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Originally Posted by grip_daddy
Normal practice dates back to around 150AD. Which dates were these letters written?
The shift from Sabbath to Sunday followed the widespread of Christianity in some cities such as Rome where pagans used to worship their Sun god on Sunday. In order to win these pagans to Christianity, some preachers reasoned that worshiping on Sunday would give an easy avenue to access these pagans. Late 200AD there was a king (I'll confirm his name) who got converted to Christianity and in 321 (or 323)AD he declared Sunday a national holiday. Accordingly Sunday worship became a normal practice.
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1. Christians always worshipped on the first day (Sunday)
2. They state that they stopped keeping the Sabbath to worship on Sunday started with the apostles. None of say they kept the seventh day Sabbath. The only mention of Sabbath keeping was by Eusebius in 300 AD by a cult-sect known as the Ebionites, who Eusebius says also worshipped on the first day. (Ebionites were a cult of Judaizers who enforced circumcision, rejected Apostle Paul’s teachings, denied Jesus' virgin birth and his deity.)
3. They partook of the Lord’s Supper (communion) every first day.
4. They called the first day (Sunday) the Lord’s day.
5. They called the day Jesus rose from the dead, the Lord’s Day.
6. They said the reason they worshipped on the first day, was because it was a weekly memorial of the day Jesus rose from the dead!
7. They outright state that no one prior to Moses (Adam, Noah, Abraham etc) ever kept the Sabbath because it was Moses who first gave the Sabbath law and the ten commandments to man!
8. Augustine actually stated that Christians are bound to keep 9 of the ten Commandments [because the New Testament repeats and re-introduces them in a different form] but are free to break the Sabbath!
9. The earliest Christians never considered Sunday to be a rest day or the Sabbath. You will observe that the first mention of Sunday being a day of rest was in 220AD by Origen. This is the beginning of the current false doctrine, that Sunday is the Christian Sabbath, as taught by most churches today.
10. While Sabbatarians will quote 20th century authors who guess about what happened 1900 years earlier, we quote Christians whose writings are 1900 years old and spoke what they saw!
The record of history, from the Resurrection of Christ, Christians have always worshipped on the first day of the week (Sunday) and never on the Sabbath (7th day). Sunday is not a Christian Sabbath or a day of rest, or a holy day to be kept. It is the day God requires all Christians to gather together to worship and eat the Lord's Supper (communion, break bread) Acts 20:7. Christians do not keep the ten commandment law of Moses. This is not to say that Christians are free to steal, murder and commit adultery, just because the 10 commandments have been abolished. No! Christians are under a new law, a better Law, the law of Christ, (Gal 6:2) a better covenant (Heb 8:6-7).