We would like to thank the Catholic and Protestant Churches for their total honesty about the Sabbath Day. We understand that there are many sincere Christians in these denominations. However, a true Christian is a follower of Christ and not of men or traditions...
By their own admission the Roman Catholic Church has changed the Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday.
The Roman Catholic Church when it persecuted and ruled for 1260 years, are the ones who are truly responsible for the day change against God's Holy day. Any reliable Encyclopedia or Historical book, will confirm the truth about how the Roman Catholic Church persecuted and killed millions of Christians during the 'Dark Ages'.
God even informed us that they would also think to change His law, "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Daniel 7:25
The Sabbath commandment in the Ten Commandments is the only commandment which deals with times & is a law, (the seventh day, Saturday & how long-24 hours, sunset Friday to sunset Saturday). The Roman Catholic Church are the only religious organization who have changed God's Ten Commandment Laws!
Evidence of this can be found in its Catechisms, the papacy has omitted the Second Commandment against worshipping of idols, has changed & shortened the Fourth Commandment, about the Sabbath and divided the Tenth Commandment, about Covetousness, into two commandments. (Check this for yourself. Compare the Ten Commandments in any Catholic Catechism with God's list of the commandments in Exodus 20:3-17.) There is no doubt that the little horn power of Daniel chapter 7 is the papacy (PLEASE SEE 'SABBATH IN PROPHECY'). No other organization could possibly fit these points.
Below are just a couple of statements from the Roman Catholic Church, 'in their own words', about who was responsible for the day change against Gods Sabbath day....
Catholic Church:
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 transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."
Rev. Peter Geiermann C.S.S.R., The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50 1946.
"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 reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church."
Father Enright, C.S.S.R., of the Redemptoral College. Kansas City, Mo, as taken from History of the Sabbath, page 802.
As you have just read, by their own admission the Roman Catholic Church take full responsibility for the change of Gods Holy day. There are many other shocking quotes from the Roman Catholics and Protestants Churches at the end...
The two following statements below also give the historical truth as to how the Sabbath got changed from Saturday to Sunday and why. Keep in mind that sun worship is something that God detested. (Deuteronomy 4:15-19, Deuteronomy 17:3-5 & Ezekiel 8:15-16) This is where the Pagan name Sun-day came from! Sun worship!!
In 321 A.D. the Roman Emperor Constantine passed the first Sunday law forcing all men, pagans and Christians, to worship on Sunday. Pagan Rome then changed to Papal Rome which embraced the same idea of Sunday worship
First Sunday Law enacted by Emperor Constantine - in, 321 A.D. "On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country, however, persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable for grain-sowing or for vine-planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost. (Given the 7th day of March, Crispus and Constantine being consuls each of them for the second time [A.D. 321].)"
Source: Codex Justinianus, lib. 3, tit. 12, 3; trans. in Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol.3 (5th ed.; New York: Scribner, 1902), p.380, note 1.
"The Church made a sacred day of Sunday ... largely because it was the weekly festival of the sun; for it was a definite Christian policy to take over the pagan festivals endeared to the people by tradition, and to give them a Christian significance."
Source: Arthur Weigall, The Paganism in Our Christianity, p. 145. Copyright 1928 by G. p. Putnam's Sons, New York.
Below are a few more statements from the Roman Catholic & Protestant Churches which give the remainder of the simple and truthful answer as to why most Churches now keep Sunday as the Sabbath. Most Christians have no idea that this even happened or how. Revelation 13 also tells us that Satan gave his power and authority to the Catholic Church. Why? It was Satan's plan to have this Church change the Sabbath to Sunday. Why did Satan do this? The Sabbath is about who we give our allegiance to. If we obey God and keep His Sabbath day Holy, we give our allegiance to God. If we obey the Commandment of the Catholic Church and keep their day Holy, who do we give our allegiance to then?
Please read the following quotes from these major religious organizations. You can be in no doubt what they think about God's great day!
"The observance of Sunday by the Protestants is homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Roman Catholic] Church."
Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk about the Protestantism of Today, p. 213.
"Sunday is a Catholic institution, and... 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."
Catholic Press, Aug. 25, 1900
"The Sabbath was Saturday, not sunday. The Church altered the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of Sunday. Protestants must be rather puzzled by the keeping of Sunday when God distinctly said, '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 Church."
Canon Cafferata, The Catechism Explained, p. 89.
"Reason and sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible.''
John Cardinal Gibbons, The Catholic Mirror, December 23, 1893.
"The Catholic Church designated 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
"It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their 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, NJ 'News' on March 18, 1903.
"Protestants ... accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship 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 of the spokesman for the Church, the pope."
Our Sunday Visitor, February 5th, 1950.
"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 Christ. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday.''
The Catholic Universe Bulletin, August 14, 1942, p. 4.
"The Church, on the other hand, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath, or seventh day of the week, to the first, made the Third Commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the Lord's Day."
The Catholic Encyclopedia online edition 2007.
"But since Saturday, not Sunday, is specified in the Bible, isn't it curious that non-Catholics who profess to take their religion directly from the Bible and not the Church, observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Yes, of course, it is inconsistent; 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 running away from home but still carrying in his pocket a picture of his mother or a lock of her hair."
The Faith of Millions: The Credentials of the Catholic Religion, by Rev. John O' Brien, Ph.D.
"Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. "The Day of the Lord" (dies Dominica) was chosen, not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church's sense of its own power. The day of resurrection, the day of Pentecost, fifty days later, came on the first day of the week. So this would be the new Sabbath. People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy."
Sentinal Pastor's page, Saint Catherine Catholic Church, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995
"If, however, the [Roman] church has had power to change the Sabbath of the Bible into Sunday and to command Sunday-keeping, why should it not have this power concerning other [Holy] days…? If you omit the latter [Liturgical Holy Days], and turn from the church to the scriptures alone, then you must keep the Sabbath with the Jews, which has been kept from the beginning of the World."
Enchridion p 78-79, Quoted in Odom 246-Dr Eck.
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 transfer 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."
Pastor Lionel Beere, in Church and People, September 1, 1947
"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 we observe many things, not because the Bible, but because the Church, has enjoined them."
Rev. Isaac Williams, Ser. on Catechism, p. 334.
"Not any ecclesiastical writer of the first three centuries attributed the origin of Sunday observance either to Christ or to His apostles."
SIR WILLIAM DOMVILLE, "Examination of the Six Texts," pages 6, 7. (Supplement).
"The Lord's day did not succeed in the place of the Sabbath....The Lord's day was merely an ecclesiastical institution. It was not introduced by virtue of the fourth commandment, because for almost three hundred years together they kept that day which was in that commandment...The primitive Christians did all manner of works upon the Lord's day, even in times of persecution, when they are the strictest observers of all the divine commandments; but in this they knew there was none."
BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR, "Ductor Dubitantium," Part I, Book II, Chap. 2, Rule 6. Sec. 51, 59.
"Take which you will, either 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 the week."
PETER HEYLYN, "History of the Sabbath," page 410.
"The Lord's day (or Sunday to him) did not succeed in the place of the Sabbath, but the Sabbath was wholly abrogated, and the Lord's day was merely an ecclesiastical institution. It was not introduced by virtue of the fourth commandment, because they (early Christians) for almost three hundred years together kept that day which was in that commandment."
Bishop Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium; cited in Source Book For Bible Students, p. 577
No scripture exists for the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday "Neither did he (Jesus), or his disciples, ordain another Sabbath in the place of this, as if they had intended only to shift the day; and to transfer this honour to some other time. Their doctrine and their practise are directly contrary, to so new a fancy. It is true, that in some tract of time, the Church in honour of his resurrection, did set apart that day on the which he rose, to holy exercises: but this upon their own authority, and without warrant from above, that we can hear of; more then the general warrant which God gave his Church, that all things in it be done decently, and in comely order."
Dr. Peter Heylyn of the Church of England, quoted in History of the Sabbath, Pt 2, Ch.2, p7
Methodist:
"But, 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."
John Wesley, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., John Emory, editor (New York: Eaton & Mains), Sermon 25, vol. 1, p. 221.
"The Sabbath was made for man; not for the Hebrews, but for all men."
E. O. Haven, Pillars of Truth, p. 88.
"It is true 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 supposition."
Amos Binney, Theological Compendium, p. 180-81.
"The reason we observe the first day instead of the seventh is based on no positive command. One will search the Scriptures in vain for authority for changing from the seventh day to the first."
Clovis G. Chappell, Ten Rules For Living, p. 61.
"There is no intimation here that the Sabbath was done away, or that its moral use superseded, by the introduction of Christianity. I have shown elsewhere that, 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy,' is a command of perpetual obligation."
Adam Clarke, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, vol. 2, p. 524.
"When Christ was on earth He did nothing to set it [the Sabbath] 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....
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?"
Dwight L. Moody, Weighed and Wanting (Fleming H. Revell Co.: New York), p. 46-48.
Southern Baptist:
"The first four commandments set forth man's obligations directly toward God....The fourth commandment sets forth God's claim on man's time and thought....Not one of the ten words [commandments] is of merely racial significance....The Sabbath was established originally [long before Moses] in no special connection with the Hebrews, but as an institution for all mankind, in commemoration of God's rest after six days of creation. It was designed for all the descendants of Adam."
Adult Quarterly, Southern Baptist Convention series, August 15, 1937
"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 Hudson Taylor, The Sabbath Question, p. 14-17, 41
"Some Christians have erroneously called Sunday the Sabbath, but the Sabbath is, by definition, the seventh day of the week. Furthermore, some Christians suggest that the Bible teaches that Sunday has replaced Saturday and serves as a "Christian Sabbath." But admittedly, this is nowhere clearly taught in the Bible."
Hershael York - Baptist Faith & Message, Baptist Press, Article 8, The Lords Day - 2002
"There is nothing in Scripture that requires us to keep Sunday rather than Saturday as a holy day"
Harold Lindsell, former editor of Christianity Today, November 5, 1976.
Presbyterian:
"The Christian Sabbath (Sunday) is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive church called the Sabbath."
Dwight's Theology, Vol. 14, p. 401.
"A further argument for the perpetuity of the Sabbath we have in Matthew 24:20, Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter neither on the Sabbath day. But the final destruction of Jerusalem was after the Christian dispensation was fully set up (AD 70). Yet it is plainly implied in these words of the Lord that even then Christians were bound to strict observation of the Sabbath."
Works of Jonathon Edwards, (Presby.) Vol. 4, p. 621.
"We must not imagine that the coming of Christ has freed us from the authority of the law; for it is the eternal rule of a devout and holy life, and must therefore 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 277.
"The moral law doth for ever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the 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 doth 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 ever settles the question as to the perpetuity of the institution ... 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," pages 474, 475.
Lutheran:
"But they err in teaching that Sunday has taken the place of the Old Testament Sabbath and therefore must be kept as the seventh day had to be kept by the children 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 Sunday, pp.15, 16
"I wonder exceedingly how it came to be imputed to me that I should reject the law of Ten Commandments...Whosoever abrogates the law must of necessity abrogate sin also."
MARTIN LUTHER, Spiritual Antichrist," pages 71, 72.
"The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance."
AUGUSTUS NEANDER, "History of the Christian Religion and Church," Vol. 1, page 186.
"The Christians in the ancient church very soon distinguished the first day of the 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 another: 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.
"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 more in their mouths than they change of the Sabbath. They will needs have the Church'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 Philip Schaff, the Creeds of Christiandom, 4th Edition, vol 3, p64 [this important statement was made by the Lutherans and written by Melanchthon, only thirteen years after Luther nailed his theses to the door and began the Reformation].
"They [the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lord's day, contrary to the Decalogue, as it appears, neither is there any example more boasted of than the changing of the Sabbath day. Great, say they, is the power and authority of the church, since it dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments."
Augsburg Confession of Faith, Art. 28, par. 9.
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