| In over 105 languages Saturday translates to | | | | was kept by Jews and Gentiles alike, until about 120 |
| Sabbath. In Italy it is called Sabbato, in Russia | | | | AD when the persecution of the Jews for Sabbath |
| Subbota, in Portugal Sabbado, in Spain Sabado and in | | | | keeping became so great that many Christians |
| Poland Sobota. All of these names mean "Sabbath" or | | | | decided to start keeping Sunday, so as to distance |
| "rest day" in the various languages. | | | | themselves from the Jews. Some began using the |
| The fourth commandment of the Bible says Exo | | | | excuse that it was in honour of the resurrection, as |
| 20:8-11 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. | | | | there was no biblical basis for the change. |
| Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But | | | | In 321 A.D. Constantine, who was a pagan, became |
| the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy | | | | Caesar in Rome and when he began to see the |
| God..." | | | | balance of power shift from paganism to the Church |
| So if Saturday, or more accurately Sunset Friday to | | | | he passed the first law enforcing Sunday worship in |
| Sunset Saturday, is the true Sabbath of the Lord, | | | | 321 AD. Two years later he joined the Roman |
| then why do people go to church on Sunday? | | | | Catholic Church and began mingling paganism and |
| Who changed the day to Sunday, and when? Did | | | | Christianity. It was well after 400 AD before Sunday |
| Jesus? Do we keep Sunday in honour of his | | | | eventually took on the name of the Lord's Day. |
| resurrection? | | | | In many papers and documents the Roman Catholic |
| It has been established by many historians and | | | | Church openly take credit for moving the sanctity of |
| theologians that the books of Matthew and Luke | | | | the Seventh day Sabbath to Sunday, by their own |
| were written between 60 and 80 AD. Luke does not | | | | authority, which they say is above that of the |
| tell us of a day change, but instead he states in Luke | | | | scriptures. |
| 23:56, "...And they rested on the Sabbath according | | | | "The authority of the church could therefore not be |
| to the commandment." | | | | bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because |
| Jesus also showed that the Sabbath would still be | | | | the Church had changed...the Sabbath into Sunday, |
| kept after the cross when He was talking to the | | | | not by command of Christ, but by its own authority." |
| Disciples about the forthcoming destruction of the | | | | Canon and Tradition, p. 263. |
| temple in about 70 AD. Jesus says in Matthew 24:20, | | | | So it seems that if we keep the Sabbath on the |
| "And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on | | | | seventh day, we are following God's commandment, |
| the Sabbath." | | | | but if we keep Sunday, we are following the |
| Historians also confirm that the seventh day Sabbath | | | | traditions of man. Does that really matter? |