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Adventistische Schriften über: "Please strictly follow the principle “Even false teachers can use many passages to support errors” to create an example of moving the Sabbath to Sunday, and add to each point the corresponding original text as a key verse; do not use external sources or conclusions."
Answer
Advocates of moving the Sabbath to Sunday use various passages – such as the mention of the “Day of the Lord” or reports of apostolic gatherings – to claim that the early church observed the first day of the week as a Christian Sabbath. As the documents show, however, this argument rests on unfounded assumptions and faulty logic, because the Bible does not assign a holy status to the first day of the week. Scripturally, the term “Lord’s day of rest” refers exclusively to the seventh day.
The abusive interpretation of the “Day of the Lord” to justify Sunday
»“In the concluding book of the divine report, sixty years after the resurrection, the apostle John, who had leaned on Jesus’ breast at the Lord’s Supper, cries out: ‘I was on the Day of the Lord in the spirit.’ [...] Thus not only the Christians in Jerusalem, but also in Troas, Corinth, Colossae and John on Patmos [...] regard the Day of the Lord, the first day of the week, as the day of religious worship for Christians or as the Christian Sabbath. [...] I have now presented the scriptural evidence for these facts.” What does this prove? Merely that John was on the Day of the Lord in the spirit. The “argument” that permits using this text as proof of the holiness of Sunday is unworthy of a child. The apostle uses the term “Day of the Lord,” and immediately serious theologians assume that he must necessarily mean Sunday. [...] Throughout the entire New Testament we find no holy title applied to the first day of the week. It is nowhere called Sabbath, and nowhere is it said that it is the Day of the Lord or a holy day. It is simply called the first day of the week.«
Fallacies from apostolic assemblies and gatherings
»Another argument for changing the Sabbath is the alleged apostolic practice of gathering on the first day of the week for public worship and the breaking of bread. It is often confidently claimed that observing the first day instead of the seventh is sanctioned by apostolic custom.«
The unfounded derivation of a Christian Sabbath from the meeting in Troas
»“You, who follow because the holy Paul and the disciples in Troas spent the entire night of the first day of the week in prayer, preaching, and heavenly discussion, [...] therefore the disciples in Troas gathered on every first day of the week to keep that day holy; therefore the church in Philippi, the church in Thessalonica, and all Christian churches at that time kept the first day of the week holy; [...] therefore Christ and his apostles instituted the first day of the week to be celebrated forever in place of the Sabbath – is that not a pitiful logic? [...] You, who tell stories of an old Sabbath and a new Sabbath, a Jewish Sabbath and a Christian Sabbath, a Sabbath of the seventh day and a Sabbath of the first day of the week; thereby you covertly transfer the name Sabbath onto the Day of the Lord and then persuade the simple and uninformed that all those scriptural texts in which the Sabbath day is mentioned are intended for the Day of the Lord [...]”«
The untenable claim of ending the Sabbath in favor of the resurrection day
»They also say: “The day before the resurrection was the Jewish Sabbath, which Christ kept in the tomb. When that Sabbath ended, the law of the examples ended, and naturally the exemplary Sabbath ceased – a new order of salvation began on the first day, which was to be observed in memory of Christ’s death, until He returns.” Now look at your zigzag course. First, that the entire law with the Decalogue was nailed to the cross. But here, to discard this brother’s argument [...] you extend the Sabbath in the fourth commandment by about twenty‑seven hours [...] and then, about twelve hours later, a new order of salvation began.«
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