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1 | When did the day of worship change? | Acts | tranard | 18597 | ||
Sabbath - Saturday vs Sunday. In general, most people agree that the Sabbath mentioned throughout the old and new testament is actually Saturday. The fourth commandment tells us to keep the Sabbath day holy. I understand that Sunday is referred to the Lord's Day in recognition of the resurrection. My question is when did the shift happen from worshipping on the Sabbath to worshipping on the Lord's Day? Is it specifically mentioned in the Bible somewhere? Is it recorded in secular history anywhere? Thanks in advance for your responses. | ||||||
2 | When did the day of worship change? | Acts | userdoe220 | 18685 | ||
As Christianity spread beyond the borders of Palestine/Israel, the church became increasingly Hellenistic. Up until 65AD the Roman Government treated the church as just another sect of Judaism--Kind of like the Essenses/Pharisees etc. Why did they do this? Because they: 1.) Used Jewish scripture to affirm what they believed about Christ. 2.) Preached a very uniquely Jewish concept of a Messiah. 3.) Spent time in the synagogues—Even Paul would go to the synagogues in the cities he evangelized in the book of Acts and try to persuade them in the truths of Jesus. The one thing I want to say from the start, is the early church was a mix bag of ideologies. There were those in the early church—Marcion comes to mind—that hated anything Jewish; Therefore, I think you would be hard pressed to find anything from Marcion that promoted the Sabbath as the Christians' only alternative to worship. He would not even consider the O.T as being part of the new Christian Canon and many of the Gospels because they contained O.T quotations. But for the most part, very early on in the churches development you see the church focusing more on the Lord’s Day (Sunday) in honor of His resurrection and less on Sabbath worship. You see the pattern beginning in the Book of Acts and by 65 AD most of Christedom was using Sunday exclusively as the Churches’ day of worship. The Didache, which was a document in circulation around 60 AD, already had the church meeting on Sunday’s. “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 who is at odds with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: "In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; for I am a great King, says the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the nations."” Although the Didache is not scripture, it does provide us insight into the thought process of the early church in regards to this matter. I think in the church, the closer you got to Jerusalem the more Jewish Christians hung on to Jewish traditions. The further you got away from Jerusalem—and as Rome began to take center stage and Jerusalem lost its importance—the more those traditions were looked at as optional and discarded. I hope this provides a little insight into how the early church viewed this issue. I will let others argue weather the church was right in adopting Sunday or wrong. schwartzkm |
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3 | When did the day of worship change? | Acts | Yoshua | 18809 | ||
I do not agree. You know waht is sin? Sin is the trangression of the Law. The Law is no a "tradition" is the Will of God. ¿Ain't it? So, if you kill is a sin, if you tell lies is a sin. ¿Do you really beleive God would take away one of His commandments? Let James provides you a big insight about the Law: James 2: 10-11. The aposles known well the sanctity and eternity of the Law of God. They accepted it as the Will of God. Later doctrines mixed up the pure doctrine of the O.T., wich was the one Jesus followed. So Saturday/Sabbath is the day of worshipfor God. For everybody else: you can do as He said or not. Yoshua |
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4 | When did the day of worship change? | Acts | userdoe220 | 18824 | ||
Please re-read my post. I stated in my post that I would let "other people determine weather it was right or wrong" I was just answering the portion of her question concerning the early history in the church. I guess I will throw a few observations your way on this issue. Of course Jesus worshipped on Saturday--He was a Jew! Moot Point. The question is, are we as belivers under the New Covenant Mandated to worship on one particular day? I would say no. Col 2:16-18 16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or A SABBATH DAY (emphasis mine). 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions. - This passage tackles a number of Jewish related issues. Paul was addressing a group of Jews who was attempting to Judiaze the church--make them submit to Jewish customs. I would read this whole book and take a look at the book of Galatians and the Jerusalem council in Acts 15. The Apostles made it abundatly clear that certain things--Like circumcision--was optional for the beliver. To believe otherwise is to deny the plain reading of these passages. I am not sure how much clearer Paul could get on this particular issue but it seems like there are those in Christendom that want to drag us back under the ritual observances of the Law. |
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