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Well, there is no denying that we Christians "prove" all sorts of things by using only the Bible, which could be seen as OUR propaganda. (Fair is fair... The goose and the Gander, and all that.) You would usually have to go somewhere outside the Bible to find reasonable critique of it. Not saying that is right, just that you won't find a lot of "denial" inside any group.
 
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"On receipt of one of these (resolutions opposing actions by the United States Supreme Court), the editor of the Catholic Mirror of Baltimore, Maryland, published a series of four editorials, which appeared in that paper September 2, 9, 16, and 23, 1893. The Catholic Mirror was the official organ of Cardinal Gibbons and the Papacy in the United States. These articles, therefore, although not written by the Cardinal's own hand, appeared under his official sanction, and as the expression of the Papacy on this subject, are the open challenge of the Papacy to Protestantism, and the demand of the Papacy that Protestants shall render to the Papacy an account of why they keep Sunday and also of how they keep it."

Thank you, Cardinal Gibbons', for your stamp of approval on a document that both proves that the official position of the papacy is that not a single text of Scripture establishes Sunday sacredness, and that Dead Bread is a heretic who insists that you, the pope, and the Bible all teach otherwise to what the Bible actually teaches.
Thank you for illustrating your complete ignorance of ALL things Catholic.

The fact that it was a parish publication indicates by default that it is an "official organ" of the Bishop (Cardinal) and the Church itself. It does NOT mean that every article written in that publication is read and approved by the Cardinal OR the Pope, Einstein.

Do you honestly believe that every ad in the local parish bulletin about a rummage sale or bowling leaguemembership is approved by the Pope??

What a pathetic anti-Catholic failure . . .
 

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None of these texts establish Sunday sacredness.
Dead Bread...(sigh)...perhaps you'll believe your own catholic church's bible: Good News Translation Catholic Edition, aka Good News Bible:

"On Saturday evening we gathered together for the fellowship meal. Paul spoke to the people and kept on speaking until midnight, since he was going to leave the next day." - Good News Bible

So, according to your own catholic bible, Paul left for Troas at first light on what we call Sunday morning...no Sunday morning church service, no Sunday morning Communion service, and certainly no Sunday morning Eucharist service.
Your ignorance never disappoints, Phoneyman.

In the Jewish culture, Saturday night is part of SUNDAY – not Saturday, Einstein. They celebrated the Eucharist onSUNDAY, the Lord’s Day.

Unbelievable . . .
 
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Thank you for illustrating your complete ignorance of ALL things Catholic.

The fact that it was a parish publication indicates by default that it is an "official organ" of the Bishop (Cardinal) and the Church itself. It does NOT mean that every article written in that publication is read and approved by the Cardinal OR the Pope, Einstein.

Do you honestly believe that every ad in the local parish bulletin about a rummage sale or bowling leaguemembership is approved by the Pope??

What a pathetic anti-Catholic failure . . .
Dead Bread, I appreciate the approbation "Einstein", but honestly, it doesn't take a theoretical physicist to see through the lies of the papacy. This series of published articles is representative of the official position of the papacy - that the change of Sabbath observance is based on no authority of Scripture. Would you care to see others statements by the papacy?
 
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Your ignorance never disappoints, Phoneyman.

In the Jewish culture, Saturday night is part of SUNDAY – not Saturday, Einstein. They celebrated the Eucharist onSUNDAY, the Lord’s Day.

Unbelievable . . .
Dead Bread, I realize that the depth of your ignorance requires the patience of Helen Keller's teachers, but God has rewarded mine. He has shown me that the IMPRIMATUR STAMPED CATHOLIC GOOD NEWS BIBLE with its mention of "Saturday evening" in verse 7 is what it would take to lead you out of darkness and into truth. Now that we finally agree that the disciples came together "Saturday evening", let's see if Paul stuck around for any Sunday morning worship service:
  • Saturday evening is when Paul began preaching and he continued to midnight
  • after Eutychus was resurrected, Paul and the disciples ate again and Paul continued preaching
  • Paul continued preaching until first light Sunday morning at which he departed.
Therefore, no Sunday morning church service...no church Communion service...and most certainly no pagan, dead bread, sun god worship ritual aka the papal "Eucharist".
 

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Dead Bread, I appreciate the approbation "Einstein", but honestly, it doesn't take a theoretical physicist to see through the lies of the papacy. This series of published articles is representative of the official position of the papacy - that the change of Sabbath observance is based on no authority of Scripture. Would you care to see others statements by the papacy?
WRONG again, my ignorant friend.

Not only do verses like Acts 20:7, 1 Cor. 16:2, Col. 2:16-17, and Rev. 1:10 show us that the Sabbath is no longer binding and that Christians are to worship on the Lord’s Day, Sunday, instead.

This is why the Catechism states:
II. THE LORD'S DAY
The day of the Resurrection: the new creation

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Jesus rose from the dead "on the first day of the week."104 Because it is the "first day," the day of Christ's Resurrection recalls the first creation. Because it is the "eighth day" following the sabbath,105 it symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ's Resurrection. For Christians it has become the first of all days, the first of all feasts, the Lord's Day (he kuriake hemera, dies dominica) Sunday:
We all gather on the day of the sun, for it is the first day [after the Jewish sabbath, but also the first day] when God, separating matter from darkness, made the world; and on this same day Jesus Christ our Savior rose from the dead.106
Sunday - fulfillment of the sabbath
2175 Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ:107

Sunday worship was handed down by the Apostles to the Early Church:

The Letter of Barnabas
"We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead" (Letter of Barnabas 15:6–8 [A.D. 74]).

Ignatius of Antioch

"[T]hose who were brought up in the ancient order of things [i.e. Jews] 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" (Letter to the Magnesians 8 [A.D. 110]).

Justin Martyr
"[W]e too would observe the fleshly circumcision, and the Sabbaths, and in short all the feasts, if we did not know for what reason they were enjoined [on] you—namely, on account of your transgressions and the hardness of your heart. . . . [H]ow is it, Trypho, that we would not observe those rites which do not harm us—I speak of fleshly circumcision and Sabbaths and feasts? . . . God enjoined you to keep the Sabbath, and imposed on you other precepts for a sign, as I have already said, on account of your unrighteousness and that of your fathers . . ." (Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 18, 21 [A.D. 155]).

"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 Savior on the same day rose from the dead" (First Apology 67 [A.D. 155]).

Tertullian
"[L]et him who contends that the Sabbath is still to be observed as a balm of salvation, and circumcision on the eighth day . . . teach us that, for the time past, righteous men kept the Sabbath or practiced circumcision, and were thus rendered ‘friends of God.’ For if circumcision purges a man, since God made Adam uncircumcised, why did he not circumcise him, even after his sinning, if circumcision purges? . . . Therefore, since God originated Adam uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, consequently his offspring also, Abel, offering him sacrifices, uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, was by him [God] commended [Gen. 4:1–7, Heb. 11:4]. . . . Noah also, uncircumcised—yes, and unobservant of the Sabbath—God freed from the deluge. For Enoch too, most righteous man, uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, he translated from this world, who did not first taste death in order that, being a candidate for eternal life, he might show us that we also may, without the burden of the law of Moses, please God" (An Answer to the Jews 2 [A.D. 203]).

The Didascalia

"The apostles further appointed: On the first day of the week let there be service, and the reading of the holy scriptures, and the oblation [sacrifice of the Mass], because on the first day of the week [i.e., Sunday] our Lord rose from the place of the dead, and on the first day of the week he arose upon the world, and on the first day of the week he ascended up to heaven, and on the first day of the week he will appear at last with the angels of heaven" (Didascalia 2 [A.D. 225]).

Origen
"Hence it is not possible that the [day of] rest after the Sabbath should have come into existence from the seventh [day] of our God. On the contrary, it is our Savior who, after the pattern of his own rest, caused us to be made in the likeness of his death, and hence also of his resurrection" (Commentary on John 2:28 [A.D. 229]).

Victorinus

"The sixth day [Friday] is called parasceve, that is to say, the preparation of the kingdom. . . . On this day also, on account of the passion of the Lord Jesus Christ, we make either a station to God or a fast. On the seventh day he rested from all his works, and blessed it, and sanctified it. On the former day we are accustomed to fast rigorously, that on the Lord’s day we may go forth to our bread with giving of thanks. And let the parasceve become a rigorous fast, lest we should appear to observe any Sabbath with the Jews . . . which Sabbath he [Christ] in his body abolished" (The Creation of the World [A.D. 300]).

Eusebius of Caesarea
"[T]he day of his [Christ’s] light . . . was the day of his resurrection from the dead, which they say, as being the one and only truly holy day and the Lord’s day, is better than any number of days as we ordinarily understand them, and better than the days set apart by the Mosaic law for feasts, new moons, and Sabbaths, which the apostle [Paul] teaches are the shadow of days and not days in reality" (Proof of the Gospel 4:16:186 [A.D. 319]).
 

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Early Church observance of SUNDAY Worship (cont'd) . . .

Athanasius
"The Sabbath was the end of the first creation, the Lord’s day was the beginning of the second, in which he renewed and restored the old in the same way as he prescribed that they should formerly observe the Sabbath as a memorial of the end of the first things, so we honor the Lord’s day as being the memorial of the new creation" (On Sabbath and Circumcision 3 [A.D. 345]).

Cyril of Jerusalem
"Fall not away either into the sect of the Samaritans or into Judaism, for Jesus Christ has henceforth ransomed you. Stand aloof from all observance of Sabbaths and from calling any indifferent meats common or unclean" (
Catechetical Lectures 4:37 [A.D. 350]).

Council of Laodicea
"Christians should not Judaize and should not be idle on the Sabbath, but should work on that day; they should, however, particularly reverence the Lord’s day and, if possible, not work on it, because they were Christians" (Canon 29 [A.D. 360]).

John Chrysostom
"When, for instance, he gave commandment concerning the Sabbath— ‘On the seventh day you shall do no work’—he subjoined also the reason for this cessation. What was this? ‘Because on the seventh day God rested from all his works which he had begun to make’ [Ex. 20:10-11]. . . . For what purpose then, I ask, did he add a reason respecting the Sabbath, but did no such thing in regard to murder? Because this commandment was not one of the leading ones. It was not one of those which were accurately defined of our conscience, but a kind of partial and temporary one, and for this reason it was abolished afterward. (
Homilies on the Statutes 12:9 [A.D. 387]).

"You have put on Christ, you have become a member of the Lord and been enrolled in the heavenly city, and you still grovel in the law [of Moses]? How is it possible for you to obtain the kingdom? Listen to Paul’s words, that the observance of the law overthrows the gospel, and learn, if you will, how this comes to pass, and tremble, and shun this pitfall. Why do you keep the Sabbath and fast with the Jews?" (Homilies on Galatians 2:17 [A.D. 395]).

The Apostolic Constitutions
"And on the day of our Lord’s resurrection, which is the Lord’s day, meet more diligently, sending praise to God that made the universe by Jesus, and sent him to us, and condescended to let him suffer, and raised him from the dead. Otherwise what apology will he make to God who does not assemble on that day . . . in which is performed the reading of the prophets, the preaching of the gospel, the oblation of the sacrifice, the gift of the holy food" (
Apostolic Constitutions 2:7:60 [A.D. 400]).

Augustine
"Well, now, I should like to be told what there is in these ten commandments, except the observance of the Sabbath, which ought not to be kept by a Christian . . ." (
The Spirit and the Letter 24 [A.D. 412]).
 

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Dead Bread, I realize that the depth of your ignorance requires the patience of Helen Keller's teachers, but God has rewarded mine. He has shown me that the IMPRIMATUR STAMPED CATHOLIC GOOD NEWS BIBLE with its mention of "Saturday evening" in verse 7 is what it would take to lead you out of darkness and into truth. Now that we finally agree that the disciples came together "Saturday evening", let's see if Paul stuck around for any Sunday morning worship service:
  • Saturday evening is when Paul began preaching and he continued to midnight
  • after Eutychus was resurrected, Paul and the disciples ate again and Paul continued preaching
  • Paul continued preaching until first light Sunday morning at which he departed.
Therefore, no Sunday morning church service...no church Communion service...and most certainly no pagan, dead bread, sun god worship ritual aka the papal "Eucharist".
Your absolute ignorance is getting scary . . .
HOW
many time must I remind you that "Saturday evening" is part of SUNDAY in Jewish culture??

The Good News Translation isn't wrong for stating "Saturday evening." It is up to the READER to understand that the Jewish Day begins at SUNDOWN of the previous day.

The fact that YOU have NO grasp on this fact speaks VOLUMES about your confusion . . .
 

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Well, there is no denying that we Christians "prove" all sorts of things by using only the Bible, which could be seen as OUR propaganda. (Fair is fair... The goose and the Gander, and all that.) You would usually have to go somewhere outside the Bible to find reasonable critique of it. Not saying that is right, just that you won't find a lot of "denial" inside any group.
ha, i was just making the same point on another thread. Ppl who think they can prove something with Scripture are hilarious imo, even if it is sad too.

Attempting to prove a belief is the indicator that one is in sin, as counter-intuitive as that might seem.
We (falsely) call them "beliefs" for a reason, right, that most everyone seems to have forgotten now;
and the "true believers" are the very worst i guess
 

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Your absolute ignorance is getting scary . . .
HOW
many time must I remind you that "Saturday evening" is part of SUNDAY in Jewish culture??

The Good News Translation isn't wrong for stating "Saturday evening." It is up to the READER to understand that the Jewish Day begins at SUNDOWN of the previous day.

The fact that YOU have NO grasp on this fact speaks VOLUMES about your confusion . . .
Since you agree that what we call "Saturday evening" takes place on what the Bible writers considered "the first day of the week", then why do you not understand that Paul:
  • started preaching before midnight
  • preached until midnight
  • revived Eutychus
  • ate another meal with his friends
  • preached again until daybreak
  • left at first light
...and understand that there was no Sunday morning service?
 

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Early Church observance of SUNDAY Worship (cont'd) . . .

Athanasius
"The Sabbath was the end of the first creation, the Lord’s day was the beginning of the second, in which he renewed and restored the old in the same way as he prescribed that they should formerly observe the Sabbath as a memorial of the end of the first things, so we honor the Lord’s day as being the memorial of the new creation" (On Sabbath and Circumcision 3 [A.D. 345]).

Cyril of Jerusalem
"Fall not away either into the sect of the Samaritans or into Judaism, for Jesus Christ has henceforth ransomed you. Stand aloof from all observance of Sabbaths and from calling any indifferent meats common or unclean" (
Catechetical Lectures 4:37 [A.D. 350]).

Council of Laodicea
"Christians should not Judaize and should not be idle on the Sabbath, but should work on that day; they should, however, particularly reverence the Lord’s day and, if possible, not work on it, because they were Christians" (Canon 29 [A.D. 360]).

John Chrysostom
"When, for instance, he gave commandment concerning the Sabbath— ‘On the seventh day you shall do no work’—he subjoined also the reason for this cessation. What was this? ‘Because on the seventh day God rested from all his works which he had begun to make’ [Ex. 20:10-11]. . . . For what purpose then, I ask, did he add a reason respecting the Sabbath, but did no such thing in regard to murder? Because this commandment was not one of the leading ones. It was not one of those which were accurately defined of our conscience, but a kind of partial and temporary one, and for this reason it was abolished afterward. (
Homilies on the Statutes 12:9 [A.D. 387]).

"You have put on Christ, you have become a member of the Lord and been enrolled in the heavenly city, and you still grovel in the law [of Moses]? How is it possible for you to obtain the kingdom? Listen to Paul’s words, that the observance of the law overthrows the gospel, and learn, if you will, how this comes to pass, and tremble, and shun this pitfall. Why do you keep the Sabbath and fast with the Jews?" (Homilies on Galatians 2:17 [A.D. 395]).

The Apostolic Constitutions
"And on the day of our Lord’s resurrection, which is the Lord’s day, meet more diligently, sending praise to God that made the universe by Jesus, and sent him to us, and condescended to let him suffer, and raised him from the dead. Otherwise what apology will he make to God who does not assemble on that day . . . in which is performed the reading of the prophets, the preaching of the gospel, the oblation of the sacrifice, the gift of the holy food" (
Apostolic Constitutions 2:7:60 [A.D. 400]).

Augustine
"Well, now, I should like to be told what there is in these ten commandments, except the observance of the Sabbath, which ought not to be kept by a Christian . . ." (
The Spirit and the Letter 24 [A.D. 412]).
I do not accept the "authority" of certain early church fathers who were loyal to the Bishop of Rome - I accept the Bible as my authority. But, if you wish to look to extra-Biblical sources to see which way the ecclesiastical winds blew at that time, consider 4th century church historian Socrates Scholasticus (Church History, Book V) stated:[21]:

"For although almost the churches celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the churches in Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition (pagan Sun worship), refuse to do this."

Christians everywhere were keeping the Sabbath up until the 4th century and beyond - a fact which proves that Jesus nor the apostles did nothing to effect the slightest change to it. Sunday keeping was adopted not so much as an homage to the resurrection but very much as a means of making Christianity distinct from Judaism with which Rome dealt harshly due to their constant antagonism towards the Empire.

I keep showing you that Acts 20:7 is no proof at all of any Sunday morning church service, so why do you keep ignoring the facts? Where is the Sunday morning service in Acts 20?
 

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Since you agree that what we call "Saturday evening" takes place on what the Bible writers considered "the first day of the week", then why do you not understand that Paul:
  • started preaching before midnight
  • preached until midnight
  • revived Eutychus
  • ate another meal with his friends
  • preached again until daybreak
  • left at first light
...and understand that there was no Sunday morning service?
Why would there have to be a Sunday "morning" service??
Why couldn't have Paul celebrated a Sunday mass later on in the day??

Please explain . . .
 

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I do not accept the "authority" of certain early church fathers who were loyal to the Bishop of Rome - I accept the Bible as my authority. But, if you wish to look to extra-Biblical sources to see which way the ecclesiastical winds blew at that time, consider 4th century church historian Socrates Scholasticus (Church History, Book V) stated:[21]:
Funny how you don't accept the authority of the Early Church Fathers - but you willingly adhere to the "authority" of men in the 16th century and beyond for your aberrant, unbiblical beliefs . . .
"For although almost the churches celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the churches in Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition (pagan Sun worship), refuse to do this."

Christians everywhere were keeping the Sabbath up until the 4th century and beyond - a fact which proves that Jesus nor the apostles did nothing to effect the slightest change to it. Sunday keeping was adopted not so much as an homage to the resurrection but very much as a means of making Christianity distinct from Judaism with which Rome dealt harshly due to their constant antagonism towards the Empire.

I keep showing you that Acts 20:7 is no proof at all of any Sunday morning church service, so why do you keep ignoring the facts? Where is the Sunday morning service in Acts 20?
That's absolutely false.

Only JEWISH Christians kept the Sabbath and the JUDAIZERS who were trying to impose the Law on Gentile Christians. Gentile christian eventually outnumbered the Jewish Christians.
Ummmm, we read about the Judaizers in Scripture (Acts 11:1-18, Acts 15) - or don't you own a Bible??

I'm also not sure why you desperately keep fixating on Sunday MORNING worship.
WHO said they couldn't celebrate the Eucharist later in the day??

You REALLY need to do your homework, sparky . . .
 

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Why would there have to be a Sunday "morning" service??
Why couldn't have Paul celebrated a Sunday mass later on in the day??

Please explain . . .
How could he have celebrated ANYTHING "later in the day" when the text is explicitly clear that "he departed" on a 30 mile hike to Troas?
 

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Funny how you don't accept the authority of the Early Church Fathers - but you willingly adhere to the "authority" of men in the 16th century and beyond for your aberrant, unbiblical beliefs . . .

That's absolutely false.

Only JEWISH Christians kept the Sabbath and the JUDAIZERS who were trying to impose the Law on Gentile Christians. Gentile christian eventually outnumbered the Jewish Christians.
Ummmm, we read about the Judaizers in Scripture (Acts 11:1-18, Acts 15) - or don't you own a Bible??

I'm also not sure why you desperately keep fixating on Sunday MORNING worship.
WHO said they couldn't celebrate the Eucharist later in the day??

You REALLY need to do your homework, sparky . . .
And just like that, you sweep aside first hand historic accounts and Biblical proof as "false" without any evidence to substantiate it. Here's more proof by which that same indifferent dismissal of the facts will further discredit you:
  • 5th century Socrates Scholasticus : "For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandrian and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition (Sun worship), refuse to do this."

  • 5th century Salminius Sozomenus: "The people of Constantinople, and almost everywhere, assemble together on the Sabbath...which custom is never observed at Rome or Alexandria."

  • 5th century Maewyn Succat (aka saint Patrick) and the early Celtic church rejected papal authority/dogmas (union of church and state, papal baptism, Latin Vulgate, clergy were allowed marriage) and they observed the Sabbath.
  • 11th century Coptic Christians of North Africa kept the Sabbath
  • 19th century inhabitants of an uncharted island which came to be known as "Pitcarn Island" were discovered to be keeping the Sabbath
The facts are the Sabbath was kept just as the historians say: EVERYWHERE...that is until wherever Rome extended her outstretched tentacles, then whatever region came within her reach, Sabbath was done away with and Sunday was set up. It's a matter of history.
 

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How could he have celebrated ANYTHING "later in the day" when the text is explicitly clear that "he departed" on a 30 mile hike to Troas?
On Easter Sunday, Jesus and the 2 men on the Road to Emmaus stopped and celebrated the Eucharist,
WHY couldn't Paul??

Face -it - you've LOST this argument . . .
 

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And just like that, you sweep aside first hand historic accounts and Biblical proof as "false" without any evidence to substantiate it. Here's more proof by which that same indifferent dismissal of the facts will further discredit you:
  • 5th century Socrates Scholasticus : "For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandrian and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition (Sun worship), refuse to do this."

  • 5th century Salminius Sozomenus: "The people of Constantinople, and almost everywhere, assemble together on the Sabbath...which custom is never observed at Rome or Alexandria."

  • 5th century Maewyn Succat (aka saint Patrick) and the early Celtic church rejected papal authority/dogmas (union of church and state, papal baptism, Latin Vulgate, clergy were allowed marriage) and they observed the Sabbath.
  • 11th century Coptic Christians of North Africa kept the Sabbath
  • 19th century inhabitants of an uncharted island which came to be known as "Pitcarn Island" were discovered to be keeping the Sabbath
The facts are the Sabbath was kept just as the historians say: EVERYWHERE...that is until wherever Rome extended her outstretched tentacles, then whatever region came within her reach, Sabbath was done away with and Sunday was set up. It's a matter of history.
Coptic Orthodox in Africa STILL observe the Sabbath - ALONG with Sunday worship. They don't exclusively observe the Sabbath, Einstein. This was true for many of the Eastern churches in the quotes that you posted. Those churches eventually became the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

As for Sunday being "set up" by "Rome" - this is complete nonsense, as wee see in the Bible.
Sunday, the LORD'S Day, was already being recognized as the day of Christian worship before it ever became "official" (Acts 20:7, 1 Cor. 16:2, Col. 2:16-17).
 

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Coptic Orthodox in Africa STILL observe the Sabbath - ALONG with Sunday worship. They don't exclusively observe the Sabbath, Einstein.
Where did I claim Coptic Christians "exclusively" keep Sabbath? I didn't. Now, tell me you're sorry LOL
As for Sunday being "set up" by "Rome" - this is complete nonsense, as wee see in the Bible.
Your own church says "Sunday is our Mark (of the Beast) of authority. The church is above the Bible and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of the fact."

How long will you refuse to own what your own church claims about its attempt to make Sunday the new day of rest? Your catechism specifically says that the change is based on "no Scriptural authority". Why do you keep citing Scripture as "the authority"???
Sunday, the LORD'S Day, was already being recognized as the day of Christian worship before it ever became "official"
Yes, slavery was "recognized" as legit, too. Since when are we at liberty to decide to "recognize" or not what God wrote with His own finger in stone? And don't hand me that "binding/loosing" garbage argument - those words pertain to the exercise of church administration that is done so in accordance with already established truth - not the manufacture of it. Since you insist on ignoring the Whore of Babylon's own testimony that the change was based on "no Scriptural authority", I'll have to debunk your errors individually:

Easily Debunked Dead Bread Error #1: Sunday is the Lord's Day
Not a single verse connects "the Lord's Day" with the first day of the week - to the contrary, in Isaiah 58:13, God specifically calls the Seventh day of the week "My Holy Day" and my Savior Jesus specifically said He was the "Lord of the Sabbath day". Leviticus 23:38 and the surrounding verses make crystal clear the distinction between the yearly Jewish sabbaths and the weekly Sabbaths by saying the yearly were "beside the Sabbath of the Lord". Do you understand that "the Sabbath of the Lord refers to "the Lord's Day", just as Jesus referred to it? I've given you three texts which prove what day is "the Lord's day". Where is your proof? Where are your texts in which God says He is "Lord of Sunday" or that Sunday is "My holy day"? It's so wonderful to stand on Biblical truth rather than the satanic errors of the papacy.

Easily debunked Dead Bread Error #2: Acts 20:7 establishes Sunday sacredness
Your very own authentic Good News Catholic Bible which bears the "Imprimatur stamp" (a stamp which means "no heresy found in here") specifically says the disciples met "Saturday evening", which all agree is when the FIRST day of the week begins, since days are reckoned from sunset to sunset - which means Paul preached "unto midnight" (the hour right in the middle between Saturday evening and Sunday morning), took a brief intermission to raise someone from the dead, and then preached until "daybreak" Sunday morning, at which time "he departed. No Sunday morning, afternoon, or evening church service, no Communion, and certainly no pagan, Luciferian, sex cult ritual where the "female" generative principle (what you papists call the "monstrance") and the "male" generative principle (the dead bread wafer) are united together, just as it is done in pagan worship.

Easily debunked Dead Bread Error #3: 1 Cor. 16:2 establishes Sunday sacredness
The text plainly says "lay by him in store", which means "by him in storage". Where did individual Jews keep their things "in storage", Dead Bread, in a church collection plate, as you so ridiculously suggest? No, at home in a jar, cupboard, or buried for safe keeping! Jews were not to concern themselves with financial affairs when they got paid on Friday afternoon - the Sabbath was approaching. They would handle them after the Sabbath "on the first day of the week", which is why Paul told them to set aside some $$$ on "the first day of the week" after the Sabbath, but before they'd spent it all on bills and whatnot. No Sunday morning church collection plate in here anywhere.

Easily Debunked Dead Bread Error #4: Col. 2:16-17 establishes Sunday sacredness
As usual, the layers of satanic papal deception are so numerous, we need to peel back each one and examine them individually. You and the papacy insist Paul is referring to the "weekly Sabbath" in Colossians 2:16-17. Let's see what the evidence says:
  • The context, which mentions "meat, drink, holy days, new moons, is clearly dealing with the Ceremonial Law of Moses, not the Sabbath of the Ten Commandments which "stand fast forever and ever" - which Isaiah says will be observed in the new Heaven (Isaiah 66:23). To insist that Paul's use of "sabbaths" refers to the Ten Commandment Sabbath when the rest of the verse content unequivocally refers to the Mosaic Law is theological skulduggery. It's dishonest hermeneutics.
  • The weekly Sabbath wasn't a "shadow" of anything - it was made before sin, when all was light. However, the yearly sabbaths of the Jews were most certainly "shadows of things to come", meaning that they have to do with the First Coming (Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstruits, Pentecost) and the Second Coming (Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles). The weekly Sabbath is no shadow of anything, it is a memorial to Creation "for in six days the Lord made heaven, the earth, and the sea, and rested on the seventh day, wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it"...y'know the same Creation account in Genesis the Whore of Babylon says is mythology? Why do papists hate the Word of God so much? Oh, it exposes their lies, that's why.
  • Jesus blotted out "the handwriting of ordinances that was against us", not the weekly Sabbath of the Ten Commandments. That handwriting refers to the Law of Moses which contains the Jewish yearly sabbaths that Moses himself says was "against them" (Deuteronomy 31:24-26), and were "beside the Sabbath of the Lord" (Leviticus 23:38) - the weekly Sabbath which God wrote Himself and no pope can change.
  • The Mosaic Law was written on a scroll by the hand of Moses and placed on the side of the Ark, while the Moral Law was written on stone by the finger of God and placed inside the Ark. Starting to see the distinction, or are you still blind to it?
 
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On Easter Sunday, Jesus and the 2 men on the Road to Emmaus stopped and celebrated the Eucharist,
WHY couldn't Paul??

Face -it - you've LOST this argument . . .
LOL, do you think every time someone ate a meal in the NT, that was a "Eucharist"? I don't recall Jesus saying "Hocus Pocus corpus meum” before He broke the bread, nor was there a pedophile priest present, nor was there any wine "transubstantiated" into His blood. LOL What you guys lack in willingness to read and believe the plain Word of God, y'all make up for with "first rate creative theology".
 

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What does it take to get people excited about protecting children? To have one of their own sexually abused? That's a little like shutting the gate after the horses have already run off, I think.

Just today sept 17 2018, the news showed one who was a Pastor of a small Hispanic Church, that confessed to molesting children, he got 13 years, the children are safe from him, but the scare's left behind remain! How do we stop what is always done is Secret!
I don't think there is one soul on this Forum that is carefree about Child Molestation! I know I am not, I think when we hear about, It literally churn's our Gutt's!