The Catholic church claims if you keep Sunday instead of Sabbath, you are following the Catholic church and not scripture.(1) I'm not sure what quoting Catholic documents does for my reasoning (I'm Presbyterian anyway).
It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.
—Priest Brady, in an address, reported in the Elizabeth, NJ ‘News’ on March 18, 1903.
Protestants ... accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change... But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that ... in observing Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the Church, the pope.
—Our Sunday Visitor, February 5th, 1950.
Q. Have you any other proofs that they(Protestants) are not guided by the Scripture?
A. Yes; so many, that we cannot admit more than a mere specimen into this small work. They reject much that is clearly contained in Scripture, and profess more that is nowhere discoverable in that Divine Book.
Q. Give some examples of both?
A. They should, if the Scripture were their only rule, wash the feet of one another, according to the command of Christ, in the 13th chap. of St. John; —they should keep, not the Sunday, but the Saturday, according to the commandment, "Remember thou keep holy the SABBATH-day;" for this commandment has not, in Scripture, been changed or abrogated;...
—Rev. Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism; New York in 1857, page 101 Imprimatuer
Jesus warned us of following man-made rules over the commandments of God quoting right from the Ten Commandments Matthew 15:3-9
There is no animal sacrifices in the Ten Commandments - read Exodus 20. Animal sacrifices came after the fall man, the commandments is what points out sin. Romans 7:7 1 John 3:4. Animal sacrifices ended Col 2:14, Hebrews 10:1-10 when Jesus became our Sacrificial Lamb for the forgiveness of sin when we have a change in heart and repent from our sins (breaking God’s laws and turn from sin and walking with Christ in obedience. Acts 2:38, John 14:15 In the OC there were daily sacrifices for sins, including on the Sabbath because people sinned daily. It’s the equivalent to praying to Jesus for our sins on the Sabbath, something we should do.(2) The weekly Sabbath had sacrifices as well (Num 28:9-10). At this point it seems you might be cherry picking which rules regarding the Sabbath are applicable. In fact, based on Lev 23 it appears that there are Sabbath days you don't even observe at all. Besides, if we're now only to go by what Adam was commanded in the Garden, he was not commanded to conduct a "holy convocation," nor was he commanded to even "rest" on the 7th day.
So I'm seeing some inconsistency here in which rules are being applied and how the rules are being applied.
I would disagree with that interpretation of the Temple system.
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