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Ok, now I see the confusion. Cardinal Gibbons means that if you didn't have the Church to help you understand how to interpret and apply the Scriptures (particularly the OT) to this present era (i.e. the New Covenant), you would conclude that we should still worship on Saturday. Only through the Church do we learn that as baptism replaced circumcision, and the Eucharist replaced the Passover, so Sunday replaced Saturday. The Scriptures can only properly understood and applied to our present time only by the Church, not apart from the Church. That's why 'sola scriptura' actually robs people of Scripture as well.

Huh?

"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 [Catholic] Church outside the Bible." "To Tell You the Truth," The Catholic Virginian, 22 (October 3, 1947), 9.

So, I completely agree with you that anyone who affirms 'sola scriptura' should worship on Saturday. They should give up the Catholic determination of the Easter date, the Catholic determination of the date of Christmas, and all the other remnants of traditions that Protestants still follow and which came from the Catholic Church, but which are not found in Scripture.

Again, could you please refrain from the language spoken by those who crucified my Savior? I told you it is not about "scripture only", it is about not contradicting scripture. Sunday worship contradicts scripture. There are no such things as Christmas, Easter, or the Trinity in scripture either. ALL of these things have been instituted through traditions and claimed apostolic succession.

I hope that helps. Helps who? I am completely secure in my faith. I understand that there are two ways to go a) study the scriptures and work out my own salvation with fear and trembling or b) accept Rome's interpretation of Mat 16:18 and accept the doctrine of the church of Rome. My choice is made.