Not a sin. There is no holy, sacred, special day for worship under the New Covenant.
The keeping of Sunday as the Christian Sabbath is not of God but of Man. If you are a true Christian, which means a follower of Christ or to be Christ like; then why are you following a day set up by man? We have proved that Paul kept the Lord’s Sabbath well after the death and resurrection of Christ. So why are you going to church on the first day of the week? Well if you don’t know history will tell you why.
ORIGIN OF SUNDAY WORSHIP
Ample evidence from history shows that the celebration of Sunday originated from pagan practices of SUN WORSHIP. In March of 321 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine, who was at first a sun-worshiper and later a Christian convert, issued the first decree declaring Sunday to be a legal day of rest. In 336 A.D., the Roman Catholic Church officially changed the observance of Sabbath to Sunday for political and economic expediency. Since then, the original Sabbath gradually gave way to Sunday observance and the practice remains to this day.
These were indeed originally pagan holidays, that were adapted, changed, and repurposed to Christian worship. However, there is no commandment to keep them, just as there was no commandment in the Old Covenant to keep Hanukkah (the festival of lights, or the feast of dedication), but even Jesus kept it (John 10:22-23). There is nothing wrong with celebrating these festivals and holidays, but there is sin in trying to make the mandatory for people to celebrate (just as it is wrong to try to force people to keep the sabbath in the New Covenant).
As I have shown in other threads, this is absolutely sinful. And the religions which support/advocate this practice are far from the truth on this and many other topics (but the rules of this forum forbid me from expounding on that).
For most people (me included up until just a few years ago) there is no knowledge of the pagan origins of the holidays we celebrate to God. But it is to God that we celebrate those holidays, and so they are no longer pagan, but righteous. Just as eating meat that has been sacrificed to an idol, I know that the idol is nothing (just as the "gods" to whom Christmas and Easter were originally dedicated are nothing), and so the "nothing" cannot taint my worship of God.
In the scriptures it's written Exodus 20: 3
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: The sun was the main god of the heathen even back as far as ancient Babylon. Since they worshiped the sun on Sunday, the compromising church leaders could see that if they changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, it would accomplish several things. Number one - it would separate them from the Jews who were hated by many of the Romans and who, along with Jesus, And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. (Luke 4:16), had been worshiping on Saturday from the beginning (and still do today). Number two - it would make it much easier for the pagans to come into the church if the Christians met on the same day that the pagan world did.
It worked well. Pagans flocked in by the thousands. Satan's plan of compromise was doing its baleful work. The change was attempted gradually but many of the true hearted, loyal Christians were alarmed. They came to the leaders and wanted to know why they had dared tamper with the law of Almighty God! The church leaders knew this would happen - and they had an answer ready. It's a masterpiece. If a person doesn't know the bible well it sounds good.
The people were told that they were worshiping on Sunday now because Jesus rose from the dead on that day.
There's not even one verse in the Bible that tells us to do this, but that's what they were told. Isn't it amazing! Maybe you've even heard that yourself!
When Emperor Constantine became a Christian, Christianity became the state religion you remember. As thousands of sun-worshipers flocked into the church, it wasn't long before they had a dominating influence. Most of his top officials had been sun-worshipers. Because the Roman government was getting shaky, Constantine consulted with his aides and with the church officials in Rome.
"What shall we do? How can we unite and stabilize the government?"
The counsel of the church leaders was timely.
"Pass a Sunday law. Force everyone to cease work and honor Sunday."
That was it! It would satisfy the sun-worshiping pagans, and unite pagans, Christians, and the Roman empire as never before.
The year is 321 A.D. Constantine, yielding to the suggestion of church leaders passes the first Sunday law! Here it is, straight out of the record:
"Let all the judges and town people, and the occupation of all trades rest on the venerable day of the sun" Edict of March 7, 321 A.D. Corpus Juris Civilis Cod., lib. 3, tit. 12, Lex. 3.
The Christians who would not compromise and dishonor God found themselves in a dilemma. Satan had worked things around so that you were forced to honor the pagan "day of the sun" or pay the penalty. Even after the Emperor's Sunday law, many Christians continued to honor and keep holy the seventh-day Sabbath that their Saviour had kept. God knew what was going on and had predicted that the man of sin would "think to change times and laws." Satan was about to pull off a world-wide hoax.
Bibles were forbidden by the priests. As the years went by, the new generations (without Bibles) would forget all about the Sabbath of the Lord.
Not only that - from time to time, great church councils were held. In nearly every one, the Sabbath which God had given as a memorial of His creation of the world was pressed down and Sunday was exalted. The pagan festival finally came to be regarded as the "Lord's day" (by Pope Sylvester, 314-337 A.D.) and the church leaders pronounced the Bible Sabbath a relic of the Jews, and those who honored it, in obedience to the fourth commandment of God, were pronounced to be "accursed."
To rip out the commandment right in the center, put in Sun- day worship as a counterfeit, take the Bibles away, and command the whole world to accept it - this was the king of all swindles!
There is no trick. The OT contains the command to keep the sabbath, but the OT has been done away with, for it is obsolete (Heb 8:13). And there is no command in the NT that perpetuates the keeping of the sabbath.
That is true, but that fact does not perpetuate the necessity of keeping the sabbath. Jesus is Lord of the sabbath (He is actually Lord of everything), but He IS our rest, for it is into Him that we must unite ourselves to receive the rest that God has prepared for us (Matt 11:28, Heb 4:9).
That rest day is talking about after the second coming of Christ
The first day of the week is not the sabbath, and there are no modern doctrines (that I am aware of) that teach that it is. The sabbath is, and has always been, the seventh day, but we are not called to keep the sabbath in the New Covenant.
This is why it starts off
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: “But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God”.
(Exodus 20: 8,9,10). You steep in Roman Christianity, serving other God's (paganism and removing the Sabbath day, which you can't read not even close to it, nor keeping the first day of the week Sunday.
Wrong again. The first day is the "Lord's Day", as is mentioned in Rev 1:10. It is Jesus' day, not Satan's. It is Jesus' in honor of the day He arose from the dead, validating our faith and giving us the hope of eternal life with Him.
There are no two ways about it. The OT is gone, and the NT is now. We are only subject to what the NT commands, and the NT does not command sabbath worship.
