Sunday Sacredness Is Not Commanded or Practiced in the Bible:
Protestantism Speaks:
Baptist: "There was and is a command to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will however be readily said, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week, with all its duties, privileges and sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on this subject, which I have studied for many years, I ask, where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament - absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week." - Dr. E.t. Hiscox,Author of the "Baptist Manual."
Congregationalist: "It is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath . . the Sabbath was founded on a specific, divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday. . there is not a single line in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday." Dr. R.W. Dale, "The Ten Commandments", p. 106-107
Lutheran Free Church: "For when there could not be produced one solitary place in the Holy Scriptures which testified that either the Lord Himself or the Apostles had ordered such a transfer of the Sabbath to Sunday, then it was not easy to answer the question: Who has transferred the Sabbath, and has had the right to do it?" George Sverdrup, "A New Day".
Protestant Episcopal: "The day is now changed from the seventh to the first day . . . but as we meet with no scriptural direction for the change, we must conclude it was done by the authority of the church." - "Explanation of Catechism".
Baptist: "The Scriptures nowhere call the first day of the week the Sabbath. . there is no scriptural authority for so doing, nor of course, any scriptural obligation." - "The Watchman."
Presbyterian: "There is no word, no hint in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. The observance of Ash Wednesday, or Lent, stands exactly on the same footing as the observance of Sunday. Into the rest of Sunday, no divine law enters." - Canon Eyton, in "The Ten Commandments."
Anglican: "And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day." Isaac Williams, "Plain Sermons on the Catechism," pp. 334,336
Methodist: "it is true that there is no positive command for infant baptism. Nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week. Many believe that Christ changed the Sabbath. But from His own words, we see that He came for no such purpose. Those who believe that Jesus changed the Sabbath base it only on a supposition." - Amos Binney, "Theological Compendium," pp. 180-181
Episcopalian: "We have made the change from the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the holy, Catholic, apostolic church of Christ." - Bishop Seymour, "Why We Keep Sunday."
Southern Baptist: "The sacred name of the seventh day is Sabbath. This fact is too clear to require argument [Exodus 20:10 quoted] . . on this point the plain teaching of the Word has been admitted in all ages . . not once did the disciples apply the Sabbath law to the first day of the week. - That folly was left for a later age, nor did they pretend that the first day supplanted the seventh." - Joseph Judson, "The Sabbath Question, pp. 14,15, 16-17, 41.
American Congregationalist: "The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in the New Testament." Dr. Lyman Abbot, in the "Christian Union," June 26, 1890
Christian Church: "Now there is no testimony in all the oracles of heaven that the Sabbath is changed, or that the Lord's Day came in the room of it." in "The Reporter," October 8, 1921, by Alexander Campbell
Note - He mistakenly infers that Sunday is the Lord's Day. The following shows otherwise.
Mark 2:27, 28 [Jesus speaks] "...The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: Therefore the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath [Day]."
"Man" is anthropos - [Anthorpology] the universal word for all human kind. It did not say "made for the Jews" the Lord's Day is the 7th day Sabbath, Saturday!
Disciples of Christ: "there is no direct scriptural authority for designating the first day 'the Lord's Day.'" Dr. D.H. Lucas, in the "Christian Oracle," January 2, 1890
Baptist: "To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three years' discussion with His disciples, often conversing with the Sabbath question, discussing it in some of its various aspects, freeing it from its false [Jewish traditional] glosses, never alluded to any transference of the day; also, that during the forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was intimated. Nor, so far as we know, did the Spirit, which was given to bring to their remembrance all things whatsoever He had said unto them, deal with this question. Nor yet did the inspired Apostles, in preaching the gospel, founding churches, counseling and instructing those founded, discuss or approach the subject.
Protestantism Speaks:
Baptist: "There was and is a command to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will however be readily said, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week, with all its duties, privileges and sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on this subject, which I have studied for many years, I ask, where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament - absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week." - Dr. E.t. Hiscox,Author of the "Baptist Manual."
Congregationalist: "It is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath . . the Sabbath was founded on a specific, divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday. . there is not a single line in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday." Dr. R.W. Dale, "The Ten Commandments", p. 106-107
Lutheran Free Church: "For when there could not be produced one solitary place in the Holy Scriptures which testified that either the Lord Himself or the Apostles had ordered such a transfer of the Sabbath to Sunday, then it was not easy to answer the question: Who has transferred the Sabbath, and has had the right to do it?" George Sverdrup, "A New Day".
Protestant Episcopal: "The day is now changed from the seventh to the first day . . . but as we meet with no scriptural direction for the change, we must conclude it was done by the authority of the church." - "Explanation of Catechism".
Baptist: "The Scriptures nowhere call the first day of the week the Sabbath. . there is no scriptural authority for so doing, nor of course, any scriptural obligation." - "The Watchman."
Presbyterian: "There is no word, no hint in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. The observance of Ash Wednesday, or Lent, stands exactly on the same footing as the observance of Sunday. Into the rest of Sunday, no divine law enters." - Canon Eyton, in "The Ten Commandments."
Anglican: "And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day." Isaac Williams, "Plain Sermons on the Catechism," pp. 334,336
Methodist: "it is true that there is no positive command for infant baptism. Nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week. Many believe that Christ changed the Sabbath. But from His own words, we see that He came for no such purpose. Those who believe that Jesus changed the Sabbath base it only on a supposition." - Amos Binney, "Theological Compendium," pp. 180-181
Episcopalian: "We have made the change from the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the holy, Catholic, apostolic church of Christ." - Bishop Seymour, "Why We Keep Sunday."
Southern Baptist: "The sacred name of the seventh day is Sabbath. This fact is too clear to require argument [Exodus 20:10 quoted] . . on this point the plain teaching of the Word has been admitted in all ages . . not once did the disciples apply the Sabbath law to the first day of the week. - That folly was left for a later age, nor did they pretend that the first day supplanted the seventh." - Joseph Judson, "The Sabbath Question, pp. 14,15, 16-17, 41.
American Congregationalist: "The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in the New Testament." Dr. Lyman Abbot, in the "Christian Union," June 26, 1890
Christian Church: "Now there is no testimony in all the oracles of heaven that the Sabbath is changed, or that the Lord's Day came in the room of it." in "The Reporter," October 8, 1921, by Alexander Campbell
Note - He mistakenly infers that Sunday is the Lord's Day. The following shows otherwise.
Mark 2:27, 28 [Jesus speaks] "...The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: Therefore the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath [Day]."
"Man" is anthropos - [Anthorpology] the universal word for all human kind. It did not say "made for the Jews" the Lord's Day is the 7th day Sabbath, Saturday!
Disciples of Christ: "there is no direct scriptural authority for designating the first day 'the Lord's Day.'" Dr. D.H. Lucas, in the "Christian Oracle," January 2, 1890
Baptist: "To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three years' discussion with His disciples, often conversing with the Sabbath question, discussing it in some of its various aspects, freeing it from its false [Jewish traditional] glosses, never alluded to any transference of the day; also, that during the forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was intimated. Nor, so far as we know, did the Spirit, which was given to bring to their remembrance all things whatsoever He had said unto them, deal with this question. Nor yet did the inspired Apostles, in preaching the gospel, founding churches, counseling and instructing those founded, discuss or approach the subject.
"Of course I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the Christian Fathers and other sources. But what a pity that it comes branded with the name of the sun-god, then adopted and sanctified by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism." Dr. E.T. Hiscox, report of his sermon at the Baptist Ministers' Convention, in "New York Examiner," November 16, 1893
A Problem? - Some say the calendar was changed so that we don't know which day is the first or seventh. We know of only one historical calendar change. From the Julian to the Gregorian. In October, 1582. The change involved only the numbers and not the weekly cycle of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc. Thursday was the 4th. Friday was to be the 5th, but they advanced it 10 days and called it the 15th. This involved the vernal equinox. All of the major encyclopedias assure us that no time has been lost. Nor the weekly cycle!
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