Sunday or Sabbath?
Some Christian denominations such as the Seventh Day Adventists, Seventh Day Baptists etc. claim that the day of worship for Christians, should be the Sabbath which is Saturday.
However the bible scriptures clearly show, that the day of worship was to change to the Lord's Day on Sunday, as it's the day that Jesus rose from the dead, and that the Sabbath was no longer to be observed:
7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.
Colossians 2:16 [NIV]
16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
Revelations 1:10 [NIV]
10 On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
Bishop Ignatius of Antioch - Letter to the Magnesians 8
"Those who were brought up in the ancient order of things [i.e. Jews] have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord’s day, on which also our life has sprung up again by him and by his death."
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Justin Martyr - First Apology 67
"But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead"
This website shows that Sunday, not the Sabbath, is the true Christian day of worship.
Some Christian denominations such as the Seventh Day Adventists, Seventh Day Baptists etc. claim that the day of worship for Christians, should be the Sabbath which is Saturday.
They claim that during some ''unnamed time'' after the death of the Apostles, the church on it's own accord, changed the day of worship from the Sabbath on Saturday, to Sunday.
However the bible scriptures clearly show, that the day of worship was to change to the Lord's Day on Sunday, as it's the day that Jesus rose from the dead, and that the Sabbath was no longer to be observed:
Acts 20:7 [NIV]
7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.
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Colossians 2:16 [NIV]
16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
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Revelations 1:10 [NIV]
10 On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
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Did Emperor Constantine change it to Sunday?
Some other critics claim that in 325 AD, the Roman Emperor Constantine changed the Christian day of worship from the Sabbath to Sunday. They claim he did this because Constantine was a Sun worshiper at the time, and the Sun worship day was Sunday.
These critics claim that at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD, Constantine changed the bible scriptures, so the bible would state that the day of worship was no longer the Sabbath, but now Sunday - although of course, these people can provide no proof that Constantine actually had the bible scriptures changed.
It is correct though, that in 321 AD, the Roman Emperor Constantine issued a decree making Sunday a day of rest from labor, stating:
All judges and city people and the craftsmen shall rest upon the venerable day of the sun. Country people, however, may freely attend to the cultivation of the fields, because it frequently happens that no other days are better adapted for planting the grain in the furrows or the vines in trenches.
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However this has nothing to do with Christianity. Christianity observed the Lord's Day on Sunday, to be the Christian day of worship, long before Constantine's decree in 321 AD:
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles - Chapter 14
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles - Chapter 14
70 AD
But every Lord’s day ... gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure.
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Bishop Ignatius of Antioch - Letter to the Magnesians 8
110 AD
"Those who were brought up in the ancient order of things [i.e. Jews] have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord’s day, on which also our life has sprung up again by him and by his death."
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Justin Martyr - First Apology 67
155 AD
"But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead"
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As we can see here, these dates are far earlier than 321 AD, the year Emperor Constantine made Sunday, the day of rest. Therefore clearly proving that Sunday has always been the day of worship for Christians, and not the Sabbath on Saturday.
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