How exactly does a Christian keep the Sabbath day holy?
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1st.  Prepare for it so that about 1 hour before sunset on Fridays, you have everything set for the Sabbath: food prepared for the next 3 meals (Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday mid-day), church clothes ready, house cleaned, etc.\n2nd.  Just before sunset, gather the family together for worship, welcoming the divine hours of the Sabbath. This may last for about 30 to 50 minutes.\n3rd.  Have a leisurely, candle-lit supper for the whole family; soft soothing religious music in the background. \n4th.  For the rest of Friday evening/night, some family may have a family catch-up time, sharing their joys, sorrows, frustrations, challenges, etc. (A support network within the family).  A religious book, religious games, religious DVD, nature DVD, may also be used.  I sometimes use some of this time to answer religious questions on this site!!! (and not for the points).\nGo to bed no later than 10:00 p.m. so that you can get a good night's rest.\n5th.  Saturday morning: have a good breakfast (you may need to use the stove or the microwave mainly to heat the already-prepared food); then get ready for church.\n6th.  Attend church from about 9:15 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m.\n7th.  Sabbath lunch (which is called dinner in USA).  If possible, invite a friend or two.\n8th.  Use some of the remaining time for humanitarian work.\n9th.  Most Christian churches that celebrate the Sabbath have a 1 hour to 1 1/2 hour religious service to bring the Sabbath to a close.  You may attend that OR you may take a nature walk OR visit the zoo (or any other activity in which you admire the wonderful creative power of God).  Somewhere at the end of all of this, bring the Sabbath to a close by a short prayer - thanking God for His many blessings, and asking Him to keep you safely through the coming week.\n\nThe above is an outline of what my family and I generally do during a typical Sabbath, which is from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday.  And no, God, Jesus, the apostles, NEVER authorized a change to Sunday.
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Let's see.  These are probably out of order and poorly summarized but here goes.\n\n1.  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.\n2.  Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain.\n3.  Remember the Sabbath, and keep it holy.\n4.  Honor thy father and mother.\n5.  Thou shalt not kill.\n6.  Thou shalt not steal.\n7.  Thou shalt not commit adultery.\n8.  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.\n9.  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.\n10.  Thou shalt not covet anything else that is thy neighbor's.
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Exactly. It is the sabbath day for the earth. We are currently at the END of the 6th day of the earth (6,000 years).
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No, it was not.  That observation comes from a lazy and superficial reading of the Scriptures.  It is a false assumption that Jesus was killed and buried on a Friday!  And trying to squeeze three days and nights out of two is man's vane attempt to rectify his error with the Bible facts.  A concise, biblical proof of Jesus' death, burrial and resurrection follows:\n\n1st -- Not all Sabbaths are on the 7th day of the week. So many people (even theologians) have assumed that the Sabbath that Jesus was buried before was the weekly (7th day) Sabbath.\n\nBut God also made 7 annual Holy Days that are called Sabbaths.  These Sabbaths can occure on other days of the week.  In John, the Sabbath in question is called a "High Day", that is, it is one of these annual Holy Days. Specifically, it is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (called Passover -- actually, the day after Passover) (Leviticus 23:6).\n\nThis is confirmed by the following:\n\nA. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (John 19:39) "Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices..." (John 19:40, Matt 27:59), "and laid it in his [Joseph's] own new tomb" (Matt 27:60, Mark 15:46, Luke 23:53, John 19:39-42).\n\nB. "And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on" (Luke 23:54, John 19:42).\n\nC. "And the women also, which came with Him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre and how his body was laid" (Luke 23:55, Matt 27:61, Mark 15:47).\n\nD. "AND WHEN THE SABBATH WAS PAST, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Solome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him" (Mark 16:1).\n\nE. Then "they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; AND RESTED ON THE SABBATH DAY according to the commandment" (Luke 23:56).\n\nNote: The buying and preparing of the spices and oils by the women occurred BETWEEN TWO SABBATHS. Therefore, these two Sabbaths could not have been concurrent, as is popularly believed. And, as John 19:31 explains, the first Sabbath, the one immediately after Jesus' death, was a High Day, that is, an annual Holy Day, the First Day of Unleavened Bread, not the weekly Sabbath.\n\n"But late in the week, at the dawning into the first day of the week {that is, just after sunset on Saturday}, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.  And the angel answered and said to the women, Do not fear, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.  He is not here, for He has risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay."  (Matthew 28:1, MKJV, also Mark 16:1-6, Luke 24:1-6)\n\nSo, Jesus was already risen before the first day of the week ever began.\n\nAs for the counting of the three FULL days and three FULL nights, we have:\n\nNight 1: Wednesday/Thursday night {Note: This was a Holy Day/Sabbath that year}\nDay 1: Thursday\n\nNight 2: Thursday/Friday night\nDay 2: Friday {Women bought and prepared spices & oils on this day}\n\nNight 3: Friday/Saturday {Beginning of normal, weekly Sabbath}\nDay 3: Saturday\n\nJesus rose at about the time of day he was buried, just before sunset on the weekly Sabbath!  Not on Sunday; and nowhere near dawn.
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You’re correct to a point, that is according to the Law (Old Testament).  From a legal (scriptural legal) point of view the Sabbath is what is now called Saturday.  However, under grace we are to regard every day alike holy unto God thus, every day is Sabbath.  Sabbath meaning set-aside or hollowed, holy unto God, even as God did in the beginning marking the 7th day.  But we are under a new covenant thus we are to keep every day holy unto the LORD not just the 7th.  Not, saying that the law is no more for the law is for the lawless. However, as new creations we are to grown unto the measure and stature of Christ. And one of the things He said unto us, "Come unto me all you that labor and are heave laden I'll give your rest, for my yoke is easy and burdens are light."  Thus we now are in the Rest of the LORD, or the Sabbath (set-aside) time which is call grace, no longer living trying to do what is right because it is written in the Law (Torah) be we are now living and doing what is right because it is our state of being as new creatures.  It is written, "Let no man judge you in the keeping of Sabbaths”.  Peace be unto you and yours. Now just in case you ask, yes I do keep the weekly Sabbath, not because I have to but because it is holy not only written in the word (holy Bible) but in my heart.
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No; Christians don't worship on Sunday because of Jesus' resurrection. They worship on Sunday because at the Council of Nicea it was established that Christianity & Judaism must separate. Did you know that Saint Nicholas (AKA Santa Claus) was on this Council? This is where the ancient, Jewish Synagogue most Christians know as the Early Church\nsplit from it's Jewish roots. The early church was entirely Jewish at it's conception.\nThis council made very clear, deliberate rules to separate the Jewish practices from the Christian ones. The Church did start out worshipping on Saturday.\nUnderstand that in Genesis 1; it says the evening & the morning were the first day. It doesn't say from sunrise to sunset, but from sunset to sunrise! It reverses the way Americans view a day. This mindset is what differentiates the Gregorian calendar (solar) from the Hebraic (lunar) calendar. If you look in the story of David, Jonathan & Saul; it says they were celebrating the New Moon. Jews follow a lunar calendar, & their Sabbath is Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. This is the Biblically commanded holiday known as Sabbath; a weekly day of rest offered to mankind. Even the 10 Comandments say to honor it, yet Christians simply follow tradition instead of doing what the Bible commands.\nSo, Jews also worship on the same day of SDA people. From what I understand, they also keep Biblically kosher; correct?
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In Christianity, the Sabbath is a weekly religious day of rest as ordained by the fourth of the Ten Commandments. The Hebrew word ("šabbāth", שַׁבָּת) means "the [day] of rest (or ceasing)," as it entails a ceasing or resting from labor. The institution of the Sabbath was in respect for the day during which God rested after having completed the Creation in six days, (Genesis 2:2-3).\n\nOriginally denoting Saturday, the seventh day of the week, or, more precisely, the time period from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, the term Sabbath can now mean one of several things, depending on the context and the speaker:\n\nSaturday, as originally, in reference to Jewish or historical observance; \nSaturday, as above, as a day of observance for some Christian groups; \nSunday, as a day of observance for various other Christian groups. \nsaturday and sunday as a day of relaxing. \nThe word is also infrequently used to describe the annual Holy Days observed by several Christian groups, also called High Sabbaths or High Day Sabbaths (John 19:31): the First and Last Days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Eighth Day of the Feast.
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humm good question. i believe that the old covenant was abolished with Christ sacrifice and Resurrection. I also believe that are parts of the old covenant that should be kept just to keep us focused. Just as the Ten Commandments should still be followed, we should also tithe. The Sabbath if we were to follow it like the Jews do (no disrespect at all) then we could do nothing including teach, preach, or bring the word to unbelievers, so the Sabbath in ways is a stumbling block to our beliefs and truths. Pastors must push tithing for the same reasons. I have also come to notice that when  you give God your money and control over your finances he blesses you 10 fold. so pray about it. don't just give it up because you don't have to sacrifice makes things all the sweeter.
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The 10 commandments say nothing about going to "church" on "saturdays".\n\nThe word "church" comes from the word "circ" as in "circle" - specifically the word used for a circle of witches.\n\nThe word "saturday" comes in honor of the false god "saturn". \n\nWhy in the world would you think that the Bible would use either of these words?  The commandment is to work 6 day and then rest upon the 7th day and do no work on that day.  It says nothing about coming together as a group at all. In fact, as written, you could fulfill the commandment in its entirety just by staying in bed all day!
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Churches have always argued concerning the true Sabbath, and each has a different reason for worshipping Saturday or Sunday. Catholics will readily admit that they have the authority to change the Sabbath since the pope is the "vicar of Christ" or in the place of Christ. Seventh Day Adventist have a pretty good argument for still keeping the Saturday Sabbath...they claim no biblical passage authorizes a change in the 10 commandments, and unlike other laws that were written on paper to show that they won't last forever, the 10 commandments (including the Sabbath) were the only laws written on stones to signify it's everlasting place. Now you have Harold Camping from Family Radio, he has a pretty good argument for Sunday worship, the best I've seen so far, and YES, he uses the bible to support his view very well. I will post two links. one of Harold camping just scroll down on the left and click on SUNDAY THE SABBATH. The other link is of Samuele Bacchiocchi's book FROM SUNDAY TO SABBATH. This way you get to see both sides of the coin.
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Sabbath is the 'day of rest' and is put aside for God.\nWhich day for you depends on your religion, I think for Jews it lasts from sunset friday to sunset Saturday. (please someone correct me if I'm wrong)\nFor Christians, it is Sunday.
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It was God's plan for the members of the family to be associated in work and study, in worship and recreation, the father as priest of his household, and both father and mother as teachers and companions of their children. But the results of sin, having changed the conditions of life, to a great degree prevent this association. Often the father hardly sees the faces of his children throughout the week. He is almost wholly deprived of opportunity for companionship or instruction. But God's love has set a limit to the demands of toil. Over the Sabbath He places His merciful hand. In His own day He preserves for the family opportunity for communion with Him, with nature, and with one another.\n\n"Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation;" Leviticus 23:3\n\nLook at the fourth commandment, a part of it is for us to work and the other part is for us keep the seventh day holy - Saturday.
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The Sabbath was part of the Levitical covenant with Israel. If you read about the prophetic feasts, the feast which prophecies the church was to be celebrated the day AFTER the Sabbath. So the church was prophesied to meet on that day. However, I worship all seven days.
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I believe Scripture that He was in the tomb for 3 days & 3 nights. Even though we don't know exactly when the Resurrection occurred - when the disciples got to the tomb Sunday morn, it was already empty... it probably occurred about when the Sabbath rest ended Saturday at sunset & probably before midnight Saturday night. It is convoluted theology to expect that God would wait past midnight to schedule the resurrection on Sunday - the pagan day of worship - God has never tolerated anything pagan mixed in with His worship. The reason Christians worship on Sunday is because Emperor Constantine (practicing pagan until he was baptized on his death bed) decreed that the Sabbath must be desecrated in the Roman Empire and that Sunday would be the day of rest & worship for all, no matter what their religion. His decree called it "the venerable day of the sun god" & made NO mention of God, Jesus, Christ, Resurrection... or anything Christian. And his puppet Pope, Sylvester, rubber-stamped all of Constantine's heresies.\n\nCounting back from sunset on Saturday, you get a Wednesday Crucifixion! He would have been in the tomb Wed sunset to Thurs sunset (1st full nite & day), Thurs sunset to Fri sunset (2nd full nite & day), & Fri sunset to Sat sunset [THE SABBATH] (3rd nite & day).\n\nThere are many references in the NT to believers (i.e. "followers" of the Messiah & His Way) meeting on "the first day of the week"... which starts right after sunset on Saturday! One of the references is that Paul preached until midnight on the first day a the week - it doesn't say to droned on for 24 hours, or for even 12 hours (or whatever) on Sunday, he preached from after sunset to midnight on Saturday.
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It doesn't say that Sunday is the true day of worship.  Sunday became the day of worship, as opposed to Saturday, after the split between the Synagogues and the Church in the 300's AD.\n\nIt also was used in this fashion to honor the day upon which Christ was resurrected.
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Dear child, I feel I must answer you...you keep on asking ?about the Sabbath. In the new testament Jesus said old things are put away...the teachings of the sabbath is one of them, this was before the death of Christ.\nAlong with keeping the sabbath there were many other  requirements, like sacrificing, which we no longer have to do because Jesus did it for us. He was the ultimate sacrifice. I hope this helps you and GOD BLESS
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1) You shall have no other gods before me\n2) You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain\n3) You shall make no graven images\n4) Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy\n5) Honor your father and mother\n6) You shall not murder\n7) You shall not steal\n8) You shall not comitt adultry\n9) You shall not bear false witness\n10) You shall not covet your neighbors house, wife, servants, oxen or anything that belongs to them.\n\nNot bad.  Take about 2 1/2 minutes to type with looking anything up.  Yes, there are people who know the Bible.