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Please take the time to wa tch this video first then come and read the document in its entirety. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2qot1YrFNU The Truth about 7th-Day Sabbath (note* To the reader take a moment to meditate on what is shared on this documen t. This essay will be an eye opener for those that have not been exposed to the truth in the word of God. If you truly wish to follow God this writing will brin g conviction in your heart. Please stand strong for the truth?) Table of Contents A. Problem in Christianity B. Various Scripture on the Sabbath C. Quotes from Various Christian Denominations D. Warning against Unbelief A. Problem in Christianity There is a great problem in Christianity that has been established in error for many centuries. This dilemma stems from the fact that many professed Christians do not even read and uphold the bible doctrines in the ten commandments. Morally every Christian believes in the ten commandments. We know it is wrong to steal, kill,commit adultery and other violent acts of human selfishness. When it comes to practical practice there are several problems in it self. The main problem t o be discussed in this essay is the Sabbath Day. What is Sabbath? Where did the sabbath day originate?Many pastors, priests, prophets, overseers, deacons, etc t ell all the members of their respected churches to keep the ten commandments. Th at is the moral fiber of what all Christianity should be based on. When it comes to the ten commandments most of these (leaders) will agree with the moral basis and intelligent standard that God has written with his own hand. Why is there s uch a division in doctrine when it comes to the Sabbath? Why do many different C hristian persuasions not adhere to the simple statement of the 10 commandments c oncerning the Sabbath? It is well known that Christianity was derived from Judai sm. In fact even Jesus conducted worship service on the sabbath day (Saturday) i n the synagogue or temple. In this essay there are several sources regarding the sabbath from the bible and other historical sources. There is an expressed comm andment that upholds the seventh-day sabbath of the bible. The reader will be ab le to understand what the truth is concerning the sabbath. B. Various Scriptures on the Sabbath 1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seve nth day from all his work which he had made. 3And God blessed the seventh day, a nd sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God c reated and made Gen 2:1-3 (KJV) If we use the bible as a reference of doctrine, (as many Christian societies cla im as the main doctrine) we see that God created the universe and rested from hi s work on the sabbath. All creation was finished and he blessed and sanctified t he sabbath day (7th day of the week). This is the day that was the basis of rest from secular work, to contemplate on God and worship him. The sabbath was creat

ed to guide our hearts to the creative love of God. He created the world and eve ryone in it. We were made in the very image of the Creator. We are able to procr eate in our own image every creature after its kind due to God's blessings and a pproval. In the old testament all the children of Israel gathered for an assembl y or congregation to read the law and learn the ways of God. Thus on the mountai n of Sinai, Moses was given the Decalogue and was directed to give all the comma ndments for ancient Israel and all descendants and future generations to observe . From the 10 Commandments: 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: 10 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: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in the m is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, an d hallowed it. Ex 20:8-11 (KJV) In modern day records, many laws have a mark or "seal of approval" by the high r anking official. The seal of governing authority contains three distinct features: 1.Name of the Official 2.Office or Title of Position 3.Territory of the Official For example, whenever the US Commander and Chief makes an executive order or pas ses a law it will contain his seal of approval. 1.George Washington (Name of Official) 2.President (Title of Position) 3.United States of America (Territory) It is wise to imply that God also has a seal of authority written directly in th e 10 Commandments. It is found in the Sabbath commandment Exodus 20:8-11. In ver se 11, "In six days the Lord (Name of Official) made (Title of Position as the C reator) heavens, and earth, the sea, (Territory) and all that in them is..." Interesting that the very commandment that God tells everyone to remember is the commandment that many theologians choose to forget or fail to discuss thoroughl y with their church members. God has not change the sabbath day(Saturday 7th Day) to Sunday or the "Lord's Da y" as the catholic church describes. It should be concluded that even the Messia h worshiped on this day and he is Lord of the Sabbath. 5And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. Luke 6:5 (KJV) (note*This verse indicates that Jesus is a part of divinity. He shows his place as the Creator that rested from the work of creation. Jesus also stated,"if you

love me, keep my commandments.") Now even God reproved the priests in the old testament concerning his sabbath da y (Ezekiel 20). It is disconcerting that many religious leaders are going agains t the word of God and substituting it for traditions of men. (note* Sunday worship,Lent's,prayers to the dead,prayers to statues, Christmas, Easter, and other traditions are not found in the bible as what our God desires for His people. For example, Christmas existed before Jesus as a pagan day of wo rship. Catholicism has taken the pagan day of Tammuz as the Christian Day of the birthday of Christ, sadly this was transferred and upheld by many protestant de nominations. Christmas and other non-biblical traditions was a tool used to brin g many pagans into the Christian faith. These traditions have no scriptural basi s at all. Read Jeremiah 10 about Christmas). This was already foreseen by God and the bible is the only way to rebuke or corr ect this error by show of truth concerning the word of God vs. the traditions of men. If a person refuses biblical truth, that would just mean that they do not want to serve the Creator fully. Do you agree? If you believe in Christ, Let's a ssume you want to obey God completely! Let's look at other verses showing what G od said to the people that abandoned the sabbath: 15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not br ing them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, whic h is the glory of all lands; 16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked n ot in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their id ols. Ezek 20:15-16 (KJV) (note*The reader can note for the record how the children of Israel not only dis respected the Lord's Sabbath but also followed after idolatry. They were not all owed into the promised land because of disobedience. This is still going on toda y in the Christian faith. We will not be able to reach Heaven our "promised land " if we are disobedient to God. Instead of worshiping the God in heaven, many ha ve trivialized true worship by creating man-made images. Many of the common stat ues of Mary, Peter, John, etc are actually taken from Roman and Greek traditions of Diana, Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite,etc.) God blessed those that keep all of His commandments. It is better to keep all co mmandments and not just one (Psalms 119:142).Do not let anyone deceive you by sa ying a Christian should obey some of the commandments and not all. If a person t ells you not to obey God then they are obeying men and that is a very crude dece ption. As James states: 10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is gui lty of all. James 2:10 (KJV) In the bible, it states that those who love God will keep the commandments and h ave the testimony of Jesus (Rev.14). The devil will try to oppose the sabbath an d all other commandments of God because the law shows God's authority and love f or the people that do His will. 17 And the dragon [Satan]was wroth with the woman[true church], and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev 12:17 (KJV)

The deceiver has planted many religious leaders who deny the truth plainly state d in scripture and seek to corrupt the truth concerning the keeping of God's Hol y Law. Those that keep the commandments of God and have the faith in Christ are the ones who will be saved by faith. As it states in 1 John chapter 3:"6 Whosoev er abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither know n him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 1 John 3:6-7 (KJV) By keeping the law we show our faith in God's grace. If we are forgiven of sin, then the fruit of grace (God's pardon) is obedience. Keeping the commandments a re very simple to do if you allow God to write them in your heart. This means th at you should strive to obtain all the moral ethics of the word of God through f aith. If you have strong faith you will be able to overcome by relying on the bi ble as the only truth. There are blessings for those that keep the Sabbath and t he other commandments of God. To fear the Lord and keep his commandments is a sign of true wisdom. I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. T he wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness. Ecclesia stes 2:13-14 NIV Those that follow God fully will keep his commandments including the Sabbath. As it is written,"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."-Psal ms 119 11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Psalms 119:11 (KJV) 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my ho ly day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and sha lt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor spe aking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD Isaiah 58:13-14 (KJV) If you keep his sabbath and do not go your own way by your own words (traditions of men), then you will have joy in God. He also says: ...and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed the e with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken i t. Isaiah 58:14 (KJV) Isaiah 56 displays many blessings to those that keep the Sabbath. 2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. Isaiah 56:2 (KJV) ...4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons a nd of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off . 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve hi m, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth

the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: Isaiah 56:4-7 (KJV) For those that keep these things to heart these will be the very people that rea ch heaven and are filled with joy. Even the stranger (referring to the future Ge ntiles or non-Hebrew that convert to follow God fully) will be able to reach a d ivine resort of peace called Heaven. Then at the coming of Christ will reap the final harvest of history, and as the church triumphant in heaven celebrate and enjoy the eternal sabbath of holiness and peace. This will be the endless end of history, as it was foreshadowed alrea dy at the beginning of its course in the holy rest of God after the completion o f his work of creation.History of the Christian Church "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: so then the Son of M an is Lord even of the Sabbath." Thus it remains that we as Christians should re st and have a common day of assembly on Bible-Sabbath (Saturday). Many modern-day catholic's and protestants do not know that the basis of Sunday worship has not originated from the bible at all but from the Roman Empire's cha nge in the times and laws (Daniel 7:25). The very definition of anti-christ is to substitute or replace sound Christian d octrine and beliefs to something opposed to or completely different from the wor d of God. A famous theologian named Joe Crews wrote: It seems more than coincidental that Jesus spelled out "traditions of men" as th e false doctrine that would lead to vain worship. The chief tradition which turn ed multitudes from keeping the 10 commandments is the doctrine of Sunday-keeping . Almost any Christian of any persuasion can defend and extol nine of the Ten Co mmandments. It is only the Sabbath which has stirred deep hatred and prejudice a gainst the holy law of God. Who inspired that attitude of contempt for the only part of the bible which God wrote with His own hand? How have so many millions b een led to equate obedience with legalism? The tragedy is that ministers have be en responsible for turning people away from obedience. On many occasions of evan gelistic crusades people have reported angry tirades made by their own pastors a gainst the Sabbath.-Hidden Eyes and Closed Ears, Ch. 5. Sunday:A Tradition of Ma n Those that are not able to give any biblical explanation for Sunday observance a nd frustrated by the insistent questions of their "flock", these pastors turn to emotional outbursts upon the validity of the law God created. Some of these the ologians try to refute the law by stating that no special day of worship is nece ssary and the believer is entirely free from all claims of the law. The fundamen talist group of ministers emphasize the "spirit of the law" while insisting that the letter is not binding. If this is true, then those that commit murder, adul tery,etc would be allowed to make this erroneous claim as well. This allows for the specific seventh day Sabbath to be set aside for Sunday. We saw that Sunday-keeping was instituted by the Catholic Church. Sunday-keeping is a Catholic tradition. Sunday-keeping is a tradition of men.-"Sunday? Its not the Sabbath-Day" Since sin is defined in the bible as "the transgression of the law," and St. Paul affirms that,"Where no law is, there is no transgression," a ny attack on the law serves to weaken man's convictions about sin (1 John 3:4, R omans 4:15)-Joe Crews "Hidden Eyes and Closed Ears", Ch. 5 [-From the Catholic C hurch's own words- 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 transf erred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday. Peter Geiermann, The Converts Catech ism of Catholic Doctrine(1957 ed.), p.50. The observance of Sunday by the protestants is an homage they pay in spite of th emselves to the authority of the [Catholic] Church. Mgr. Louis Segur, Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today, Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1868, page 225.] Thus for all mankind it would be better to have known the truth and follow God, than to blaspheme God by doing what you want instead of following Him fully. If society, as a whole kept the principles of the commandments millions of deaths c ould have been spared. War, stealing, urban and sub-urban murders, domestic viol ence all are from breaking the commandments. The definition of iniquity or sin i s lawlessness. Why does a person murder, steal, commit adultery, etc? Does these things not come from disobedience. By allowing sin to manifest through lustful desires it causes harm to oneself and others. So all commandments are easy and p ractical to keep for the overall benefit of society. Some people out of ignorance will say," No one truly knows what day the seventh day is..." Lets use history, science and the bible to resist this argument. In every culture there is a distinction of how to determine the days in a year. Typically every civil society claims 360-366 days as equivalent to one full year . We know this because it takes approximately 360-366 cycles of day and night fo r the earth to revolve around the sun. How do we determine months? Many will con clude that a month contains 28-31 days. This is based on the lunar cycle. The wo rd month comes from the word "moon". The moon cycle around the earth is about 28 -31 days. Where is it then that every culture in all of human history can determ ine the days of the week? The day is determined by 12 hour or 24 hour intervals that are completely symmetrical, indicating that this supreme order is made and was not by accident. Only from the bible you see how," In the beginning God crea ted,"the heavens, the earth, the sea, the days, months, years, etc". Did God cre ate you? Of course, so we know for sure that the One that can number the hairs o f your head, also knows what day He created and blessed, sanctified and made hol y. Some may still argue,"How do we know which day is the 7th day?"We can simply loo k at a calendar or dictionary. You can also look at the demographics of any soci ety on our planet. Every culture has a word in their own language that equates to Sabbath. For example in English, we call it Saturday. In Spanish Saturday is also known as Sabado. In Creole its called Saba, in Hebrew Shabbat. For every culture there is a word that is equal to the seventh day. The truth of this essay is very plain and precise. It is not intended to cause d issension to any particular denomination of faith. The purpose of this essay is to direct all believers of Jesus Christ to the Sabbath-truth. In order to shed l ight we must look at all doctrine to make sure it coincides with the word of God . If you have light that God has given regarding this truth take the opportunity t

o have open and general discussion on the truth and make a decision to decide fo r God rather than for man. For him that knows truth and does not do it, to him i t is a sin. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. James 1:3 (KJV) "And on the same day Jesus saw a man working at his craft on the Sabbath-day, an d He said unto him, O man, if thou knowest what thou doest, then art thou blessed ; but if thou knowest not, then art thou accursed, and art a transgressor of the Law. "History of the Christian Church Concerning the early church during the time of St. Paul...The status of the Chri stians was no subject of controversy, and hence the decree is silent about them. They were expected to continue in their ancestral traditions and customs as far as they were at all consistent with loyalty to Christ. They needed no instructi on as to their duty, "for," said James, in his address to the Council, "Moses fr om generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every SabbathHistory of the Christian Church The leaders of the early Christian church used the old testament to prove points concerning the messiah, the law of God, salvation by faith and grace,etc. Thus any that claim to be New Testament believers should uphold the old testament als o as the word of God. Let us now consider every verse in the Bible that mentions the first day of the w eek. There are eight of them. Five texts describe the women coming to Jesus tomb e arly on Sunday morning. Notice how many of these verses mention that the Sabbath was ending as Sunday was beginning. Matthew 28:1: In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. Mark 16:1,2: And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother o f James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint hi m. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came to the sep ulcher at the rising of the sun. Luke 24:1: Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they ca me to the sepulcher, bringing the spices they had prepared, and certain others w ith them. Mark 16:9: Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. John 20:1: The first day of the week came Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet d ark, to the sepulcher, and saw the stone taken away from the sepulcher. Many assume that John 20:19 describes a Sunday worship service, but the verse cl early says that the disciples were there because they were afraid of the Jews. Th en the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and st ood in the midst, and said to them, Peace be unto you. Next, Acts 20:7 describes a meeting where Paul preached until midnight. And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached to them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. Remember Gods days start at sunset and end at sunset the next day. The Sabbath, the seventh day, ended at sunset when the first day started. The discip

les met on Saturday night after sunset. The way the world reckons time, Sunday s tarts at Midnight. Paul quit preaching at midnight just as Sunday was beginning. So even as the world reconstructs time Paul was not holding a Sunday morning se rvice. The phrase to break bread refers to eating dinner, as verse eleven suggests . Many claim this was a communion service celebrating the Lords resurrection. Com munion is a memorial, not to His resurrection, but to His death as First Corinth ians 11:26 shows. For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you sho w the Lords death till he comes. The Jews kept their accounting books on the first day of the week. In First Cori nthians 16:1,2 Paul is simply telling believers to set aside an offering for the poor saints in Jerusalem so he can pick it up quickly on his way. Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia , even so you do. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. We have just looked at every verse in the Bible where the phrase first day of the week is mentioned. Notice that in these verses concerning the first day, and in fact the entire Bible, there is no commandment, instruction, injunction, mandate , precept, or even a suggestion that Sunday should be kept holy. There is certai nly no clear command from God, as there was on Mt. Sinai when He gave the fourth commandment concerning the Sabbath day in His own voice. There is no precedent for Sunday observance anywhere in the entire Bible. On the other hand, the Bible describes many Saturday Sabbath observances as we have seen. In trying to justify Sunday-keeping, many frantically search the Bible for a pre cedent for Sunday observance. Suppose they found one. Suppose they found an inst ance of a Sunday religious meeting in the Bible. Would that justify Sunday-keepi ng? Would that justify working on Gods holy Sabbath day, Saturday? What would the y do with the multitude of Saturday religious meetings we have looked at in the Bible? The Bible describes many instances where Gods people have lied and otherwi se committed sins. Does this justify lying, or breaking any of the Ten Commandme nts? Of course not. A Sunday meeting, if it were found, would not justify breaki ng Gods Sabbath commandment either. Granted you can worship God whatever day one wishes. But there is only one commandment on what day to keep holy. The phrase re member the sabbath Deuteronomy 4:2 tells us not to change the Word of God and gives us the reason f or this: You shall not add to the word that I command you, neither shall you take anything from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. Notice the reason given for not changing Gods Word: that you may kee p the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. To claim that the Sab bath is no longer in effect is to change the Word of God. Proverbs 30:6 says, Add not to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar. The truth of this is so simple and obvious that it should require no repetition, but the devious reasoning of those who try to avoid obedience makes it necessar y to press this point a bit further. Have you ever been stopped by a police offi cer for exceeding the speed limit? It is an embarrassing experience, especially if you know you are guilty. But suppose you really were hurrying to meet a valid emergency, and you pour out your convincing explanation to the policeman as he writes your ticket. Slowly he folds the ticket and tears it up. Then he says, "A ll right, I m going to pardon you this time, but..." Now what do you think he me ans by that word "but"? Surely he means, "but I don t want to ever catch you spe eding again." Does this pardon (grace) open the way for you to disobey the law? On the contrary, it adds compelling urgency to your decision not to disobey the law again. Why, then, should any true Christian try to rationalize his way out o f obeying the law of God? "If ye love me,"Jesus said,"keep my commandments." (Jo hn 14:15).-Joe Crews "Does God s Grace Blot out the Law?", Ch. 6

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." (1 John 2:4) St. John could write that with such assurance because it is one of the most deep ly established truths in the Bible. Jesus spoke of those who said,"Lord, Lord," but did not do the will of the Father. Then He described many who would seek ent rance to the kingdom claiming to be workers of miracles in the name of Christ. B ut He would sorrowfully have to say, "I never knew you depart from me, ye that w orketh iniquity (lawlessness or sin)" Matthew 7:23 (Ibid. Ch. 7) Ask yourself this question. If I love God, shouldn t I listen to Him in order to save my life? Do I believe in grace? If I do believe in God s grace, shouldn t I obey his commandments and believe in Jesus in order to obtain grace?Once I rep ent of sins, should I not obey the commandments of God therefore not sinning any more? In order to truly love Jesus we must follow God s commandments this will lead yo u to repentance, patience and making sure we love completely by keeping the law in our hearts and mind. This means all the commandments of God including the sab bath day. The conclusion should be for God and not against Him. I bid thee choose wisely, and may God bless you. Repent and choose God s mercy i t will be better for all man at the end of the age. Knowing Christ, loving Him, and obeying are all inseparable in the life of God s faithful people. "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and his commandments are not grievous."(1 John 5:3) Many will say,"What about my job? All the work that I do on Saturday? For those that do not know the truth, God will show mercy. But since you now kno w the truth you can tell your beliefs to your supervisor. It is currently agains t the US law to discriminate due to religious beliefs. The wise thing to do is m ake arrangements to make God your priority. Teach your children to obey God and not men. Love the Lord with all your heart and His peace shall enter into your g ates. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you"Jesus Christ C. Quotes from Various Christian Denominations Here are many quotes from different denominations in regards to the Sabbath. Thi s will provide no shadow of doubt as to what day we should keep as holy accordin g to the scripture. Excerpts from www.Sabbathtruth.com American Congregationalist: "The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in the New Testa ment." Dr. Layman Abbot, in the Christian Union, June 26, 1890. Anglican: "And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at al

l? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep th e first day... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not becaus e the Bible, but because the Church, has enjoined it." Isaac Williams, Plain Ser mons on the Catechism, pages 334, 336. Baptist: There was and is a command to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will however be readily said, and with some show of triumph, tha t the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week, wit h all its duties, privileges and sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on th is subject, which I have studied for many years, I ask, where can the record of such a transaction be found: Not in the New Testament absolutely not. There is n o scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week. Dr. E. T. Hiscox, author of the Baptist Manual. "To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three years discussion with Hi s disciples, often conversing with them upon the Sabbath question, discussing it in some of its various aspects, freeing it from its false [Jewish traditional] glosses, never alluded to any transference of the day; also, that during the for ty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was intimated. Nor, so far as we know, did the Spirit, which was given to bring to their remembrance all things whatsoever that He had said unto them, deal with this question. Nor yet did the inspired apostles, in preaching the gospel, founding churches, counseling and in structing those founded, discuss or approach the subject. (emphasis added) Of course I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian his tory as a religious day as we learn from the Christian Fathers and other sources . But what a pity that it comes branded with the mark of Paganism, and christene d with the name of the sun-god, then adopted and sanctified by the Papal apostas y, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism." Dr. E. T. Hiscox, report of his sermon at the Baptist Minister s Convention, in New York Examiner, Nov ember 16, 1893 (The leader / spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church agrees with this statement. www.sabbathtruth.com/sabbath_quotes.asp#John Paul) "The Scriptures nowhere call the first day of the week the Sabbath. . .There is no Scriptural authority for so doing, nor of course, any Scriptural obligation." The Watchman. "We believe that the law of God is the eternal and unchangeable rule of His mora l government."-"Baptist Church Manual," Art. 12.

"There is nothing in Scripture that requires us to keep Sunday rather than Satur day as a holy day." Harold Lindsell (editor), Christianity Today, Nov. 5, 1976 Brethren: "With the views of the law and the Sabbath we once held ... and which are still held by perhaps the great majority of the most earnest Christians, we confess th at we could not answer Adventists. What is more, neither before or since have I heard or read what would conclusively answer an Adventist in his Scriptural cont ention that the Seventh day is the Sabbath (Ex. 20:10). It is not one day in se ven as some put it, but the seventh day according to the commandment. " Words of Truth and Grace, p. 281.

"There was never any formal or authoritative change from the Jewish seventh-day Sabbath to the Christian first-day observance." -WILLIAM OWEN CARVER, "The Lord s Day in Our Day," page 49.

Catholic: It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Chris tians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sund ay. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church. Priest Brady, in an addres s, reported in the Elizabeth, NJ News on March 18, 1903. See This Rock "Protestants ... accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worshi p after the Catholic Church made the change... But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that ... in observing Sunday, they are accepting the authority o f the spokesman for the Church, the pope." Our Sunday Visitor, February 5th, 195 0. See This Rock Of course these two old quotations are exactly correct. The Catholic Church desig nated Sunday as the day for corporate worship and gets full credit or blame for the change. This Rock, The Magazine of Catholic Apologetics and Evangelization, p .8, June 1997 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 transf erred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday. -Rev. Peter Geiermann C.SS.R., The C onverts Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50 Q. Must not a sensible Protestant doubt seriously, when he finds that even the B ible is not followed as a rule by his co-religionists? A. Surely, when he sees them baptize infants, abrogate the Jewish Sabbath, and o bserve Sunday a change for which [pg. 7] there is no Scriptural authority; when he finds them neglect to wash one another s feet, which is expressly commanded, and eat blood and things strangled, which are expressly prohibited in Scripture. He must doubt, if he think at all. ... Q. Should not the Protestant doubt when he finds that he himself holds tradition as a guide? A. Yes, if he would but reflect that he has nothing but Catholic Tradition for k eeping the Sunday holy; ... Controversial Catechism by Stephen Keenan, New Editi on, revised by Rev. George Cormack, published in London by Burns & Oates, Limite d - New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benzinger Brothers, 1896, pages 6, 7. "The Church, on the other hand, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish S abbath, or seventh day of the week, to the first, made the Third Commandment ref er to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the Lord s Day. The Council of Trent (Sess. VI, can. xix) condemns those who deny that the Ten Commandments are bindi ng on Christians." The Catholic Encyclopedia, Commandments of God, Volume IV, 19 08 by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition 1999 by Kevin Knight, Nihil Obstat - Remy Lafort, Censor Imprimatur - +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York, pag e 153. The [Roman Catholic] Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her founder, Jesus Ch rist. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no wa rrant for observing Sunday. In this matter the Seventh-day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant. The Catholic Universe Bulletin, August 14, 1942, p. 4.

"All of us believe many things in regard to religion that we do not find in the Bible. 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 command ment 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 reveal ed to us by the Church outside the Bible." The Catholic Virginian, "To Tell You The Truth, Vol. 22, No. 49 (Oct. 3, 1947). "... 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." The Faith of Our Fathers, by James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 88th edition, p age 89. Originally published in 1876, republished and Copyright 1980 by TAN Book s and Publishers, Inc., pages 72-73. Deny the authority of the Church and you have no adequate or reasonable explana tion or justification for the substitution of Sunday for Saturday in the Third Protestant Fourth - Commandment of God... The Church is above the Bible, and th is transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact. Catholic Record , September 1, 1923. "But since Saturday, not Sunday, is specified in the Bible, isn t it curious tha t non-Catholics who profess to take their religion directly from the Bible and n ot the Church, observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Yes, of course, it is inconsi stent; but this change was made about fifteen centuries before Protestantism was born, and by that time the custom was universally observed. They have continued the custom, even though it rests upon the authority of the Catholic Church and not upon an explicit text in the Bible. That observance remains as a reminder of the Mother Church from which the non-Catholic sects broke away - like a boy run ning away from home but still carrying in his pocket a picture of his mother or a lock of her hair." The Faith of Millions "Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, h appened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturd ay to Sunday. "The Day of the Lord" (dies Dominica) was chosen, not from any dir ections noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church s sense of its own power. T he day of resurrection, the day of Pentecost, fifty days later, came on the firs t day of the week. So this would be the new Sabbath. People who think that the S criptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventis ts, and keep Saturday holy." Sentinel, Pastor s page, Saint Catherine Catholic C hurch, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995 If Protestants would follow the Bible, the y would worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church. Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Bal timore, replying for the Cardinal, in a letter dated February 10, 1920. The obser vance of Sunday by the Protestants is homage they pay, in spite of themselves, t o the authority of the [Catholic] Church. Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk about the Protestantism of Today, p. 213. What Important Question Does the Papacy Ask Protestants? Protestants have repeatedly asked the papacy, "How could you dare to change God s law?" But the question posed to Protestants by the Catholic church is even mor e penetrating. Here it is officially: ""You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! but by whom? Who has authority to change an express commandment of Almighty God? When God ha s spoken and said, Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day, who shall dare to say,

Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on the seventh day; but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its stead? This is a most important question, which I know not how you can answer. You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet in so important a matter as the observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you g o against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of tha t day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the ten commandments; you believe that the other nine are still binding; who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with yo ur own principles, if you really follow the Bible and the Bible only, you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth com mandment is expressly altered."" *Library of Christian Doctrine: Why Don t You K eep Holy the Sabbath-Day? (London: Burns and Oates, Ltd.), pp. 3, 4. I have re peatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law o f the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says Remember the Sabbath day to ke ep it holy. The Catholic Church says, No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabb ath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And lo! The enti re civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the Holy Ca tholic Church." Priest Thomas Enright, C.S.S.R., February 18, 1884, Printed in t he American Sentinel, a New York Roman Catholic journal in June 1893, p. 173. "There is but one church on the face of the earth which has the power, or claims power, to make laws binding on the conscience, binding before God, binding unde r penalty of hell-fire. For instance, the institution of Sunday. What right has any other church to keep this day? You answer by virtue of the third commandment (the papacy did away with the 2nd regarding the worship of graven images, and c alled the 4th the 3rd), which says Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day . But Sunday is not the Sabbath. Any schoolboy knows that Sunday is the first d ay of the week. I have repeatedly offered one thousand dollars to anyone who wil l prove by the Bible alone that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep, and no o ne has called for the money. It was the holy Catholic Church that changed the da y of rest from Saturday, the seventh day, to Sunday, the first day of the week." - T. Enright, C.S.S.R., in a lecture delivered in 1893. Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act. And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters. C. F . Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons, in answer to a letter regarding the ch ange of the Sabbath, November 11, 1895. Tradition, not Scripture, is the rock on which the church of Jesus Christ is buil t. Adrien Nampon, Catholic Doctrine as Defined by the Council of Trent, p. 157 "The Pope is of so great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or int erpret even divine law". The pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts a vicegerent of God upon earth" Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, art. Papa, II, Vol. VI, p. 29. "The leader of the Catholic church is defined by the faith as the Vicar of Jesus Christ (and is accepted as such by believers). The Pope is considered the man o n earth who "takes the place" of the Second Person of the omnipotent God of the Trinity." John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, p. 3, 1994 "...pastoral intuition suggested to the Church the christianization of the notio n of Sunday as "the day of the sun", which was the Roman name for the day and wh ich is retained in some modern languages.(29) This was in order to draw the fait hful away from the seduction of cults which worshipped the sun, and to direct th e celebration of the day to Christ, humanity s true "sun"." John Paul II, Dies D omini, 27. The day of Christ-Light, 1998 (Prominent protestant leaders agree wit

h this statement - See above for a statement by Dr. E. T. Hiscox, author of the B aptist Manual) "The Sun was a foremost god with heathen-domThe sun has worshippers at this hour in Persia and other lands. There is, in truth, something royal, kingly about the sun, making it a fit emblem of Jesus, the Sun of Justice. Hence the church in th ese countries would seem to have said, to Keep that old pagan name [Sunday]. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified. And thus the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder, became the Christian Sunday, sacred to Jesus." William Gildea, Doctor of Divinity, The Catholic World, March, 1894, p. 809 "The retention of the old pagan name of Dies Solis, for Sunday is, in a great me asure, owing to the union of pagan and Christian sentiment with which the first day of the week was recommended by Constantine to his subjects - pagan and Chris tian alike - as the venerable day of the sun."" Arthur P. Stanley, History of the Eastern Church, p. 184 "When St. Paul repudiated the works of the law, he was not thinking of the Ten C ommandments, which are as unchangeable as God Himself is, which God could not ch ange and still remain the infinitely holy God."-Our Sunday Visitor, Oct. 7, I951 . "Question: How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holyda ys? Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants a llow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday stri ctly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church." Henry Tuberv ille, An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine (1833 approbation), p.58 (Same sta tement in Manual of Christian Doctrine, ed. by Daniel Ferris [1916 ed.], p.67) " Some theologians have held that God likewise directly determined the Sunday as t he day of worship in the NEW LAW, that he himself has explicitly substituted sun day for the Sabbath. But this theory is entirely abandoned. It is now commonly h eld that God simply gave His church the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as holy days. The church chose sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days as holy days." - Vincent J. Kelly, Forbidden Sunday and Feast-Day Occupations, Washington, DC, Catholic Uni versity of America Press, Studies in Sacred Theology, No. 70.,1943, p. 2. "If we consulted the Bible only, we should still have to keep holy the Sabbath D ay, that is, Saturday, with the Jews, instead of Sunday; ..." -- A Course in Rel igion for Catholic High Schools and Academies, by Rev. John Laux M.A., Benzinger Brothers, 1936 edition, Part 1. "Sunday is a Catholic institution, and... can be defended only on Catholic princ iples.... From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first." Catholic Press, Aug. 25, 1900 "The Sabbath was Saturday, not Sunday. The Church altered the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of Sunday. P rotestants must be rather puzzled by the keeping of Sunday when God distinctly s aid, Keep holy the Sabbath Day. The word Sunday does not come anywhere in the Bible, so, without knowing it they are obeying the authority of the Catholic Chu rch." Canon Cafferata, The Catechism Explained, p. 89. Church of Christ: "But we do not find any direct command from God, or instruction from the risen C hrist, or admonition from the early apostles, that the first day is to be substi tuted for the seventh day Sabbath." "Let us be clear on this point. Though to th e Christian that day, the first day of the week is the most memorable of all d

ays ... there is no command or warrant in the New Testament for observing it as a holy day." "The Roman Church selected the first day of the week in honour of t he resurrection of Christ. ..." Bible Standard, May, 1916, Auckland, New Zealand . "... If the fourth command is binding upon us Gentiles by all means keep it. But let those who demand a strict observance of the Sabbath remember that the seven th day is the ONLY sabbath day commanded, and God never repealed that command. I f you would keep the Sabbath, keep it; but Sunday is not the Sabbath. The argume nt of the Seventh-day Adventists is on one point unassailable. It is the Seven th day not the first day that the command refers to." G. Alridge, Editor, The Bi ble Standard, April, 1916. "There is no direct Scriptural authority for designating the first day the Lord s day."-DR. D. H. LUCAS, Christian Oracle, Jan. 23, 1890.

"The first day of the week is commonly called the Sabbath. This is a mistake. Th e Sabbath of the Bible was the day just preceding the first day of the week. The first day of the week is never called the Sabbath anywhere in the entire Script ures. It is also an error to talk about the change of the Sabbath. There never w as any change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. There is not in any place in the Bible any intimation of such a change."-"First-Day Observance," pages 17, 19. "It has reversed the fourth commandment by doing away with the Sabbath of God s Word, and instituting Sunday as a holiday." DR. N. SUMMERBELL, "History of the C hristian Church," Third Edition, page 4I5. "To command...men...to observe...the Lord s day...is contrary to the gospel." "Memoirs of Alexander Campbell," Vol. 1, page 528. "It is clearly proved that the d s ten words, which, not only the most emphatically regarded EXANDER CAMPBELL, "Debate With pastors of the churches have struck out one of Go in the Old Testament, but in all revelation, are as the synopsis of all religion and morality."-AL Purcell," page 214.

"I do not believe that the Lord s day came in the room of the Jewish Sabbath, or that the Sabbath was changed from the seventh to the first day, for this plain reason, where there is no testimony, there can be no faith. Now there is no test imony in all the oracles of heaven that the Sabbath was changed, or that the Lor d s day came in the room of it."-ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Washington Reporter, Oct. 8 , 1821. Church of England: "Many people think that Sunday is the Sabbath. But neither in the New Testament nor in the early church is there anything to suggest that we have any right to t ransfer the observance of the seventh day of the week to the first. The Sabbath was and is Saturday and not Sunday, and if it were binding on us then we should observe it on that day, and on no other." Rev. Lionel Beere, All-Saints Church, Ponsonby, N.Z. in Church and People, Sept. 1, 1947. "Nowhere in the Bible is it laid down that worship should be done on Sunday. Remember the Sabbath day to kee p it holy. ...! That is Saturday." P. Carrington, Archbishop of Quebec, Oct. 27, 1949; cited in Prophetic Signs, p 12. "The observance of the first instead of t he seventh day rests on the testimony of the church, and the church alone." Hoba rt Church News, July 2, 1894; cited in Prophetic Signs, p 14. "Where are we told in Scripture that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the Seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day. The reason why we keep the first day holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that w e observe many things, not because the Bible, but because the Church, has enjoin

ed them." Rev. Isaac Williams, Ser. on Catechism, p. 334. "The seventh day, the commandment says, is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. No kind of arithmetic, no kind of almanac, can make seven equal one, nor the seventh mean the first, nor S aturday mean Sunday. ... The fact is that we are all Sabbath breakers, every one of us." Rev. Geo. Hodges. "Not any ecclesiastical writer of the first three centuries attributed the origi n of Sunday observance either to Christ or to His apostles."-SIR WILLIAM DOMVILL E, "Examination of the Six Texts," pages 6, 7. (Supplement). "There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. . . . Into t he rest of Sunday no divine law enters, The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent s tands exactly on the same footing as the observance of Sunday." -CANON EYTON, T he Ten Commandments," pages 52, 63, 65. "Is there any command in the New Testame nt to change the day of weekly rest from Saturday to Sunday? None."-"Manual of C hristian Doctrine," page 127. "The Lord s day did not succeed in the place of th e Sabbath....The Lord s day was merely an ecclesiastical institution. It was not introduced by virtue of the fourth commandment, because for almost three hundre d years together they kept that day which was in that commandment...The primitiv e Christians did all manner of works upon the Lord s day, even in times of perse cution, when they are the strictest observers of all the divine commandments; bu t in this they knew there was none."-BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR, "Ductor Dubitantium," Part I, Book II, Chap. 2, Rule 6. Sec. 51, 59. "Sunday being the day on which t he Gentiles solemnly adore that planet and called it Sunday, partly from its inf luence on that day especially, and partly in respect to its divine body (as they conceived it), the Christians thought fit to keep the same day and the same nam e of it, that they might not appear causelessly peevish, and by that means hinde r the conversion of the Gentiles, and bring a greater prejudice than might be ot herwise taken against the gospel."-T. M. MORER, "Dialogues on the Lord s Day," p ages 22, 23. "The Puritan idea was historically unhappy. It made Sunday into the Sabbath day. Even educated people call Sunday the Sabbath. Even clergymen do." "But, unless my reckoning is all wrong, the Sabbath day lasts twenty-four hours from six o cl ock on Friday evening. It gives over, therefore, before we come to Sunday. If yo u suggest to a Sabbatarian that he ought to observe the Sabbath on the proper da y, you arouse no enthusiasm. He at once replies that the day, not the principle, has been changed. But changed by whom? There is no injunction in the whole of t he New Testament to Christians to change the Sabbath into Sunday. - D. MORSEBOY COTT, Daily Herald, London, Feb. 26, 1931. "The Christian church made no formal, but a gradual and almost unconscious transference of the one day to the other." - F.W. FARRAR, D.D., "The Voice From Sinai," page 167. "Take which you will, eit her of the Fathers or the moderns, and we shall find no Lord s day instituted by any apostolical mandate; no Sabbath set on foot by them upon the first day of t he week."-PETER HEYLYN, "History of the Sabbath," page 410. "Merely to denounce the tendency to secularize Sunday is as futile as it is easy. What we want is to find some principle, to which as Christians we can appeal, and on which we can base both our conduct and our advice. We turn to the New Testament, and we look in vain for any authoritative rule. There is no recorded word of Christ, there i s no word of any of the apostles, which tells how we should keep Sunday, or inde ed that we should keep it at all. It is disappointing, for it would make our tas k much easier if we could point to a definite rule, which left us no option but simple obedience or disobedience. . . . There is no rule for Sunday observance, either in Scripture or history."-DR. STEPHEN, Bishop of Newcastle, N.S.W., in an address reported in the Newcastle Morning Herald, May 14, 1924. Congregational: "The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scripture, and was not by the pri mitive [early Christian] church called the Sabbath." Timothy Dwight, Theology, s ermon 107, 1818 ed., Vol. IV, p49 Note: Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) was president

of Yale University from 1795-1817. "It is quite clear that, however rigidly or devoutly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath ... The Sabbath was founded on a specific divine comman d. We can plead no such command for the obligation to observe Sunday ... There i s not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalt y by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday." Dr. Dale, The Ten Commandments, pp. 106, 107. "It must be confessed that there is no law in the New Testament concerning the f irst day." Buck s Theological Dictionary page 403. "There is no command in the B ible requiring us to observe the first day of the week as the Christian Sabbath. "-ORIN FOWLER, A.M., "Mode and Subjects of Baptism." "The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in the New Testa ment."-DR. LYMAN ABBOTT, Christian Union, Jan. 18, 1882. Christian Church: "I do not believe that the Lord s day came in the room of the Jewish Sabbath, or that the Sabbath was changed from the seventh to the first day, for this plain reason, where there is no testimony, there can be no faith. Now there is no test imony in all the oracles of heaven that the Sabbath is changed, or that the Lords Day came in the room of it." Alexander Campbell, in The Reporter, October 8, 19 21 "It has reversed the fourth commandment by doing away with the Sabbath of God s Word, and instituting Sunday as a holiday." - Dr. N. Summerbell, History of the Christian Church, Third Edition, p. 415 "There is no direct scriptural authority for designating the first day the Lord s day." - Dr. D. H. Lucas, Christian Oracle, Jan. 23, 1890.

"The first day of the week is commonly called the Sabbath. This is a mistake. Th e Sabbath of the Bible was the day just preceding the first day of the week. The first day of the week is never called the Sabbath anywhere in the entire Script ures. It is also an error to talk about the change of the Sabbath. There never w as any change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. There is not in any place in the Bible any intimation of such a change." First-Day Observance, pp. 17, 19. Disciples of Christ: "There is no direct Scriptural authority for designating the first day the Lords D ay." Dr D.H. Lucas, Christian Oracle, January, 1890 "If it [the Ten Commandments] yet exist, let us observe it... And if it does not exist, let us abandon a mock observance of another day for it. But, say some, it was changed from the seventh to the first day. Where? when? and by whom? No, it never was changed, nor could it be, unless creation was to be gone throu gh again: for the reason assigned [in Genesis 2:1-3] must be changed before the observance or respect to the reason, can be changed. It is all old wives fables to talk of the change of the sabbath from the seventh to the first day. If it be changed, it was that august personage changed it who changes times and laws ex officio, - I think his name is "Doctor Antichrist. " Alexander Campbell, The Christian Baptist, February 2, 1824, vol 1, no. 7 Episcopalian: "We have made the change from the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to

Sunday, on the authority of the one holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church of Christ. " Bishop Symour, Why We keep Sunday. "The Bible commandment says on the seventh-day thou shalt rest. That is Saturday . Nowhere in the Bible is it laid down that worship should be done on Sunday." P hillip Carrington, quoted in Toronto Daily Star, Oct 26, 1949 [Carrington (1892), Anglican archbishop of Quebec, spoke the above in a message on this subject d elivered to a packed assembly of clergymen. It was widely reported at the time i n the news media]. Lutheran: "The observance of the Lord s Day (Sunday) is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the Church." Augsburg Confession of Faith. "They [the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lord s day, co ntrary to the Decalogue, as it appears, neither is there any example more boaste d of than the changing of the Sabbath day. Great, say they, is the power and aut hority of the church, since it dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments." -Aug sburg Confession of Faith, Art. 28, par. 9. "They [Roman Catholics] allege the change of the Sabbath into the Lord s day, as it seemeth, to the Decalogue [the ten commandments]; and they have no example m ore in their mouths than they change of the Sabbath. They will needs have the Ch urch s power to be very great, because it hath dispensed with the precept of the Decalogue." The Augsburg Confession, 1530 A.D. (Lutheran), part 2, art 7, in Ph ilip Schaff, the Creeds of Christendom, 4th Edition, vol 3, p64 [this important statement was made by the Lutherans and written by Melanchthon, only thirteen ye ars after Luther nailed his theses to the door and began the Reformation]. "For up to this day mankind has absolutely trifled with the original and most sp ecial revelation of the Holy God, the ten words written upon the tables of the L aw from Sinai."-"Crown Theological Library," page I78. "The Christians in the ancient church very soon distinguished the first day of t he week, Sunday; however, not as a Sabbath, but as an assembly day of the church , to study the Word of God together, and to celebrate the ordinances one with an other: without a shadow of doubt, this took place as early as the first part of the second century."-Bishop GRIMELUND, "History of the Sabbath," page 60. "The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordin ance."- AUGUSTUS NEANDER, "History of the Christian Religion and Church," Vol. 1 , page 186. "I wonder exceedingly how it came to be imputed to me that I should reject the l aw of Ten Commandments...Whosoever abrogates the law must of necessity abrogate sin also."-MARTIN LUTHER, Spiritual Antichrist," pages 71, 72. "We have seen how gradually the impression of the Jewish Sabbath faded from the mind of the Christian church, and how completely the newer thought underlying th e observance of the first day took possession of the church. We have seen that t he Christian of the first three centuries never confused one with the other, but for a time celebrated both." The Sunday Problem, a study book by the Lutheran C hurch (1923) p.36 "But they err in teaching that Sunday has taken the place of the Old Testament S abbath and therefore must be kept as the seventh day had to be kept by the child ren of Israel .... These churches err in their teaching, for scripture has in no way ordained the first day of the week in place of the Sabbath. There is simply no law in the New Testament to that effect" John Theodore Mueller, Sabbath or S

unday, pp.15, 16 Lutheran Free Church: For when there could not be produced one solitary place in the Holy Scriptures wh ich testified that either the Lord Himself or the apostles had ordered such a tr ansfer of the Sabbath to Sunday, then it was not easy to answer the question: Wh o has transferred the Sabbath, and who has the right to do it? George Sverdrup, A New Day. Methodist: "This handwriting of ordinances our Lord did blot out, take away, and nail to His cross. (Colossians 2: 14.) But the moral law contained in the Ten Commandmen ts, and enforced by the prophets, He did not take away.... The moral law stands on an entirely different foundation from the ceremonial or ritual law. ...Every part of this law must remain in force upon all mankind and in all ages."-JOHN WE SLEY, "Sermons on Several Occasions," 2-Vol. Edition, Vol. I, pages 221, 222. "No Christian whatsoever is free from the obedience of the commandments which ar e called moral."-"Methodist Church Discipline," (I904), page 23. "The Sabbath was made for MAN; not for the Hebrews, but for all men."-E.O. HAVEN , "Pillars of Truth," page 88. "The reason we observe the first day instead of the seventh is based on no posit ive command. One will search the Scriptures in vain for authority for changing f rom the seventh day to the first. The early Christians began to worship on the f irst day of the week because Jesus rose from the dead on that day. By and by, th is day of worship was made also a day of rest, a legal holiday. This took place in the year 321.(*Note: This was done by the emperor Constantine in 321 A.D and not by Jesus Christ) "The reason we observe the first day instead of the seventh is based on no posit ive command. One will search the Scriptures in vain for authority for changing f rom the seventh day to the first... Our Christian Sabbath, therefore, is not a m atter of positive command. It is a gift of the church... "-CLOVIS G. CHAPPELL, " Ten Rules for Living," page 61. "Sabbath in the Hebrew language signifies rest, and is the seventh day of the we ek... and it must be confessed that there is no law in the New Testament concern ing the first day." Charles Buck, A Theological Dictionary, "Sabbath" "In the days of very long ago the people of the world began to give names to eve rything, and they turned the sounds of the lips into words, so that the lips cou ld speak a thought. In those days the people worshiped the sun because many word s were made to tell of many thoughts about many things. The people became Christ ians and were ruled by an emperor whose name was Constantine. This emperor made Sunday the Christian Sabbath, because of the blessing of light and heat which ca me from the sun. So our Sunday is a sun-day, isn t it?"-Sunday School Advocate, Dec. 31, 1921. "The moral law contained in the Ten Commandments, and enforced by the prophets, He [Christ] did not take away. It was not the design of His coming to revoke any part of this. This is a law which never can be broken... Every part of this law must remain in force upon all mankind and in all ages; as not depending either on time or place, or any other circumstances liable to change, but on the nature of God and the nature of man, and their unchangeable relation to each other."-JO

HN WESLEY, "Sermons on Several Occasions," Vol. I, Sermon XXV. It is true that there is no positive command for infant baptism. Nor is there any for the keeping of the first day of the week. Many believe that Christ changed the Sabbath. But, from His own words, we see that He came for no such purpose. T hose who believe that Jesus changed the Sabbath base it only on a supposition. Am os Binney, Theological Compendium, p. 180-181 "The Sabbath instituted in the beginning, and confirmed again and again by Moses and the prophets, has never been abrogated. A part of the moral law, not a jot or a tittle of its sanctity has been taken away." New York Herald 1874, on the M ethodist Episcopal Bishops Pastoral 1874 Moody Bible Institute: "The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This four th commandment begins with the word remember, showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men cla im that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that t he other nine are still binding?"- D.L. MOODY, "Weighed and Wanting," page 47. "I honestly believe that this commandment [the fourth, or Sabbath commandment] i s just as binding today as it ever was. I have talked with men who have said tha t it has been abrogated, but they have never been able to point to any place in the Bible where God repealed it. When Christ was on earth, He did nothing to set it aside; He freed it from the traces under which the scribes and Pharisees had put it, and gave it its true place. The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. It is just as practicable and as necessary for men today as it ever was-in fact, more than ever, because we live in such an intense age. - Id ., page 46. "This Fourth is not a commandment for one place, or one time, but for all places and times." D.L. Moody, at San Francisco, Jan. 1st, 1881. Presbyterian: "The Christian Sabbath (Sunday) is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the pri mitive church called the Sabbath." Dwight s Theology, Vol. 14, p. 401. "A furthe r argument for the perpetuity of the Sabbath we have in Matthew 24:20, Pray ye t hat your flight be not in the winter neither on the Sabbath day. But the final d estruction of Jerusalem was after the Christian dispensation was fully set up (A D 70). Yet it is plainly implied in these words of the Lord that even then Chris tians were bound to strict observation of the Sabbath." Works of Jonathon Edward s, (Presby.) Vol. 4, p. 621. "We must not imagine that the coming of Christ has freed us from the authority o f the law; for it is the eternal rule of a devout and holy life, and must theref ore be as unchangeable as the justice of God, which it embraced, is constant and uniform." JOHN CALVIN, "Commentary on a Harmony of the Gospels," Vol. 1, page 2 77. "God instituted the Sabbath at the creation of man, setting apart the seventh da y for the purpose, and imposed its observance as a universal and perpetual moral obligation upon the race." American Presbyterian Board of Publication, Tract No. 175. "The observance of the seventh-day Sabbath did not cease till it was abolished a fter the [Roman] empire became Christian," American Presbyterian Board of Public ation, Tract No. 118.

"The moral law doth for ever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to t he obedience thereof; and that not only in regard to the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator who gave it. Neither do th Christ in the gospel in any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation ." "Westminster Confession of Faith," Chap. 19, Art. 5. "The Sabbath is a part of the Decalogue-the Ten Commandments. This alone for eve r settles the question as to the perpetuity of the institution ... Until, theref ore, it can be shown that the whole moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath wil l stand...The teaching of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath."- T.C. BLAKE, D.D., "Theology Condensed," pages 474, 475. "Sunday being the first day of which the Gentiles solemnly adored that planet an d called it Sunday, partly from its influence on that day especially, and partly in respect to its divine body (as they conceived it) the Christians thought fit to keep the same day and the same name of it, that they might not appear carele ssly peevish, and by that means hinder the conversion of the Gentiles, and bring a greater prejudice that might be otherwise taken against the gospel" T.M. More r, Dialogues on the Lord s Day "There is no word, no hint in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Su nday. The observance of Ash Wednesday, or Lent, stands exactly on the same footi ng as the observance of Sunday. Into the rest of Sunday no Divine Law enters." C anon Eyton, in The Ten Commandments. "Some have tried to build the observance of Sunday upon Apostolic command, where as the Apostles gave no command on the matter at all.... The truth is, so soon a s we appeal to the litera scripta [literal writing] of the Bible, the Sabbataria ns have the best of the argument." The Christian at Work, April 19, 1883, and Ja n. 1884 Protestant Episcopal: The day is now changed from the seventh to the first day... but as we meet with n o Scriptural direction for the change, we may conclude it was done by the author ity of the church. Explanation of Catechism Southern Baptist: The sacred name of the Seventh day is Sabbath. This fact is too clear to require argument [Exodus 20:10 quoted] on this point the plain teaching of the Word has b een admitted in all ages Not once did the disciples apply the Sabbath law to the first day of the week, -- that folly was left for a later age, nor did they pret end that the first day supplanted the seventh. Joseph Hudson Taylor, The Sabbatic Question, p. 14-17, 41. "The first four commandments set forth man s obligations directly toward God.... But when we keep the first four commandments, we are likely to keep the other s ix. . . . The fourth commandment sets forth God s claim on man s time and though t.... The six days of labour and the rest on the Sabbath are to be maintained as a witness to God s toil and rest in the creation. . . . No one of the ten words is of merely racial significance.... The Sabbath was established originally (lo ng before Moses) in no special connection with the Hebrews, but as an institutio n for all mankind, in commemoration of God s rest after the six days of creation . It was designed for all the descendants of Adam."-Adult Quarterly, Southern Ba ptist Convention series, Aug. 15, 1937. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:

"Sunday was a name given by the heathens to the first day of the week, because i t was the day on which they worshiped the sun, ...the seventh day was blessed an d hallowed by God Himself, and ...He requires His creatures to keep it holy to H im. This commandment is of universal and perpetual obligation...The Creator ble ssed the seventh day -declared it to be a day above all days, a day- on which Hi s favour should assuredly rest. ...So long, then, as man exists, and the world a round him endures, does the law of the early Sabbath remain. It cannot be set a side so long as its foundations last.... It is not the Jewish Sabbath, properly so-called, which is ordained in the fourth commandment. In the whole of that inj unction there is no Jewish element, any more than there is in the third commandm ent, or the sixth." Eadie s Biblical Cyclopedia, 1872 Edition, page 561. "Thus w e learn from Socrates (H.E., vi.c.8) that in his time public worship was held in the churches of Constantinople on both days.... The view that the Christian s L ord s day or Sunday is but the Christian Sabbath deliberately transferred from t he seventh to the first day of the week does not indeed find categorical express ion till a much later period.... The earliest recognition of the observance of S unday as a legal duty is a constitution of Constantine in A.D. 321, enacting tha t all courts of justice, inhabitants of towns, and workshops were to be at rest on Sunday (venerabili die Solis), with an exception in favour of those engaged i n agricultural labour...The Council of Laodicea (363) ... forbids Christians fro m judaizing and resting on the Sabbath day, preferring the Lord s day, and so fa r as possible resting as Christians."-Encyclopedia Britannica, 1899 Edition, Vol . XXIII, page 654. "Unquestionably the first law, either ecclesiastical or civil , by which the sabbatical observance of Sunday is known to have been ordained is the sabbatical edict of Constantine, A.D. 32I." Chambers Encyclopedia, Article "Sunday." "It must be confessed that there is no law in the New Testament concer ning the first day."-M CLINTOCK AND STRONG, Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Vol. IX, page 196. "Sunday (Dies Solis, of the R oman calendar, day of the sun, because dedicated to the sun), the first day of the week, was adopted by the early Christians as a day of worship. The sun of Latin adoration they interpreted as the Sun of Righteousness. . . . No regula tions for its observance are laid down in the New Testament, nor, indeed, is its observance even enjoined."-SCHAFF HERZOG, Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1891 Edition, Vol. IV, Art. "Sunday." "Sabbath in the Hebrew language signifies rest, and is the seventh day of the we ek... and it must be confessed that there is no law in the New Testament concern ing the first day." CHARLES BUCK, "A Theological Dictionary," "As the Sabbath is of divine institution, so it is to be kept holy unto the Lord . Numerous have been the days appointed by men for religious services; but these are not binding, because of human institution. Not so the Sabbath. Hence the fo urth commandment is ushered in with a peculiar emphasis- Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The abolition of it would be unreasonable."- CHARLES BUCK, "A Theological Dictionary," 1830 Edition, page 537. "But although it [Sunday] w as in the primitive times indifferently called the Lord s day, or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, o r the seventh day, both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers."-Id., page 572. "T he notion of a formal substitution by apostolic authority of the Lord s day [mea ning Sunday] for the Jewish Sabbath [or the first for the seventh day]...and the transference to it, perhaps in a spiritualized form, of the sabbatical obligati on established by the promulgation of the fourth commandment, has no basis whate ver, either in Holy Scripture or in Christian antiquity." - SIR WILLIAM SMITH AN D SAMUEL CHEETHAM, "A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities," Vol. 11, page 182, A rticle "Sabbath." "This long series of temporal enactments (in considering which we have, for the sake of exhibiting them as a whole, anticipated chronological order) must have t old very powerfully upon the conception of the Lord s day in the church itself,

not only tending to formalize its celebration, but to invest it in great degree with the character of a sabbath. Still, however, there was no connexion of its o bservance with the obligation of the fourth commandment, and therefore no applic ation to it either of the laws of the Jewish sabbath, or of our Lord s teaching on the subject, as modifying and spiritualizing these laws." -Id., page 1047 Infidel: Probably very few Christians are aware of the fact that what they call the Chr istian Sabbath (Sunday) is of pagan origin. "The first observance of Sunday- th at history records is in the fourth century , when Constantine issued an edict ( not requiring its religious observance, but simply abstinence from work) reading , let all the judges and people of the town rest and all the various trades be suspended on the venerable day of the sun. At the time of the issue of this edi ct, Constantine was a sun-worshiper; therefore it could have had no relation wha tever to Christianity." - HENRY M. TABER. "Faith or Fact" (preface by Robert G. I ngersoll), page 112. "I challenge any priest or minister of the Christian religi on to show me the slightest authority for the religious observance of Sunday. An d, if such cannot be shown by them, why is it that they are constantly preaching about Sunday as a holy day? ...The claim that Sunday takes the place of Saturda y, and that because the Jews were supposed to be commanded to keep the seventh d ay of the week holy, therefore the first day of the week should be so kept by Ch ristians, is so utterly absurd as to be hardly worth considering....That Paul ha bitually observed and preached on the seventh day of the week, is shown in Acts 18:4- And be reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath (Saturday)."-Id., pages ,1 14, 116. Miscellaneous: "You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian S abbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! But by whom? Who has authority to ch ange an express commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said, Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day, who shall dare to say, Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of business on the seventh day; but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its stead ? This is a most important question, which I know not how you can answer." "You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet in so important a matter as the observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put anot her day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded. The command to k eep holy the seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments; you believe that the ot her nine are still binding; who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your own principles, if you really follow the Bible and the Bible only, you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testame nt in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered."-"The Library of Chris tian Doctrine," pages 3, 4. "The first precept in the Bible is that of sanctifyi ng the seventh day: God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. Genesis 2: 3. This precept was confirmed by God in the Ten Commandments: Remember the Sabb ath day to keep It holy. ...The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. Exodus 20: 8, 10. On the other hand, Christ declares that He is not come to des troy the law, but to fulfill it. (Matthew 5: 17.) He Himself observed the Sabbat h: And, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. Luke 4: r6. His disciples likewise observed it after His death: They . . . rested t he Sabbath day, according to the commandment. Luke 23: 56. Yet with all this we ight of Scripture authority for keeping the Sabbath or seventh day holy, Protest ants of all denominations make this a profane day and transfer the obligation of it to the first day of the week, or the Sunday. Now what authority have they fo r doing this? None at all but the unwritten word, or tradition of the Catholic C hurch, which declares that the apostle made the change in honour of Christ s res urrection, and the descent of the Holy Ghost on that day of the week."-JOHN MILN ER, "The End of Religious Controversy," page 71. "Sabbath means, of course, Satu

rday, the seventh day of the week, but the early Christians changed the observan ce to Sunday, to honour the day on which Christ arose from the dead."-FULTON OUR SLER. Cosmopolitan, Sept. 1951, pages 34, 35. "I do not pretend to be even an am ateur scholar of the Scriptures. I read the Decalogue merely as an average man s earching for guidance, and in the immortal Ten Words I find a blueprint for th e good life."-Id., page 33. "Most certainly the Commandments are needed today, p erhaps more than ever before. Their divine message confronts us with a profound moral challenge in an epidemic of evil; a unifying message acceptable alike to J ew, Muslim, and Christian. Who, reading the Ten in the light of history and of c urrent events, can doubt their identity with the eternal law of nature?"-Id., pa ge 124. "The Sabbath is commanded to be kept on the seventh day. It could not be kept on any other day. To observe the first day of the week or the fourth is no t to observe the Sabbath. . . . It was the last day of the week, after six days of work, that was to be kept holy. The observance of no other day would fulfill the law."-H. J. FLOWERS, B.A., B.D., "The Permanent Value of the Ten Commandment s," page 13. "The evaluation of Sunday, the traditionally accepted day of the re surrection of Christ, has varied greatly throughout the centuries of the Christi an Era. From time to time it has been confused with the seventh day of the week, the Sabbath. English speaking peoples have been the most consistent in perpetuat ing the erroneous assumption that the obligation of the fourth commandment has p assed over to Sunday. In popular speech, Sunday is frequently, but erroneously, spoken of as the Sabbath."-F. M. SETZLER, Head Curator, Department of Anthropolo gy, Smithsonian Institute, from a letter dated Sept. 1, 1949. "He that observes the Sabbath aright holds the history of that which it celebrates to be authentic , and therefore believes in the creation of the first man; in the creation of a fair abode for man in the space of six days; in the primeval and absolute creati on of the heavens and the earth, and, as a necessary antecedent to all this, in the Creator, who at the close of His latest creative effort, rested on the seven th day. The Sabbath thus becomes a sign by which the believers in a historical r evelation are distinguished from those who have allowed these great facts to fad e from their remembrance. - JAMES G. MURPHY, "Commentary on the Book of Exodus, " comments on Exodus 20: 8-11. With the countless historical sources and scriptural evidence can their be room for disobedience. D. Warning Against Unbelief This is found in Hebrews Chapter 3-4. It is very fitting to place on this docume nt for all readers. Hebrews 3:7-19 and Chapter 4:1-13 (NIV) Chapter 3:7-19 So as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hear ts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, Their hearts are always going astr ay, and they have not known my ways. So I declared on oath in my anger, They sha ll never enter my rest See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is cal led Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin s deceitfulness. We have c ome to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at f irst. As has just been said: Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellio n.

Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of E gypt? And with whom was he (God) angry for forty years? Was it not with those wh o sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? And to whom did God swear that they w ould never enter his rest if not to those who disobey? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. Sabbath Rest for the People of God Hebrews Ch 4:1-13 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let l that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also el preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith. Now believed enter that rest, just as God has said: So I declare on oath in my anger, They shall never enter my rest. And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world. For somewher e he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: And on the seventh day God rested from all his work. And again in the passage above he says, They shall never enter my rest. It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who fo rmerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedie nce. Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time l ater he spoke through David, as was said before: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart. For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. Let us , therefore, make every effort to enter that rest so that no one will fall by fo llowing their (Israel s) example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God s sight. Everything is uncover ed and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandmen ts: for this is the whole duty of man. (Ecclesiastes 12:13). us be carefu had the gosp of no value we who have