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08-11-2007, 02:43 AM
The seventh day was sanctified by God in the beginning (Gen. 2:3), was kept by Israel and Gentiles to the end of the Bible, and was to be obeyed as a sign and perpetual covenant. Ecclesiastical history proves that early Christians kept Saturday as the Sabbath.
"16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed." (Ex. 31)
"27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ... 29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Gal. 3)
The observance of Sunday as the Sabbath was by decree of the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine in 321 AD. He decreed the Christian religion to be the religion of the state to settle religious controversy; but, was never baptized until a short time before his death in 337 AD. He issued an edict on March 7, 321 AD, "Let all the judges and towns people, and the occupation of all trades rest ON THE VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN: but let those who are situated in the country, freely and at full liberty attend to the business of agriculture: because it often happens that no other day is so fit for sowing corn and planting vines: lest, the critical moment let slip, men should lose the commodities granted by heaven." The Book of Facts, by H. M. Rouff, p. 542, noted, "The FIRST law, either ecclesiastical or civil, by which the Sabbatical observance of Sunday is known to have been ordained, is the Edict of Constantine, A. D. 321."
So why do professing Christians rest and worship ON THE VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN: are they followers of the late pagan Roman Emperor Constantine??? Or are they all Roman Catholic???
It has to be one or the other!!!
"16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed." (Ex. 31)
"27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ... 29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Gal. 3)
The observance of Sunday as the Sabbath was by decree of the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine in 321 AD. He decreed the Christian religion to be the religion of the state to settle religious controversy; but, was never baptized until a short time before his death in 337 AD. He issued an edict on March 7, 321 AD, "Let all the judges and towns people, and the occupation of all trades rest ON THE VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN: but let those who are situated in the country, freely and at full liberty attend to the business of agriculture: because it often happens that no other day is so fit for sowing corn and planting vines: lest, the critical moment let slip, men should lose the commodities granted by heaven." The Book of Facts, by H. M. Rouff, p. 542, noted, "The FIRST law, either ecclesiastical or civil, by which the Sabbatical observance of Sunday is known to have been ordained, is the Edict of Constantine, A. D. 321."
So why do professing Christians rest and worship ON THE VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN: are they followers of the late pagan Roman Emperor Constantine??? Or are they all Roman Catholic???
It has to be one or the other!!!