Sabbath Seventh Day
The real truth about who changed the Sabbath
Introduction
The Book of Daniel informs us that a persecuting power would change God’s law and so the Seventh day Sabbath truth became the first day sabbath deception and against God’s will. The change to the fourth Commandment came about over several centuries and by the death and torture of millions. Yet many will tell you the Sabbath was changed to Sunday in honour of the resurrection and others say it was nailed to the cross. Others will say any day can be the Sabbath as long as you keep one. And still others will tell you as long as you do everything to the glory of God you don’t have to keep God’s true Sabbath. And yet still others will say it is legalism. Is this really what the Bible says? Does it strike you as strange that there are hundreds of different excuses to one of the Bible Ten Commandments and that they are always different? Shouldn't there be just one clear and valid reason if the Sabbath had changed? And especially when Jesus said that not one stroke of the pen would change from the law till Heaven and Earth pass. Is Heaven and Earth still here? Can we trust what Jesus and the Word of God tells us? Obviously we can and hence all the multitude of excuses are just that which history and all the facts support as you would expect. You will also find the Sabbath in the New Testament after the cross.
It leaves me feeling dumbfounded that some are so desperate to avoid this one Commandment that they say, “The Catholic Church say they changed the Sabbath but they didn't really.” There are many variations of such erroneous statements but they all have one thing in common. Excuse me for being direct but they are all foolishly deceived. Not only does the Catholic Church admit they completed the change but history confirms this is indeed truth. If you find anyone denying the truth, then know that they are also denying solid historical facts and thus are foolishly deceived or even intentionally lying. This is commonly due to hatred and prejudice against the largest Sabbath keeping Church by disgruntled ex-members. I am sure it is not necessary to explain what spirit is behind these attacks and why.
As the Papacy grew in power, it opposed the Seventh day Sabbath in favour of Sunday sacredness. All historical records show the Catholic Church made the day change official in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 363-364). Read did Constantine change the Sabbath to find what role he played. The Council of Laodicea around A.D. 364 decreed 59 Canon laws. Here is the final law instituted by the Papal Church.
Canon XXIX: “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.” (Percival Translation).
What would you do if God personally spoke to you and said that He loves you so much that He sent His only Son to die for you and He desires to spend quality time with you on a specific day that He blessed and sanctified, how would you respond to Him? Would you say, “sorry God, that day is not convenient for me” or “no God, I can’t spend that time with you on your Holy day, that’s legalism” or even, “surely it does not matter which day God, how about Sunday. I know it is a day that Satan first instituted using sun worship but I am busy very busy on the other days of the week.” Is this what we would really say? Why is it so hard for us to rest in Jesus on His Holy day?
Christians that know the Sabbath truth say it is a blessing and their favourite day of the week. The Sabbath is quality time with family and relaxing and fellow shipping with God and other Christians. Why are there people in the world so determined to take this blessing from those who keep the Sabbath properly and in the way Jesus intended? If those who condemn Christians who choose to be obedient to God and convince others they don't have to spend this quality time with God are indeed wrong, they are in very serious trouble. If those that enjoy keeping the Sabbath and do so are have it wrong, God will have no punishment what so ever as they just wanted to obey Him in love. What better way is there to get to know our Creator than to spend Holy time with Him? Isn't this how love relationships grow? Why do so many people try so hard to justify why we don’t have to spend this precious quality time with God on His Holy day that He has given us? The Sabbath should be our favourite day of the week and it is for those who keep it according to the Bible. God says we are to find this day a delight and a blessing.
Isaiah 58:13-14 “If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shall honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shall you delight thyself in the LORD...”
It appears that everyone has a different idea about the Sabbath. When there is so much confusion and conflicting information you know that Satan has been hard at work and one needs to investigate and find the real truth.
Would it surprise you to know that Jesus never once even mentioned the first day of the week? As Christians, we must always seek after the truth, as Jesus and the Word are truth. If we really love Jesus with all our heart, might and soul, we will always strive to find what the truth is at any cost.
The contents of this web site is to simply demonstrate the truth about who changed the Sabbath to Sunday and to show that amazingly, besides the five hundred plus different denominations of Sabbath keeping Churches that know the Sabbath truth, only the Roman Catholic Church are aware that Saturday is still the true Sabbath and should be kept by those who choose to follow the Bible alone. Why are they the only Sunday keeping Church that knows the truth and acknowledges it? Please read Sabbath Day change or Gods Sabbath Truth if you would like to learn more about the Sabbath. You may also like to read some thought provoking questions with eye opening quotes that show you how the Sabbath relates to Bible Prophecy.
It would be highly beneficial to first read the History of SunDay Worship for very enlightening information on how Sunday worship actually began 2000 years before Christ and was Satan worship or for even more detailed information on how the Sabbath was changed to Sunday, which includes the origins of 666 and the information from the above link, please read who changed the Sabbath to Sunday and is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday.
Sabbath Statements by the Catholic Church
“Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th Edition, p 111; 88th Edition, p. 89).
“For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the [Roman Catholic] church outside the Bible.” Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947, p. 9, article “To Tell You the Truth.”
“Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. The Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.” Rome’s Challenge www.immaculateheart.com/maryonline Dec 2003.
Who Made Sunday Holy?
“Question: How prove you that the church had power to command feasts and holydays?”
“Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of and therefore they fondly contradict themselves by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church.”
“Question: Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?”
“Answer: Had she not such power, she could not a done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; -she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day of the week, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.” Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism On the Obedience Due to the Church, 3rd edition, Chapter 2, p. 174 (Imprimatur, John Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York).
“Question - Which is the Sabbath day?”
“Answer - Saturday is the Sabbath day.”
“Question - Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?”
“Answer - We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd edition, 1957.
“Nowhere in the Bible is it stated that worship should be changed from Saturday to Sunday...Now the Church...instituted, by God’s authority, Sunday as the day of worship. This same Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory long before the Bible was made. We have, therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday.” Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About, 1927 edition, p. 136.
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The real truth about who changed the Sabbath
Introduction
The Book of Daniel informs us that a persecuting power would change God’s law and so the Seventh day Sabbath truth became the first day sabbath deception and against God’s will. The change to the fourth Commandment came about over several centuries and by the death and torture of millions. Yet many will tell you the Sabbath was changed to Sunday in honour of the resurrection and others say it was nailed to the cross. Others will say any day can be the Sabbath as long as you keep one. And still others will tell you as long as you do everything to the glory of God you don’t have to keep God’s true Sabbath. And yet still others will say it is legalism. Is this really what the Bible says? Does it strike you as strange that there are hundreds of different excuses to one of the Bible Ten Commandments and that they are always different? Shouldn't there be just one clear and valid reason if the Sabbath had changed? And especially when Jesus said that not one stroke of the pen would change from the law till Heaven and Earth pass. Is Heaven and Earth still here? Can we trust what Jesus and the Word of God tells us? Obviously we can and hence all the multitude of excuses are just that which history and all the facts support as you would expect. You will also find the Sabbath in the New Testament after the cross.
It leaves me feeling dumbfounded that some are so desperate to avoid this one Commandment that they say, “The Catholic Church say they changed the Sabbath but they didn't really.” There are many variations of such erroneous statements but they all have one thing in common. Excuse me for being direct but they are all foolishly deceived. Not only does the Catholic Church admit they completed the change but history confirms this is indeed truth. If you find anyone denying the truth, then know that they are also denying solid historical facts and thus are foolishly deceived or even intentionally lying. This is commonly due to hatred and prejudice against the largest Sabbath keeping Church by disgruntled ex-members. I am sure it is not necessary to explain what spirit is behind these attacks and why.
As the Papacy grew in power, it opposed the Seventh day Sabbath in favour of Sunday sacredness. All historical records show the Catholic Church made the day change official in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 363-364). Read did Constantine change the Sabbath to find what role he played. The Council of Laodicea around A.D. 364 decreed 59 Canon laws. Here is the final law instituted by the Papal Church.
Canon XXIX: “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.” (Percival Translation).
What would you do if God personally spoke to you and said that He loves you so much that He sent His only Son to die for you and He desires to spend quality time with you on a specific day that He blessed and sanctified, how would you respond to Him? Would you say, “sorry God, that day is not convenient for me” or “no God, I can’t spend that time with you on your Holy day, that’s legalism” or even, “surely it does not matter which day God, how about Sunday. I know it is a day that Satan first instituted using sun worship but I am busy very busy on the other days of the week.” Is this what we would really say? Why is it so hard for us to rest in Jesus on His Holy day?
Christians that know the Sabbath truth say it is a blessing and their favourite day of the week. The Sabbath is quality time with family and relaxing and fellow shipping with God and other Christians. Why are there people in the world so determined to take this blessing from those who keep the Sabbath properly and in the way Jesus intended? If those who condemn Christians who choose to be obedient to God and convince others they don't have to spend this quality time with God are indeed wrong, they are in very serious trouble. If those that enjoy keeping the Sabbath and do so are have it wrong, God will have no punishment what so ever as they just wanted to obey Him in love. What better way is there to get to know our Creator than to spend Holy time with Him? Isn't this how love relationships grow? Why do so many people try so hard to justify why we don’t have to spend this precious quality time with God on His Holy day that He has given us? The Sabbath should be our favourite day of the week and it is for those who keep it according to the Bible. God says we are to find this day a delight and a blessing.
Isaiah 58:13-14 “If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shall honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shall you delight thyself in the LORD...”
It appears that everyone has a different idea about the Sabbath. When there is so much confusion and conflicting information you know that Satan has been hard at work and one needs to investigate and find the real truth.
Would it surprise you to know that Jesus never once even mentioned the first day of the week? As Christians, we must always seek after the truth, as Jesus and the Word are truth. If we really love Jesus with all our heart, might and soul, we will always strive to find what the truth is at any cost.
The contents of this web site is to simply demonstrate the truth about who changed the Sabbath to Sunday and to show that amazingly, besides the five hundred plus different denominations of Sabbath keeping Churches that know the Sabbath truth, only the Roman Catholic Church are aware that Saturday is still the true Sabbath and should be kept by those who choose to follow the Bible alone. Why are they the only Sunday keeping Church that knows the truth and acknowledges it? Please read Sabbath Day change or Gods Sabbath Truth if you would like to learn more about the Sabbath. You may also like to read some thought provoking questions with eye opening quotes that show you how the Sabbath relates to Bible Prophecy.
It would be highly beneficial to first read the History of SunDay Worship for very enlightening information on how Sunday worship actually began 2000 years before Christ and was Satan worship or for even more detailed information on how the Sabbath was changed to Sunday, which includes the origins of 666 and the information from the above link, please read who changed the Sabbath to Sunday and is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday.
Sabbath Statements by the Catholic Church
“Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th Edition, p 111; 88th Edition, p. 89).
“For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the [Roman Catholic] church outside the Bible.” Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947, p. 9, article “To Tell You the Truth.”
“Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. The Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.” Rome’s Challenge www.immaculateheart.com/maryonline Dec 2003.
Who Made Sunday Holy?
“Question: How prove you that the church had power to command feasts and holydays?”
“Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of and therefore they fondly contradict themselves by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church.”
“Question: Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?”
“Answer: Had she not such power, she could not a done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; -she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day of the week, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.” Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism On the Obedience Due to the Church, 3rd edition, Chapter 2, p. 174 (Imprimatur, John Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York).
“Question - Which is the Sabbath day?”
“Answer - Saturday is the Sabbath day.”
“Question - Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?”
“Answer - We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd edition, 1957.
“Nowhere in the Bible is it stated that worship should be changed from Saturday to Sunday...Now the Church...instituted, by God’s authority, Sunday as the day of worship. This same Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory long before the Bible was made. We have, therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday.” Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About, 1927 edition, p. 136.
“Written by the finger of
