If God is unchangeable, why is Sunday worship preffered than Saturday which is originally THE SABBATH or 7th?
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Sunday Sabbath is heresy\nEaster Sunday is heresy\nHeresies (all iniquity) is an abomination to God.\n\nThose who love God with all their heart, soul, mind, might, also love His Law, the Torah - His will circumcise their heart with His will written on it.\n\nOne-hour and then back-to-worldly- pleasures won't make the mark. Begrudgingly observing the Sabbath won't cut it. If you love the holiness of the Sabbath, you've got it! :)\n\n[See "How to test a prophet...?"]
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1st:  It's God's Sabbath, not the Jew's:\n\nExo 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God...\n\n2nd:  It was not established for the Jews but for man.\n\nMar 2:27  And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: \nMar 2:28  Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. \n\n3rd:  Yes, A is the correct answer:  Lev 23:32  It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest... from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
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It depends which day; you call the seventh day Sabbath. Catholics admit the Sabbath is Saturday (evidence enclosed).\n\nThe Sabbath is from Friday Evening to Saturday Evening; Jews still keep it as some christians. No work is to be done this day.\nJesus himself told us to keep this day (John 4:22-24).\n"Ye worship ye know not what; we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews." John 4:22\nNotice Jesus was saying that we should worship Saturday like the Jews.\n\nLook Sabbath up in Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol.24, pp.68-69.\nThe Calendar also tells us the 7th day is Saturday.\n\nIf you look up Genesis 1:8; it tells us that the evening and morning were the second day. Lev.23:32 says from evening to evening to celebrate the Sabbath.\n\nGENESIS 2:2-3 "AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE; AND HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE. AND GOD BLESSED THE THE SEVENTH DAY, AND SANCTIFIED IT: BECAUSE THAT IN IT HE HAD RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH GOD CREATED AND MADE." {sanctify = to set apart; make holy}\n\nEXODUS 20:8-11 "REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY. SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOUR, AND DO ALL THY WORK: BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD: IN IT THOU SHALT NOT DO ANY WORK, THOU, NOR THY SON, NOR THY DAUGHTER, THY MANSERVANT, NOR THY MAIDSERVANT, NOR THY CATTLE, NOR THY STRANGER THAT IS WITHIN THY GATES: FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS, AND RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY: WHEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY, AND HALLOWED IT." {the 4th Commandment}\n\nREV.14:7 "SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, FEAR GOD, AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM; FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGEMENT IS COME; AND WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE HEAVEN, AND EARTH, AND THE SEA, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATER."{fear God means reverence him; also this text points back to the 4th Commandment}\n\nLEV.23:3 "SIX DAYS SHALL WORK BE DONE: BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF REST, AN HOLY CONVOCATION; YE SHALL DO NO WORK THERIN: IT IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS."\n\nDEUT.5:12-14 "KEEP THE SABBATH DAY TO SANCTIFY IT, AS THE LORD THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THEE. SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOUR, AND DO ALL THY WORK: BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD: IN IT THOU SHALT NOT DO ANY WORK, THOU, NOR THY SON, NOR THY DAUGHTER, THY MANSERVANT, NOR THY MAIDSERVANT, NOR THINE OX, NOR THINE ***, NOR ANY OF THINE CATTLE, NOR THY STRANGER THAT IS WITHIN THY GATES: THAT THY MANSERVANT AND THY MAIDSERVANT MAY REST AS WELL AS THOU."\n\n{Jesus's Example= "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:..-1PETER 2:21}\nLUKE 4:16 "AND HE CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP: AND, AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY, AND STOOD UP TO READ."\n\nMARK 2:23-28 "AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT HE WENT THROUGH THE CORN FIELDS ON THE SABBATH DAY; AND HIS DISCIPLES BEGAN, AS THEY WENT, TO PLUCK THE EARS OF CORN. AND THE PHARISEES SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, WHY DO THEY ON THE SABBATH DAY THAT WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL? AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE NEVER READ WHAT DAVID DID, WHEN HE HAD NEED, AND WAS AN HUNGRED, HE, AND THEY THAT WERE WITH HIM? HOW HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD IN THE DAYS OF ABIATHAR THE HIGH PRIEST, AND DID EAT THE SHEW BREAD, WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL TO EAT BUT FOR THE PRIESTS, AND GAVE ALSO TO THEM WHICH WERE WITH HIM? AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH: THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS LORD ALSO OF THE SABBATH." {The Pharisees thought his disciples were breaking the Sabbath by plucking and eating corn; but Jesus told them it wasn't work. Jesus healed on the sabbath as helped people. On the Sabbath day you can even warm meals as boil water for oatmeal on the Sabbath. The work that you cannot do is cooking meals because it takes an h
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Isn't there some debate about the calendar system or something?  I'm not entirely clear on this, but I seem to recall several people arguing over what year it really is now, because of the calendar system in effect way back then.\n\nThe only reason I mention this is that someone said Jesus rose on a Sunday, so the sabbath is now Sunday for all Christians.  If the calendar system was different back then from what it is now, how do we know that it was Sunday and not Wednesday or any of the other days of the week?
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It didn't change. The Sabbath is still from the evening on Friday to the evening on Saturday. Christians chose to observe the Sabbath on the first day of the week in conjunction with the day of the Resurrection I hear, but I've never seen that in scripture. What I see in scripture is that when Christ was crucified, the Mosiac Law was crucified with Him. As He is seated at the right hand of the Father, making intercession, we can come before the Throne of Grace anytime we need to. We don't need to go to the synagogue on any certain day, but I think it is important to remember what the Sabbath means: the day of Rest after six of work. And worship should be somthing we do often, not just on Sunday.\n\nBy the way, I am a non-Jewish Christian. I attend church usually on Sunday.
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Exodus 20:8-11\n\nThe seventh day is the Lord's Day because God rested from all His work on that day and hallowed (made holy) it. As we all know it is Saturday. Some people say we can never know for sure that it is in fact Saturday and that days have changed since creation. You therefore have to search for the truth yourself and not rely on what people tell you. As a start, what I do is try to find out what Saturday translates to in other languages. \nIn Spanish, it is Sábado, from the word sabbath.\nItalian - Sabato\nGreek - Σάββατο\nPortuguese - Sábado\nRussian - Суббота\n\nSo there you have it. The translation of Saturday to other languages resembles Sabbath. However, the Roman church changed it. That is why most people worship on a Sunday and claim that the 1st day the Lord's Day. They also say they worship on the 1st day because Jesus rose on the 1st day. Nothing is wrong with worshiping on the 1st day BUT you must recognise that the 7th day which is the sabbath day is the day of rest, the Lord's Day.\nThere is an organised system now changing the calendars to make Monday the 1st day of the week and Sunday the 7th day. This is because knowledge has increased and more people are recognising the true sabbath. The 1st day is man's day and even if you change the calendar to make it the 7th day it is still man's day. Saturday is the original sabbath given by God. I would rather obey God than man. It is the Lord that determines what His day is. No man can change the Lord's day. God says "I am the Lord your God, I change not". He has not changed his day and it remains the 7th day until the end of time.\nRemember that Satan was cast out of heaven into Earth. He is busy trying to confuse us and one of the mediums he uses is the church and our pastors. That is why there is so much division in the christain society and so many different religions and denominations with each claiming to be the true one. The church of Rome made the change a long time ago during the Dark Ages and the Bible was taken away from everyone. Believers in Christ were persecuted for having a Bible. That is why it is important to seek God for yourself. Keep searching for the truth  with earnest prayer and supplication and you will certainly find it.  Remember my friend that the answers to all your questions are found in God's words. If God did not instruct it do not do it. If man changed it reject it. God is superior to man everytime. All the best and remember that God loves you. Love Him back by obeying His words. Read more at these links:\n\nhttp://www.nisbett.com/sabbath/default.htm\nhttp://www.nisbett.com/sabbath/dearpastor/default.htm\nhttp://www.nisbett.com/sabbath/dearpastor/dearpastor04.htm
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IT IS A BIBLICAL PRINCIPAL. GEN. 1&2 YOU HAVE SIX DAY OF CREATION AND THE SEVENTH DAY OF REST WOULD BE A WEEK.\nMENTIONED AGAIN IN EX. 20:8-10.
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The first day of the week, Sunday, since ancient times has been designated the "day of rest". For Christians it is the holy day of the week, due to the fact that Christ was reported to have risen from the dead upon this day. \nYet the name of Sunday has nothing to do with Christianity, but everything to do with even more ancient religions. The ancient Greeks knew that the sun was the source of life on the planet and they gave it prime importance in their thinking. When the Romans later adopted the seven day week they emphasize their respect for the sun by naming the first day of the week for it..."dies solis"..."day of the sun". \n\nThe actual word "Sunday" is derived from the German word "Sonntag" (and they likely got it from the Scandanavians). These folk too placed a great deal of importance on the sun. Some tribes of these Germanic peoples invaded England in the 500's or so. They were known as the Angles and the Saxons. The old English work was "sunnandaeg" and it changed over time to become our current, "Sunday". \n\nThere are several holidays that are traditionally held on Sunday. Mother's Day (second Sunday in May) and Father's Day (third Sunday in June) began to be celebrated rather recently, 1914 and 1924 respectively. Easter is an ancient holiday that was officially designated by the Church in the year 325. Its position on the calendar has confused lay people for centuries. The date is calculated by taking the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the 21st of March.
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Originally saturday was the sabbath and the holy day.  After the resurrection of Christ early Christians changed the holy day to sunday to show respect for Christs resurrection.  Jews not accepting Christ continued to worship on saturday and still do now.  In the 19th century some Christian groups, including the Seventh-day adventists led by Ellen White, went back to the old day of Saturday.  As far as which is correct and what the only one God thinks you have to ask which church you adhere too.  In the Old Testament Saturday was the day but the New testament does not addressthis issue after Christ and it is more an issue of tradition than literal biblical interpretation as far as I know.
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Which day is the Sabbath? Is it Saturday? On which day should a Christian worship? I believe it is Sunday. The Saturday Sabbath was given to Israel. Ezekiel 20:12,20 states: I gave them [Israel] my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD and also hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you [Israel]. This was the first covenant to Israel.\n\nChristians have a new covenant. Jesus made a surety of a better testament (Hebrews 7:22). He [Christ] is the mediator of a better covenant (Hebrews 8:6). He [Christ] is the mediator of the new testament [or new agreement] (Hebrews 9:15).\n\nBecause of His death and this new agreement, we are no longer under ceremonial laws involving days. Moral laws are in effect in believer's hearts, but not the ceremonial laws. Proof? God says in Colossians 2:14,16 that Christ [blotted] 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.... Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy- day, or of the new moon, or [Get it!] of the sabbath days.\n\nWe are not under the law, but under grace (Romans 6:14). God's moral law is written within and upon the hearts of believers, but ceremonial laws involving days have been nailed to the cross. We honor the Saviour of the new covenant on a new day -- the day of His resurrection, which is Sunday, the first day of the week. This we do out of love, not servitude, not through law, but through grace.
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God is the same. God will never change. Man cannot change God just because times change.
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Because they use different calendars and the Sunday is based on the position of the heavenly bodies.
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So many bad answers from Christians on this it's fairly amusing.\n\n1. "Things/the rules have changed"\n\nResting on the sabbath is a moral precept of one's obligation to Yahweh.  If you are saying this changed, you are saying that God changes his morals, which opens up the idea of moral subjectivitiy.  There is no way around when God said "forever".  Either you are calling him a liar, or you are wrong.\n\n2.  "The law was destroyed"\n\nThen why did Jesus say he did not come to destroy the law?  Remember thar part in Matthew about "not one jot or tittle of the law"?  You are calling Jesus a liar here....not sure what your God would think of that.\n\n3.  Paul said hold no day above any other.\n\nSwell for Paul.  Unfortuantely, Jesus and Yahweh BOTH said different.  Tie goes to the deity, I would think.\n\n4.  "Christians are under grace, not the law"\n\nThen you can ignore the 10 commandments, I assume.  No?  Only the fourth one?  I see.  What part of "forever" and what Jesus said in Matthew don't Christians understand?\n\n******\n\nThose are just a few responses.  Christians love to pull the "Paul Card".  Go ahead and grab anything Paul may have said (ignoring that he often spoke on behalf of himself, not God) and use that to totally dismiss something either Yahweh or Jesus said.\n\nThe bible IS inconsistent.  But if I were to believe in it, I sure has heck would take God's "forever" dictate pretty serious, not Paul's bitter ramblings.
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God established Sabbath before He created the first human being. It was a kind of gift for the first people, Adam and Eve (who definitely were not Jewish) as it was the first day of their lives and they first rested and enjoyed God’s love, vicinity and everything He created and then started working in the Garden. By changing Sabbath into Sunday (which is obviously the day of sun), the real way of observing the day of rest was concealed behind the curtain. People who attend the church on Sunday today are (mostly) not aware that the whole day is supposed to be the meeting with God, with His word and with His creation. They would sit in their living rooms, watching movies and football, thinking perhaps that they rest, but in fact it is not the true rest God wants us to have. Sabbath is created so that we can devote our whole being, heart and body and mind to God. Many people mention Jesus and His disciples plucking grain during Sabbath to support their view that Jesus didn’t observe Sabbath. What kind of prove is that? If I were walking through the field on Sabbath, admiring the nature around me, and if I spotted ripe and supposedly delicious forest strawberries :), and if I plucked several and ate them, would that mean that I was working and not resting on that day? Every time Jesus did something “scandalous” in the eyes of the Jews on Sabbath, He wasn’t denying it, He was just trying to tell them they should enjoyed it and not feel the victims of it. Jesus did observe Sabbath (it was His custom as you can read in the New Testimony), so did His disciples as you can read in the Acts of Apostles. As for those who say Jesus abolished the law, let me remind them of the verse in the book of Revelation, chapter 14, verse 12: “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. You can also read Isaiah, chapter 66, verses 22 and 23. I know the answer is already too long, but allow me to say one more thing in relation to the statement that it is not important which day we observe as the day of rest as long we observe one. Take yourself as example and imagine your birthday falls on, say, 12 of March. Now your best friend or your parents always bring you presents on 23 of August. You are thankful, their intentions are wonderful, but you gently remind them that your birthday is on 12 of March. Next year the same thing happens. You are not sure what is going on and you repeat the story about the birthday and March. The next year and every year they celebrate your birthday on the wrong day and what can you do – you reconcile with that if it isn’t that important to you or you can be angry with them for not listening to you and for being ignorant, indifferent or whatever. However, God blessed and sanctified Sabbath, giving it as a gift to the mankind (which, in these turbulent times we need more than ever). If we continue observing some other day, aren’t we acting as the best friend and parents, showing carelessness to God??\nWe are saved by the faith and grace, but we should keep all Commandments because we love God and care for what He finds important.
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sunday...and the first answerer needs to get their facts straight...\n\nSUN day...let there be light...\n\njust because some people go to church on sunday doesnt mean we think its the seventh day...saturday is the sabbath which is also why it is pronounced sabado in spanish...\n\nmonday is the first day of the work week...
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Excelent question!\n\nI'll quote from this webpage:http://www.sabbathtruth.com/sabbath_questions.asp:\n\nWe Can't Locate the True Seventh Day \nThis is a fallacy that has comforted many in their disobedience of the fourth commandment. It just is not true. Here are four positive proofs which identify the true Sabbath today: \n\n1. According to the Scriptures, Christ died on Friday and rose on Sunday, the first day of the week. Practically all churches acknowledge this fact by observing Easter Sunday and Good Friday. Here is the Bible evidence: "This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on." Luke 23:52-54. \n\nHere is proof that Jesus died the day before the Sabbath. It was called "the preparation day" because it was the time to get ready for the Sabbath. Let us read the next verses: "And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." Verses 55, 56. \n\nPlease notice that the women rested over the Sabbath "according to the commandment." The commandment says, "The seventh day is the Sabbath," so we know they were observing Saturday. But the very next verse says, "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared. ... And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre." Luke 24:1, 2. \n\nHow clearly these three consecutive days are described for us. He died Friday, the preparation day, commonly called Good Friday. He rested in the tomb on the seventh day, Sabbath, "according to the commandment." That was Saturday. Then on Sunday, the first day of the week, Easter Sunday to many, Jesus arose from the grave. \n\nAnyone who can locate Good Friday or Easter Sunday will have absolutely no difficulty finding the true Sabbath.\n\n2. The calendar has not been changed so as to confuse the days of the week. We can be positive that our seventh day is the same day Jesus observed when He was here. Pope Gregory XIII did make a calendar change in 1582, but it did not interfere with the weekly cycle. Our present Gregorian calendar was named after him when he made that small change in 1582. \nWhat did Pope Gregory do to the calendar? Before 1582 the Julian calendar had been in effect, instituted by Julius Ceasar about 46 B.C. and named after him. But the Julian calendar had calculated the length of the year as 365 1/4 days, and the year is actually eleven minutes less than 365 1/4 days. Those eleven minutes accumulated, and by 1582 the numbering of the calendar was ten days out of harmony with the solar system. Gregory simply dropped those ten days out of the numbering of the calendar. It was Thursday, October 4, 1582, and the next day, Friday, should have been October 5. But Gregory made it October 15 instead, dropping exactly ten days to bring the calendar back into harmony with the heavenly bodies. \n\nWere the days of the week confused? No. Friday still followed Thursday, and Saturday still followed Friday. The same seventh day remained, and the weekly cycle was not disturbed in the least. When we keep the seventh day on Saturday, we are observing the same day Jesus kept, and He did it every week according to Luke 4:16.\n\n3. The third evidence for the true Sabbath is the most conclusive of all. The Jewish people have been observing the seventh day from the time of Abraham, and they still keep it today. Here is a whole nation - millions of individuals - who have been counting off time meticulously, week after week, calendar or no calendar, for thousands of years. Could they have lost track? Impossi
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Seven years ago I considered it last, but in America it is the first, so since I consider it as first. In other cultures and countries, sunday is a middle day. Iraqi's work week is Saturday through Thursday.