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Authoritative Comments About The Sabbath
God Says To "Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy ... but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God..." Exodus 20:8-11.
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1. Protestantism Speaks
2. Catholicism Speaks
3. Mormonism Speaks
4. Other Authorities
5. Historical Facts
6. Miscellaneous
7. Seventh-day Adventists Speaks
Note: Though individual pastors may argue the point, we have not found one single Sunday-keeping organization yet, which did not in its official literature plainly admit that there is no Scripture to support Sunday Observance."
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, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week, with all its duties, privileges and sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on this 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 no 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.
Church Of Christ: "Finally, we have a the testimony of Christ on the subject. In Mark 2:27, he says, 'The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.' From this passage it is evident that the Sabbath was made not merely for the Israelites, as Paley and Hengstenberg would have us believe, but for man ... that is, for the race. Hence we conclude that the Sabbath was sanctified from the beginning, and that it was given to Adam, even in Eden, as one of those primeval institutions that God ordained for the happiness of men." --Robert Milligan, Scheme of Redemption, (St. Louis, The Bethany Press), p. 165.
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 been 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 pretend that the first day supplanted the seventh." --Joseph Judson Taylor, The Sabbath Question, pages 14-17, 41.
Baptist: "The Scriptures nowhere call the first day of the week Sabbath ... There is no Scriptural authority for so doing, nor of course, any Scriptural obligation." --The Watchman.
Methodist: "It is true that there is no positive command for infant baptism. Nor is there any for keeping holy 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. Those who believe that Jesus changed the Sabbath base it only on a supposition." --Amos Binney, Theological Compendium, pages 180-181.
Methodist: "Take the matter of Sunday. There are indications in the New Testament as to how the church came to keep the first day of the week as its day of worship, but there is no passage telling Christians to keep that day, or to transfer the Jewish Sabbath to that day." --Harris Franklin Rall, Christian Advocate, July 2, 1942.
My Personal Comment: "Jewish Sabbath" ??? The Bible says, "The Sabbath was made for man" Mark 2:27. In the Ten Commandments, the fourth commandment reads, " ... but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God..." Exodus 20:8-11. God made the seventh-day Sabbath for mankind~! :o)
Lutheran: "The observance of the Lord's day [Sunday] is founded not on any command of God, but on the foundation of the church." --Augsburg Confession of Faith, quoted in Catholic Sabbath Manual, Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 10.
Lutheran Free Church: "For when there could not be produced one solitary place in the Holy Scriptures which testified that either the Lord Himself or the apostles had ordered such as transfer of the Sabbath to Sunday, then it was not easy to answer the question: Who has transferred the Sabbath, and who has had the right to do it." --George Sverdrup, A New Day.
Presbyterian: "Until, therefore, it can be shown that the whole moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand. ... The teaching of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath." --T.C. Blake, D.D., Theology Condensed, pp. 474, 475.
Presbyterian: "There is no word, no hint in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. The observance of Ash Wednesday, or Lent, stands exactly on the same footing as the observance of Sunday. Into the rest of Sunday no Divine Law enters." --Canon Eyton, in Ten Commandments.
Pentecostal: " 'Why do we worship on Sunday? Doesn't the Bible teach us that Saturday should be the Lord's Day?' ... Apparently we will have to seek the answer from some other source than the New Testament." --David A. Womack, "Is Sunday the Lord's Day?" The Pentecostal Evangel, Aug. 9, 1969, No. 2361. p. 3.
Congregationalist: "It is quite clear however rigidly or devoutly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath ... The Sabbath was founded on specific, divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday ... There is not a single line in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday." --Dr. R. W. Dale, The Ten Commandments, pages 106-107.
Congregationalist: "The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive church called the Sabbath." --Dwight's Theology, Vol. 4, p. 401.
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 Testament." --Dr. Layman Abbot, in the Christian Union, June 26, 1990.
Anglican: "And where are we told in the Scriptures 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." --Isaac Williams, Plain Sermons on the Catechism, pages 334, 336.
Disciples of Christ: "There is no direct Scriptural authority for designating the first day 'the Lord's Day.' " --Dr. D. H. Lucas, Christian Oracle, January, 1890.
Disciples of Christ: "The first day of the week is commonly called the Sabbath. This is a mistake. The 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 Scriptures. It is also an error to talk about the change of the Sabbath. There never was a change of the Sabbath from Sunday to Sunday. There is not in any place in the Bible any intimation of such a change." --First-Day Observance, pp. 17, 19.
Protestant Episcopal: "The day is now changed from the seventh to the first day ... but as we meet with no Scriptural direction for the change, we may conclude it was done by the authority of the church." --Explanation of Catechism.
Episcopal: "Sunday (Dies Solis, of the Roman 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. ... No regulations for its observance are laid down in the New Testament, nor indeed, is its observance even enjoined." --"Sunday," A Religious Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, (New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1883) p. 2259.
Moody Bible Institute: "The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This fourth 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 claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding?" --D. L. Moody, Weighed And Wanting, p. 47.
Baptist: "To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three years' discussion with His 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 to the day; also, that during the forty 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 instructing those founded, discuss or approach the subject.
"Of course I quite well know that Sunday did not come into use in early Christian history 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 christened with the name of the sun-god, then adopted and sanctified by the Papal apostasy, 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, November 16, 1893.
2. Catholicism Speaks Top
Catholic: "You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line of authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we [Catholics] never sanctify." --James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers, 16th edition, 1880, p. 111.
"Sunday is a Catholic institution, and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles ... 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." --The Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia, August, 1900.
"I have repeatedly 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 of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' The Catholic Church says: 'No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week.' And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church." --T. Enright, CSSR, in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas, Feb. 18, 1884.
"Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the (Roman Catholic) Church, has no good reasons for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath." --John Gilmary Shea, American Catholic Quarterly Review, January, 1883.
"It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere with the observance of Sunday. 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 address, reported in the Elizabeth, N.J. "News", March 18, 1903.
'"Question: Have you any other way of proving that the (Catholic) Church has power to institute festivals of precept (to command holy days)?'
"Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionist 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, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.' " --Stephan Keenam, A Doctrinal Catechism, page 176.
"We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty." --Pope Leo XIII, in an Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894.
"The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under veil of flesh." --The Catholic National, July, 1895.
"If Protestants would follow the Bible, they 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 Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal, in a letter, February 10, 1920.
"It was the Catholic Church which, by the authority of Jesus Christ, has transferred this rest (from the Bible Sabbath) to the Sunday ... Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) Church." --Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk about the Protestantism of Today, page 213.
"We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." --Peter Geiermann, CSSR, A Doctrinal Catechism, 1957 edition, page 50.
"We Catholics, then, have precisely the same authority for keeping Sunday holy instead of Saturday as we have for every other article of our creed, namely, the authority of the Church ... whereas you who are Protestants have really no authority for it whatever; for there is no authority for it (Sunday sacredness) in the Bible, and you will not allow that there can be authority for it anywhere else. Both you and we do, in fact, follow tradition in this matter; but we follow it, believing it to be part of God's Word, and the (Catholic) Church to be its divinely appointed guardian and interpreter; you follow it (the Catholic Church), denouncing it all the time as a fallible and treacherous guide, which often 'makes the commandments of God of none effect' quoting Matthew 15:6." --The Brotherhood of St. Paul, The Clinton Tracts, Vol. 4, page 15.
"The Church changed the observance of the Sabbath day to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday. In this matter the Seventh-day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant." --The Catholic Universe Bulletin, August 14, 1942, page 4.
3. Mormonism Speaks Top
Mormons ~ The Church of the Latter-day Saints (LDS): "In this, a new dispensation, and verily the last - the dispensation of the fulness of times - the law of the Sabbath has been reaffirmed unto the church.... We believe that a weekly day of rest is no less truly a necessity for the physical well-being of man than for his spiritual growth; but primarily and essentially, we regard the Sabbath as divinely established, and its observance a commandment of Him who was and is and ever shall be, Lord of the Sabbath." James E. Talmage, Articles of Faith, 25th Edition, Art. 13. Chap. 24, pp. 440, 451, 452.
"The acceptance by the Latter-day Saints of what is usually called the 'Christian Sabbath,' or 'Lord's Day,' as the proper day of special service adn worship of the Lord is sometimes challenged. Such acceptance is challenged as being in violation of one of the Ten Commandments - the fourth - which directed ancient Israel to keep holy the Sabbath day - the Seventh day of the week; and which, it is held, was designed to be a perpetual law unto all who accept God as Creator and Law-giver." Brigham H. Roberts, The Lord's Day (13-page pamphlet), p. 3.
"...We desire to point out the evidence we have (1) from the New Testament, and (2) from the practice of the early Christian Church, for observing the first day of the week as the 'Lord's Day.'" Ibid., p. 4.
"Yet ... it must still be confessed that it falls somewhat short of being absolutely conclusive. It cannot be made out clearly and positively that Jesus or the apostles by direct, official action authorized the observance of the first day of the week as a day of public worship, dedicated to the service of God, and designed to take the place of the Jewish Sabbath. The most that can be claimed for the evidence here adduced - and it is the strongest if not all that can be marshalled in support of the proposition - is that is is probable that such a change was instituted." Ibid., pp. 10, 11. Italics his.
4. Other Authorities Top
Encyclopedia: "Sunday was a name given by the heathen to the first day of the week, because it was the day on which they worshiped the sun, ... the seventh day was blessed and hallowed by God Himself, and ... He requires His creatures to keep it holy to Him. This commandment is of universal and perpetual obligation ... The Creator 'blessed the seventh day' -- declared it to be a day above all days, a day on which His favour should assuredly rest, ... So long, then as man exists, and the world around him endures, does the law of the early Sabbath remain. It cannot be set aside, 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 injunction there is no Jewish element, any more than there is in the third commandment, or the sixth." --Eadie's Biblical Cyclopaedia, 1872 ed., p. 561.
5. Historical Facts Top
History: "Eusebius, fourth-century bishop and friend of the wicked Emperor Constantine, whose Sunday law is the first on record, flatly says, 'All things whatsoever that was duty to do on the Sabbath, these we have transferred to the Lord's day (as they had begun to call Sunday).'" Commentary on the Psalms
"Opposition to Judaism introduced the particular festivals of Sunday very early, indeed, into the place of the Sabbath.... The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a divine command in this respect, far from them, and from the early apostolic church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday. Perhaps, at the end of the second century a false application of this kind had begun to take place; for men appear by that time to have considered laboring on Sunday as a sin." Johann Neander, General History of the Christian Religion and Church (Rose's translation), p. 186.
6. Miscellaneous Top
"You 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 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 of the observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments; you believe the other 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 Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered." --The Library of Christian Doctrine, pp. 3, 4.
7. Seventh-day Adventist Speaks Top
Seventh-day Adventist: "According to the Bible, "the seventh day (Saturday) is the Sabbath the Lord." (Exodus 20:10)". It was made for man (Mark 2:27, 28"). It was made for everybody! Everyone agrees that Jesus Christ rose from the grave on the first day, Sunday. Jesus Christ is our example (1 Peter 2:21; 1 John 2:6; John 14") and He rested and worshiped on the seventh day which is Saturday (Luke 4:16"). In the beginning God rested on the seventh day (Sabbath) from His works and blessed, sanctified, and hallowed it (Gen. 2:2:1-3"). The Sabbath was established as a sign between God and His people (Ezekiel 20:12, 20). Jesus, Paul, and the Jews and Gentiles alike kept the Sabbath (Luke 4:16; Acts 13:42-44; Acts 16:3"). The Sabbath was given to the human race 2300 years before the existence of the Jews as a memorial of creation (Mark 2:27, 28"). Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath and calls it His "holy day" (Matt. 12:8; Luke 6:5; Isaiah 58:13, 14"). The Bible says we are going to worship God on the Sabbath on the earth made new (Isaiah 66:22, 23"). God's final message to mankind is a call to worship the Creator (Revelation 14:6, 7"). We worship God as the Creator by keeping His Sabbath on the seventh day of the week according to the commandments of God and by the example of Jesus (Exodus 20:8-11; Luke 4:16"). Do you find it interesting that Jesus before sunset on Friday, finished His work before the Sabbath and rested in the sleep of death during the Sabbath hours, then got up before sunrise and went back to work on the first day of the week--Sunday. Even in death He showed the significance and reverence for the fourth commandment--the seventh day Sabbath. The 4th Commandment is the only command that begins with the word "Remember"" because God knew that His children would soon forget to keep the seventh day (Saturday). For these reasons, this is why we as Seventh-day Adventists (a Christian/Protestant Denomination)" worship on Saturday. You are invited to worship with us every Saturday (Sabbath). Call 1-800-253-3000 "to find the location of a Seventh-day Adventist Church nearest you." --Bible Facts E-mail (write for it... look_2_orion@yahoo.com)
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