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