WHY THE LORD'S DAY IS NOT SATURDAY

SkyWriting said:

If you wish to keep the Law, then you must keep all 613 laws.

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NO YOU DON'T! That is a fallacy!

SkyWriting said:

So then every person would need forgiveness.

Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Matthew 6:15
But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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Sin is the transgression of the law. Yes, all sin.

imge said:

Not really. There is no scripture that says the Lords day is the first day. I think we need to be careful adding words to scriptures that are not there. Gods Sabbath is not a celebration of His rest. God told us what His Sabbath is and its the day we are supposed to keep Holy every seventh day.

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There's also no scripture to support it is on the Sabbath. However historical accounts of the early church have always viewed Sunday as the Lord's Day and it is a name only used once in the Bible. To this day it is the word of "Sunday" in Greek, "Kyriake" meaning "Lord's Day" or more properly "Lord's [assembly]". The remainder of the days are counting their positions Monday is second, Tuesday is third, Wednesday is fourth and Thursday is fifth. This leaves Friday in the position of sixth but it is called perpartion day and Sunday in the position of first, but called Lord's Day as well as Saturday as Sabbath.

The term for the day occurs once in the bible Rev 1:10 where Thayers Greek Lexicon defines it as
2. relating to the Lord, ἡ κυριακῇ ἡμέρα, the day devoted to the Lord, sacred to the memory of Christ's resurrection, Revelation 1:10

We also know the early Church valued Sunday gathering from scripture to what extent is not clear but Sunday explictly stands out. Revelation is a later work of the NT so it would make sense it carries a more evolved name for the day, where the other references of Sunday worship 1 Cor 16:2 and Acts 20:7 just uses "first" or "one" consistent with the naming of current Greek names of the week where clearly the first day was renamed at one time.

The Didache mentions the Lord's day in reference to gathering and breaking bread, consistent with Acts 20:7. Although ambiguous without context evidence would support the intended day is Sunday.

Although broadly those who value the Sabbath tend to ascribe the Lord's Day with the Sabbath this is a more modern interpretation. Yes, sabbath keepers have been around since the beginning but their groups have been too insignificant to contribute to this conversation from early accounts and only modern perspectives are what's claiming this and historical accounts do not.

DamianWarS said:

There's also no scripture to support it is on the Sabbath. However historical accounts of the early church have always viewed Sunday as the Lord's Day and it is a name only used once in the Bible. To this day it is the word of "Sunday" in Greek, "Kyriake" meaning "Lord's Day" or more properly "Lord's [assembly]". The remainder of the days are counting their positions Monday is second, Tuesday is third, Wednesday is fourth and Thursday is fifth. This leaves Friday in the position of sixth but it is called perpartion day and Sunday in the position of first, but called Lord's Day as well as Saturday as Sabbath.

The term for the day occurs once in the bible Rev 1:10 where Thayers Greek Lexicon defines it as
2. relating to the Lord, ἡ κυριακῇ ἡμέρα, the day devoted to the Lord, sacred to the memory of Christ's resurrection, Revelation 1:10

We also know the early Church valued Sunday gathering from scripture to what extent is not clear but Sunday explictly stands out. Revelation is a later work of the NT so it would make sense it carries a more evolved name for the day, where the other references of Sunday worship 1 Cor 16:2 and Acts 20:7 just uses "first" or "one" consistent with the naming of current Greek names of the week where clearly the first day was renamed at one time.

The Didache mentions the Lord's day in reference to gathering and breaking bread, consistent with Acts 20:7. Although ambigious without context evidence would support the intended day is Sunday.

Although broadly those who value the Sabbath tend to ascribe the Lord's Day with the Sabbath this is a new interpretation. Yes sabbath keepers have been around since the beginning but their groups have been too insignficate to contribute to this conversation from early accounts and only modern perspective are what's claiming this and historical accounts to not support this.

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I already provided the scripture, they are God's Words not mine.

The argument here is that the Lord rose on the first day, Sunday and many have jumped to conclusion that because the Lord rose on the first day it automatically means its the "Lords day" despite the scriptures being totally silent that anything changed with Gods Sabbath. You can't have it both ways, God said His seventh day is Holy and the Sabbath, the seventh day Jesus rested in His tomb and rose the first day, so the Sabbath is exactly the seventh day (Saturday) God commanded us to keep Holy. There is no Biblical scripture that supports Sunday is the Lords day, or His Sabbath, or should be a day of worship. These are all traditions of man Jesus warns us about. Matthew 15:8-9

The Sabbath is a truth magnet. If you are discerning the truth, you are drawn to the Sabbath. If you are not discerning the truth, you are repelled from it.

Christians will do Olympic gold-winning gymnastics to repel themselves from the truth of the Sabbath being a binding commandment in the Decalogue (the Ten Commandments). In every thread concerning the Sabbath, we see gymnastic back-flips and tumbles to avoid the truth.

There is a reason the Sabbath is such a contentious subject among Christians. It is part of the sharp edge of the sword (the word of God), dividing the true from the false. It is the Seal of God, which is the arbiter of true worship in these end times.

The phrase "times and laws" spoken of by Daniel points directly to God's worship day, the seventh day Sabbath, as being changed by men. The plural is because the idolatry commandment was also changed (removed).

Scripture makes a clear distinction between the traditions of men and the commandments of God.
Isaiah makes it clear. The Sabbath is a part of God's covenant.


When Jesus gave two new commandments, to love God and love others, He made a point to hang ALL the law and the prophets on it.


The Sabbath will be observed in heaven.


Jesus directly refers to the Ten Commandments in Revelation, and the Sabbath in Matthew; both concerning the end time. This is the final message of urgency that Jesus gives to us.



The Ten Commandments are the character of God. They are eternal. The Sabbath is eternal.

LoveGodsWord said:

Ok, so what day is that? - the third day. Evening to evening is a day in bible time (Genesis 1).
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You really have to read the account in John.

atpollard said:

Was Luke uninspired and needs to be moved to the Apocrypha?

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Check out the account in John.

imge said:

I already provided the scripture, they are God's Words not mine.

The argument here is that the Lord rose on the first day, Sunday and many have jumped to conclusion that because the Lord rose on the first day it automatically means its the "Lords day" despite the scriptures being totally silent that anything changed with Gods Sabbath. You can't have it both ways, God said His seventh day is Holy and the Sabbath, the seventh day Jesus rested in His tomb and rose the first day, so the Sabbath is exactly the seventh day (Saturday) God commanded us to keep Holy. There is no Biblical scripture that supports Sunday is the Lords day, or His Sabbath, or should be a day of worship. These are all traditions of man Jesus warns us about. Matthew 15:8-9

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the early church jumped to these conclusions as well. I'm not sure how calling a day of the week the Lord's day incorrectly from its biblical usage can be called sinful except if it's being used to identify the Sabbath (then I understand that). However, hypothetically, if an individual were to separate the Lord's day from the Sabbath what sin is being committed if they incorrectly identity the Lord's day from its biblical counterpart? (which is limited Rev 1:10). it seems to put a lot on a single verse. I missed your scriptural support too, can you repost it?

imge said:

The argument here is that the Lord rose on the first day, Sunday and many have jumped to conclusion that because the Lord rose on the first day it automatically means its the "Lords day" despite the scriptures being totally silent that anything changed with Gods Sabbath.

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Time and again you've been informed that the Sabbath was NOT changed.

God's word informs us of the fact that the Church he founded made Sunday the principal day of worship (for obvious reasons), not that the Sabbath was moved.

DamianWarS said:

the early church jumped to these conclusions as well. I'm not sure how calling a day of the week the Lord's day incorrectly from its biblical usage can be called sinful except if it's being used to identify the Sabbath (then I understand that). However, hypothetically, if an individual were to separate the Lord's day from the Sabbath what sin is being committed if they incorrectly identity the Lord's day from its biblical counterpart? (which is limited Rev 1:10). it seems to put a lot on a single verse. I missed your scriptural support too, can you repost it?

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Here again are God's Words that He both wrote and spoke, Considering the Ten is the only written scripture we have written by God, I would consider it the most sacred and that's why the covenant was kept in the most holy of holy in the ark.

Exodus 20
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

These verses written and spoke by God are very powerful to me.

The first verse says to keep the Sabbath Holy. If you notice it doesn't say a Sabbath, meaning the Sabbath is the only Holy day according to the Words of God. He also says six days we should do all our work. Jesus rose on the first day, so according to God that is not "The Lords day" that is a working day. Than He said the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. The Sabbath is a day (every seventh day, Saturday) and God said it is the day of the Lord your God. God is telling us very clearly that it is the Lords day. And lastly, He asked us to REMEMBER His Holy Sabbath because God is all knowing He gave that extra reminder so we would not disregard this very important commandment that He knew we would forget. You are free to believe as you wish, but I believe this was written so clearly, there could be no confusion on which day God wants us to keep Holy. He said His Sabbath is a perpetual covenant Exodus 31:16 God told us He is unchanging Hebrews 13:8 which is why every Sabbath we will worship Him on the New Earth Isaiah 66:23. God bless

Albion said:

Time and again you've been informed that the Sabbath was NOT changed.

God's word informs us of the fact that the Church he founded made Sunday the principal day of worship (for obvious reasons), not that the Sabbath was moved.

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Please share where God informed us that He gave permission to the church to change the principle day of worship. This is all speculation made by man, not from God's Word. Proverbs 30:5-6 God told us He is unchanging Hebrews 13:8. I believe Him. Jesus also warned us not to keep commandments of men, I believe Jesus. Mathew 15 8-9 I choose to obey God's commandments and not mans. You are free to believe as you wish and we will have to agree to disagree.

imge said:

Please share where God informed us that He gave permission to the church to change the principle day of worship.

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As you are aware, it's been posted numerous times. The "problem" is that some people and denominations talk as though they do not consider all of the Bible to be God's word and persist in arguing as though only the Old Testament was divinely inspired. Yet, if that were the case, they could hardly believe in Jesus of Nazareth, since the totality of his public ministry is recorded in the New, not the Old, Testament books.

imge said:

Here again are God's Words that He both wrote and spoke, Considering the Ten is the only written scripture we have written by God, I would consider it the most sacred and that's why the covenant was kept in the most holy of holy in the ark.

Exodus 20
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

These verses written and spoke by God are very powerful to me.

The first verse says to keep the Sabbath Holy. If you notice it doesn't say a Sabbath, meaning the Sabbath is the only Holy day according to the Words of God. He also says six days we should do all our work. Jesus rose on the first day, so according to God that is not "The Lords day" that is a working day. Than He said the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. The Sabbath is a day (every seventh day, Saturday) and God said it is the day of the Lord your God. God is telling us very clearly that it is the Lords day. And lastly, He asked us to REMEMBER His Holy Sabbath because God is all knowing He gave that extra reminder so we would not disregard this very important commandment that He knew we would forget. You are free to believe as you wish, but I believe this was written so clearly, there could be no confusion on which day God wants us to keep Holy. He said His Sabbath is a perpetual covenant Exodus 31:16 God told us He is unchanging Hebrews 13:8 which is why every Sabbath we will worship Him on the New Earth Isaiah 66:23. God bless

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those are verses about the Sabbath day. I'm referring to the scriptural support that identifies the Lord's day as the Sabbath day. I get the impression you are defending this idea that the Sabbath has not moved to Sunday. If that's so I agree with you and it's scripturally unsupported and there isn't a single place in the bible that suggests that, however, that's not what I'm saying. The Sabbath is the Sabbath, the day of rest, the 7th day. The Lord's day is the day Christ resurrected, it is on the first day of the week, the modern-day of Sunday. Scripture does support the early church worshiping on the first day of the week (and Christ did rise on the first day) also historically the early church worshiped on the first day of the week and it was called the Lord's day, it has always been called that and still is in Greek. Literally, the word for Sunday in Greek is the Lord's day. There is no explicit verse in the bible that says the Lord's day is Sunday but mainly because it's not a common line in the bible. It is mentioned once, and it's the last book written.

I get you have a strong identity with the name of the Lord's day with the Sabbath and so any suggestion that the Lord's day is on a different day feels like an attack on the Sabbath. It's not and that's not what I intend it to be. Historically speaking the Lord's day is without question on Sunday. The single biblical reference is ambiguous but the bible does support the early church valuing Sunday as a day to gather. I accept your desire to call the Sabbath the Lord's day and that it fits that day but this is more of a recent change that is unsupported throughout history. It's a none issue to me if you want to call the Sabbath the Lord's day but it is an issue if you reject the day I call the Lord's day simply because you want it to be the Sabbath. I don't share that identity with the name and I'm not attacking the Sabbath day so I'm confused about what the issue is?

DamianWarS said:

those are verses about the Sabbath day. I'm referring to the scriptural support that identifies the Lord's day as the Sabbath day. I get the impression you are defending this idea that the Sabbath has not moved to Sunday. If that's so I agree with you and it's scripturally unsupported and there isn't a single place in the bible that suggests that, however, that's not what I'm saying. The Sabbath is the Sabbath, the day of rest, the 7th day. The Lord's day is the day Christ resurrected, it is on the first day of the week, the modern-day of Sunday. Scripture does support the early church worshiping on the first day of the week (and Christ did rise on the first day) also historically the early church worshiped on the first day of the week and it was called the Lord's day, it has always been called that and still is in Greek. Literally, the word for Sunday in Greek is the Lord's day. There is no explicit verse in the bible that says the Lord's day is Sunday but mainly because it's not a common line in the bible. It is mentioned once, and it's the last book written.

I get you have a strong identity with the name of the Lord's day with the Sabbath and so any suggestion that the Lord's day is on a different day feels like an attack on the Sabbath. It's not and that's not what I intend it to be. Historically speaking the Lord's day is without question on Sunday. The single biblical reference is ambiguous but the bible does support the early church valuing Sunday as a day to gather. I accept your desire to call the Sabbath the Lord's day and that it fits that day but this is more of a recent change that is unsupported throughout history. It's a none issue to me if you want to call the Sabbath the Lord's day but it is an issue if you reject the day I call the Lord's day simply because you want it to be the Sabbath. I don't share that identity with the name and I'm not attacking the Sabbath day so I'm confused about what the issue is?

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So words like "Holy" "Sacred" "Hallow" "Sanctify" and "Blessed" are not worthy of worship (despite Isaiah 66:23) and the Sabbath of the Lord your God, but a day God defined as a day to do all our work and labor would be better suited for worship?

Albion said:

As you are aware, it's been posted numerous times. The "problem" is that some people and denominations talk as though they do not consider all of the Bible to be God's word and persist in arguing as though only the Old Testament was divinely inspired. Yet, if that were the case, they could hardly believe in Jesus of Nazareth, since the totality of his public ministry is recorded in the New, not the Old, Testament books.

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I do believe all of the Bible and Gods Words. I also believe the fact that the Bible is silent on Sunday being anything but a "working day" according to the Words of God I think its important to not assume, jump to conclusions when God spelled out so clearly which day is Sacred. We are to follow Jesus and He never said anything about Sunday being a day of worship. In fact He kept all of His Fathers commandments and asked us to as well. John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. Like I said, I will continue to follow Gods Words and Jesus example and He gave us all free will, so we will have to agree to disagree. God bless.

imge said:

I do believe all of the Bible and Gods Words. I also believe the fact that the Bible is silent on Sunday being anything but a "working day" according to the Words of God I think its important to not assume, jump to conclusions when God spelled out so clearly which day is Sacred.

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Except that the Bible is not silent about that.

imge said:

So words like "Holy" "Sacred" "Hallow" "Sanctify" and "Blessed" are not worthy of worship (despite Isaiah 66:23) and the Sabbath of the Lord your God, but a day God defined as a day to do all our work and labor would be better suited for worship?

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I don't call the Sabbath the Lord's Day. I call Sunday the Lord's Day. How in anyway does that defile what you just said? You seem to be defending this idea that the Lord's Day must be the Sabbath and any other position is an attack on the Sabbath. What support do you have that the Lord's Day is the Sabbath? Cause the only support you've given is that the Sabbath is the Sabbath.

Albion said:

Except that the Bible is not silent about that.

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Silent about what? That there is no scripture that shows us Sunday is the "Lords day" ? I agree with that. Most of the early churches did as well and that's why almost every denomination admits the principle day of worship should be Saturday/Sabbath and the change was a commandment from the Roman Catholic church. (man)

There was never any disagreement about which day is Gods only day to worship in the Bible, it was all about how to keep the Sabbath. The change was made by man and its well-documented. I think that's why we have so many warnings about it from God. God said "REMEMBER" Proverbs 30 5-6, Matthew 15:8-9, Daniel 7:25



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.

Of course these two old quotations are exactly correct. The Catholic Church designated Sunday as the day for corporate worship and gets full credit – or blame – for the change.
—This Rock, The Magazine of Catholic Apologetics and Evangelization, p.8, June 1997
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

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

Q. In what manner can we show a Protestant, that he speaks unreasonably against fasts and abstinences?

A. Ask him why he keeps Sunday, and not Saturday, as his day of rest, since he is unwilling either to fast or to abstain. If he reply, that the Scripture orders him to keep the Sunday, but says nothing as to fasting and abstinence, tell him the Scripture speaks of Saturday or the Sabbath, but gives no command anywhere regarding Sunday or the first day of the week.

If, then he neglects Saturday as a day of rest and holiness, and substitutes Sunday in its place, and this merely because such was the usage of the ancient Church, should he not, if he wishes to act consistently, observe fasting and abstinence, because the ancient Church so ordained?
—Rev. Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism; New York in 1857, page 181

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

Q. Must not a sensible Protestant doubt seriously, when he finds that even the Bible is not followed as a rule by his co-religionists?

A. Surely, when he sees them baptize infants, abrogate the Jewish Sabbath, and observe Sunday for which [pg. 7] there is no Scriptural authority; when he finds them neglect to wash one another's feet, which is expressly commanded, and eat blood and things strangled, which are expressly prohibited in Scripture. He must doubt, if he think at all. ...

Q. Should not the Protestant doubt when he finds that he himself holds tradition as a guide?

A. Yes, if he would but reflect that he has nothing but Catholic Tradition for keeping the Sunday holy; ...
—Controversial Catechism by Stephen Keenan, New Edition, revised by Rev. George Cormack, published in London by Burns & Oates, Limited - New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benzinger Brothers, 1896, pages 6, 7.
The Church, on the other hand, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath, or Seventh day of the week, to the first, made the Third Commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the Lord's Day. The Council of Trent (Sess. VI, can. xix) condemns those who deny that the Ten Commandments are binding on Christians.
—The Catholic Encyclopedia, Commandments of God, Volume IV, © 1908 by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition © 1999 by Kevin Knight, Nihil Obstat - Remy Lafort, Censor Imprimatur - +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York, page 153.
The [Roman Catholic] Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday. In this matter the Seventh-day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant.
—The Catholic Universe Bulletin, August 14, 1942, p. 4.

All of us believe many things in regard to religion that we do not find in the Bible. For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the Church outside the Bible.
—The Catholic Virginian, To Tell You The Truth,” Vol. 22, No. 49 (Oct. 3, 1947).

... you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.
—The Faith of Our Fathers, by James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 88th edition, page 89. Originally published in 1876, republished and Copyright 1980 by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., pages 72-73.
Deny the authority of the Church and you have no adequate or reasonable explanation or justification for the substitution of Sunday for Saturday in the Third - Protestant Fourth - Commandment of God... The Church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.'
—Catholic Record, September 1, 1923.

But since Saturday, not Sunday, is specified in the Bible, isn't it curious that non-Catholics who profess to take their religion directly from the Bible and not the Church, observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Yes, of course, it is inconsistent; but this change was made about fifteen centuries before Protestantism was born, and by that time the custom was universally observed.

They have continued the custom, even though it rests upon the authority of the Catholic Church and not upon an explicit text in the Bible. That observance remains as a reminder of the Mother Church from which the non-Catholic sects broke away - like a boy running away from home but still carrying in his pocket a picture of his mother or a lock of her hair.
—The Faith of Millions
Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. "The Day of the Lord" (dies Dominica) was chosen, not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church's sense of its own power. The day of resurrection, the day of Pentecost, fifty days later, came on the first day of the week. So this would be the new Sabbath. People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy.
—Sentinel, Pastor's page, Saint Catherine Catholic Church, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995

If Protestants would follow the Bible, they would worship God on the Sabbath day. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church.
—Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal, in a letter dated February 10, 1920.

The observance of Sunday by the Protestants is homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] Church.
—Monsignor Louis Segur, ‘Plain Talk about the Protestantism of Today’, p. 213.
What Important Question Does the Papacy Ask Protestants?
Protestants have repeatedly asked the papacy, "How could you dare to change God's law?" But the question posed to Protestants by the Catholic church is even more penetrating.

Here it is officially: You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! but by whom? Who has authority to change an express commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said, Thou shalt keep holy the Seventh day, who shall dare to say, Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on the Seventh day; but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its stead?

This is a most important question, which I know not how you can answer. You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet in so important a matter as the observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded.

The command to keep holy the Seventh day is one of the ten commandments; you believe that the other nine are still binding; who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your own principles, if you really follow the Bible and the Bible only, you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered.
—Library of Christian Doctrine: Why Don't You Keep Holy the Sabbath-Day? (London: Burns and Oates, Ltd.), pp. 3, 4.

There is but one church on the face of the earth which has the power, or claims power, to make laws binding on the conscience, binding before God, binding under penalty of hell-fire. For instance, the institution of Sunday. What right has any other church to keep this day? You answer by virtue of the third commandment (the papacy did away with the 2nd regarding the worship of graven images, and called the 4th the 3rd), which says 'Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.'

But Sunday is not the Sabbath. Any schoolboy knows that Sunday is the first day of the week. I have repeatedly offered one thousand dollars to anyone who will prove by the Bible alone that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep, and no one has called for the money. It was the holy Catholic Church that changed the day of rest from Saturday, the Seventh day, to Sunday, the first day of the week.

—T. Enright, C.S.S.R., in a lecture delivered in 1893.
Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act. And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.

—C. F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons, in answer to a letter regarding the change of the Sabbath, November 11, 1895.

Tradition, not Scripture, is the rock on which the church of Jesus Christ is built.
—Adrien Nampon, Catholic Doctrine as Defined by the Council of Trent, p. 157

The Pope is of so great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine law". The pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts a vicegerent of God upon earth
—Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, art. Papa, II, Vol. VI, p. 29.

The leader of the Catholic church is defined by the faith as the Vicar of Jesus Christ (and is accepted as such by believers). The Pope is considered the man on earth who "takes the place" of the Second Person of the omnipotent God of the Trinity.
—John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, p. 3, 1994

...pastoral intuition suggested to the Church the christianization of the notion of Sunday as "the day of the sun", which was the Roman name for the day and which is retained in some modern languages.(29) This was in order to draw the faithful away from the seduction of cults which worshipped the sun, and to direct the celebration of the day to Christ, humanity's true 'sun'.
—John Paul II, Dies Domini, 27. The day of Christ-Light, 1998 (Prominent protestant leaders agree with this statement - See here for a statement by Dr. E. T. Hiscox, author of the ‘Baptist Manual’)
The Sun was a foremost god with heathen-dom…The sun has worshippers at this hour in Persia and other lands…. There is, in truth, something royal, kingly about the sun, making it a fit emblem of Jesus, the Sun of Justice. Hence the church in these countries would seem to have said, to 'Keep that old pagan name [Sunday]. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified.' And thus the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder, became the Christian Sunday, sacred to Jesus.
—William Gildea, Doctor of Divinity, The Catholic World, March, 1894, p. 809

The retention of the old pagan name of Dies Solis, for Sunday is, in a great measure, owing to the union of pagan and Christian sentiment with which the first day of the week was recommended by Constantine to his subjects - pagan and Christian alike - as the 'venerable' day of the sun.
—Arthur P. Stanley, History of the Eastern Church, p. 184

When St. Paul repudiated the works of the law, he was not thinking of the Ten Commandments, which are as unchangeable as God Himself is, which God could not change and still remain the infinitely holy God.
—Our Sunday Visitor, Oct. 7, I951.

Question: How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holydays?

Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church.

—Henry Tuberville, An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine (1833 approbation), p.58 (Same statement in Manual of Christian Doctrine, ed. by Daniel Ferris [1916 ed.], p.67)

Some theologians have held that God likewise directly determined the Sunday as the day of worship in the NEW LAW, that he himself has explicitly substituted Sunday for the Sabbath. But this theory is entirely abandoned. It is now commonly held that God simply gave His church the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as holy days. The church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days as holy days.
—Vincent J. Kelly, Forbidden Sunday and Feast-Day Occupations, Washington, DC, Catholic University of America Press, Studies in Sacred Theology, No. 70.,1943, p. 2.

If we consulted the Bible only, we should still have to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is, Saturday, with the Jews, instead of Sunday; ...
—A Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools and Academies, by Rev. John Laux M.A., Benzinger Brothers, 1936 edition, Part 1.
Sunday is a Catholic institution, and... can be defended only on Catholic principles.... From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first.
—Catholic Press, Aug. 25, 1900

The Sabbath was Saturday, not Sunday. The Church altered the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of Sunday. Protestants must be rather puzzled by the keeping of Sunday when God distinctly said, 'Keep holy the Sabbath day.' The word Sunday does not come anywhere in the Bible, so, without knowing it they are obeying the authority of the Catholic Church.
—Canon Cafferata, The Catechism Explained, p. 89.

Reason and sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible.
—John Cardinal Gibbons, The Catholic Mirror, December 23, 1893.

DamianWarS said:

I don't call the Sabbath the Lord's Day. I call Sunday the Lord's Day. How in anyway does that defile what you just said? You seem to be defending this idea that the Lord's Day must be the Sabbath and any other position is an attack on the Sabbath. What support do you have that the Lord's Day is the Sabbath? Cause the only support you've given is that the Sabbath is the Sabbath.

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You are free to call whatever day you want, but God said Sunday, the first day was not "The Lords day" but a working day. Your disagreement is with God's Words, not mine. God bless.

imge said:

I also believe the fact that the Bible is silent on Sunday being anything but a "working day" according to the Words of God....

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Albion said:

Except that the Bible is not silent about that.

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imge said:

Silent about what?

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See the first quote above.