of the week for the observance of the Saturday the seventh day of the week, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority. “A Doctrinal Catechism”, Rev Stephen Keenan, p174.
NOTE: It is important to note that the change from Sabbath to Sunday is not found in the Bible. It was not changed by Christ or the Apostles, and this is clearly stated by the religious power that made the changes and eventually confirmed it by law.
Question : Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the 7th day—Saturday—for Sunday, the 1st day?
Answer: I answer yes.
Question: Did Christ change the day?
Answer: I answer No!
‘J. Cardinal Gibbons’ Letter
Q7 Which world church claims the authority to make these changes?
The Catholic Church … by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday to Sunday. The Catholic Mirror. Official organ of Cardinal Gibbons, Sept 23. 1893
NOTE: The Roman Catholic Church made the change as is confirmed within the writings and catechisms of that Church. The change has NO scriptural authority. Here are further examples to make this clear.
They (the Catholics) allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lord’s Day, contrary to the Decalogue, as it appears, neither is there any example more boasted of than the changing of the Sabbath day. Great, say they, is the power and authority of the church, since it dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments.” Augsburg Confession, Art XXV111.
It [the Roman Catholic Church] has reversed the fourth commandment, doing away with the Sabbath of God’s Word, and instituting Sunday as a holy day.” N Summerbell, in “The History of Christians”, p418
Q8 Can we be sure that the change of the Sabbath from the seventh day of the week to Sunday is not found in the Bible?
‘There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday.’ Church of England
‘It is clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath … the Sabbath was founded on a specific divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday.’ Congregationalist, British.
‘The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in the New Testament.’ Congregationalist, American.
‘There was and is a commandment to ‘keep holy the Sabbath day’, but that Sabbath was not Sunday’. Baptist
‘There is no direct scriptural authority for designating the first day the Lord’s Day’. Dr D H Lucas
‘You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorising the sanctification of Sunday.’ Roman Catholic
‘It must be confessed that there is no law in the New Testament concerning the first day’. Cyclopedia of Biblical Theology. |
