The Sabbath Question

The Command

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God."

Exodus 20:8-10

The Fourth Commandment doesn't say "a sabbath." It says "the sabbath," a specific day. It is not the first day but the seventh day.

The Biblical Week

Sunday = First day of the week
Saturday = Seventh day of the week

This hasn't changed. Any dictionary, calendar history, or encyclopedia confirms it. The seven-day week cycle has remained unbroken since creation.

What Jesus Kept

"And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day."

Luke 4:16

Jesus kept the seventh-day Sabbath. It was His "custom," His regular practice. Not once in Scripture did He suggest changing it.

What the Apostles Kept

"And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures."

Acts 17:2

Years after the resurrection, Paul still kept the Sabbath. So did all the apostles. The New Testament records over 80 Sabbath meetings, yet not one command to change to Sunday.

Who Changed It?

The change from Saturday to Sunday was made by the Roman Catholic Church centuries after Christ. They admit it openly:

"The Catholic Church...by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday."

The Catholic Mirror, September 1893

"Sunday is our mark of authority...The church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact."

Catholic Record, September 1, 1923

What the Church Fathers Recorded

Even in the fifth century, a church historian recorded that Saturday worship was still the global norm:

“For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this.”

Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History V.22 (c. 440 AD)

The exception was Rome, not the global church.

The Question

Scripture commands the seventh day. The early Church kept both Saturday and Sunday. The Apostolic Constitutions (c. 380 AD) commanded both days. Only later did the Roman Catholic Church replace Saturday with Sunday.

No verse in all of Scripture authorizes this change. The transfer was made by human authority, not divine command. Every Christian has the right to examine the evidence and decide whose authority governs their worship.