reply to post by EnochWasRight
Lets see what the official position is in the other Protestant Churches about this issue -
Episcopal Church:
- "Is there any command in the New Testament to change the day of weekly rest from Saturday to Sunday? None." (Manual of Christian Doctrine
p.127)
- "We have made a change from the seventh day to the first day, form Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the one holy Catholic and apostolic
church of Christ." (Why we keep Sunday. p.28.)
Lutheran:
- "The observance of the Lord's Day (Sunday) is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the church."The Augsburg Confession"
in: Catholic Sabbath Manual, part 2, section 10
Presbyterian:
- "A change of the day to be observed from the last day of the week to the first. There is no record, no express command authorizing this change."
(N.L. Rice, 'The Christian Sabbath', p.60)
Methodist:
- "Take the matter of Sunday...there is no passage telling Christians to keep that day, or to transfer the Jewish Sabbath to that day." (H. F. Rall,
'Christian Advocate', July 2, 1942.)
Congregationalist:
- "IT is quite clear that however rigidly or devoutly we spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath...There is not a single sentence 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', pp100,101.)
Anglican:
- "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..." (Rev. Lionel
Beere, 'Church and People', Sept. 1st 1947
Baptist:
- "There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday...There is no scripture evidence of the change of
the Sabbath institution from the seventh day to the first day of the week." (Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, (author of the Baptist Manual) New York Ministries
Conference, Nov. 13, 1893.)
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Man Says:
"Sunday is founded not on Scripture, but on tradition, and is a distinctly Catholic institution." - Catholic Recrod Sept. 17, 1893
"The New Testament makes no explicit mention that the apostles changed the day of worship, but we know it from tradition." - The New Revised
Baltimore Catechism (1949) p.139
note: the tradition is from Paganism
God says
- (Matthew 15:3,6,9) But He answered and said to them, why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?...And you void the
commandment of God by your tradition...But in vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
- "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by
men...And he said to them. 'You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions.'" Mark 7:7,9
What did Jesus practise?
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went in to the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to
read. Luke 4:16
For even hereunto ye called: because Christi also suffered for us, leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps: 1 Peter 2:21
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. 1 John 2:6
For I am the LORD, I change not;...Mal. 3:6
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Psalm 89:4
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever. Heb. 13:8
He that saith, I know him, and keepth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 1 John 2:4
If ye love me, keep my commandments John 14:15