Why was th Sabbath day changed?

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crooner

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I aggree Kris its not about the day but we have to what the sabbath was to Jesus. A day of rest a day to to good heal etc. a day to worship reflect on creation. the Jews made it a leaglistic thing. Some people do that today. I keep the sabbath and you dont!That is wrong. But the sabbath was never changed to another day according to bible.
 

Christina

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The problem here is judging people because of the day they worship when we are told this doesnt matter Col says let no man judge you on these thingsWhy because the Sabbath was made for man as we are told its a day of RestOne can rest and remember God on Sabbath go to church on Sunday and this fineOur rest is in Christ ............Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
 

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You won't find anything in Scritpure which explains why the sabbath was changed to Sunday. In the Biblical culture, the days of week were not referred to by name, but by number. What we call Sunday was the first day of the week. Monday was the second day, Tuesday the third day, and so on. Our Saturday was called the last day of the week or the weekly sabbath. According to our calendar, Sunday being the 7th day of week, would the day of rest. If we were to choose Saturday, then the day of rest falls on the sixth day, not the seventh.
HUH how is your calendar Sunday the 7th day if you just said that it's the 1st day of the week?
Please note that my reply to your question does not mean that I believe we should keep the Sabbath Day. Christ is our rest indeed. It is through the finished work of Jesus Christ for our redemption and salvation that we can rest from our "work of righteousness" because in Christ we are made the righteousness of God. Now it is up to us as individual Christians to walk in righteousness from God's viewpoint, which we will do because we love God and His Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ.However, there is nothing wrong with taking one day out of the week to rest, or to fellowship with other believers in prayer and worship to God. But remember, what pleasees God is believing what He has given us to believe. What God wants us to adhere to is written in the Church Epistles which are specifically addressed to those born again of the spirit of God.
are you saying that we should not follow one of the ten commandments? It's says to keep the sabbath.
 

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HUH how is your calendar Sunday the 7th day if you just said that it's the 1st day of the week?are you saying that we should not follow one of the ten commandments? It's says to keep the sabbath.
i will try to be proper in my words,tku for this sub as i find it is one of the most important debates
 

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I've been trying to figure this one out for a while. I can't seem to find a single passage in the bible that supports changing the Sabbath to Sunday. Just from common knowledge, Saturday and Sunday are the weekend.
Your answer: there isn't anything that changed it to Sunday. Sabbath is Sabbath and that is on a Saturday. Supposedly, Jesus arose on Sunday which is the Jewish feast of Firstfruits. However, the feasts only mention Sunday worship twice in a year: Firstfruits and Pentecost, but does not license one to make that a weekly Sabbath. Sabbath is the seventh day, and that relates to millennium. Sunday is not only the first day, but the eighth day as well, and 8 represents new beginnings. With a new heaven and earth, there is new beginnings as demonstrated by the 8th day of the feast of Tabernacles. Maybe then the new sabbath will be Sunday, but until then I believe we are yet in the age of 7.Although I go to a church that worships on Sunday, I feel very uncomfortable in that day. I always light a candle for the Sabbath on Saturday instead. However, I won't make it a salvation issue because of verses that seem to indicate otherwise, but I believe those verses were also directed at pagan feast keeping, e.g. Christmas by our standards today, not the feasts and weekly Sabbath of the Lord. Yes, our rest is in the Lord, but for every spiritual truth, there is a physical, actual counterpart that mirrors it. For that reason, I cannot despise the Sabbath by saying it is other than on Saturday.
 

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Think it is pretty clear the Apostles and their disciples were worshiping the "Lord's Day" on Sunday, the day He rose. Which should makes as much sense to us as Christians today as it obviously did for them then. Celebrate the day of Victory! Think we are in good company following that lead, yet Paul seems to indicate below we should judge those taking a different approach.My understanding is that many Jewish converts continued to honor the shabbat and for a time the synagogue was the only place everyone could go to hear the reading of scriptures, but clearly they were celebrating Sunday from a very early time in the Church. "But every Lord’s day . . . gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned" (Didache 14 [A.D. 70]). Act 20:7 And upon the first [day] of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.1Cr 16:2 Upon the first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as [God] hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:
 

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Think it is pretty clear the Apostles and their disciples were worshiping the "Lord's Day" on Sunday, the day He rose. Which should makes as much sense to us as Christians today as it obviously did for them then. Celebrate the day of Victory! Think we are in good company following that lead, yet Paul seems to indicate below we should judge those taking a different approach.My understanding is that many Jewish converts continued to honor the shabbat and for a time the synagogue was the only place everyone could go to hear the reading of scriptures, but clearly they were celebrating Sunday from a very early time in the Church. "But every Lord’s day . . . gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned" (Didache 14 [A.D. 70]). Act 20:7 And upon the first [day] of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.1Cr 16:2 Upon the first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as [God] hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:
and in rev 12 and rev 14 it tills you clearly..there is so many verses in the bible that till you the sab remains and is to be remembered..collect money on sunday,heal or save, prepare food on the sabbath....why is it so hard to keep the sabbath anyway because it is a money day...oo the saints will be fooled and the sunday thing will pave the way to the mark...i do not judge anyone ,sorry if i affend anyone i do not wants points for my questions or comments. i am here to till you something that your ears seem to be deaf to.i rest with the lord jesus everyday that does not change the sabbath.and it is very important .god would of said go take a day anyday just take a day..he was clear.and warns of those that think to change it in danial.[what does the seventh day sabbath have to do with the new moon does anyone know.and maybe he says do not judge those people that know the truth about these things
 

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Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:All this verse means is we are to pray our flight is not in winter or on our day of Rest(sabbath) thats any day we are resting in Christ not any particular dayChrist himself broke Sabbth day laws and healed it is because it was never about a day of worship it is a Day of Rest ........Rest in Jesus Christ


See, I said I wouldn't get invoved in the whole Sabbath but the statement about Him breaking the Sabbath is a bit much don't you think? I mean if He really did that then He would have transgressed the Law and would have been disqualified from being our savior. Yeah I know the gospel accounts say that He broke the Sabbath but that was per the pharasaical regulations concerning Sabbath observance. What Christ did was show them the correct way to observe the Sabbath, but their interpretation of it was what He violated.
Also, do you really think that if He meant whatever day you're resting in Jesus, that it would have made any sense at all to include that in the admonition to pray about. Another thing, do you understand what the rest is all about. The command is to refrain from your labours on the day of the Sabbath the way that God did from His as per Hebrews 4. He rested, and by doing so He made the day Holy by putting His presense in it. He hallowed it, sanctified it, set it apart as Holy. Only God is Holy and can impart Holiness, yet His instruction is to keep it Holy. In Lev 23 God describes His Feast days and the first one is the Sabbath, here we are given a bit more instruction, it is to be a Holy convocation, a commanded reading or assembly. Now you can argue that they were commanded to assemble but it was not to worship, and I can assure you someone will say we are not told they were not worshipping...a round argument. What were they reading? I say reading bc the word convocation has that translation as well.
Anyway, you have the examples in the NT of worship on the Sabbath by the apostles and Christ Himself.

My two cents worth, carry on.
 

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I've been trying to figure this one out for a while. I can't seem to find a single passage in the bible that supports changing the Sabbath to Sunday. Just from common knowledge, Saturday and Sunday are the weekend.

And to reiterate again, it wasn't. The Sabbath is the Sabbath.
 

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Colossians 2:16 (NKJV)
[sup]16 [/sup]So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,

Ok Lord, I won't.
 

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The first day of the week is ascension day...

And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. - Mark 16:2


The Apostles were the first ones to start meeting on Sundays...

And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. - Acts 20:7

The Apostle Paul recommending the offerings be taken up on Sundays...

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. - 1 Corinthians 16:2