Quotes on the Sabbath

[Dave]

Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God

Revelation 13:3

“All the world wondered after (admired) the beast....�

Daniel 7:25

"He shall think to change times and laws"

Just as the One True God created a holy Sabbath day – on the seventh day of the creation week as a sign of His creatorship – so too the impostor god “created� a “sabbath� day that demonstrates the acceptance of his authority as a god worthy of worship.

The god of the trinity – the god whose origin comes from the Roman Catholic system (the Council of Nicea AD 325) - demands worship on his “sabbath� day – on Sunday, the first day of the week. This “sabbath� doctrine was “created� at the Council of Laodicea in A.D. 364 by a council of men.(The

Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd edition).

Doctrinal Catechism quoted in The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 22

August, 1854, similar article printed in Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 24

February, 1859 Vol 13, page 107, par. 11-14)

Q. Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?

A. Had she not such power, she could 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."

Canon and Tradition, p.263

"The authority of the church could therefore not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed the Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, but by its own authority."

James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917) p. 72, 73.

"Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? 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." -

The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd edition.

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, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred the solemnity fromSaturday to Sunday."75Father Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, History of the Sabbath, p. 802

"The Bible says, Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The Catholic church says, No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep the first day of the week. And lo, the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic church!"

American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883

"The Sunday...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church."

American Sentinel (Catholic) June 1893

"Sunday...It is the law of the Catholic Church alone..."

Catholic Mirror Sept. 23 1983. (Official organ of Cardinal Gibbons)

"The Catholic church," declared Cardinal Gibbons, "by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday to Sunday."

From the Douay Catechism (Roman Catholic) p 143, we read:

Q. What is Sunday, or the Lord's Day in general?

A. It is a day dedicated by the Apostles to the honour of the most holy Trinity, and in memory that Christ our Lord arose from the dead upon Sunday, sent down the holy Ghost on a Sunday, &c. and therefore is called the Lord's Day. It is also called Sunday from the old Roman denomination of Dies Solis, the day of the sun, to which it was sacred

BAPTIST: "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 firstday of the week.... Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week."~Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, author of The Baptist Manual, in a paper read before a New York ministers' conference held 13 November, 1893.

CATHOLIC: "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 ICatholics] never sanctify. "-James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of our Fathers, 16th edition,

1880, p.111.

CHURCH OF CHRIST: "Finally, we have the testimony of Christ on this subject. In Mark 2:27, he says: 'The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.' From this passage it is evident that the Sabbath was made not merely for the Israelites, as Paley and Hengstenberg would have us believe, but for ..... that is, for the race. Hence we conclude that the Sabbath was sanctified from the beginning, and that it was given to Adam, even in Eden, as one of those primeval institutions that God ordained for the happiness of all men. "-Robert Milligan, Schetne of Redempiten, (St. Louis, The Bethany Press, 1962), p.165.

CONGREGATIONALIST: "The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive church called the Sabbath."-Dwight'sTheology, Vol.4, p.401.

EPISCOPAL: "Sunday (Dies Solis, of the Roman calendar, 'day of the sun,'because dedicated to the sun), the first day of the week, was adopted by the early Christians as a day of worship. No regulations for its observance are laid down in the New Testament, nor, indeed, is its observance evenenjoined."~"Sunday," A Religious Encyclopedia, Vol.3, (New York, Funk andWagnalls, 1883) p.2259.77

LUTHERAN: "The observance of the Lord's day [Sunday] is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the church,"-Augsburg Confession of Faith, quoted in Cadzolc Sdbla~ Manual, Part 2, Ch. 1, Sec. 10.

METHODIST: "Take the matter of Sunday. There are indications in the NewTestament 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 totransfer the Jewish Sabbath to that day."-Harris Franklin Fall, Christian

Advocate, July 2,1942.

MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE: "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 ?"-D. L. Moody, Weighed and Wanting, p.47.

PRESBYTERIAN: "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."-T. C. Blake, D.D., Theology Condensed, pp.474,475.

PENTECOSTAL: "'Why do we worship on Sunday? Doesn't the Bible teach usthat Saturday should be the Lord's Day?'...Apparently we will have to seek the

answer from some other source than the New Testament."-D5~~d A. Womack,

"Is Sunday the Lord's Day?" The Pentecostal Evangel, 9 Aug,1959, #2361, p.3.

ENCYCLOPEDIA: "Sunday was a name given by the heathen to the first day of the week, because it was the day on which they worshipped the sun, ... the seventh day was blessed and hallowed by God Himself, and...He requires His creatures to keep it holy to Him. This commandment is of universal and perpetual obligation." -Eudle's Biblical Enc oyclopedia,