What happened to the Sabbath?

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As I understand it, the sabbath (seventh day) is the day enjoined by God in His Ten Commandments as our day of rest and worship. Did the church replace the Sabbath with Sunday as the new rest and worship day to be observed by Christians under the New Covenant?
 
The Sabbath was an old covenant observance. Sunday is the day when Jesus rose from the dead.
 
Love_Peace_Joy said:
As I understand it, the sabbath (seventh day) is the day enjoined by God in His Ten Commandments as our day of rest and worship. Did the church replace the Sabbath with Sunday as the new rest and worship day to be observed by Christians under the New Covenant?
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The Church continues to acknowledge that Saturday is the Sabbath (e.g., the day God rested after completing the Creation). I think the likelier answer is that Sunday observance started out as a growing custom in some communities, eventually became the predominant custom as Christianity began to diverge from Judaism. You’ll probably want to read up on this in a book, rather than online.
 
Sunday was and is called the Lord’s Day because that’s when He arose. Already in Acts we find the followers breaking bread and worshipping on Sunday. It’s also mentined in 1 Cor and Col. And here’s some testimony from the ECFs:

**The Didache (Teachings of the Twelve Apostles) - 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]).

*Ignatius of Antioch - [T]hose who were brought up in the ancient order of things * 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]).
 
**I keep the Biblical 7th day Sabbath because it’s
a). One of the 10 Commandments
b). God rested on the 7th day in Genesis,
c). It was given in Exodus before the 10 Commandments,
d). The 7th day Sabbath is the only day that God Himself blessed, hallowed, sanctified and made holy. No other day was made that way,
e).The Sabbath is a delight and honorable and we will be blessed by God for keeping it (Isaiah 58).
f).We will be keeping in in Heaven (Isaiah 66).
g). The disciples, Jew and Gentile alike kept it in the New Testament.
h). “Sunday” in the Bible is simply titled ‘the 1st day of the week’. It was never called the Sabbath, it was never called a day of rest, was never blessed, sanctified and hallowed by God, it wasn’t even called ‘the Lord’s Day’ in the Scriptures.
i). Over and over again Jesus said he is Lord of the Sabbath in the NT.

I can go on with more but I must get some sleep if I plan on making it to Mass early tomorrow morning. 😃

No man or woman, no church, has the power or authority to change what thus saith the LORD. 🙂

But with that said, I attend church on the 1st day of the week… then again, I try to get to Mass every day the church doors are open. 😃

“Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” – 2 Timothy 2:15

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Love_Peace_Joy said:
As I understand it, the sabbath (seventh day) is the day enjoined by God in His Ten Commandments as our day of rest and worship. Did the church replace the Sabbath with Sunday as the new rest and worship day to be observed by Christians under the New Covenant?
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…actually, no; that happened just after the Lords Resurrection… Sunday became the Lord’s Day and the Disciples gathered to worship (break bread, pray, relive the Glory days… 😉 all under the Guide of the Holy Spirit…

Maran atha!

Angel
 
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**I keep the Biblical 7th day Sabbath because it’s
a). One of the 10 Commandments
b). God rested on the 7th day in Genesis,
c). It was given in Exodus before the 10 Commandments,
d). The 7th day Sabbath is the only day that God Himself blessed, hallowed, sanctified and made holy. No other day was made that way,
e).The Sabbath is a delight and honorable and we will be blessed by God for keeping it (Isaiah 58).
f).We will be keeping in in Heaven (Isaiah 66).
g). The disciples, Jew and Gentile alike kept it in the New Testament.
h). “Sunday” in the Bible is simply titled ‘the 1st day of the week’. It was never called the Sabbath, it was never called a day of rest, was never blessed, sanctified and hallowed by God, it wasn’t even called ‘the Lord’s Day’ in the Scriptures.
i). Over and over again Jesus said he is Lord of the Sabbath in the NT.

I can go on with more but I must get some sleep if I plan on making it to Mass early tomorrow morning. 😃

No man or woman, no church, has the power or authority to change what thus saith the LORD. 🙂

But with that said, I attend church on the 1st day of the week… then again, I try to get to Mass every day the church doors are open. 😃

“Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” – 2 Timothy 2:15

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…in Scriptures there are gaps that do not get filled (early Church operated both on Oral and Written Word/Gospel) but we can surmise, with some degree of accurracy, that the changes that took place were in direct relations to Christ’s Resurrection and the proliferation of the Gospel (Christianity). Though the Apostles congregated on the Sabbath in order to share the Gospel with the Jews, as well as to comply with the Old Covenant, the innitial gathering/s was in secret (fear of imminent threat from those who persecuted Christ) as the New Covenant took hold and the “Church” gatherings took place (as consequence of being expelled from the Temple [implicit] and synagogues [explicit]) Christians were forced into the new form of Worship, including new observances and practices:
That day a bitter persecution started against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except the apostles scattered to the country districts of Judaea and Samaria. (Acts 8:1b)
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4 I even persecuted this Way to the death and sent women as well as men to prison in chains 5 as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify. I even received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, which I took with me when I set off to bring prisoners back from there to Jerusalem for punishment. (Acts 22:4-5)

You have surely heard how I lived in the past, within Judaism, and how there was simply no limit to the way I persecuted the Church of God in my attempts to destroy it; (Galatians 1:13)
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They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. (Acts 2:42)
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7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight. 8 There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting (Acts 20:7-8)
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…the Church, Guided by the Holy Spirit has brough about the various Doctrinal Teachings that we practice today… while we have the freedom to chose to ignore her, as St. Paul said, not everything ediefies us!

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Love_Peace_Joy said:
As I understand it, the sabbath (seventh day) is the day enjoined by God in His Ten Commandments as our day of rest and worship. Did the church replace the Sabbath with Sunday as the new rest and worship day to be observed by Christians under the New Covenant?
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The Church didn’t replace anything.

‘Then [Jesus] said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”’ - Mark 2:27-28.

That He is Lord of the Sabbath is why we celebrate on the Lord’s Day (Sunday) and traditionally it has been a day of rest for Christians (though you are not required to rest, you are required to attend Mass). In doing so we acknowledge that the day (Jesus is the light of the world-- see John 1, John 9:5) was made for us, not us for the day.,therefore, we are not servants but we are friends (John 15:15, Ephesians 2:19) of the day, and so we celebrate our salvation through the death and resurrection of our Lord on the day the Lord chose to rise from the dead. This is why the apostles taught that we weren’t supposed to be concerned with Jewish Sabbaths (Colossians 2:16), festivals, and feasts

See this too: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=175078.
 
It was always explained to me that we make Sunday the Lord’s day because that was the day of His resurrection.
 
Love_Peace_Joy said:
As I understand it, the sabbath (seventh day) is the day enjoined by God in His Ten Commandments as our day of rest and worship. Did the church replace the Sabbath with Sunday as the new rest and worship day to be observed by Christians under the New Covenant?
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Among the many other comments and views, there is the fact many of the Apostles and Disciples continued to attend the Jewish services on Saturday which was their Sabbath. Thus they then went to their Christian services on Sunday…

Gradually the Jewish church began to usher out the Christians from their services…
 
The seventh day sabbath was the symbol of the old covenant. When the new covenant was instituted, the old sabbath was gone.
 
The Jews were commanded to observe the Sabbath for two reasons: 1) because periodic rest from manual labor, such as one day in seven as God observed when He created the universe, is healthier than never resting; 2) the remembrance of God’s liberation of the Israelites from their Egyptian slavery. (See Deuteronomy 5:12-15) The early Church properly determined that, because the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead was a far greater and more universally significant miracle than the liberation of the Israelites from their Egyptian slavery, the Jewish Sabbath observance ought to be replaced by the Catholic Sunday remembrance of Christ’s resurrection from the dead.
 
The Catholic Church is an Apostolic Church and that means it holds onto the Traditions that were passed onto it from the Apostles. It is the church of the new covenant. That means we are saved through faith in Christ and not in doing works of the old Jewish law as Rom 3:28 states. That is why in Acts 15 the Apostles decided with the Holy Spirit that circumcision was not required in order to be saved. Peter said that 'we believe they [gentiles] shall be saved through grace the same as us.". And this put to rest the question of whether gentiles needed to be circumcized. The same principle holds for the Jewish Sabbath.

Is it really an Apostolic Tradition to practice the Lord’s Day and not the Jewish Sabbath? Yes. Christians have practiced the Lord’s day since the apostles. The bible itself indicates this and that the Jewish Sabbath was no longer binding on Christians. (see Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Colossians 2:16-17, and Revelation 1:10). The early Church Fathers practiced the Lord’s day instead of the Jewish Sabbath long before Constantine (as some accuse Constantine as changing the day).

In AD 110 St. Ignatius said:

“[T]hose who were brought up in the ancient order of things * 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 Magnesians8 [A.D. 110]).(Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch; student of John the Apostle)

This was written a mere 20 years after the death of John the apostle. Ignatius was a firm believer in holding to the truth of what was passed onto him from the apostles. He taught against heretics. And he wrote while imprisoned knowing he would be fed to the lions. His crime? Refusing to renounce Jesus Christ and compromise his faith with paganism in any way. Ignatius was Martyred for being a genuine Christian. If he was compromising with the pagans they wouldn’t be executing him. It was because he refused to compromise that they executed him. He is writing and passing on the traditions that were passed onto him from the Apostles themselves, the same Apostles who wrote the NT.
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