Question: Why do we celebrate Sunday as the Sabbath, when it was falsely changed from Saturday by Constantine?
Response:The seventh day of the week, Saturday, was and will always be the Sabbath. Constantine had no authority to change it. Sunday is not the Sabbath.
Constantine, a sun worshiper, is given credit for causing Christians to worship on Sunday instead of Saturday. Not true! Christians met on Sunday from the very beginning. Although the disciples went into the synagogue on the Saturday Sabbath to preach the gospel, it was on the "first day of the week [Sunday], when the disciples came together to break bread [i.e., for communion]" (Acts:20:7And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
See All...). It was also "the first day of the week" that they had the "collection for the saints" (1 Cor:16:1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
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We meet on Sunday for the same reason: it is the day Christ rose as the firstborn from the dead (Col:1:18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
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The Sabbath was the day God rested from creating this temporal universe. We are in a new eternal creation where "all things are become new" (2 Cor:5:17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
See All...). Our rest is Christ (Heb 3,4), not the Sabbath. We have dealt with this question in depth in the past. (See TBC for May '99, Nov '04, May '05.)