by shizla on April 5th, 2004

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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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  • Sunday is considered the Sabbath in the wider sense of a day of rest, which is what the Hebrew word comes from.

    The earliest Christians were Jewish converts and others who lived close proximity to the Jewish lands of the Roman Empire; they observed the Jewish Sabbath and also kept the following day sacred in memory of Jesus' resurrection.

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  • by Coastie97 on July 13th, 2005

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    The Jews did observe Saturday (although they didn't call it Saturday - i.e. Saturn's Day - our days of the week are Roman). In fact, while our calendar system of today has the day changing from one to the next at midnight, this wasn't the case originally. So originally, Jews and early Christians observed the Sabbath as sundown Friday until sundown on Saturday.

    This changed to Sunday when Constantine was the Emperor of the Roman Empire, and his Christian population was growing. He himself apparently converted, and the Council of Nicaea was called. Prior to this, Christians would be eaten by lions at the coliseum, or tortured and killed in other horrendous ways. One way was crucifixion. There was also up-side-down crucifixion, and other insanely evil and creative ways of killing people. At the time when the Council drew near, their society was beginning to change. The non-Christians had their "day off" from work and their wild parties on Sundays, which was the esteemed day of the Sun god, while Christians had their "day off" on their Sabbath, from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday. This was an annoying problem that got in the way. Also, the Christians had their own Festivals of the day such as the Passover, while the non-Christians/pagans celebrated the Festival of Ishtar (present day Easter) and other holidays like Christmas, where they adorned trees with decorations and had orgies and gifts at the trees.

    All these differences were "reconciled" at the Council of Nicaea. Constantine had "converted" and declared Christianity the official religion, but the existing Christian Festivals such as the Passover were axed and replaced by newly Christianized pagan holidays such as Christmas and Easter. The church clergy of the day that attended the Council (which took place around 322 A.D., about three centuries into Christianity) received their power in exchange, and the very politcally powerful Roman Catholic Church was born. It was well over a millenium later and after many well-meaning Christians had been burned at the stake as "heretics" for trying to educate the common people about the REAL truths of their own religion that protestant churches finally began to form and allow regular people to read the Bible.

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  • by Jan Szafranski on April 6th, 2004

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    The Christian 'week' is derived from the Jewish observance of the Sabbath Day which as you point out is Saturday. The idea of a day of rest dedicated specifically to God was taken over by Christians but was transferred from the Jewish Saturday to the 1st day of the week, Sunday, in honour of the Resurrection of Christ, and because Saturday is reserved for Mary the mother of Christ. The reason can be found in Acts 20:7 or I Corinthians 16:2 in the Bible.

    Other notable day changes include the Jewish fasting days of Tuesday and Thursday. These were translated by Christians to Wednesday (the day Judas betrayed Jesus) and Friday (the Crucifiction). This was because Thursday is a Christian day of celebration (Jesus' Ascension, and the Last Supper).

    In brief, here are the Christian days:

    Sunday - celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus
    Monday - Holy Souls departed
    Tuesday - Holy Angels
    Wednesday - All Saints
    Thursday - Holy Eucharist
    Friday - Holy Cross
    Saturday - Virgin Mary

    Hope this helps.

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  • by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on October 20th, 2007

    ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

    Sunday is the Lord's day, the first day of the week in which Jesus rose from the dead. Saturday was the Sabbath day which God commanded His chosen people the Jews to observe as a holy day of rest unto Him, the LORD their God.
    I personally believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died on Wednsday, not Friday, and rose on Sunday(which would be 3 days according to the Jewish days in the Scriptures, which began at evening and ending at morning--see Genesis Ch.1 where the days go by as "the evening and the morning were the first day, the evening and the morning were the second day, etc.--thus, Christ would have been dead for three Jewish days from Wednsday evening to Sunday morning and He rose on Sunday morning.)

    I hope that this helps.

    -In the Master's service.
    Thank you and God bless you!

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  • by Sheep13 on May 2nd, 2008

    Sheep13

    It was converted to paganism when the heathens changed the calendar. Pagans(Roman Empire Religion) worships the sun god, Amun-Ra, on Sunday. It goes along with the changing of God's true start of the day, which is when the sun rises, not in the middle of the night (12:00am) like it is today. You must seek God's truth which is in the holy bible and you will see who has control of this world(for now).

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  • by donedeal on January 18th, 2008

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    The Bible Sabbath did not change, just as the other commandments of the Ten Commandments of God did not change. God wrote them with his finger on two tables of stone (the 18th verse of the 31st chapter of Exodus). Jesus did not change the Sabbath, and neither did His Father (God) change it. "For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day" (the eighth verse of the 12th chapter of Matthew). Only Constantine cause the change, since he cause the union of pagans with so-called "Christians."

    On a side note, the word "Sabbath" in many languages is similar to the word for Saturday in many languages. In Spanish the same word, "sabbado" means Saturday. It also means "sabbath."
    The Jews were not the only people who God commanded to observation of the Sabbath. He was not a respecter of persons (the 34th verse of the 10th chapter of Acts). He spoke to all humans that commandment as with the other commandments, such as "thou shalt not kill." That's for every one, not just Jews.


    http://www.gotquestions.org/Constantine-Sabbath.html

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  • by Captain4876 on November 16th, 2009

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    Saturday is still the Sabbath, but for Christians the command of keeping the Sabbath is fulfilled through having faith in Jesus. I've researched this a lot...

    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 Piggle on May 24th, 2010

    Piggle

    Jesus was jewish - the jewish sabbath is Saturday.....

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  • by emudude13 on May 20th, 2010

    emudude13

    because of two things, the calendars were different back then, and the romans changed it up a little

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  • by harryadzhyan on May 20th, 2010

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    Sabbath Statements by the Catholic Church
    “Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th Edition, p 111; 88th Edition, p. 89).
    “For example, 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 [Roman Catholic] church outside the Bible.” Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947, p. 9, article “To Tell You the Truth.”
    “Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. The Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.” Rome’s Challenge www.immaculateheart.com/maryonline Dec 2003.

    “Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day - Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes. Did Christ change the day'? I answer no!”
    “Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons.” James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Md. (1877-1921), in a signed letter.

    “The Sunday...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church.” American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883.

    “It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.” Priest Brady, in an address reported in The News, Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 18, 1903.

    “Sunday is our mark or authority...the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” Catholic Record of London, Ontario, September 1, 1923.
    “I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says, ‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.’ The Catholic Church says: ‘No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week.’ And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church.” father T. Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas, February 18, 1884, printed in History of the Sabbath, p. 802.

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  • by harryadzhyan on May 20th, 2010

    harryadzhyan

    jesus kept the sabbath apostle paul kept the sabbath and both of them said in the bible follow my example ive heard all the excuses for not keeping the sabbath it has nothing to do with us keeping this weekly command of god

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  • by Mud on May 20th, 2010

    Mud

    christ and god are great rumors but they promise to destroy everything and everyone wether they comply or not forgiveness is just a nicer seat for the apocolypse and your worried about dates and goofy crap, loose god so he cant plow us under the sut ok.

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  • by harryadzhyan on May 24th, 2010

    harryadzhyan

    Luke 23 :54It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.
    55The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. 56Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.

    so the followers of Jesus rested on the Sabbath as the commandment says
    but which day is the sabbath ? the bible says 7th day exodus 20: 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. so we must understand what day they kept the sabbath day now as we know Easter is always celebrated on Sunday Right? Y ? Because Jesus resurrected on a Sunday so with that in mind lets see what day is Sunday
    The Resurrection
    Luke 24 :1On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
    so the resurrection took place on the morning of the 1st day of the week so this will make
    Saturday the 7th Day Sabbath day which was kept even as jesus body laid in the tomb after he died

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  • by harryadzhyan on May 21st, 2010

    harryadzhyan

    Sabbath Statements by the Catholic Church
    “Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th Edition, p 111; 88th Edition, p. 89).
    “For example, 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 [Roman Catholic] church outside the Bible.” Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947, p. 9, article “To Tell You the Truth.”
    “Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. The Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.” Rome’s Challenge www.immaculateheart.com/maryonline Dec 2003.

    “Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day - Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes. Did Christ change the day'? I answer no!”
    “Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons.” James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Md. (1877-1921), in a signed letter.

    “The Sunday...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church.” American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883.

    “It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.” Priest Brady, in an address reported in The News, Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 18, 1903.

    “Sunday is our mark or authority...the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” Catholic Record of London, Ontario, September 1, 1923.
    “I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says, ‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.’ The Catholic Church says: ‘No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week.’ And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church.” father T. Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas, February 18, 1884, printed in History of the Sabbath, p. 802.

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  • by KATTALNUVA on April 3rd, 2010

    KATTALNUVA

    Because it was the day he was ressurected.

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