Originally Posted by Porknpie
Here are a few texts, but not all from
scripturalcatholic.com, including a few from the early church fathers that support Sunday as the primary day of worship. The disciples used Saturday to spread the gospel to nonbelievers but they worshipped and celebrated the Eucharist on Sunday.
Acts 20:7 - this text shows the apostolic tradition of gathering together to celebrate the Eucharist on Sunday, the “first day of the week.” Luke documents the principle worship was on Sunday because this was one of the departures from the Jewish form of worship.
Please read Acts 20:7-11 more carefully. The Jewish day is always sundown to sundown. Paul came to the believers on Sunday as he was to depart the next day, which would be Monday. He spoke on into the night which would be the beginning of Monday. Sometime after midnight on Monday he broke bread with them and in the morning ( Monday morning) he departed.
Now are we to gather from this that the Eucharist should be celebrated during the middle of the night or on Monday? Of course not, this meeting was not traditional in any sense, but rather necessitated by Paul’s need to depart on Monday morning.
Paul said about the Eucharist, “After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink [it], in remembrance of me.”(1 Cor 11:25 ." As often as" does not mean on any particular day of the week. One can build a tradition of celebrating the Eucharist on Sunday, but that does not make it the Lord’s day. If one wants to follow Acts 20:7 that you mentioned, then you could celebrate it after midnight on Monday, too. But then again, that would not make Monday the Lord’s day.
1 Cor. 16:2 - Paul instructs the Corinthians to make contributions to the churches “on the first day of the week,” which is Sunday. This is because the primary day of Christian worship is Sunday.
Here Paul is telling the church to lay up store (set aside contributions)
Paul was taking up a collection not as a tithe for the churches, but for famine relief for the brethren in Judea. ( See Acts 11:27-30 and Rom 15:26): He told them to
lay by them store on the first day of the week. That meant to take time on Sunday and set aside a contribution commensurate with : “As God hath prospered him.” This was not a regular church offering and was not done at church. They were to keep it “by them” and give to Paul when he came… . Paul said this was to be done so they could individually have something stored up, “that there be no gatherings” when he came
Col. 2:16-17 - Paul teaches that the Sabbath was only a shadow of what was fulfilled in Christ, and says “let no one pass judgment any more over a Sabbath.”
Please read Col 2:14 which describes what law Paul was speaking of:in verses16-17. It states,“Blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;” Paul is talking about the ceremonial law contained in the Law of Moses which was handwritten by Moses and contained sacrifices and the 7 yearly feast days which were called annual Sabbaths (See Lev 23). They were shadows of Christ and his mission and were abolished at Christ’s death. The weekly Sabbath was part of the ten commandments and made or all men . These handwritten ordinances also contained regulations on meat and drink which were what Paul was referring to when he said " Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]: (Col 2:16) The weekly Sabbath command was not part of the Mosaic law, but was part of God’s moral law which He himself wrote on stone. They were for all mankind and were definitely not a shadow of Christ and his mission.and the ten commandments were definitely not nailed to the cross.
Rev 1:10 - John specifically points out that he witnesses the heavenly Eucharistic liturgy on Sunday, the Lord’s day, the new day of rest in Christ.
In Rev 1:10, John says "I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, " Jesus said the Sabbath was the Lord’s day and John was his disciple. Why would anyone think John’s statement to mean anything other than the seventh day? John was in vision. To say he was witnessing “the heavenly Eucharistic liturgy on Sunday” is completely without any scriptural foundation or authority and is a perfect example of wresting scripture to justify a man a church doctrine
Matt. 16:19; 18:18 - whatever the Church binds on earth is bound in heaven. Since the resurrection, Mass has been principally celebrated on Sunday.
The apostles certainly did not celebrate Sunday in this manner , nor was it given sanction anywhere in the New Testament. It is a church tradition that contradicts scripture if it breaks the Sabbath commandment. No church or personage has the authority to change times and laws ( see Dan 7:25 warning about this very thing)
All of those other non-biblical statements you listed are from men who see no harm in brazingly contradicting the word of God. Anyone who follows them is clearly disregarding the clear warnings of Christ in Matt 5:17-19 and is committing the very error that Jesus specifically warned about when he said," Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men."( Mark 7:7; Matt 15:3,9; Titus 1:14)
Sola Scriptura:
The Bible reveals to men the will of God. Tradition, however, reveals the will of men to men and it may or may not contradict the will of God. If it contradicts God’s will, then it should be discarded immediately. The Bible,
God’s word, is always he final authority on the will of God.
npatrol:
. Where in the bible does it say that it is the final authority of truth? In fact, it doesn’t. Rather, 1 Timothy 3:15 says that the church is the pillar and bulwark of truth.
