Did the Catholic Church changed the Sabbath to Sunday?

Aaron112 said:

I disagree. There are no arguments from Scripture , nor in line with Scripture, about ever changing what is written in Scripture - indeed, God Gives Eternal Permanent very strong warnings, permanent warnings, against changing Scripture and about training or teaching little ones to disobey God's Word.

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The conundrum is that the Sabbath was never intended to be a day of worship. Sabbath means "rest", not worship. The system of worship established by the LORD consisted of sacrifices of varying sorts offered initially at the tabernacle in the wilderness and subsequently at the temple in Jerusalem. Worship was conducted six days every week with the seventh day set aside for rest.

If one wishes to follow the Old Testament commandments regarding worship then one would be obligated to worship Sunday through Friday, resting from the work every Saturday. Worship was not rest, especially for the Levites and priests. Slaughtering animals and roasting them is work. In the context of the tabernacle/temple it was the work of worship.

Those who insist on making the Sabbath a day of worship completely miss the mark. The Sabbath is a day of complete rest, pure and simple.

We should worship God 365 24/7 and in doing so one would want to keep God's commandments.

The Sabbath is the day we are to keep holy

Exo 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

God gives us 6 days to get all of our work and labors and rest from our work on the seventh day, so we can keep the Sabbath day holy

Exo 20:9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

The Sabbath is a holy convocation or holy coming together i.e. church worship

Lev 23:3 ‘Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

So its not really about being lazy on the Sabbath, but really spending and fostering our relationship with God. We see this by example with Jesus and the apostles- coming together on the Sabbath as a holy convocation by praying, reading ,and teaching God's Word which is a form of worship. Luke 4:16-21 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:21 Acts 13:44 Acts 18:4 Acts 16:13 etc.

This pattern continues in the New Heaven and New Earth for worship, thus saith the Lord.

Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.

The Sabbath holy convocation (gathering) is worship according to God. So to claim Sabbath is not about worship is really an argument that will have to be taken up with the Author and Lord of the Sabbath as He says it is.

SabbathBlessings said:

We should worship God 365 24/7 and in doing so one would want to keep God's commandments.

The Sabbath is the day we are to keep holy

Exo 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

God gives us 6 days to get all of our work and labors and rest from our work on the seventh day, so we can keep the Sabbath day holy

Exo 20:9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

The Sabbath is a holy convocation or holy coming together i.e. church worship

Lev 23:3 ‘Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

So its not really about being lazy on the Sabbath, but really spending and fostering our relationship with God. We see this by example with Jesus and the apostles- coming together on the Sabbath as a holy convocation by praying, reading ,and teaching God's Word which is a form of worship. Luke 4:16-21 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:21 Acts 13:44 Acts 18:4 Acts 16:13 etc.

This pattern continues in the New Heaven and New Earth for worship, thus saith the Lord.

Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.

So a holy convocation on the Sabbath, is worship according to God.

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The conundrum is that the Sabbath was never intended to be a day of worship. Sabbath means "rest", not worship. The system of worship established by the LORD consisted of sacrifices of varying sorts offered initially at the tabernacle in the wilderness and subsequently at the temple in Jerusalem. Worship was conducted six days every week with the seventh day set aside for rest

If one wishes to follow the Old Testament commandments regarding worship then one would be obligated to worship Sunday through Friday, resting from the work every Saturday. Worship was not rest, especially for the Levites and priests. Slaughtering animals and roasting them is work. In the context of the tabernacle/temple it was the work of worship.

Those who insist on making the Sabbath a day of worship completely miss the mark. The Sabbath is a day of complete rest, pure and simple.

bbbbbbb said:

The conundrum is that the Sabbath was never intended to be a day of worship. Sabbath means "rest", not worship. The system of worship established by the LORD consisted of sacrifices of varying sorts offered initially at the tabernacle in the wilderness and subsequently at the temple in Jerusalem. Worship was conducted six days every week with the seventh day set aside for rest

If one wishes to follow the Old Testament commandments regarding worship then one would be obligated to worship Sunday through Friday, resting from the work every Saturday. Worship was not rest, especially for the Levites and priests. Slaughtering animals and roasting them is work. In the context of the tabernacle/temple it was the work of worship.

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Its hard to reason when one is using their own logic over God's clear Word as all of the Scriptures I posted are a thus saith the Lord. There is no Scripture that says one has to slaughter an animal to keep the Sabbath day holy. The Sabbath was kept all throughout the NT by Jesus and the apostles and not one animal sacrifice. No animal sacrifices in the New Heaven and New Earth where the Sabbath will still be kept for worship.

bbbbbbb said:

Those who insist on making the Sabbath a day of worship completely miss the mark. The Sabbath is a day of complete rest, pure and simple.

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I do pray you are not saying God missed the mark when He said the Sabbath continues for worship. Or told us to keep the Sabbath day holy Exo 20:8 or told us the Sabbath is holy convocation. Lev 23:3 as we see in the lives of Jesus and the apostles and continuing on in the new heaven and new earth.


Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.

SabbathBlessings said:

Its hard to reason when one is using their own logic over God's clear Word as all of the Scriptures I posted are a thus saith the Lord. There is no Scripture that says one has to slaughter an animal to keep the Sabbath day holy. The Sabbath was kept all throughout the NT by Jesus and the apostles and not one animal sacrifice. No animal sacrifices in the New Heaven and New Earth where the Sabbath will still be kept for worship.



I do pray you are not saying God missed the mark when He said the Sabbath continues for worship. Or told us to keep the Sabbath day holy Exo 20:8 or told us the Sabbath is holy convocation. Lev 23:3 as we see in the lives of Jesus and the apostles and continuing on in the new heaven and new earth.


Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.

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Using your own interpretive parameters, worship would be entailed on every new moon. Do you worship on the new moon?

bbbbbbb said:

Using your own interpretive parameters, worship would be entailed on every new moon. Do you worship on the new moon?

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The word used for new moon means month.

Original Word: חֹדֶשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: chodesh
Pronunciation: kho'-desh
Phonetic Spelling: (kho'-desh)
KJV: month(-ly), new moon
NASB: month, months, new moon, new moons, month throughout the months, month and

1. the new moon
2. (by implication) a month

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
monthly, new moon

There is a reason why there will be a gathering in the New Heaven and New Earth every new month- do you know why?

I have no complaints if God wants to gather the saints to worship before Him on every new month and on every Sabbath, but apparently many do. It’s why I believe His judgement is one of love because not everyone will be happy in heaven where the is no sin, which means breaking God’s law. 1 John 3:4. The Sabbath is one of God’s commandments, He never made a distinction between breaking the Sabbath or worshipping other god’s, its all sin and breaking the law of God and His Testimony.

SabbathBlessings said:

The word used for new moon means month.

Original Word: חֹדֶשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: chodesh
Pronunciation: kho'-desh
Phonetic Spelling: (kho'-desh)
KJV: month(-ly), new moon
NASB: month, months, new moon, new moons, month throughout the months, month and

1. the new moon
2. (by implication) a month

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
monthly, new moon

There is a reason why there will be a gathering in the New Heaven and New Earth every new month- do you know why?

I have no complaints if God wants to gather the saints to worship before Him on every new month and on every Sabbath, but apparently many do. It’s why I believe His judgement is one of love because not everyone will be happy in heaven where the is no sin, which means breaking God’s law. 1 John 3:4. The Sabbath is one of God’s commandments, He never made a distinction between breaking the Sabbath or worshipping other god’s, its all sin and breaking the law of God and His Testimony.

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Ah yes, there is nothing quite like selective interpretation. You have chosen the narrative which asserts that God expects folks to engage in nineteenth-century American Protestant religious activities on Saturdays only, and have relegated worshiping God on the new moon (which is approximately on a twenty-eight day cycle, rather than on 30 days, except for the 31 days and 28 and 29 day monthly cycles of a solar year) to some future time. Apart from reading this into this verse, do you have any other means of explaining your position?

bbbbbbb said:

Ah yes, there is nothing quite like selective interpretation. You have chosen the narrative which asserts that God expects folks to engage in nineteenth-century American Protestant religious activities on Saturdays only, and have relegated worshiping God on the new moon (which is approximately on a twenty-eight day cycle, rather than on 30 days, except for the 31 days and 28 and 29 day monthly cycles of a solar year) to some future time. Apart from reading this into this verse, do you have any other means of explaining your position?

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No one in the 19th century wrote Isa 66:23 these are words spoken by God and I did not interpret that new moon means month, its what the word means.

chôdesh
kho'-desh
From H2318; the new moon; by implication a month: - month (-ly), new moon.

Whatever man had done to the monthly cycle, I have no doubt God will restore things back to the way they were originally before sin took over earth. Whatever God has in mind for every new moon which is already indicated in Scripture, I do not believe anyone who makes it through the gates of heaven will be disappointed.

Take care.

New moon or month,
Sabbath or week

4 = week(?): שֶׁבַע שַׁבָּתוֺת Leviticus 23:15 (H), seven sabbaths or weeks; שֶׁבַע שַׁבְּתתֹ (ה)שָּׁנִים Leviticus 25:8; Lev 28:8 (H) seven sabbaths or weeks (of years), uncertain (see Mark 16:2,9; Luke 18:12; Matthew 28:1, compare Jewish-Aramaic usage); possibly שַׁבָּת Isaiah 66:23 = week (Du).

Psalm 33
Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright

SabbathBlessings said:

No one in the 19th century wrote Isa 66:23 these are words spoken by God and I did not interpret that new moon means month, its what the word means.

chôdesh
kho'-desh
From H2318; the new moon; by implication a month: - month (-ly), new moon.

Whatever man had done to the monthly cycle, I have no doubt God will restore things back to the way they were originally before sin took over earth. Whatever God has in mind for every new moon which is already indicated in Scripture, I do not believe anyone who makes it through the gates of heaven will be disappointed.

Take care.

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The fact remains that your particular interpretation of this proof verse is quite flawed, especially in its application of only one of the two activities described for the nation of Israel in the future.

bbbbbbb said:

The fact remains that your particular interpretation of this proof verse is quite flawed, especially in its application of only one of the two activities described for the nation of Israel in the future.

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I am pretty sure the words the Lord spoke said "all flesh".

bbbbbbb said:

The fact remains that your particular interpretation of this proof verse is quite flawed, especially in its application of only one of the two activities described for the nation of Israel in the future.

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Are you equally sure that observation of the new moon is addressed to the same audience as the sabbaths are?