Sabbatarians: Apostles held on to the Sabbath

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I have been told repeatedly that there is no Biblical evidence for moving the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday, and these people invariably quote Old Testament verses while at the same time denying New Testament verses which are contrary to their teaching.
 
They are wrong on all counts.

Sunday was already in Apostolic times the official day of worship for Christians. Sunday worship is traditionally justified by the fact that Christ was ressurected on a Sunday. Rest assured, when Saint John received his Revelation on the Lord’s day (cf. the Apocalypse of Saint John) that he received it on a Sunday, most likely during Holy Mass, much as His Holiness, Pope Leo the XIIIth, received a private revelation about the Church while he was solemnly celebrating Holy Mass.

The fiction of Saturday-worship by Christians was invented in more modern times by the newest branch(es) of Protestantism in the 19th century to justify their sensational claims of being the reconstitution - often by divine mandate (so they say) of some sort - of the Christian Church, thus leaving everyone else from Apostolic times to their so-called church’s establishment essentially damned. It is an historically ignorant and bankrupt tactic constucted to shock Christians unfamiliar with Church History and shake them from their faith, leaving them in a Satanic doubt and uncertainity about everything they were taught about Christ and His Church. With this groundwork of uncertainty laid, the sectarians can then proceed on that premise to teach a brand new radical “Christian” theology and ecclesiology.

To put this blunty, you are being lied to. Sects like this also tend to Judaize, becoming obsessed with diet and discriminating between meats and the like. Such things are clear warning signs of a corrupted Gospel.
 
First…
Matthew 16: 15-19
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
15 Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?
16 Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
18 And I say to thee: That** thou art Peter**; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
Second…
**Luke 10: 10-16
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
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10 But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say,
11 ‘Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.’
12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
13 Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
14 But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.
15 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths.
16 He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.
Lastly…for me these two scriptures make it a “case closed” issue.
Pax Christi
 
They are wrong on all counts.

Sunday was already in Apostolic times the official day of worship for Christians. Sunday worship is traditionally justified by the fact that Christ was ressurected on a Sunday. Rest assured, when Saint John received his Revelation on the Lord’s day (cf. the Apocalypse of Saint John) that he received it on a Sunday, most likely during Holy Mass, much as His Holiness, Pope Leo the XIIIth, received a private revelation about the Church while he was solemnly celebrating Holy Mass.

The fiction of Saturday-worship by Christians was invented in more modern times by the newest branch(es) of Protestantism in the 19th century to justify their sensational claims of being the reconstitution - often by divine mandate (so they say) of some sort - of the Christian Church, thus leaving everyone else from Apostolic times to their so-called church’s establishment essentially damned. It is an historically ignorant and bankrupt tactic constucted to shock Christians unfamiliar with Church History and shake them from their faith, leaving them in a Satanic doubt and uncertainity about everything they were taught about Christ and His Church. With this groundwork of uncertainty laid, the sectarians can then proceed on that premise to teach a brand new radical “Christian” theology and ecclesiology.

To put this blunty, you are being lied to. Sects like this also tend to Judaize, becoming obsessed with diet and discriminating between meats and the like. Such things are clear warning signs of a corrupted Gospel.
Oh trust me, I know I am being lied to from Sabbath holders. The Old Covenant was fulfilled, being replaced by the New. The only ones refusing to let go of the Old Covenant are the Jews and a few Sabbatarians.One cannot be pickers and choosers. More important, if they insist on the Saturday Sabbath, then they have to accept and practice ALL of the Old Law, such as circumcision, bloody sacrifices, and all those ‘good’ things in Leviticus, cannot have it both ways. One cannot hold on to part of the old and part of the new. It is an all or nothing situation. True Christians abide by the laws of the New Covenant, as New Testament Holy Scripture commands.
 
More important, if they insist on the Saturday Sabbath, then they have to accept and practice ALL of the Old Law…
Exactly, and the exact same argument Saint Paul made to the Judaizers of Apostolic times.
 
Exactly, and the exact same argument Saint Paul made to the Judaizers of Apostolic times.
Indeed. If we are hold to the Sabbath as they claim,they why weren’t the Apostles circumcising instead of baptizing? 😉
 
I have been told repeatedly that there is no Biblical evidence for moving the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday, and these people invariably quote Old Testament verses while at the same time denying New Testament verses which are contrary to their teaching.
you are quite right, in order to hold to this teaching they must jettison Acts completely which clearly states Christians gathered on the Lord’s day (Sunday in the Roman calendar) to celebrate the memory of the Lord’s passion and resurrection which we now call Mass. In fact the only way to state and hold a position contrary to that of the Catholic Church is to delete or ignore specific scriptures.
 
you are quite right, in order to hold to this teaching they must jettison Acts completely which clearly states Christians gathered on the Lord’s day (Sunday in the Roman calendar) to celebrate the memory of the Lord’s passion and resurrection which we now call Mass. In fact the only way to state and hold a position contrary to that of the Catholic Church is to delete or ignore specific scriptures.
Clearly states where? Acts doesnt call Sunday the Lord’s day as far as I know…🤷
Just asking 😃
 
Clearly states where? Acts doesnt call Sunday the Lord’s day as far as I know…🤷
Just asking 😃
Contrary to the denial by Sabbatarians that the seventh day, the Lord’s day, Sunday, is Biblical, I offer the following:

Biblical references to happenings on Sunday, the first day of the week…
  1. Jesus Christ rose from the dead on Sunday, Lk 24:1-12
  2. Christ appeared to the disciples on the road to Emmaus, and celebrated the Eucharist on Sunday, Lk 24:13
  3. Jesus appeared to the disciples behind closed doors, Jn 20:19
  4. Jesus appeared to the disciples with Thomas one week later, Jn 20:26 NAB
  5. Jesus opened the minds of the Apostles to the Scriptures, Lk 24:45
  6. The Apostles received their ‘Great Commission’ to go and teach all nations, Mt 28:1-20.
  7. The Apostles were given the Holy Spirit and the power to forgive sins, Jn 20:19-23.
  8. Jesus told the Apostles to wait in the city until they were to be clothed with power from on high, Lk 24:49.
  9. On the seventh Sunday after the resurrection, the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles,
    Acts 2:1-4.
  10. Immediately after receiving the Holy Spirit, Peter gave a powerful address on the Gospel resulting in 3000 conversions, Acts 2:41.
  11. The Apostles met for the Holy Eucharist on the ‘first’ day, Acts 20:7.
  12. The Apostles set the ‘first’ day of the week for the Churches to take up the collections,
    1Cor 16:1-2.
 
Okay. I was just responding to this is all
Acts completely which clearly states Christians gathered on the Lord’s day (Sunday in the Roman calendar
 
Okay. I was just responding to this is all
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Acts completely which clearly states Christians gathered on the Lord’s day (Sunday in the Roman calendar
Well I did provide numerous verses,so I am not sure exactly what your question is? If it reads: Sunday?
 
Acts never says Sunday is the same thing as the Lord’s Day. Acts never uses the phrase Lord’s Day. She said Acts clearly states that Christians gathered on the Lords Day. But since Acts never uses the phrase “Lords Day” that is not the case.
That is Christian tradition and not scripture. Not that I have a problem with it…just saying…
 
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