Sabbath/Sunday Questions

[DawnTillery]

I was reading Mark 16:1
I guess im kind of confused being a new christian and all..
When is the sabbath? If the Sabbath is Saturday, why do we go to Church on Sunday? Is it because thats the day Jesus rose? Or is the Sabbath Sunday and Jesus rose on Monday?

I know what my church told me, but Id like to hear information on this.

 

[chilibowl]

If you continue your reading through the new testament you notice the majority of the big meetings "In acts" are always on the first day of the week, in respect and reverance of the sabbeth and the large number of jewish belivers "In attempts of not causing a brother to stumble" We are free from all sacred "days" Sabith, penticost, new moons, and the rest, all days being the same for the christian and not the jews we took the first day after the sabith as to not make the new jewish beliver sin.. and passed from one generation to another to 2005 Now most of us don't even know the sunday is not the sabith.

GLGB

 

[DawnTillery]

Ok, I understand what your saying.. I really wasnt puzzled by this till I took the Easter Quiz here on CF and it asked what day did Jesus arose and I said Sunday and I got it wrong? Thats why I really started having questions.
Do you know why some religions (not Jewish) go to church on Saturday then?
My church told me the reason we attend church on Sunday is because thats the day Jesus Rose from the dead..
and Yes I have already read Acts and doing a bible study on it at church, but still didnt understand why I got that question wrong...
Any insight?

 

[Sketcher]

Some denominations still believe that you must practice the Sabbath like the Jews did - that being on Saturday, and you don't do any work. Of course, we do not have to do it that way (see Colossians 2:16, Hebrews 8) but some people love their tradition.

 

[chilibowl]

I don't know why you got that question wrong to be honest. if you look at matt 28:1 you'll see that mary "M" at dawn went on the first day of the week "Sunday" went to the tomb.. So I don't know if the test is wrong of if they have some other explaination

Meatwad is right about it being just a matter of tradition, and so is our worship day.. "People" in the church feel a need or a closeness to god when they can out "Worship" or can up hold some seceret precept found in there studies.. This gives them insight" so to speak, verfiying there legitimatcy in there worship (God has reaviled this seceret to us meaning we are the true faith)..This is very common in the church as a whole, It isn't just islotaed to one demoniation.. Just remember that, when confronted in your own demontaion when a learned brother preaches a "special" message about a new percept.. Cause in Matt 11:25 christ talks about god hidding "Godly things" from the learned and wise and reveling them to the children.. Not to say that you should goto the 2nd grade sunday school for advise and consoul, but beware the proud and haughty displays that sometimes can come from a pulpit when our leaders proudly display our distinctives or demonational personalities.. and make your self ready to listen to the humbled mutterings of a True servant of christ or how ever he desides to show you his truth... Remember to test all things (In light of scripture) and hold on to what is good.

GLGB

 

[Radagast]

... My church told me the reason we attend church on Sunday is because thats the day Jesus Rose from the dead...

That's true!

I don't know who wrote that quiz...

-- Radagast

 

[mikef14020]

I used to think this way, that I was worshipping on the wrong day, but then the holy spirit spoke to me to keep one day a week a day where I just refocus my mind and energies on God. This help's in several ways, sometimes my sabbath occurs on a Saturday sometimes on a Sunday, heck one day when I only had off on Tuesday I made that my day to be with God in prayer.

 

[Rafael]

The "sabbath" day is Saturday, and the word means "rest". Jesus and the works He did for us as Savior are what we "rest" in. Jesus is our Sabbath - the Lord of the sabbath. It is tradition that we meet, as Christians on resurrection Sunday, the first day of the week, just like the first day of creation was when the light came, so does Jesus represent that light of life to us. We no longer have to work to show ourselves righteous from the outside, but have the righteousness of God inside us working to change our lives from the inside out. We no longer establish what Jesus has already accomplished for us, but show the changes inside by following the Spirit He gives us.
The more you study the Bible and grow, the deeper and more rich you will find all the beautiful symbols to be.

Mt.11:28 "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Mr 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

2 Co.4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Ga 5:16 So I advise you to live according to your new life in the Holy Spirit. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.

 

[salvationwriter17]

If you continue your reading through the new testament you notice the majority of the big meetings "In acts" are always on the first day of the week, in respect and reverance of the sabbeth and the large number of jewish belivers "In attempts of not causing a brother to stumble" We are free from all sacred "days" Sabith, penticost, new moons, and the rest, all days being the same for the christian and not the jews we took the first day after the sabith as to not make the new jewish beliver sin.. and passed from one generation to another to 2005 Now most of us don't even know the sunday is not the sabith.

GLGB

I am sure you speak of Acts 20:7-12
"On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight. There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don't be alarmed,” he said. “He's alive!” Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted."

The verse says they break bread, but Acts 2:46 says that the apostles broke bread daily, would that mean every day is the new Sabbath? The verse's main point is Eutychus falling out of the window and dying because Paul was so long-winded. And if the Sabbath was changed, why would Paul be leaving on that day as it says after this verse, why wasn't he going to church? Did you know that Christians kept the Sabbath until about the 4th century AD? Do you know who changed it? All of the apostles were dead at this time, and Christ was with his Father.

 

[GypsyBella]

In the beginning, when God created the earth, He rested from His work on the seventh day. He blessed that seventh day, and made it holy (see Genesis 2). In the 10 Commandments, God tells us to remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. We should worship every day of the week, either corporately or alone, but on the Sabbath day, we should rest.

Why would the Jewish people have kept Saturday as the Sabbath if it were not the correct day? Not because of the law of Moses, because the 10 Commandments are distinct and separate from the law of Moses. We are no longer under the law of Moses, but we are still to abide by God's commands.

 

[Radagast]

...Did you know that Christians kept the Sabbath until about the 4th century AD? ...

This subforum isn't really the place to recruit new Christians to specific churches, and I need to answer this, because it is NOT TRUE!

Church history is something I actually know a little about. In about 140 AD, Justin described how Christians worshipped on Sunday: "but Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because ... Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your consideration."

So did Tertullian in the early 200s ("we make Sunday a day of festivity"), Barnabus in about 100 ("we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead"), Ignatius in 107 ("no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death"), and other Christian writers.

-- Radagast

 

[StAnselm]

Excellent reply, Radagast. I've often heard people say what the early church did or did not believe, etc. It's good to actually go back to the original sources - thanks!

 

[GypsyBella]

This subforum isn't really the place to recruit new Christians to specific churches, and I need to answer this, because it is NOT TRUE!

Church history is something I actually know a little about. In about 140 AD, Justin described how Christians worshipped on Sunday: "but Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because ... Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your consideration."

So did Tertullian in the early 200s ("we make Sunday a day of festivity"), Barnabus in about 100 ("we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead"), Ignatius in 107 ("no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death"), and other Christian writers.

-- Radagast

I can't find anything in this forum where anyone is trying to recruit to any denomination. I only see peoples opinion, just like everywhere else.

Anyway, I only have a question, and it has stumped other people that I have asked. I have no conclusion to the question yet, and no one else can seem to answer it for me. I know it's a little off subject, so please feel free to pm me, if anyone has an answer.

If Jesus died on Friday, and rose on Sunday (as stated above), how was he in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights?

 

[SpiritPsalmist]

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[SpiritPsalmist]

I can't find anything in this forum where anyone is trying to recruit to any denomination. I only see peoples opinion, just like everywhere else.

Anyway, I only have a question, and it has stumped other people that I have asked. I have no conclusion to the question yet, and no one else can seem to answer it for me. I know it's a little off subject, so please feel free to pm me, if anyone has an answer.

If Jesus died on Friday, and rose on Sunday (as stated above), how was he in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights?

In the Jewish calender the new day begins at sundown.

 

[SpiritPsalmist]

I was reading Mark 16:1
I guess im kind of confused being a new christian and all..
When is the sabbath? If the Sabbath is Saturday, why do we go to Church on Sunday? Is it because thats the day Jesus rose? Or is the Sabbath Sunday and Jesus rose on Monday?

I know what my church told me, but Id like to hear information on this.

Dawn,

You will get varied answer's to this question depending on which church the person answering attends. You will also, upon doing a search find many sites giving varied opinions of such. Here is a post made in the Messianic forum that I think will be most informative to you: http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?p=14839131#post14839131 .

For any that check this recommended thread out and are NOT Messianic, remember that you are allowed to ask questions only...no debating.

 

[chilehed]

...If Jesus died on Friday, and rose on Sunday (as stated above), how was he in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights?

In the reckoning of the time, partial days were counted as full days.

 

[Radagast]

If Jesus died on Friday, and rose on Sunday (as stated above), how was he in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights?

There is a contrast here between a more Jewish way of speaking ("after 3 days") and a more Greek way ("on the 3rd day").

It's just like people in the US talk about the 3rd floor of a building (counting 1...2...3), when in the UK or Australia we would say 2nd floor (counting G...1...2).

-- Radagast

 

[Rafael]

I can't find anything in this forum where anyone is trying to recruit to any denomination. I only see peoples opinion, just like everywhere else.

Anyway, I only have a question, and it has stumped other people that I have asked. I have no conclusion to the question yet, and no one else can seem to answer it for me. I know it's a little off subject, so please feel free to pm me, if anyone has an answer.

If Jesus died on Friday, and rose on Sunday (as stated above), how was he in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights?

Scroll down a little at this link, and you will see that their was an annual sabbath and a weekly sabbath to be observed the week of passover when Jesus was crucified. The annual passover was on a Wednesday. God bless...

http://centuryone.com/crucifixion.html