reply to Faustus the Manichaean xviii. 5, trans. in NPNF, 1st series, Vol. 4, p. 238. [FRS No. 65.]

We are not afraid to meet your scoff at the Sabbath, when you [Faustus] call it the fetters of Saturn. It is a silly and unmeaning expression, which occurred to you only because you are in the habit of worshipping the sun on what you call Sunday. What you call Sunday we call the Lord’s day, and on it we do not worship the sun, but the Lord’s resurrection. And in the same way, the fathers observed the rest of the Sabbath, not because they worshipped Saturn, but because it was incumbent at that time; for it was a shadow of things to come, as the apostle testifies. The Gentiles, of whom the apostle says that they "worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator," gave the names of their gods to the days of the week. And so far you do the same, except that you worship only the two brightest luminaries, and not the rest of the stars, as the Gentiles did.


Source: News Item, Albertan (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), Oct. 28, 1949. Used by permission.

Toronto, Oct. 27 (bup).—Rev. Philip Carrington, Anglican Archbishop of Quebec, sent local clergymen into a huddle today by saying outright that there was nothing to support Sunday being kept holy.

Carrington defiantly told a church meeting in this city of straight-laced Protestantism that tradition, not the Bible, had made Sunday the day of worship.

He quoted the biblical commandment which said the seventh day should be one of rest, and then stated: "That is Saturday."

"Nowhere in the Bible is it laid down that worship should be done on Sunday," the Archbishop told a hushed, still audience.
Local parsons read his comments today with set, determined looks. They refused comment [see, however, No. 1605].


Source: Arthur Weigall, The Paganism in Our Christianity, p. 145. Copyright 1928 by G. p. Putnam’s Sons, New York. Used with their permission.

The Church made a sacred day of Sunday … largely because it was the weekly festival of the sun; for it was a definite Christian policy to take over the pagan festivals endeared to the people by tradition, and to give them a Christian significance.


Source: Augustus Neander, The History of the Christian Religion and Church, trans. by Henry John Rose (Philadelphia: James M. Campbell & Co., 1843), p. 186. [FRS No. 31.]

The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a Divine command in this respect, far from them, and from the early apostolic Church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday. Perhaps, at the end of the second century a false application of this kind had begun to take place; for men appear by that time to have considered laboring on Sunday as a sin…

The Jewish Christian Churches, [i.e., Churches consisting of Jewish converts,] although they received the festival of Sunday, retained also that of the Sabbath; and from them the custom spread abroad in the Oriental Church, of distinguishing this day, as well as the Sunday, by not fasting and by praying in an erect posture; in the Western Churches, particularly the Roman, where opposition to Judaism was the prevailing tendency, this very opposition produced the custom of celebrating the Saturday in particular as a fast day.
 
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http://www.tofm.org/LIBRARY/SUNDAY%20WORSHIP/the_bible_sunday.htm

Sunday In Scripture


It is natural, as some have suggested, that the worship of the sun in various ancient pagan religions may have influenced the Christian preference for Sunday during the early centuries, as pagans were converted to Christianity.

I. The "First Day of the Week" in the New Testament.
Jesus never specifically mentioned the first day of the week, and neither He nor the NT writers ever alluded to it as a day Christians observed. Although the word Sunday does not occur in the Bible, the phrase "first day of the week" appears eight times in the NT (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2), the first six with reference to the day of the Lord’s resurrection.

1. The Resurrection. Jesus died and was buried on the sixth day of the week, which was "the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath" (Mark 15:42). The Christians who attended His burial "beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment" (Luke 23:55, 56). "And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun" (Mark 16:1, 2).

2. The Meeting With the Disciples. When Mary Magdalene and the other women told the apostles that Christ had risen, "their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not" (Luke 24:8–11; Mark 16:10, 11). When the two disciples who had met Jesus on the road to Emmaus returned to Jerusalem on the night of that same first day of the week, they likewise met with incredulity. "Neither believed they [the disciples at Jerusalem] them" (Mark 16:12, 13; Luke 24:33–35). "The same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst" (John 20:19). Note that "the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews," not for a religious meeting. Nor was it a public gathering, for "the doors were shut"; that is, bolted and barred. Furthermore, it was probably after sunset, when, according to Jewish reckoning, the first day of the week had ended and the second day of the week had already begun (Luke 24:33–35; Mark 1:32). Moreover, Jesus "appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat" (Mark 16:14); that is, they were eating their evening meal. Instead of rejoicing when they saw Him, "they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit" (Luke 24:36, 37). It was only with difficulty that Jesus convinced them that it was really He, and that He had risen. This was not the religious gathering it is often perceived to be.​
"After eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst" (John 20:24–26). At this meeting Thomas, who had not been with the disciples on the evening after the Resurrection and who remained skeptical for a full week, acknowledged the risen Lord.​
This second appearance occurred "after eight days"; that is, by common inclusive reckoning, a week later, probably implying that it too took place on a Sunday night, after the second day of the week-by Jewish reckoning-had begun. The fact that the doors were again shut suggests that it was not a public meeting.​
The fact that Pentecost and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the believers at Jerusalem most probably fell on a Sunday (the day of the week is not mentioned) is merely coincidental. Pentecost would normally fall on a Sunday in a year when the Passover, Nisan 14, came on a Friday (the fiftieth day after the day of the wave sheaf, on Nisan 16). Had the fact that Pentecost fell on the first day of the week been significant, as indeed it would have been had the Holy Spirit thus intended to honor Sunday as a new day of rest in place of the Jewish Sabbath, we would expect to find mention of such an intended change in the Bible record. But the Scriptures are entirely silent concerning any significance being attached to the coincidence.

3. A Weekly Offering for the Needy. Writing to the church at Corinth toward the close of his third missionary journey, Paul gave instructions concerning the collection of a special fund for the relief of the needy believers in Judea (Acts 11:27–30). He asked that on each first day of the week every believer lay aside a certain sum for the fund "so that contributions need not be made when I come" (1 Cor. 16:2, RSV). No mention is made of a religious service on the first day of the week. On that day each believer was to "lay by him in store"—at home. For the KJV "lay by him in store" the RSV reads "put something aside and store it up."

4. The Meeting at Troas. A few months later, on his voyage to Jerusalem, Paul spent seven days at Troas.​
"Upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together" (Acts 20:7, 8).​
Then about midnight a youth named Eutychus, who had fallen asleep in a third-story window "as Paul was long preaching," fell to the ground and was taken up for dead; and Paul interrupted the meeting to restore the lad (verses 9, 10). When Paul "had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day," he departed on his way to Jerusalem (Acts 20:3–14).​
It should be remembered that in Bible times the Jews reckoned the solar day of 24 hours from sunset to sunset. By biblical reckoning, the first day of the week began at sunset Saturday night and ended at sunset Sunday night. If the meeting began after sunset, it would have been held between sunset Saturday night and sunrise Sunday morning. (The New English Bible, for example, reads "on the Saturday night.") If Paul preached until midnight on Saturday night, then broke bread with the believers and conversed with them until daybreak Sunday morning and set out at dawn on foot for Assos, 19 miles (30 kilometers) away, he must have spent most of Sunday on the road traveling. Obviously, in that case Paul did not observe that Sunday, at least as a day of rest. The farewell meeting at Troas took place on that day for the reason that Paul intended to board ship at Assos the following day.​
Some have insisted that the breaking of bread at Troas (v. 11) was a Communion service and that the celebration of the Lord’s Supper between sundown Saturday night and sunrise Sunday morning constitutes recognition of Sunday as the Christian Sabbath. In the first place, it should be noted that the Lord and the apostles never specified when or how often this rite should be celebrated. In the second place, the breaking of bread at that nightlong meeting may have been no more than a common meal. But if reference is to the Lord’s Supper, even this cannot be cited as evidence of special honor being accorded the first day of the week, for the same expression is used in Acts 2:47, where it is said that members of the apostolic church broke bread together every day. Finally, if the celebration of the Lord’s Supper should be on a particular day, and if such a celebration is to be considered as designating the day thus honored to be a holy day, it should be remembered that our Lord selected Thursday night as the time for instituting this rite.

5. The New Testament Evidence Evaluated. A candid examination of the eight instances in which the phrase "first day of the week" occurs in NT scriptures thus shows that:

  • Neither Christ nor His apostles gave a commandment to keep that day holy.​
  • They never instructed Christians to observe Sunday, either as the Christian Sabbath or as the Lord’s day.​
  • Not once did they refer to that day as sacred or blessed, nor did they so much as intimate that secular work done on that day constituted sin.​
  • There is no instance on record of Sunday ever having been kept as a holy day in NT times in commemoration of Christ’s resurrection, or for any other purpose.​
  • The NT nowhere mentions a transfer of the obligations of the fourth commandment of the Decalogue from the seventh to the first day of the week by either the Lord or His apostles.​
Because Sunday later came to be known as "the Lord’s day," some have concluded that Revelation 1:10 refers to Sunday. The context does not reveal to what day John refers as "the Lord’s day," but on the basis of the statement in the fourth command of the Decalogue that "the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord" (Ex. 20:10), and of Jesus’ statement that "the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day" (Mark 2:28), Seventh-day Adventists have concluded that John referred to the seventh day of the week. Inasmuch as the Bible contains no record whatever of a substitution of the first day of the week for the seventh-day Sabbath as the Lord’s day, the assumption that John here refers to Sunday observance is unwarranted (see Sabbath).​
 
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In John 20 verse 19 we are told the disciples were gathered for "fear of the Jews." Eight day later, properly counting would mean the "eigth day" would actually be "Monday" not Sunday.

With that being said where is it ever said, even one time in either the OT or New, that Jesus replaced the sabbath day?

Seventh day, first day, eighth day. They are called Sabbaths in the Bible.

Besides, you should know better than that, they were counting the consecutive Sundays to Pentecost (Lev. 23:15).
 
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The Bible Sunday

Sunday In Scripture


It is natural, as some have suggested, that the worship of the sun in various ancient pagan religions may have influenced the Christian preference for Sunday during the early centuries, as pagans were converted to Christianity.​


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Yes. That would be why they adopted the Sunday sunrise resurrection view.

Today is the Lord's day btw.
 
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The fact that Pentecost and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the believers at Jerusalem most probably fell on a Sunday (the day of the week is not mentioned) is merely coincidental. Pentecost would normally fall on a Sunday in a year when the Passover, Nisan 14, came on a Friday (the fiftieth day after the day of the wave sheaf, on Nisan 16). Had the fact that Pentecost fell on the first day of the week been significant, as indeed it would have been had the Holy Spirit thus intended to honor Sunday as a new day of rest in place of the Jewish Sabbath, we would expect to find mention of such an intended change in the Bible record. But the Scriptures are entirely silent concerning any significance being attached to the coincidence.​




You're getting info from folks who don't have a clue. Merely coincidental--hogwash.
 
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You're getting info from folks who don't have a clue. Merely coincidental--hogwash.

Not hogwash at all. And one thing you have to understand is that preaching a sermon, having church or collecting money or whatever else you may do with some religious significance does not make a day holy.

Only God can make a day holy!

The Spirit was poured out many times on different days, were all those days holy? God had a work that needed to be done and it was accomplished. Pentecost wasn't about some expression to show that Sunday was the new sabbath. It was about teaching truth to the multitude in attendance. Remember that the Spirit added to the church daily. So His power was at work daily. Is every day a holy day now? Most certainly not.

Either the sabbath stands as God ordained it or it doesn't. But for it to not stand Christ would have had to say so, and He didn't. Without Christ speaking the change any argument against the sabbath is unfounded and based upon a misunderstanding of the scriptures.
 
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The Spirit was poured out many times on different days, were all those days holy? God had a work that needed to be done and it was accomplished. Pentecost wasn't about some expression to show that Sunday was the new sabbath. It was about teaching truth to the multitude in attendance. Remember that the Spirit added to the church daily. So His power was at work daily. Is every day a holy day now? Most certainly not.

Today if you hear His voice. Today is the Lord's day. "His power was at work daily."
 
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Today if you hear His voice. Today is the Lord's day. "His power was at work daily."

Only one day was made holy. No dancing around that...

You can say that every day is the Lord's day and you'd be right in the literal since. However we're not talking about everyday belonging to Him in the sense that He made it so it's His. We're talking about the one day that He made holy and set aside for us to spend with Him. Our special time with Him.

That only happened on one day. And last I checked man couldn't make anything holy...being a sinful creature in all, and not God as well.
 
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Yes. That would be why they adopted the Sunday sunrise resurrection view.

Which, BTW, is not found anywhere is scripture.

Today is the Lord's day btw.

Today is Thursday. The Lord's day is the seventh-day sabbath.
 
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Today if you hear His voice.

Did the Lord not "speak" His commandments first before writing them down? If so, why would anyone fail to heed His voice?

Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
So tell me, today, if you hear His voice, why would you accept Sunday over the sabbath of the Lord thy God? Why accept the tradition of men over the commandment of God Himself?

Exd 20:10 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:

Today is the Lord's day. "His power was at work daily."
The Lord has always been at work daily and has always displayed His power. BTW, it is certainly worth remembering that God worked on the first day of the week.

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
 
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