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[color:"blue"]Why Sunday instead of Saturday?

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Okay... because "Saturday" is not inherent to the Fourth Commandment. All it says is that "one day in seven" is to be observed as the Sabbath. No specific day was given. To Israel, however, the Lord commanded them to observe a specific day for a specific purpose. Israel was living in the "types and shadows" of that which was to come and be fulfilled in Christ Jesus and His atonement. Thus, the Fourth Commandment, being of the perpetual Moral Law of God, was not abrogated but continued. But, since Christ had accomplished all that was necessary to establish the new covenant, the old order of the Theocratic Israel passed away and Saturday with it. The N.T. Church then began coming together on the "First Day of the Week", aka: "The Lord's Day", as being the day in which the final earthly purpose of God had been fulfilled in Christ Jesus. So, there it is in a nutshell. The Christian church hardly has kept Sunday only because, "that's the way it has always been". But there is some truth to that nonetheless, for the Apostles and Disciples of the Lord Christ began meeting on Sunday and thus it has been the way it has always been done, but not out of some man-made tradition, but upon biblical precept.

Those "too long and convoluted" articles which you feel are beyond your comprehension do a satisfactory job of exegeting all the relevant Scriptures, and expounding upon them to establish this long-standing practice of meeting on the Lord's Day. Perhaps you would be up to trying an article not so long or complex, as is Dr. Francis N. Lee's book, The Covenantal Sabbath, written by B.B. Warfield? If so, here is the link to that excellent article:

The Foundations of the Sabbath in the Word of God

In His Grace,