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Is Sunday the Sabbath?

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Many sincere people believe that the Bible teaches that God changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. Sunday keeping was actually created by the man by the name Constantine. He was the first Roman Emperor to adopt Christianity. He changed the day of worship from God’s holy Sabbath day, Saturday, to Sunday. Constantine became a “Christian” after claiming to see in broad daylight a vision of a cross above the sun. He wanted to unite Christianity and paganism in an effort to strengthen his disintegrating empire. He knew that pagans throughout the empire worshiped the sun on the first day of the week. He developed a plan to unite both groups to be common platform of Sunday keeping. Constantine moved his capital from Rome to Constantinople and prepared the way for the Roman Catholic Popes to reign in Rome. As the Papal Church grew in power, it opposed Sabbath observance in favor of Sunday sacredness and made the day change official in the Council of Laodicea. Constantine's law had now been fully integrated into the Papal Church and the Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday. (Pohlsander 55)
God predicted that this would happen, and it did. This error was passed onto our unsuspecting generation as gospel fact. The justification for Sunday worship cannot be found anywhere in the Bible, and is simply a synthetic tradition. Keeping Sunday breaks God’s law, which commands us to keep the seventh day holy, Saturday. Only God can make a holy day. Saturday is the Sabbath and people are being misled into thinking that the apostles did not worship on Saturday, the Sabbath was changed at Christ’s resurrection, and that 2 Corinthians 3:7 teaches that the law written and engraved in stone “was to be done away.” People should be informed ab...

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... the best decision that people can possibly make. People need and should be informed about this mistaken belief.

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Pohlsander, Hans A. The Emperor Constantine. New York: Routledge, 2004. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 24 Nov. 2013.
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