Most
evangelical Christians do not know church history. They literally don’t know
that the state church placed self-imposed authority upon themselves and
blatantly (and openly) opposed Scripture.
Millions of people gather and set apart every Sunday, know nothing of the Fourth Commandment (keep/guard/remember the Sabbath Day) and think nothing of it. Why is this? Below is merely a handful of the *many* records of men usurping Father’s authority and placing it over the naïve masses. If you want to learn and be set free, please consider reading.
Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition
“Sunday is expressly distinguished from the
sabbath… for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath.
Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope,
no longer keeping the sabbath, but the Lord's Day, in which our life is blessed
by him and by his death.
On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass.
On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are to refrain from engaging in work or activities that hinder the worship owed to God, the joy proper to the Lord's Day, the performance of the works of mercy, and the appropriate relaxation of mind and body.
We all gather on the day of the sun….
Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the sabbath, but the Lord's Day, in which our life is blessed by him and by his death.
The sabbath, which represented the completion of the first creation, has been replaced by Sunday which recalls the new creation inaugurated by the Resurrection of Christ.”
In its section on the “Ten Commandments,” the Catholic Encyclopedia states the following: “The Church, on the other hand, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath, or seventh day of the week, to the first, made the Fourth Commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the Lord’s Day.
The Catholic Virginian said, in 1947: “All of us believe many things in regard to religion that we do not find in the Bible. For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed… to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath Day, that is the 7th day of the week. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the Church outside the Bible.
Thomas Aquinas wrote: “In the New Law the observance of the Lord’s day took the place of the observance of the Sabbath, not by virtue of the precept but by the institution of the Church and the custom of Christian people.”
Constantine, at the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325, was reported by the historian Eusebius as saying, “It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast [Passover] we should follow the practice of the Jews … . Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd.”
The Council of Laodicea in A.D. 365:
“Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that
day, rather honouring the Lord’s Day, and, if they can, resting then as
Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema
from Christ” (Canon XXIX).
Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About (1927): "Nowhere in the Bible is it stated that worship should be changed to Sunday... Now the Church... instituted by God's authority, Sunday as the day of worship. This same Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory long before the Bible was made. We have, therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday."
Daniel Ferres, Manual of Christian Doctrine
(1916): "Question: How prove you that the Church hath power to command
feasts and holy days? "Answer. By the very act of changing the Sabbath
into Sunday, which Protestants allow of, and therefore they fondly contradict
themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts
commanded by the same Church.'
So now, we must listen to, and heed, Messiah speaking directly to this issue, in Mark 7:6-9. “And [Yeshua] said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors Me with their lips but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ Having left behind the commandment of Yahweh, you hold on to the tradition of men.” He was also telling them, “You set aside the commands of Yahweh, in order that you may validate your own tradition.’”
If you’re beginning to see that vain worship rules the land, there is so much more. The deception is vast and deep, friends. Study. Learn. Confess, repent and turn away. Seek Yahweh while He may be found.
2 comments:
The Catholic church has been given apostolic authority and handed it to the Body, including evangelicals. Everyone that is true, practicing Catholic knows this is true. The only ones that seem ignorant of this are oddly the evangelicals.
Where you are wrong sir is your claim that these men did not receive the authority to change sabbath. The Jews killed Christ and therefore their traditions cannot continue into the new Church age. To adhere to their old ways would be heresy.
Robert, You're actually highlighting the issue at hand and confirming what I'm presenting as the problem. Yes, I agree that most evangelicals are clueless that they're submitting to Catholic authority, in both belief and practice, but to say that they were given authority to change eternal ordinances that originated at Creation is ludicrous.
Lastly, Messiah was a Jew my friend.
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