Why do so few Christians see the importance of remembering the Sabbath when the Bible clearly states its significance?

[Soyeong]

And when Christ was criticized for healing on the Sabbath, and when the Apostles were seen eating grains of wheat on the Sabbath
and criticized for violating the Sabbath, Jesus words were, "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."

And Jesus gave the Apostles the authority to bind or loosen on earth, including the Sabbath. So, the early Church observed
the "Lord's Day," on Sunday, which is the day Jesus rose.

If you want to observe the Sabbath instead of the Lord's Day, go ahead. Just don't criticize Christians for
observing the Lord's Day.

There are a number of God's laws that appear to conflict with each other, such as when God commanded priests to rest on the Sabbath while also commanding priests to make offerings on the Sabbath (Numbers 28:9-10), however, it was not the case that priests were forced to sin by breaking one of the two commands no matter what they chose to do, but that the lesser command was never intended to be understood as preventing the greater command from being obeyed. This is why Jesus said in Matthew 12:5-7 that priests who did their duties on the Sabbath were held innocent, why David and his men were held innocent, and why he defended his disciples as being innocent. This is also why it is lawful to circumcise a baby on the 8th day if it happens to fall on the Sabbath, why it is lawful to get an ox or a child out of a pit on the Sabbath, and so forth.

It is contradictory to think that Jesus was correct about it being lawful to heal on the Sabbath and to think that the group of Pharisees were correct about Jesus breaking the Sabbath by healing on it. It has always been lawful to heal on the Sabbath, so those Pharisees were incorrect. The Sabbath was made as a precious gift from God to man for our own good, so it was never intended to bring about situations that are to our detriment, such as preventing someone from receiving healing. The group of Pharisees had reasoned that it is unlawful to do work on the Sabbath and that healing is work, therefore it is unlawful to heal on the Sabbath, however, we are also commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves, and it would not be loving our neighbor to refuse to heal them, and no command was intended to be understood as preventing us from obeying the greatest two commandments.

Jesus was not saying that we are free to break the Sabbath or to decide for ourselves whether we want to keep it holy or on which day we want to keep it holy. Having the authority to bind and loose refers to having the authority to determine what is prohibited or permitted by God's law, such as determine whether a particular activity is prohibited or permitted on the Sabbath, but it does not have the authority to make changes to God's commands, such as changing the Sabbath to a different day. For example, they did not have the authority to say that we are now permitted to commit adultery, but they did have the authority to make rulings about whether a particular action should be permitted or considered to be adultery. If Jesus had wanted, then he could have quoted Rabbi Yehuda as saying that we are permitted to crush grains of wheat with our hands on the Sabbath for our own consumption as long as we don't use a tool.

There is nothing wrong with someone choosing to follow their own tradition of honoring the resurrection by worshiping God on Sunday or any other day of the week in addition to obeying God's command to keep the 7th day holy, but there is something wrong with someone hypocritical setting aside God's command to keep the 7th day holy or any of God's other commands in order to establish their tradition of honoring the resurrection. We have the freedom to follow of tradition of honoring the resurrection once a decade, once every two years, once a year, one every six months, once every month, once every two weeks, once every Thursday, twice a week, multiple times a day, or for whatever other time interval we want, but we should do that in addition to obeying God's command to keep the 7th day holy and to obeying God's other commands, not instead of them.

 

[Soyeong]

All this Sabbath-keeping hullabaloo is just cosplaying being in the first century on the part of a minority of Protestants who cannot see any other culture to connect with in the Bible outside of the OT. Meanwhile, actual Christians who have been so since a time when those Protestants' ancestors were still worshipping rocks and trees, such as the Ethiopians and Eritreans (witness: the Axumite king 'Ezana and his kingdom converted in ~330 AD, whereas the first English king to accept baptism, Æthelberht of Kent, didn't do so until 597), have kept Saturday as well as Sunday since forever, even though such has never been the custom of their Egyptian mother Church (we have vespers/asheya, same as anyone would in preparation for the liturgy on Sunday morning, but that's it).

I refuse to be lectured to by a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies for not engaging in the live action roleplaying version of 'Judaeo-Christianity' that they cooked up (largely in the 19th century). That goes for these 'Sabbath-keeper' types as well as the so-called 'Messianic Jews'. Go away with that nonsense. You're either in or your out. No one gets to continue as though Judaism and the rites and rituals specific to it (i.e., all that has not been baptized into the Church, where a clear line was drawn as early as the Apostolic Council in Jerusalem) are somehow salvific when they are not. That makes a mockery of Christ, and should not be tolerated. This is Christianforums.com, not howtopretendtobeajew.com.

Jesus came as the Jewish Messiah of Judaism in fulfillment of Jewish prophecy and he set perfect example for us to follow of how to practice Judaism by walking in sinless obedience to the Torah, so while Gentiles to not need to become Jews in order to become followers of Jesus, Gentiles do need to follow his example in order to follow him. In Acts 21:20, they were rejoicing that tens of thousands of Jews were coming to faith who were all zealous for the Torah, which is in accordance Judaism, but were becoming zealous for it. This means that there was a period of time between the resurrection of Jesus and the inclusion of Gentiles in Acts 10 that is estimated to be around 7-15 years during which all Christians were Torah observant Jews, so Christianity at its origin was the form of Judaism that recognized Jesus as its prophesied Messiah. In prophesied in regard to the millennial reign, the only religion that is described as being practice is the form of Judaism that recognizes Jesus as the Messiah, which is also known as Messianic Judaism. While Messianic Judaism has rapidly grown in popularity in the last century, there has always been followers of Christ who have continued to follow his example of obedience to the Torah, and it is absurd to think that we make a mockery of Christ by following his example.