Is it true the church changed the Sabbath?

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Where on your chart is Mark 16:1?
They rested on the Sabbath then buy spices and ointment.
And Luke 23:56
They return. Prepare spices and ointment.
Then rested on the Sabbath.

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The Church regards the Sabbath as referring to Saturday.
The Lords day is Sunday.
We interpret the Commandment obligation to be fulfilled on the Sunday.
 
It might be something simple like bundling them up to make them easier to carry.
It might be measuring and mixing them according to a formula.
They could not have done either the night Jesus was buried because the Sabbath had started.
 
That is because the church also changed the commandment from " keep holy the Sabbath" to “keep holy the Lord’s day”
 
Do you have evidence of this?

Here is a link to the Catholic
Catechism third Commandment
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work.90

The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.91
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Don’t see the change you state
 
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The sabbath obligations have been transferred to Sunday.
Christ is Lord of the Sabbath.
 
You’ve done a great job explaining. This concept is still prevalent even today in Judaism. The Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday, extends through Friday night and all day on Saturday, and then ends Saturday evening at sunset. Sunset to sunset.

The concept is derived from the Book of Genesis, Chapter 1:5 - “…And there was evening, and there was morning, one day.”

The Christian Sabbath, however, is celebrated on Sunday. I believe this was instituted by Constantine, but someone can correct me if I am mistaken. The first Christians were Jews, so they celebrated the Sabbath from Friday at sunset to Saturday at sunset, then later gathered on Sunday for what were the earliest vestiges of the Mass in remembrance of Christ.

As the Gentiles came into the Church, the Gentiles were not required to follow the prescriptions of the Torah, such as keeping kosher, observing the Jewish Sabbath and festivals, wearing tefillin, etc.

Christians were released from many of the rules and guidelines outlined in the Torah. You see this debate in the New Testament where the early founders of the Church debated the topic as to what aspects of the Torah the Gentiles would be require to follow. The thought at that time, as I have read from some theologians, was that if a newly converted Christian later wanted to become a Jew, he could pursue that more rigorous spiritual path at a later date. In the interim, the Gentile Christian was not required to follow the strictures of the Torah.

You sometimes see these Gentile laws referred to as the “Noahide laws” which were the laws that the Gentiles were proscribed to follow, which basically were a handful of very basic laws similar to those found in the Ten Commandments. The Torah, by contrast, contains some 600+ laws that the Jewish people are required to follow.
 
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Actually, no. Sunday is the first day of the week. The seventh day is the Jewish Sabbath, which is celebrated from Friday evening at sunset and ends on Saturday at sunset.

Christians celebrate on the first day of the week, Sunday, which is the Christian version of the Sabbath kept in remembrance of Christ.
 
Why do you conclude I meant that?
The sabbath is still the 7th day of Gods rest in Genesis as far as I know.

Why is it difficult for you to accept the Church changed its weekly ritual day to Sunday?
 
There is an excellent article on the Catholic Answers website that discusses the change from the Sabbath to Sunday. Here are a couple of excerpts:

When did the Church begin to worship on Sunday instead of Saturday, the Hebrew Sabbath? On this question hinges the conclusion to many arguments with Fundamentalists, especially Sabbatarians (the Seventh-Day Adventists are the best known) who owe their raison d’etre to the conviction that the early Church apostatized when it abandoned observance of the traditional Sabbath. Let’s answer this charge by taking a look at the facts about the Sabbath in the Old and New Testaments.

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In Syria, following the death of the last apostle, a guide for the teaching of Christians was written called the “Doctrine of the Apostles,” or the Didache. Its use was reported by church historians but the document itself was lost for centuries. It was found around 1900 in a manuscript dating back to the year 1000. The Didache taught: “On the Lord’s own day, gather together and break bread.” This is a clear reference invoking Christians to worship on Sunday written around the year 100.

In the year 110—only twelve years after the death of the last apostle—Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, calls the Sabbath “antiquated.” The full passage of the letter of Ignatius to the Magnesians, reads: “Do not be led astray by other doctrines nor by old fables which are worthless. For if we have been living by now according to Judaism, we must confess that we have not received grace. The prophets . . . who walked in ancient customs came to a new hope, no longer Sabbatizing but living by the Lord’s day, on which we came to life through Him and through His death.”

_There is widespread belief among Christian scholars that the institution of Sunday worship occurred in the apostolic or post-apostolic age in commemoration of the Resurrection. The New Testament itself never calls Sunday the day of the Resurrection but consistently “the first day of the week.” Moreover, nowhere does the New Testament suggest that the Lord’s Supper was celebrated in commemoration of Christ’s Resurrection. Neither do the earliest post-apostolic writings invoke the Resurrection as a reason for Sunday worship. _

The Epistle of Barnabas (A.D. 130–135) is the first explicit mention of Lord’s day worship being based on the Resurrection. Barnabas writes: “Finally He [God] says to them: ‘I cannot bear your new moons and Sabbaths.’ You see what he means: It is not the present Sabbaths that are acceptable to me, but the one that I have made; on that Sabbath day, which is the beginning of another world. This is why we spend the eighth day in celebration, the day on which Jesus both arose from the dead and, after appearing again, ascended into heaven.”

Please note that the Epistle of Barnabas uses the term “the eighth day” which would be Sunday.

The full document can be found here: From Sabbath to Sunday | Catholic Answers

Blessings
 
I doubt if anyone would refer to Sunday as the eighth day unless it was the eighth day of something. The eighth day of the month. The eighth day of lent. The eighth day of Passover?
 
I was just making a point. Sunday is still the first day of the week. Saturday is still the seventh day of the week and still the Sabbath.
The only thing that changed is that the Catholic Church decided that they are no longer subject to that contract.
 
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I doubt if anyone would refer to Sunday as the eighth day unless it was the eighth day of something. The eighth day of the month. The eighth day of lent. The eighth day of Passover?
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I think that if you look at the context, you will see that the Epistle of Barnabas was talking in general terms concerning Sabbaths and thus would be talking in general terms about the eighth day, not a specific day of the month or a season.
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It is not the present Sabbaths that are acceptable to me
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This is why we spend the eighth day in celebration, the day on which Jesus both arose from the dead and, after appearing again, ascended into heaven.”
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It should be noted that the CCC uses this same language to indicate Sunday as the eighth day:

2191 The Church celebrates the day of Christ’s Resurrection on the “eighth day,” Sunday, which is rightly called the Lord’s Day (cf SC 106).

Blessings
 
Barnabas was speaking of the Great Sabbath of Rev 20:1-4. The thousand year reign of Jesus.
He then compares the eighth day of creation to the New Earth.
A week has only seven days. No clear thinking person would speak of the eighth day of the week.
 
So you’re saying the Church is not “clear thinking”? I quoted the CCC above where they use the term “eighth day” to denote Sunday when Christ rose.
 
GREAT question:
Thank you.

Jesus went to the synagogue BEFORE his Passion, Death and RESURRECTION, and THAT is the key to right understanding.

Up to the point of Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection was pursuing His Heart’s desire for the “Salvation of the Jews” [read: Mt 10:1-8]. …AFTER the Passion and His crucifixion by the Jew s[ or all of humanity]; there was still a great effort at converting the Jews, the MIssion was expanded to "the entire world " Mt 28:19-20.

Also what Jesus came to accomplish was not to update Judaism ; BUT rather to introduce an ENTIRELY NEW RELIGION; one respecing past Traditions, while a the same time making sure there were sufficient differences so as to insure that what He was doing WAS new. … In effect Jesus intends to REPLACE Ot JUdaism with Catholicism: I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH & THE LIFE

So the Early Church choose to celebrate; SUNday the Day that Jesus rose from the Dead; precisely and theologically because it Is Easter Sunday, not Christmas, not Good Friday that is the 1st cause for Christian Celebration not that the others are not essential.

It is BECAUSE of Christ Resurrection that Jesus became MAN, like us in every way but sin. It is because of his resurrection that all of humanity for all time is now REDEEMED.

The terms Redemption & Salvation are NOT synonymous.

Redemption MEANS that because Christ ROSE from the DEAD, then we ALL NOW could and WOULD have the opportunity to FOLLOW Jesus into heaven which had been on “Lock Out” as a result of Original sin. Once again the GATE to heaven, to which He entrusted the KEYS to Peter and the RCC was a possibility.

Salvation: Means to speak to that “possibility” of salvation; that is Highly conditional, a life-long process of proving time and time again [Isa 43: 7 & 21] our love and humility through knowing and then DOING all that Christ actually ask. It is FAR more than just acknowledging Christ as our Personal Savior; though that is the essential FIRST step.

SUNDAY celebrates Christ’s Resurrection AND the worlds Redemption. And the Power and Authority of ALL the Keys to heavens GAte permits the RCC to do this,

GBY
 
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