In the Bible the weekly Sabbath is Saturday - the 7th day of the week. From Friday Evening to Saturday evening.
So it is no wonder that when the gospels say that Jesus was raised on the first day of the week - everyone knows that this means our Sunday. This is easy and obvious.
The Catholic Church document "
the Faith Explained" asks the question about "changing the LORD's day from Saturday to Sunday" like this -
1965 -- first published 1959 (from "
The Faith Explained" by Leo Trese page 243)
"we know that in the O.T it was the seventh day of the week - the Sabbath day- which was observed as the Lord's day. that was the law as God gave it...'remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.. the early Christian church determined as the Lord's day the first day of the week. That the church had the right to make such a law is evident...The reason for changing the Lord's day from Saturday to Sunday lies in the fact that to the Christian church the first day of the week had been made double holy...
nothing is said in the bible about the change of the Lord's day from Saturday to Sunday..that is why we find so illogical the attitude of many non-Catholic who say they will believe nothing unless they can find it in the bible and yet will continue to keep Sunday as the Lord's day on the say-so of the Catholic church"
I fully agree with - "in the O.T it was the
seventh day of the week - the Sabbath day- which was observed as the Lord's day. that was the law as God gave it."
I fully agree with - "
nothing is said in the bible about the change of the Lord's day from Saturday to Sunday"
Some will say "I don't care what the Catholic position is" but this idea of a "Change" for the Bible Sabbath from Saturday (the 7th day) to the first day is also mentioned in the Baptist Confession of Faith and in other denominational documents across the board.
Why then are they so clear on the fact that the Sabbath is the Lord's Day - and that a change was made via some sort of tradition - but not mentioned in the Bible.?
Is 58:13
“If you turn away your foot
from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on
My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The
holy day of the Lord honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking
your own words,
Mark 2:27 "The Son of man is
LORD of the Sabbath"
Is 66:23 says that for all eternity after the cross and in the New Earth - "
From Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL mankind come before Me to worship"
So
no wonder in Acts 18:4 EVERY Sabbath they gather for gospel preaching in the synagogue - as Paul preached to both gentiles and Jews
No wonder in Acts 13 the GENTILES ask for MORE Gospel preaching to be scheduled for "The NEXT Sabbath" and then the next Sabbath almost the entire town shows up to hear it.
All Bible scholars know the following -
1. There is no text saying '
the first day of the week is the Lord's day"
2. There is no text saying '
the first day of the week is the holy day of the Lord"
3. There is no text saying '
the first day of the week is My holy day"
4. There is no text saying "
every week day one they gathered for gospel preaching"
5. There is no text saying "
the Son of Man is LORD of week day 1"
6. There is no text saying "
week day one is now the Sabbath of the LORD thy God" or "is now the Lord's day"
7. There is no text says "
the gentiles asked that more Gospel preaching be given to them - on the next week day 1"
Some will say "well that just adds more weight to the Catholic Document quoted above stating that there is nothing in the Bible on that point". And of course that is true it does add weight to that part of their statement.
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"They [the Catholics]
allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lord's day, contrary to the Decalogue, as it appears, neither is there any example more boasted of than
the changing of the Sabbath day. Great, say they, is the power and authority of the church, since it dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments."
—Augsburg Confession of Faith, Art. 28, par. 9.
"They [Roman Catholics] allege the change of the Sabbath into the Lord's day, as it seemeth, to the Decalogue [the ten commandments]; and they have no example more in their mouths than
they change of the Sabbath. They will needs have the Church's power to be very great, because it hath
dispensed with the precept of the Decalogue."
—The Augsburg Confession, 1530 A.D. (Lutheran), part 2, art 7, in Philip Schaff, the Creeds of Christiandom, 4th Edition, vol 3, p64 [this important statement was made by the Lutherans and written by Melanchthon, only thirteen years after Luther nailed his theses to the door and began the Reformation].