Can you please point to the scripture that says the 4th commandment changed to this New Way you’re referencing? God made it abundantly clear not to add or subtract to His commandments.
Deuteronomy 4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Yes, and yet
God can do whatever He wants. So, what makes you think that all His instructions, everything Jesus said and did, all teachings and traditions received by His disciples, were necessarily written? Scripture, itself, says otherwise. And why should/would they be? You have to understand that your argument is not just against Catholicism but the Eastern churches as well along with the ECFs-against history. And unless we're to believe that the gates of hell really
did prevail against the church, at least until SDAs came alone, well...
The Sabbath debate was brought up by
one more group, SDAs in this case, wishing to set themselves exclusively apart with
another holier-than-thou gimmick, distracting from and maligning the true faith with various erroneous beliefs in the process.
The Sabbath was changed outside the era of scripture in the year 300 by Constantine. There were many pagan traditions that were co-mingled with Christian teachings, one of those was the Sabbath. Sun worship became Sunday worship and slowly these and other non-Christian teachings started to be taught by the church.
That is pure unscholarly, disingenuous contrived pap. Constantine made Sunday, as a matter of civil law, the day of rest in the empire. Christians welcomed this because now they could do legally what they’d been doing all along, secretly or with difficulty in any case since Sunday, the day of the sun, had been a regular day of work in the Roman Empire. And it had absolutely
NOTHING to do with sun worship, which is why it just
happens to be that the church has
never taught
anything having remotely to do with sun worship.
The RRC admits they changed the Sabbath and not by biblical authority. Just a couple quotes of many similar. There is no scripture saying we can change anything scripture. No one has the authority to change a commandment of God written by God’s very own finger.
Q. Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?
A. Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; —she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.
—Rev. Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism; New York in 1857, page 174
Question: Which is the Sabbath day?
Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
—Rev. Peter Geiermann C.SS.R., The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50
So if one is keeping Sunday as the primary day of worship they are keeping a tradition of the Catholic Church. Jesus tells us to keep the commandments of God over the traditions of man. Matthew 15:3-9. There is no Sunday-keeping commandment, but there is for Sabbath keeping- written and spoken by God, that no man has hority over.
They are keeping a Tradition of God. You’re only speculating, guessing, centuries and centuries after the fact. So, Justin Martyr, another ECF born in 100 AD, comments in line with early historical church practices and other ECFs:
Chapter 67. Weekly worship of the Christians
And we afterwards continually remind each other of these things. And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always keep together; and for all things wherewith we are supplied, we bless the Maker of all through His Son Jesus Christ, and through the Holy Ghost. And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and 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.
“Scholars”, SDA,
naturally, contest the authenticity of this paragraph even though it fits and flows seamlessly with the rest of the letter where the previous two paragraphs speak of the sacraments in general, then the Eucharist, likewise all consistent in thought with other ECFs. The writer’s arguments are pure, self-serving and convenient, shoddy fabrication while Martyr’s comments are simply, again, consistent with history and the rest of his work. Anyway, JWs have their scholars and Mormons have theirs and SDAs have theirs to support whatever presumptuous theology they wish to advance.
More opinions not derived from scripture. The church can not save, the church does not have authority to forgive sins, the church does not have authority to change one of God’s Commandments and our only safeguard so we are following God is to follow His Word.
Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
God has people in all churches and He is begging for His people to come out of Babylon Revelation 18:4, Revelation 14 and their false teachings as we are called to worship Him in Truth and Spirit. John 4:23-24
Garbage- from a false prophetess who spewed it. The church
does have the authority, based on the faith as she received and practiced it at the beginning.
