I have done quite a bit of studying on the Sabbath, and I can't find anything that would indicate Biblical authority of a change from the 7th Day Sabbath to the 1st Day Sabbath. Christ has authority over the Sabbath, but nowhere did He change the Sabbath to the 1st Day.<br><br>The Roman Catholic church admits such, and officially states that the change to worshipping on Sunday is only by authority of the church. These quotes are a bit shocking to me.<br><br>From the Catechism of Catholic Doctrine:<br>"Question: Which is the Sabbath day?<br>"Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.<br>"Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?<br>"Answer. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."<br>______________________________<br>Speaking of Roman Catholics, an interesting quote by Martin Scott in his book Things Catholics are asked about .<br>"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."<br>______________________________________<br>Another one by Peter Kraemer, a Romanist.<br>"Regarding the change from the observance of the Jewish Sabbath to the Christian Sunday, I wish to draw your attention to the facts:<br><br>"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.<br><br>"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.<br><br>"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."<br>_______________________________________<br><br>Steve<br>

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