[ndigila]

Originally Posted by grip_daddy

Ndigila have a look at the following links and quotes are evidences for Sabbath keeping throughout World's history Eden, et.

1. Sabbath from Creation

2. Some historians

The first link above firsts tries to discredit the early church fathers and then makes the claim that the Sabbath was kept by the Christians.

It was during this interval of obscurity in the history of the early church, that the "falling away" from the apostolic faith commenced (Acts 20:29, 30; 11 Thessalonians 2:1-7). By the middle of the second century the church had altered its course and practices so much that it was hardly recognisable as the church founded by the Messiah and His apostles.

This is definitely an SDA apologist. The problem with this thinking is that you are forced to believe that the church fell into apostasy as soon as the apostles died. First of all, those who claim Sunday worship (such as Ignatius of Antioch) had a good 30 year stint as Bishop of Antioch before his disciple, the Apostle John died. 30 good years, yet we're being told to believe that John didn't even bother to correct him.

There's no question that the early church had problems and some had heretical issues, but if you claim that this whole church fell into apostasy then you really can't trust anything of that church (including the Bible).

The second link above doesn't deal with writings of the early church fathers, instead it references to scholastic arguments that 2nd century Christians worshipped on Sunday.

You also have to take into account the possibility that Josephus and Philo may have been talking about the Jews of the Diaspora.

Originally Posted by grip_daddy;661101
4. Lastly, I find [URL="http://www.biblehistory.com/The%20Origin%20of%20Sunday%20Worship.html"

this link[/url] to provide a non biased approach to the observance of Sunday as was slowly developed by the early church. Also check on this one.

Well Grip, its not a non-biased approach. It also uses the Bible only approach, it compares the 2nd century church to their interpretation of the Bible. For instance, it mentions that there is no scriptural evidence that the Lord's day is Sunday. Also it tries to discredit Constantine's council of Nicaea.