when does the day begin?
... produce biblical support for the then-established custom and tradition that had for more than a millennium become mainstream Judaism, he resorted to arguments from logic, as we see in his commentary on Exodus 16:25: Many non-believers misinterpreted this verse and said that one must observe the Sabb ...
... produce biblical support for the then-established custom and tradition that had for more than a millennium become mainstream Judaism, he resorted to arguments from logic, as we see in his commentary on Exodus 16:25: Many non-believers misinterpreted this verse and said that one must observe the Sabb ...
Sabbath in Christianity
Sabbath in Christianity is the inclusion or adoption in Christianity of a Sabbath day. Established within Judaism through Mosaic Law, Christians inherited a Sabbath practice that reflected two great precepts: the commandment to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy (Exodus 20:8, the ""Sabbath commandment""), and God's blessing of the seventh day (Saturday) as a day of rest (Genesis 2:2-3). The first of these provisions was associated in Judaism with the assembly of the people to worship in the temple or synagogues.The teachings of Paul the Apostle declared how Christians had been freed from the letter of the Mosaic law (Rom. 7:6) by Christ's divine authority (Mark 2:27-28), through his fulfillment of the law (Mt. 5:17-18) in his resurrection. Not a liberty to disobey the law (Rom. 6:15), the faithful partook of Christ's fulfillment of the law in righteous obedience to him (Rom. 6:16) who with authority interpreted the commandments (Mt. 5:21-37, Mt. 22:36-40) and other laws (Mt. 5:38-48). The law of the Spirit (law of liberty) took precedence over the letter of Mosaic law (Rom. 8:2, Gal. 6:2). This early understanding of the Church (Acts 15:6-35), shared still by the vast majority of Christians today, shaped its growing understanding of the Sabbath and how it applied to the new faith.The position held by most Western Christian denominations is that observance of the Lord's Day, Sunday, supplanted the Jewish Sabbath, Saturday, in that the former ""celebrated the Christian community's deliverance from captivity to sin, Satan, and worldly passions, made possible by the resurrection on the first day of the week."" However, beginning about the 17th century, a few groups of Protestants arose to take issue with some of the practice of the churches around them, sometimes also questioning the theology that had been so widely accepted throughout 16 centuries. Mostly Sabbatarians, they broke away from their former churches to form communities that followed Sabbath-based practices that differed from the rest of Christianity, often also adopting a more literal interpretation of law, either Christian or Mosaic.