[vespa300]

And the surprise ending:

Rang out at last a bell; I changed the Sabbath, and that so, well That nearly all the sects agree ' 'That I have power to thus decree; I Church of Rome, did change the day, And this I do not shrink to 'say. _ Search the Bible's inspired range , ' You'll find no text. to prove the change, . , , From seventh to first by God's command, A fact well settled in every land Ha! ha! ha! l am he That changed the ' Sabbath,- The Papal ,See .

Published by the Seventh day Baptist. Sabbath Recorder Recorder Volume 70, page 104, year 1911.

Hey, got to give her credit. She has historically claimed the change of the Sabbath to Sunday was the Mark of her authority. At least she's honest about that.

In another publication, she ridicules Protestants to no end as to why they keep Sunday...yet claim to follow the Bible. This is brutal...not for the weak of heart.

Rome's Challenge to Protestants, Why do you keep Sunday. (And it's got the best theology you will ever read too)

https://www.romeschallenge.com/

[DennisR]

No one can change the Sabbath, but Scripture does not forbid gathering on any day of the week.

[vespa300]

This is a doozy to read. About the best theology for the Bible Sabbath you can imagine and it’s from the Catholic church!! Don’t take it personal. She ridicules every Sunday keeping Protestant church for keeping her day. She does mention Seventh day Adventists but blows them off as some small nothings. funny. she can be funny even when she’s brutal .......ouch!

https://www.romeschallenge.com/

[BipolarBob]

Forget the Sabbath!! Everyone keeps Sunday nowadays. It's the current thing. Even though it was observed by Jesus and His Disciples, this command was never repeated in the NT unlike the other commands.

But on the other hand, it is the only one that starts with the word "Remember". As if the world would forget it. I keep remembering something Jesus did say "If ye love Me, keep My Commandments". Do we love God enough to obey Him?

[Red Badger]

Constantine.......................

[Jim W N]

Jesus, “Lord Sabbath”, rose on the first day on the week, Sunday, the day AFTER Saturday, Sabbath. Henceforth beginning with his resurrection, his followers met together with Jesus himself on the following Sundays.

This “change” is consistent with the change from the Old Covenant of the Law being replaced by the New Covenant of Grace. Under the Old Covenant of the Law, you worked first and then on the seventh day, you rested.

Under the New Covenant of Grace, you begin by resting in the perfect and finished work of Christ on the cross. “IT IS FINISHED!”

[spacejunkie2001]

Jesus is our Sabbath Rest.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Hebrews 4

[californian by choice]

According to my personal understanding, Sabbath means rest, and it is every seven days, not necessarily a specific day of the week. The Jews had their traditional Sabbath since the time of Moses, but the early Christians began to meet on the day of the week when Jesus was resurrected. In fact, many years ago I read that in the beginning the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sabbath were recognized.

[MeanWestTexan]

The Sabbath is binding on Jewish people, not Gentiles.

It’s basic contract law. The Covenant of Mt. Sinai is between God and the Jewish people. Gentiles are not a party to that contract.

The law that applies to Gentile people are the Laws of Noah.

The Laws of Noah are structured differently, but when you get into the nitty gritty, are effectively the 10 commandments (and from thence all the other sub-parts), less the Sabbath.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If we had only kept the Sabbath on Saturday then Hitler would never have come to power, the French Revolution would have been more like the American Revolution, the 60's would never have happened, the Soviet Union and Maoist China would never have happened.

We really screwed up!

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

The idea that the Roman Catholic Church changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday is not a statement that holds up well under historical analysis. Not only does the New Testament indicate that Sunday was the day of worship, but early second century Christian documents also do, as follows:

Ignatius of Antioch (ca. 110 A.D.)---"...no longer observing the Sabbath but living according to the Lord's Day..." (Ep. Magnesians 9)

Epistle of Barnabas (ca. 130 A.D.)---"Wherefore, we keep the eighth day for joy, on which also Jesus arose from the dead..." (Epistle of Barnabas 15:8)

Justin Martyr (ca. 150-160 A.D.):

"And on the day called Sunday there is a gathering together....We all make our assembly in common on the day of the Sun, since it is the first day, on which God changed the darkness and matter and made the world, and Jesus Christ our Savior arose from the dead on the same day." (First Apology, I.67)

Justin, speaking to Trypho, a Jew, (and also to Trypho's Jewish friends) says the following:

Is there any other matter, my friends, in which we are blamed, than this, that we live not after the law, and are not circumcised in the flesh as your forefathers were, and do not observe sabbaths as you do?

Trypho responds, in part, by saying:

This is what we are amazed at,...that you, professing to be pious, and supposing yourselves better than others, are not in any particular separated from them, and do not alter your mode of living from the nations, in that you observe no festivals or sabbaths, and do not have the rite of circumcision; and further, resting your hopes on a man that was crucified, you yet expect to obtain some good thing from God, while you do not obey His commandments. (Dialogue with Trypho. X)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The Sabbath was in honor of the Lord God ceasing from his labors of creating the Universe.

We gather on Sunday because that is the day the Lord Jesus was resurrected from the dead freeing the Gentile believers from the Law Of Moses.

There has not been an atonement for sin with an animal sacrifice since the Temple was destroyed by the Romans as Christ was our “Passover”. Christ’s work was finished on that Sunday Morning.

If you add anything to the finished work on the Cross soon that little addition will become more important than what he did on the Cross.
“You are saved by GRACE, not of works lest any man should boast!”

But other say “You are saved by GRACE -IF- you dot the ‘i’ and cross the ‘t’ our way!”

Romans 1: 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

The Sabbath was part of God’s covenant with Israel. Without even getting into the question of the Old Law being abolished at the cross, perhaps those who advocate the Sabbath still being binding today would answer these:

“...you shall kindle no fire in all your habitations on the sabbath day.”
(Exodus 35:3)

(This would be fine for Israel, but would not be appropriate for northern climates.)

“...from evening to evening shall you keep your sabbath.”
(Leviticus 23:32b)

(i.e., from sunset to sunset; in some places north of the Arctic Circle, the nights are six months long; the commandment would be inappropriate for those areas)

[delchiante]

Who changed Passover to Friday?
Who changed Unleavened Bread to Saturday?
Who changed First Fruits to Sunday?

Who changed Paul’s first importance of the gospel?

Get the answers to those, then it’s not a matter of changing days, but deceiving the whole world..

And the Bible tells us who does that..