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NT challenges the idea of a weekly Sunday Service practice for the NT first century church

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We often see one of four solutions taught for the subject of God's weekly Sabbath started in Gen 2:2-3 according to Ex 20:11

1. Keep the TEN Comm including Sabbath commandment "as is no change" even in Is 66:23 for all eternity after the cross in the New Earth.
2. Affirm the TEN yet Edit the Sabbath comm and point it to Sunday after the resurrection of Christ, as a NT "custom" or 'practice'.
3. Affirm 9 of the TEN and argue that the Sabbath was only for Jews and never applies to anyone else. Still supposing Sunday service practice
4. Ignore all of the TEN as "Old Cov" then Imagine or suppose a weekly Sunday service "practice" in the NT even though it is never mentioned in the Bible

So we have key details that emerge on this section of the board:

1. Acts 13 (45 AD) details show that as of 45 AD the Christian church still had no "practice" of weekly Sunday services for gospel preaching as discussed on the following thread

2. Acts 18:4 (51 AD) shows that they were preaching the gospel to both gentiles and Jews "every Sabbath" in worship services even as late as 51 AD, still defining the term "Sabbath" as the weekly Saturday Sabbath.

3. The following thread discusses why it is that 1 Cor 16:1-2 it not an example of a weekly Sunday service, but rather it is each one setting aside of money one "weekday 1" 1 Cor 16:2 can't be made to say "the main worship day for the NT church was always the first day of the week"

4 Every time the "Commandments of God" are mentioned and example quotes given, they always include examples from the TEN where as James 2 says "to break one is to break them all'.

'God's commandments" affirmed in 1 Cor 7:19, 1 John 5:3-4, Rev 14:12, John 14:15
 
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The New Covenant found in Jer 31:31-34 and Heb 8 is almost never actually quoted by those who would like to suppose that the New Covenant does away with the Commandments of God as known to Jeremiah and his readers regarding the TEN.
( no matter what Rev 14:12 1 John 5:3-4, Rev 14:12 say to the contrary)

Deut 5:22 says God spoke the TEN "and added no more" , placing only those commandments inside the Ark of the Covenant. So then they were a distinct unit of Law even in the OT. But they clearly were not the only commands in the moral law of God as we see in Matt 22 quoting Deut 6:5 and Lev 19:18

Still James 2 deals with the commandments as a unit , a block of law and 1 John 3:4 says they define what sin is just as does Paul affirm this fact in Rom 3:19-20 and Rom 7
 
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So then a great many projects that look at this topic frankly admit that the NT provides no command for Sunday Services and provides not one example of weekly Sunday service practice replacing Sabbath or being called "the Sabbath" in the actual text.

Where then does it come from? Answer: Later tradition.

in Mark 7:7-13 Christ comments on some examples where later tradition edits/modifies/annuls a command of God found in scripture.
 
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