Are professed Christians that worship our Lord on Sunday instead of Saturday sinning?

Hentenza said:

I’ve had several people that keep the sabbath argue that the sabbath is a moral commandment, therefore, those that do not worship on Saturday are sinning and consequently living in sin. The poll is self explanatory. If you choose maybe please post why.

Be blessed.

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7th Day Sabbath worship is our acknowledgement to God as Him being our creator and redeemer. It IS the 4th Commandment. What is sin? Transgression of the Law.

A future time will come when worshiping on Sunday will be considered idolatry, as God's true Sabbath day will be made clear as time goes on.

The consequences of not worshipping on the 7th day are delayed into the future

The conflict between Saturday and Sunday worship is viewed as a final test of allegiance to God versus to the human-made system.

Hentenza said:

I’ve had several people that keep the sabbath argue that the sabbath is a moral commandment, therefore, those that do not worship on Saturday are sinning and consequently living in sin. The poll is self explanatory. If you choose maybe please post why.

Be blessed.

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Col 2:16: “Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day - things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.' The Sabbath is gone.

The Sabbath was the seventh day of the week. It was instituted under the Mosaic law, between the fall of man and Moses. There were no Sabbath laws. There was no Sabbath observance. That came in the Mosaic law. Centuries went by; none of the patriarchs had any kind of Sabbath laws. On the seventh day, after creation, you remember, God rested and God blessed that day.

Why? As a day that would always be a memorial to the fact that God had created the universe in six days, so the seventh day was always going to be a reminder of God as our Creator. Every Saturday that comes along - which is the seventh day of the week, Sunday being the first day of the week - every Saturday that comes along is a good day for us to remember, first of all, God is Creator. And we have that in our heritage.

When the Mosaic law came along, God ordained a Sabbath day for the people to observe and to obey God, and God put some restraints on them to remind them of their sinfulness. So, every Saturday that comes along kind of has a two-fold role; it causes us to remember God as Creator, and to remember how sinful we really are - and truly we are sinful. But the Sabbath is gone.

It is part of Judaism that has been replaced by the new covenant, and the new covenant has a completely different day. Saturday, reminds us of God as Creator and God as law-giver, and it reminds us of the beauty of God’s creation, the magnificence of His creation, and the sinfulness of our own hearts. But when you come to the new covenant, you have a new kind of observation, not observing God as Creator, not observing God as law-giver, but in the new covenant God is defining Himself as what? Saviour.

So, the new covenant has its own day, a day in which we focus on God as our Saviour, and that's Sunday.

In NT, the Church worshipped on Sunday. For instance, Acts 20:7 states that “on the first day of the week we came together to break bread.” Paul also urges the Corinthian believers, “On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income” 1 Cor 16:2 . Since Paul designates this offering as “service” in 2 Cor 9:12, this collection may have been linked with the Sunday worship service of the Christian assembly. Historically, Sunday, not Saturday, was the normal meeting day for Christians in the church, and its practice dates back to the first century.

Worshipping any day or every day is not a sin, Sunday included.

I believe the majority of text and law in the Bible is devoted to "rest" and details about how to rest, not about worship. There are travel restrictions on the Sabbath. How far do you live from your church and how do you get there? Does hitting the "ignition" firing sparkplugs in your V-6 violate Sabbath rules on kindling a flame?

Its not as if we can decide this debate for God. We all have to answer to Him. 2Cor5:10

There is not one verse in the entire Bible in context that says we can break one of God's commandments or His Testimony, His word is settled in heaven Psa119:89 exactly where His Law is Rev15:5 Rev11:19. God decides what are His commandments and He did both written and spoken by Him. Deut4:13 Exo34:28 Exo20:6 Exo31:18. Jesus never once said it changed or we did not have to keep His commandments, He taught the opposite Mat5:19-30 Mat15:3-14 Mark7:7-13 Jesus kept the Sabbath Luke4:16 and is our example to follow 1 John2:6 . Its what faith is all about.

As far as I know there is no one greater than He and He tells us He does not change. Mal 3:6 God only sanctified one day to keep holy in all of the Bible Gen2:3 Exo20:11 God only claimed one day as His holy day in all of the Bible Isa58:13 and called it the holy day, meaning there is no other. I think its important to believe Him at His Word.

HARK! said:

In the 5th century, Socrates Scholasticus Church History book 5 states the fact that until Constantine imposed Dies Solis (Sungod Day) on humanity, most assemblies and believers across the world at that time still kept The Sabbath even as late as 5 centuries later after Yahshua! He clearly knew that this “Sunday” worship was based in Rome on “the account of some ancient tradition!”

"Nor is there less variation in regard to religious assemblies. For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this."

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Exactly as we were told would happen Dan7:25

"Either/Or"? Better to worship God on both days, and every other day of the week as well.

"It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Father most holy, through your beloved Son, Jesus Christ ..." (PREFACE OF EUCHARISTIC PRAYER II).

The writings by the early church can be enlightening and/or controversial, Scripture, if one takes the time to read without preconceived beliefs, will prove we are not under the dictates of the ritual laws of the Old Covenant. That covenant was for Israel only.

Those who use 1jn3:4 to prove sin is defined by the Ten Commandments need to read the rest of John's chapter. In verse 19 we read: 19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: Reading on to the end of the chapter, we find what John was referring to in verse 4. It reads: 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

Thank you, John, for giving us the real truth for how to lead the Christian life. Love is a most powerful word.

Concerning the OP, I would like to once again explain that there is no command by God telling Gentiles we are under the ritual commands God gave to only one nation, Israel. Contrary to what some like to tell us that the Sabbath command was a law concerning morality, as with all of the laws concerning all of the Israelite high days, they were all ritual or ceremonial.