131 posted on 04/11/2006 9:12:06 AM MDT by Calabash
I know it was changed to Sunday by the Pagan Pontiff of the Roman church, Constantine at Nicea Please provide the scriptural citation for that assertion being changed to the Pagan day of Sunday.
b'shem Y'shua
"And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow: and he continued his speech until midnight." (Acts 20.7)
"On the first day of the week let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him; that when I come, the collections be not then to be made." (1 Corinthians 16.2)
I know it was changed to Sunday by the Pagan Pontiff of the Roman church, Constantine at Nicea
Now isn't that special?
"And on the Lord's own day gather yourselves together and break bread and give thanks, first confessing your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure." (Didache, 14.1, circa AD 60)
"Further, He says to them, "Your new moons and your Sabbath I cannot endure." Ye perceive how He speaks: Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,] when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead." (Epistle of St. Barnabas, 15, circa AD 80)
"If, therefore, those who were brought up in the ancient order of things have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death ... how shall we be able to live apart from Him, whose disciples the prophets themselves in the Spirit did wait for Him as their Teacher?" (St. Ignatius of Antioch, circa AD 110)
"And we afterwards continually remind each other of these things. And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always keep together; and for all things wherewith we are supplied, we bless the Maker of all through His Son Jesus Christ, and through the Holy Ghost. And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your consideration." (St. Justin the Martyr, First Apology, 67, AD 165)
"We, however (just as we have received), only on the day of the Lord's Resurrection ought to guard not only against kneeling, but every posture and office of solicitude; deferring even our businesses lest we give any place to the devil." (Tertullian, On Prayer, 23, AD 202)
"If anyone in the city neglects to come to church for three Sundays, let him be excommunicated for a short time so that he may be corrected" (Council of Elivra, Canon 21, circa AD 300).
So, how did "Pagan Pontiff" Constantine change the day of worship to Sunday in AD 325 when the Apostles themselves practiced Sunday worship (as seen in the Bible and the Didache), the sub-apostolic Father's such as Barnabas and Ignatius also taught Sunday worship, the Early Church Fathers such as St. Justin Martyr and Tertullian also taught Sunday worship, and the first code of Canon Law, dating from the time of Emperor Domitian and thus before Emperor Constantine, enforces penalties on those dissenters who do not come to Church on Sunday?
This is certainly quite incredible to think that Emperor Constantine went back in time using a time machine apparently at the Council of Nicea to tell the Apostles and their followers to start worshipping on Sunday instead of Saturday. I wonder how he found time to do this when he was also so busy inventing the doctrine of the Trinity and supressing the worship of Mary Magdalene and the Holy Merovingian descendants of Christ at this Council.
Could you kindly explain just how Emperor Constantine was able to do all of this when it had already been done for nearly 300 years?
Here is the scriptural proof that the resurrection occurred on a Sabbath. Verse 6 says, "He is Risen! Come and see the place where the Lord lay."