Posted on 02/28/2011 8:18:05 AM PST by hope_dies_last
Have you ever wondered why one of the Ten Commandments seems null and void – notably the one calling on believers to observe the Sabbath?
Ask your pastor or priest and you will probably hear it's because Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday... (or because the disciples broke bread on Sunday morning--after a daylong sermon that extended into the night hours the preceding Sabbath Day)
And then there's the little problem of this switch of worship days not being mentioned in the Bible – and the historical fact that most Christians continued observing the Sabbath for hundreds of years after Jesus rose from the dead.
So what happened? What caused the switch?
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You're pretending the context supports your hysteria without providing any evidence.
Not exactly right - The "First Day" begins at sundown on the Seventh day. In our parlance, Paul was preaching on Saturday night until midnight...
While I disagree with you, this is also where I disagree with Saturday worship services, unless they are Saturday night... The Day of Rest is to be spent at home, worshiping YHWH alone or as a family.
Your proofs are incorrect.
You are assuming Rav Paul is rebuking YHvH's commandments.shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiachI think not.
HalleluYah! Truth at last!
First, I believe that the actual day of worship is irrelevant. Christ's death and resurrection paid our tab in full, placing us above the law and certainly above tradition. Works are simply a reflection of our acceptance of Christ as our Lord and Savior.
My argument angle is that if the actual day of worship carried any importance, there would be some very obvious method of maintaining accuracy of such observance. God is well aware of our inability to do anything right, including the remedial task of counting days over a period of thousands of years.
Ephesians 2: 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordainedb that we should walk in them.
Strict observance of a particular day, like the Sabboth that may or may not be Saturday, is an act of man. It doesn't buy the keys to the Kingdom.
When the kids were younger, the Golden Corral was always a place to stop in on the way home from weekend outings. And on a late Sunday afternoon, the local Golden Corrals are always packed with families dressed in their Sunday best, having just spent the day in Church.
Asd’d blumh Asds’s.
Sunday is the first day of the week.
If Yeshua was crucified on Saturday, and raised on Sunday, how do you reconcile that he prophecied that he would be “three days and three nights” in the tomb? “As Jonah was in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of man also be.”
Stealing can be verified, and is certainly an obvious infraction of God's will. The strict relationship between the Sabbath and Saturday cannot be verified. There is Scripture that releases us from strict observance of the Sabboth. Any day is as good as the other. Sunday is a nice reminder of the Resurrection.
The death and resurrection of Christ freed us from the law and Jewish tradition. We keep the law as best we can out of thankfullness and love, not because it buys our salvation. Only ONE tiny infraction of the Law separates us permanently from God ... except for the Salvation through Christ by Grace alone.
A day of worship isn't really mandatory any longer; but, it does serve as an opportunity for Thanksgiving. Saturday may be the Sabbath; however, all of that nit picking is completely irrelevant.
So now the “Last Supper” was on Sunday? How could it be so, when they hastened to prepare the meal before Sabbath, which would be sundown on Friday? If it were a different Sabbath, then it would have been another day, but not Sunday. Something about placing Jesus in the grave before Sunset, as the Sabbath was about to come. Since there was to be three days between burial and resurrection, if he was raised by Sunday, he would have to have been buried sometime before Friday. So look for another Sabbath as his “Last Supper”.
Paul utilized the Sabbath during his evangelistic efforts Acts 13:14,42,44; 16:13; 18:4 - To Teach Jews about Jesus. It was his custom whenever he came to a new city Acts 17:1-3
Paul taught that the Law of Moses, including the Sabbath, had come to an end .That Jews died to the Law when they became Christians Romans 7:4-7 That Jesus ended the Law with its ordinances through His death Ep 2:13-16; Col 2:14
That the Law and ordinances like the Sabbath and circumcision should not be bound on others, especially Gentiles Col 2:16-17; Ga 5:1-4
Mainly that a new, superior covenant had replaced the old 2nd Cor 3:6-11; Hebrews 8:6-13; 9:15
They taught observing the Sabbath was no longer necessary
Jewish Christians continued to observe elements of the Law
Ac 21:18-20
Paul himself did so on occasion - Ac 18:18,21; 21:21-26
But Paul (and the rest of the apostles) drew a clear line:
The Law could not be bound on Gentiles - Ac 15:1-2,19-29; Ga 2:3-5; 5:1 The Law could not serve as a basis for their salvationGa 5:4; Ro 3:28
But if an individual desired to keep one day above another (e.g., the Sabbath), that was between the individual and his Lord - cf. Ro 14:5-6
There is nothing in the apostolic practice and writings to suggest that the Sabbath was made a part of the New Covenant of Jesus Christ
CHRISTIANS ASSEMBLED ON THE FIRST DAY!!!
Expressed both explicitly and implicitly in the NT - Acts 20:7; 1st Co 16:1-2
We meet on the 1st day of the week just like the Christians in the NT did, to remember our Lord with the Lord’s Supper.
Your take is a popular one, taken by most Sunday-keeping Christians. There is nothing new here, but you should at least get your history right, you are honoring the day selected by the Roman Catholic Church. There is no scripture stating the Sabbath was changed to Sunday. Truth is never popular with most folks that like to rubber stamp even their beliefs on others. Wisdom must be sought outside the populist camp, through God’s Word.
How do you know the calender didn't slip a day or two in the intervening thousands of years? Did mankind really keep an accurate count throughout the toils and spoils of history? Was the day of the week the most important thing on everybody's mind when things were at thier worst? Sometimes I lose track of which day it is in my easy-going life. There were times when that could have easily occured while there was no printed calender to consult. How do you verify the "chain of custody" down through the ages and between the ancient Jewish count and the Gregorian calender?
If this were truely an important issue, you would be able to prove that the Sabboth exactly corresponds to Saturday.
Cite your proof.
Since God himself instructed Moses directly, he set the day for Passover in the law. I would assume, and rightly so, that the Hebrew people know the day of Passover and all of the holy days sanctified by our Father. They had an entire class of people to watch over the law. The Passover was to be celebrated FOREVER, even in Heaven with the Lord will it be ordained. The food laws were not the same as Sabbath laws. The Pharisees kept the law strictly, but had lost the heart of the issue. They had no flexibility, and had forgotten what the laws were sent to represent.
Yep, this is all true. It is also irrelevant with respect to my Salvation.
The "Jews," actually the Hebrews, did not pick the day. YHWH did. The Commandments of Exodus are explicit. THE Seventh day is the Sabbath. If you do not keep the Seveth Day as the Sabbath day, you cannot say you keep the Laws of YHWH.
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