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Today we use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the
1500s
Today is
May 19th, 2018 - in the 21 Century
May -- Maia's month
Old French Mai
Old English Maius
Latin Maius "of Maia"
Latin Maius mensis "month of Maia"
Maius has always had 31 days.
Maia (meaning "the great one") is the Italic
goddess of spring, the daughter of Faunus, and wife of Vulcan.
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We acknowledge Yehovahs calendar
We are now
in the 3rd month Sivan, סִיוָן third day
סִיו (seev) bright, splendid
May / June
2018
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A short review of the soon coming
Spring Feasts and Holy Days
Remember: We were told to count "Sabbaths"
not omers.
An "omer" is a "sheaf" of barley
עמר omer - A dry measure of 1/10 ephah (about 2 liters)
Lev.23 [15] And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after
the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the
wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
[16] Even unto the
morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto Yehovah.
This Sabbath is the 6th Sabbath of the seven Sabbaths we were told
to count.
Our seven week journey again, spiritually
speaking, we observe in memorial to meet God again on Mt. Sinai,
to receive the Law (10 commandments) and the giving
of the Holy Spirit
From slaves in Egypt (our last lives
of sin) to the people of God
Moving forward: We started our 7 week journey again towards Feast of Weeks
Pentecost - the Feast of Harvest the wheat harvest in Sivan
Feast date: May 27, Sunday - a Sabbath
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The last 5
weeks
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Todays
Topic:
Who
changed the Sabbath?
Roman
Catholic and Protestant Confessions about Sunday
The vast majority of
Christian churches today teach the observance of Sunday, the first day of the
week, as a time for rest and worship. Yet it is generally known and freely
admitted that the early Christians observed the seventh day as the Sabbath. How
did this change come about?
History reveals that
it was decades after the death of the apostles that a politico -religious
system repudiated the Sabbath of Scripture and substituted the observance of
the first day of the week.
The following
quotations, all from Roman Catholic sources, freely acknowledge that there is
no Biblical authority for the observance of Sunday, that it was the Roman Church that changed the Sabbath to the first
day of the week.
In the second portion
of this booklet are quotations from Protestants.
Undoubtedly all of these noted clergymen, scholars, and writers kept
Sunday, but they all frankly admit that there is no Biblical authority for a
first-day sabbath.
Roman Catholic Confessions
James
Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of our Fathers,
88th ed., pp. 89.
"But you may
read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line
authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious
observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify."
Stephen
Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism 3rd ed.,
p. 174.
"Question: Have
you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals
of precept?
"Answer: Had she
not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists
agree with her-she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the
first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a
change for which there is no Scriptural authority."
John Laux, A Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools and
Academies (1 936), vol. 1, P. 51.
"Some
theologians have held that God likewise directly determined the Sunday as the
day of worship in the New Law, that He Himself has
explicitly substituted the Sunday for the Sabbath. But this theory is now
entirely abandoned. It is now commonly held that God simply gave His Church the
power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as Holy Days.
The Church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time
added other days as holy days."
Daniel Ferres, ed., Manual of Christian Doctrine (1916),
p.67.
"Question: How
prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
"Answer. By the very act of
changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of,
and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly,
and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church.'
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore
(1877-1921), in a signed letter.
"Is Saturday the
seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is
Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day
-Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes .
Did Christ change the day'? I answer no!
"Faithfully
yours, J. Card. Gibbons"
The Catholic Mirror, official publication of James Cardinal Gibbons,
Sept. 23, 1893.
"The Catholic Church, . . . by virtue of her divine mission, changed the
day from Saturday to Sunday."
Catholic Virginian Oct. 3, 1947, p. 9, art. "To Tell You the
Truth."
"For example,
nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the
Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God
given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is
the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it
has been revealed to us by the[Roman Catholic] church
outside the Bible."
Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The
Converts Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1957), p. 50.
"Question: Which
is the Sabbath day?
"Answer:
Saturday is the Sabbath day.
"Question: Why
do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
"Answer. We observe Sunday
instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from
Saturday to Sunday."
Martin J.
Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About (1927),p.
136.
"Nowhere in the
Bible is it stated that worship should be changed from Saturday to Sunday ....
Now the Church ... instituted, by God's authority, Sunday as the day of
worship. This same Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of
Purgatory long before the Bible was made. We have, therefore, the same
authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday."
Peter R.
Kraemer, Catholic Church Extension Society (1975),Chicago,
Illinois.
"Regarding the
change from the observance of the Jewish Sabbath to the Christian Sunday, I
wish to draw your attention to the facts:
"1) That
Protestants, who accept the Bible as the only rule of faith and religion,
should by all means go back to the observance of the Sabbath. The fact that
they do not, but on the contrary observe the Sunday,
stultifies them in the eyes of every thinking man.
"2) We Catholics
do not accept the Bible as the only rule of faith. Besides the Bible we have
the living Church, the authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us. We say,
this Church, instituted by Christ to teach and guide man through life, has the
right to change the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament and hence, we accept
her change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We frankly say, yes, the Church made this
change, made this law, as she made many other laws, for instance, the Friday
abstinence, the unmarried priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages, the
regulation of Catholic marriages and a thousand other laws.
"It is always
somewhat laughable, to see the Protestant churches, in
pulpit and legislation, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is
nothing in their Bible."
T. Enright, C.S.S.R., in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas, Feb.
18,1884.
"I have
repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone
that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a
law of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says, 'Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy.' The Catholic Church says: 'No. By my divine power I
abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the
week.' And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to
the command of the holy Catholic Church."
Protestant Confessions
Protestant theologians and preachers
from a wide spectrum of denominations have been quite candid in admitting that
there is no Biblical authority for observing Sunday as a Sabbath.
Anglican/Episcopal
Isaac Williams, Plain Sermons on the Catechism , vol. 1, pp.334, 336.
"And where are we told in the
Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep
the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day ... The reason
why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the
same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it."
Canon Eyton,
The Ten Commandments , pp. 52, 63, 65.
"There is no word, no hint, in the
New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday .... into
the rest of Sunday no divine law enters.... The
observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands exactly on the same footing as the
observance of Sunday."
Bishop
Seymour, Why We Keep Sunday.
We have made the change from the
seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the
one holy Catholic Church."
Baptist
Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, a paper read before a New York ministers'
conference, Nov. 13, 1893, reported in New
York Examiner , Nov.16, 1893.
"There was and is a commandment to
keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will be
said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred
from the seventh to the first day of the week ....
Where can the record of such a
transaction be found? Not in
the New Testament absolutely not.
"To me it seems unaccountable that
Jesus, during three years' intercourse with His disciples, often conversing
with them upon the Sabbath question. . . never alluded to any transference of
the day; also, that during forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing
was intimated.
"Of course, I quite well know that
Sunday did come into use in early Christian history . . . . But what a pity it
comes branded with the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the
sun god, adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a
sacred legacy to Protestantism!"
William Owen Carver, The Lord's Day in Our Day, p. 49.
"There was never any formal or
authoritative change from the Jewish seventh-day Sabbath to the Christian
first-day observance."
Congregationalist
Dr. R. W. Dale, The Ten Commandments (New York: Eaton
&Mains), p. 127-129.
" . . . it is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we
may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath - . . 'Me Sabbath was founded
on a specific Divine command. We can plead no such command for the obligation
to observe Sunday .... There is not a single sentence
in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the
supposed sanctity of Sunday."
Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended
(1823), Ser. 107, vol. 3, p. 258.
". . . the
Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the
primitive Church called the Sabbath."
Disciples of Christ
Alexander Campbell, The Christian Baptist, Feb. 2, 1824,vol. 1. no. 7, p. 164.
"'But,' say some, 'it was changed
from the seventh to the first day.' Where? when? and by whom?
No man can tell. No; it never was
changed, nor could it be, unless creation was to be gone through again: for the
reason assigned must be changed before the observance, or respect to the
reason, can be changed! It is all old wives' fables
to talk of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day. If it
be changed, it was that august personage changed it who
changes times and laws ex officio -
I think his name is Doctor Antichrist.'
First Day Observance, pp. 17, 19.
"The first day of the week is
commonly called the Sabbath. This is a mistake.
The Sabbath of the Bible was the day
just preceding the first day of the week. The first
day of the week is never called the Sabbath anywhere in the entire Scriptures.
It is also an error to talk about the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to
Sunday. There is not in any place in the Bible any intimation of such a
change."
Lutheran
The
Sunday Problem , a study book of the United Lutheran Church
(1923), p. 36.
"We have seen how gradually the
impression of the Jewish sabbath
faded from the mind of the Christian Church, and how completely the newer
thought underlying the observance of the first day took possession of the
church. We have seen that the Christians of the first three centuries never
confused one with the other, but for a time celebrated both."
Augsburg Confession of Faith art. 28; written by
Melanchthon, approved by Martin Luther, 1530; as published in The Book of Concord of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church Henry Jacobs, ed.
(1 91 1), p. 63.
"They [Roman Catholics] refer to
the Sabbath Day, a shaving been changed into the Lord's Day, contrary to the
Decalogue, as it seems. Neither is there any example whereof they make more
than concerning the changing of the Sabbath Day. Great,
say they, is the power of the Church, since it has dispensed with one of the
Ten Commandments!"
Dr. Augustus Neander,
The History of the Christian Religion and
Church Henry John Rose, tr. (1843), p. 186.
"The festival of Sunday, like all
other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the
intentions of the apostles to establish a Divine command in this respect, far
from them, and from the early apostolic Church, to transfer the laws of the
Sabbath to Sunday."
John Theodore Mueller, Sabbath or Sunday , pp. 15, 16.
"But they err in teaching that
Sunday has taken the place of the Old Testament Sabbath and therefore must be
kept as the seventh day had to be kept by the children of Israel .... These
churches err in their teaching, for Scripture has in no way ordained the first
day of the week in place of the Sabbath. There is simply no law in the New
Testament to that effect."
Methodist
Harris Franklin Rall, Christian
Advocate, July 2, 1942, p.26.
"Take the matter of Sunday. There
are indications in the New Testament as to how the church came to keep the
first day of the week as its day of worship, but there is no passage telling
Christians to keep that day, or to transfer the Jewish
Sabbath to that day."
John Wesley, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley,
A.M., John Emory, ed. (New York: Eaton & Mains), Sermon 25,vol. 1, p. 221.
"But, the moral law contained in
the ten commandments, and enforced by the prophets, he
[Christ] did not take away. It was not the design of his coming to revoke any
part of this. This is a law which never can be broken ....
Every part of this law must remain in force upon all mankind, and in all ages;
as not depending either on time or place, or any other circumstances liable to
change, but on the nature of God and the nature of man, and their unchangeable
relation to each other."
Dwight L. Moody
D. L. Moody, Weighed and Wanting (Fleming H. Revell Co.: New York), pp. 47, 48.
The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it
has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment begins with the word
'remember,' showing that the Sabbath already existed when God Wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men
claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit
that the other nine are still binding?"
Presbyterian
T. C. Blake, D.D., Theology
Condensed, pp.474, 475.
The Sabbath is a part of the Decalogue
- the Ten Commandments. This alone forever settles the question as to the
perpetuity of the institution . . . . Until, therefore, it can be shown that
the whole moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand . . . . The
teaching of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath."
CATHOLICISM SPEAKS
"Sunday is a Catholic
institution, and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic
principles . . . From beginning
to end of scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of
weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first." Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia, August, 1900.
"Protestantism, in
discarding the authority of the [Roman Catholic] Church, has no good
reasons for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the
Sabbath."--John Gilmary Shea, in the
"American Catholic Quarterly Review," January
1883.
"It is well to remind
the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the
Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is
an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those
who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church." Priest Brady, in an address, reported in the
Elizabeth, N.J. "News" of March 18, 1903.
"Ques. --Have
you any other way of proving that the [Catholic] Church has power to institute
festivals of precept [to command holy days] ?"
"Ans. --Had she [Catholic] not such power, she could not have done
that in which all modern religionists agree with her: She could not have
substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the
observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no
Scriptural authority." Stephan Keenan, "A
Doctrinal Catechism," p. 176.
"Reason and common sense demand
the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism
and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of
Sunday. Compromise is impossible."--"The
Catholic Mirror," December 23, 1893.
"God simply gave His
[Catholic] Church the power to set aside whatever day or days, she would deem
suitable as Holy Days. The Church chose
Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days,
as holy days."Vincent J. Kelly, "Forbidden
Sunday and Feast-Day Occupations," p. 2.
"Protestants . . . accept Sunday
rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church
made the change . . . But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in
accepting the Bible, in observing the Sunday, they are accepting the authority
of the spokesman for the church, the Pope."--"Our
Sunday Visitor," February 5, 1950.
"We hold upon this
earth the place of God Almighty."--Pope Leo XIII, in an Encyclical Letter,
dated June 20, 1894.
Not the Creator of the Universe, in
Genesis 2:1-3,--but the Catholic Church "can claim the honor of having
granted man a pause to his work every seven days" S.C. Mosna, "Storia
della Domenica," 1969,
pp. 366-367.
"The Pope is not only
the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden
under veil of flesh." "The Catholic National,"July
1895.
"If Protestants would follow the
Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they
are following a law of the Catholic Church."--Albert
Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal,
in a letter dated February 10, 1920.
"We define that the Holy Apostolic
See [the Vatican] and the Roman Pontiff holds the
primacy over the whole world."A Decree of
the Council of Trent, quoted in Philippe Labbe and
Gabriel Cossart, 'The Most Holy Councils," Vol.
13, col. 1167.
"It was the Catholic Church which,
by the authority of Jesus Christ, has transferred this rest [from the Bible
Sabbath] to the Sunday . . . Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants
is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the
[Catholic] Church."Monsignor Louis Segur, "Plain Talk about the Protestantism of
Today," p. 213.
"We observe Sunday instead of
Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to
Sunday."Peter Geiermann,
CSSR, "A Doctrinal Catechism," 1957 edition, p. 50.
"We Catholics, then, have precisely the same authority for keeping Sunday
holy instead of Saturday as we have for every other article of our creed,
namely, the authority of the Church . . .
whereas you who are Protestants have really no authority for it whatever; for
there is no authority for it [Sunday sacredness] in the Bible, and you will not
allow that there can be authority for it anywhere else. Both you and we do, in
fact, follow tradition in this matter; but we follow it, believing it to be a
part of God's word, and the [Catholic] Church to be its
divinely appointed guardian and interpreter; you follow it [the Catholic
Church], denouncing it all the time as a fallible and treacherous guide, which
often 'makes the commandments of God of none effect' quoting Matthew 15:6] ."--The Brotherhood of St. Paul, "The Clifton
Tracts," Vol. 4, tract 4, p. 15.
"The Church[Catholic] changed
the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible
authority given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant claiming
the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no
warrant for observing Sunday. In this matter the Seventh-day Adventist is the
only consistent Protestant.""The Catholic
Universe Bulletin," August 14, 1942, p. 4.
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In closing:
We see clearly by these
confessions that the Catholic
Church changed
the Sabbath to the 1st day of the week and all the Protestants
followed them, thereby deleting
the 4th commandment.
We at One in Messiah
Congregation will continue to keep the Sabbath as prescribed by scripture on
the 7th day of the week. Gen. 2:2, 3
Exod. 20[8] Remember the sabbath
day, to keep it holy.
[9] Six days shalt
thou laasbour, and do all thy
work:
[10] But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Yehovah thy God: in
it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates:
[11] For in six days the Yehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Yehovah
blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Remember, the next Sabbath is the 7th Sabbath, a day before the Feast of Weeks - May 27, Sunday - a Sabbath also
Shabbat Shalom