Your claim that Seventh-day Adventists alone worship on God’s designated day—because it’s the Sabbath Jesus kept and supposedly the eternal heavenly standard—doesn’t hold water from a Catholic perspective. Let’s set the record straight.
Yes, Genesis 2:2-3 shows God rested on the seventh day, and Jesus, as a Jew under the Mosaic Law, observed the Sabbath (Luke 4:16)
. But you’re ignoring the bigger picture. The Sabbath was part of the Old Covenant, fulfilled by Christ (Matthew 5:17).
The New Testament never commands Christians to keep the seventh-day Sabbath.
Instead, Colossians 2:16-17 calls Sabbaths shadows pointing to Christ, our true rest (Hebrews 4:9-11). Romans 14:5-6 grants freedom in choosing worship days.
Where’s your clear apostolic mandate for Saturday worship?
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Catholics worship on Sunday, the Lord’s Day, to honor Christ’s resurrection, the cornerstone of our faith (Mark 16:9, Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2).
This isn’t paganism or a papal conspiracy—it’s rooted in the early Church’s practice, guided by the apostles and their successors. The Catholic Church, established by Christ (Matthew 16:18), has the authority to regulate liturgical practices (Matthew 18:18).
Sunday worship reflects the new creation in Christ, not a rejection of God’s will.
Your idea that the seventh-day Sabbath will be observed in heaven for eternity is pure speculation.
Isaiah 66:23, often cited by Adventists, speaks of new moons and Sabbaths in a prophetic context, not a literal eternal Saturday service. Revelation describes ceaseless worship of God (Revelation 7:15), not a weekly calendar.
Why assume heaven’s worship is bound to one Old Covenant day?
You ask if I’d want to “miss out” on your version of worship. I’m not missing anything—Catholics worship God daily, especially in the Eucharist, the source and summit of our faith (John 6:53-56, 1 Corinthians 11:23-25).
If you think Saturday worship is the ticket to eternity, show me where the New Testament demands it for Christians.
Until then, your argument’s just Adventist dogma, not divine decree
——>The Sabbath was part of the Old Covenant, fulfilled by Christ (Matthew 5:17).
Then Cardinal Gibbons was a LIAR. Your church has already spoken on the subject. If you follow the bible, you are to keep the 7th-day-Sabbath. Catholics don’t.
Jesus Christ Fulfilled the Law – Meaning of Fulfilling the Law
https://www.the-ten-commandments.org/jesus_fulfilled_the_moral_law.html
——>The New Testament never commands Christians to keep the seventh-day Sabbath.
Again, YOUR CHURCH HAS ALREADY SPOKEN ON THE SABBATH/SUNDAY ISSUE. They say that if one follows the bible, they are commanded to keep the 7th-day-Sabbath. If you follow the authority of the Papacy, you will keep the day THEY changed, which is Sunday, for which there is absolutely no command in the bible.
“Most Christians seem to think that everything starts fresh in the New Testament but this could not be further from the truth. Just because the Translators divided the Bible into two books called the Old and New Testaments does not mean everything starts again. Absolutely everything from the Old Testament continues into the New Testament as if it was just one book not divided, and the only changes between the Old and the New Testaments are what we are specifically told has changed. And so you also do not establish if one of the Ten Commandments still exists in the New Testament by looking for it being repeated. To the contrary, you have to look to see if there is an unmistakable instruction that says a Commandment is gone or changed and if scripture is silent then it still exists. Are we told the Mosaic law and all its sacrifices ended at the cross? Yes! Are we told the moral law has ended or any part of it such as the Sabbath? No! To the contrary, Scripture is clear that all Ten Commandments remain. God does not work on assumptions and especially on something as important as His Moral law such as His Sabbath. If a Commandment of God was changed then the Bible would be SCREAMING the change at us.”
The Ten Commandments and the Sabbath in the New Testament
https://www.the-ten-commandments.org/ten_commandments-new_testament.html#
——>Yes, Genesis 2:2-3 shows God rested on the seventh day, and Jesus, as a Jew under the Mosaic Law, observed the Sabbath (Luke 4:16)
The Sabbath was made for MAN (mankind), not specifically for the Jew. And, when preincarnate Jesus Christ set aside the Sabbath in Genesis, HE WASN’T A JEW, 2500 years before Sinai.
And yet again, YOUR CHURCH HAS ALREADY SPOKEN ON THE SABBATH/SUNDAY ISSUE. They say that if one follows the bible, they are commanded to keep the 7th-day-Sabbath. If you follow the authority of the Papacy, you will keep the day THEY changed, which is Sunday, for which there is absolutely no command in the bible.
Daniel 7:25And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, AND THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The Little Horn/Antichrist power will think to change God’s times and laws. The Papacy is that power.
——>it’s rooted in the early Church’s practice, guided by the apostles and their successors.
Again, not according to your own church.
Does the APOSTLE Luke advocate for Sunday-keeping here, some 30 years after Christ’s death?
Luke 23:55The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how His body was placed. 56Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.
Does Luke say “according to the OLD commandment, which no longer applies, because we all now keep Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection” ???
Nope.