If Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and the Bible says the next day was the Sabbath, why is Sunday now considered the Sabbath?

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• Early believers attended the Synagogues on the Sabbath, then met together on the first day of the week as well.

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  by Shabba on January 22nd, 2006

• wrong sunday was never considered sabbath remember the sabbath does not belong to the jews it belongs to god so before it was given to the jews it was established as the seventh day (saturday).and how many times a year did jesus resurrect? once this does not mean you need to keep the sabbath on sunday

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  by harryadzhyan on May 20th, 2010

• How many times did God 'rest?' Just once, so why is Sabbath observed every week? See the pattern?

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  by Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog on May 21st, 2010

• 10 COMMANDMENTS SAYS:
  4th 8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
  
  
  sabbath Day comes once a week the sabbath was not established for god but for us let me ask you a question it says god blessed this day and made it holy this was to show us that those who keep the sabbath as it Clearly says in the Commandments will be blessed and made holy we need the blessings and to be made holy god does not he is the one who give us blessings and he is the holy of holys
  this day was not established for gods rest because he is god he does not need to rest but this day was established by god for Gods People so if you keep sunday services will you be recieving blessing
  NOT ACCORDING TO GOD

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  by harryadzhyan on May 21st, 2010

• Do you Know What The Seventh Day is?
  Google Define Sunday then Google Define Saturday

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  by harryadzhyan on May 21st, 2010

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• rambling and confused. Doesn't answer the queston.

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  by Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog on October 1st, 2005

• Perfect explanation about why it is now on Sunday instead of Saturday

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  by Anonymous on October 1st, 2005

• Our weekdays in English are mostly Anglo-Norse Pagan; only one is specifically Roman.
  * Sun Day -- neutral, could be of any religious complex
  * Moon Day -- ditto
  * Tiw's Day -- old Anglo God of War. In other languages it's the Day of Mars. Roman war God.
  * Woden's Day -- the King and father of the other gods
  * Thor's Day -- the Anglo thunder god
  * Freyja's Day -- Anglo goddess of fertility
  * Saturn's Day -- the only Roman of the lot.

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  by Sandman on September 15th, 2009

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• What about Acts1:12.Acts:13:14,Acts:13:42,Acts13:44,Acts15:21,Acts:16:13,Acts:18:4,Colllosians2:16,Hebrew4:9,10 ???

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  by Revelator on April 20th, 2004

• See my answer to #4.

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  by Eric Henry on June 14th, 2004

• Sunday is the Day of the Sun God and the Council of Nicaea, when Christianity was legalized, changed this as a compromise.

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  by Coastie97 on July 13th, 2005

• this is a ridiculous THEORY there is not mention of Sunday service in the Bible or any verse including the ones you mentioned that says we must not keep the Sabbath im a christian and as a christian i follow the bible and take christ as an example
  Jesus also kept the Sabbath Day

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  by harryadzhyan on May 21st, 2010

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• That is not how they measured the days in that time. To the Jews, and part of the day was considered to be counted as a full day. Therefore Jesus' time of death on the Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday morning would have been recognized by the Jews to be 3 full days (and nights actually).
  
  The same thing can be recognized throughout the bible, such as where in Job 2 it says that his friends sat around him for 7 days and 7 nights. The day they started sitting would count as a full day and night, even if they had gotten there in the afternoon.

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  by Captain4876 on November 16th, 2009

• the Lords day is the Sabbath Day not sunday
  there is not one verse that sanctifes the observance of sunday

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  by harryadzhyan on May 21st, 2010

• Romans 14:6
  
  They're all equally sanctified.

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  by Captain4876 on May 21st, 2010

• ROMANS 14 :6 explain this because i think this verse supports my comment more than yours

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  by harryadzhyan on May 24th, 2010

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• Sunrise is indeed a good time for the day to start at a time when there is no artificial lighting. The Jews start and end the day at sunset, another logical time for this. It was only later that the day started at midnight, made possible by reasonably accurate clocks. The shadows are shortest at noon, and the clocks could be checked against this.

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  by BayAreaBiker on September 28th, 2009

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• You may want to skim over Colossians 2:16; Romans 14:6; Galatians 4:9-11 and Hebrews 4 to understand how the Sabbath was only a foreshadow of the Christ. We fulfill the Sabbath by trusting in Jesus.

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  by Captain4876 on November 16th, 2009

• do you know why paul said that to the colossians not because they are not suppose to keep the sabbath but if you read more carefully this is talking about the jews who were coming to the colossians and persicuting them because they were not keeping the sabbath according to the law of moses the colossians were actually keeping the law of christ because the law of moses was cancelled
  let me ask you a question would paul as a apostle tell others not to keep the sabbath even if he kept it
  acts 17:2As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3explaining and proving that the Christ[a] had to suffer and rise from the dead. "This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,[b]" he said. what does as his custom was means this mean he did this regularly
  act 18 :4Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.
  so apostle paul kept every sabbath
  but what did apostle paul say 1 Cor 11:1Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.
  sowe are to keep the sabbath by keeping the sabbath whose example was paul following? Jesus Right?
  luke 4:14-1714Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 15He taught in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.
  16He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. 17The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him.
  
  again as it was jesus custom he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath so paul was indeed following the example of christ
  so paul said to us follow my example as i follow the example of Christ

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  by harryadzhyan on May 24th, 2010

• Use punctuation. I don't know what you're trying to argue; your first paragraph agrees with me completely, but your following paragraphs seem to be an attempt to disagree.

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  by Captain4876 on May 24th, 2010

• read it again its mostly bible scriptures that were copied and pasted and i definitly disagree with you
  i agree with donedeal

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  by harryadzhyan on May 24th, 2010

• Do you have a 'fullstop' button on your keyboard?
  
  Acts 17. - "as was his custom" does not indicate that he set aside a saturday as a sabbath day. If you read the text again it says that he "went to the synagogue", as was his custom. The fact that the meetings were conducted on the sabbath day does not indicate that Paul honoured Saturday as a Sabbatarian. If fact, the scripture says that he went to the Synagogue to reason with them, not to rest on the Sabbath.
  
  "As was his custom" means that he reasoned with the Jews at the synagogue regularly, not that he celebrated a Sabbatical rest regularly.
  
  Acts 18 again says that he spent his time there reasoning. Again, nothing about celebrating the Old Covenant Sabbatical rest. The text says : "Every Sabbath he reasoned," not "Every Sabbath he took part in a Sabbatical rest."
  
  Jesus taught on the Sabbath in a synagogue (in luke 4:14-17), just as he taught every other day of the week. The big point that this passage makes is that Jesus taught, not that it was a Sabbath. This does not at all limit us to only going to church on a Saturday. Where in this scripture does it say that? It merely shows that (as was his custom) Jesus was free to go to the synagogue on a Saturday. If it had been their custom to meet on a Tuesday, it wouldn't have mattered. Jesus was there because there were people for him to preach to.
  
  1 Corinthians 11v1 is meant to be taken into context with 1 Corinthians 10v23-24, where he is talking about the helping the weaker brother. It doesn't really have anything to do with the Sabbath.
  
  "23"Everything is permissible"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"—but not everything is constructive. 24Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others."
  
  In fact, Paul's point of view seems to be that New Christians shouldn't be forced into an unnecessary "Old Covenant" type keeping of the law.
  Galatians 2:14 (with reference to food)
  " 14When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?"
  
  This then seems to extend to the observance of special days.
  Galatians 4:9-11
  "9But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? 10You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! 11I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you."
  
  (It's possible that he's referring to gentile practices here, but quite likely he could be referring to the Sabbath, because we know that there were Jewish Christians in the Galatian church)
  
  Romans 14:6 Strongly supports the idea that Paul believed it didn't matter whether you celebrated the Sabbath day or not. Both were glorifying to the Lord.
  Colossians 2:16 says the same thing a little more explicitly. I still don't understand what your query is with this. I cant see any other way to interpret it.
  
  Also in aid of this position is that we never find Paul telling the Gentile churches to keep the Sabbath. In Ephesians, a general letter to Gentile churches in asia, he makes no mention of the Sabbath at all. Strange, considering that this letter seemed to contain Everything that was supposed to be important for the churches to remember- you'd think he'd mention it atleast once. They were Gentiles so they would have had no passed understanding of what they were meant to do.
  
  As well as this, we don't find any reports of Christian slaves being insolent and refusing to work for their masters on Sabbath days in any of our historical findings. If the Sabbath was such a critical thing, Surely there would be some kind of evidence that the Early church practiced it seriously.
  Instead, there is no evidence of Paul encouraging struggling to keep it, or evidence of Christians faithfully practi

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  by Captain4876 on May 24th, 2010

• meeting? it says synagogue(Church) do you go to Church for a meeting or to worship?
  plus none of the argument you have really makes sense
  you have a fine way of taking the scriptures and making them your own

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  by harryadzhyan on May 24th, 2010

• Sorry, the end of my post got cut off before.
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  Instead, there is no evidence of Paul encouraging struggling to keep it, or evidence of Christians faithfully practicing it.
  
  Christians with a Jewish background may have honoured a type of Sabbath day, this being their custom- but this is no sin. They were free to do this in honour of the Lord.
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  You go to church for both. The prefix "syn" means "together." I think it means something along the lines of "together-worship", but you'll have to check that out for me. One of the primary reasons of going to church is for Christian fellowship, to encourage each other. Worship is something that happens both in and outside church.
  
  However, what we Just saw in Acts is that Paul went to the synagogue not for fellowship, not for worship (in a Sabbatarian sense) but to "reason" with Jews.
  
  Which of my arguments don't make sense to you? I've just shown you that Acts 17 and 18 don't explicitly show that Paul was a Sabbatarian. Something which i feel You have twisted the scriptures to say.
  
  In fact, i think my argument about the lack of evidence that Paul encouraged New Christians to celebrate the Sabbath is quite strong.
  
  I made special effort to give you all the information regarding Galatians 4:9-11, so that if I was wrong, you would see why (even though in the context of the book of Galatians, I;m quite probably right)
  
  And i still don't see how my interpretation of Romans and Colossians is anything but truth. You haven't explained why I would be wrong.
  
  Rather, I feel it is You who is twisting scripture to suit a puritan doctrine that Paul himself didn't require of Jesus' followers.

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  by Captain4876 on May 24th, 2010

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