Subject: Sabbath to Sunday Worship? |
Bible Note: Hi, Justme... In the absence of anything to the contrary, either Scriptural or even apocryphal, an appropriate answer would be: all of them. See Ephesians 2:19-22. The church was built on the kerygma (the teachings of Christ and the Apostles). We would be in grievous error to assume that there were contradictory views handed down to His church (see Ephesians 4:7-14). The Judaizers of Paul's time continued to plague the church -- despite the explicit instruction in Galatians and Hebrews. This issue became such a problem that in 364 AD a council was convened in Phrygia Pacatiana, called the Council of Laodicea. Article 29 states the following: "Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ." Throughout the Reformation this was affirmed with the same language of Sunday as being the "Lord's Day." You can also read similar affirmations by the old divines in the Heidelberg Catechism, the Synod of Dort, the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Savoy Declaration, etc. Various commentators also affirm this, often citing early church fathers (e.g., John Calvin, John Gill, Robert Jamieson, etc.). In Him, Doc |