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What exactly is the "Sabbath day" and do Christians have to keep it? How?

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  • 10 years ago
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    Saturday is still the Sabbath, Sunday is the Lord's day

    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.

    Catholic Christian †

  • 10 years ago

    Sabbath is Sabbath...THE 7th Day...The Day of worship...The Lord's created Day....

    where does it say in your Bible regarding sun day, the first day of the week for anything???

    The group broke bread and had a weekly business meeting on the first day of the week, of who/what/where/how.

    ..taking things out of context to point at such> as a worship day instead of the business meeting and breaking of bread... perhaps some study of the culture and day to day activities might give a better perspective on what their actions where.

    The Sabbath has never Changed...it is still THE Sabbath.

    Those who claim to follow Christ keep the Sabbath....it is part of if you love me keep my commandments....very simple...

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    NO LONGER APPLICABLE!

    The first victim of "breaking the Sabbath" Law was a poor guy who went out into the Arabian desert to find some sticks to build a fire! He was arrested and put in jail. God found out about it and ordered Moses to have the guy stoned to death ON THE SPOT! This comes as another of God’s afterthoughts because he did not spell out what to do with anybody breaking his HOLY SABBATH Law. Until then nobody knew the risk of doing a little work on Saturday!

    Numbers 15:32-36 (KJV) And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation* (*The Holy Gestapo Police and the “whole assembly” work on the Sabbath on search and destroy any liberated Jewish slave looking for sticks!). And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: ALL the congregation* (*over 2,000,000+ Jews) shall stone him with stones outside the camp. And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him with stones* (*this is a chosen story adapted by the SDA Clergy. They can use the HOLY SABBATH DAY to stone anybody to death!), and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses* (*that ought to teach them a lesson! BTW, that shows how much the John 3:16 God loves to slaughter his own hard working people! No pedophile or gay person was ever stoned to death in any of the Bible stories like this stick-picker. Picking sticks on the Sabbath day is unforgivable!)

  • 10 years ago

    The Sabbath day is Saturday. Exodus 20:8-11

    Are Christians saved to obey or disobey? To obey.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    It's the day god took a break after creating the universe.

    They're meant to go to Church on Saturdays/Sundays every week and not work for the entire day. Fortunately, none of them follow the lord's command for they'd be killing people in the streets if they did.

    Source(s): The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: 'Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. It helps you to remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
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