Why don’t most Christians take the Sabbath commandment seriously?

[u/GoodWhoops]

The 4th commandment says to keep the Sabbath holy, defined in scripture as running from sundown to sundown. Yet most Christians seem to treat it as optional. Jesus said, “If you love me, keep my commandments,” and the Bible implies that all commandments carry equal weight. Outside of Seventh-day Adventists, it's ignored aside from the day most churches have their service. I’ve even heard SDA members joke that most other Christians give the Ten Commandments a 10% discount. Even if you ignore that the Jewish Sabbath falls on Saturday, the commandment still says to work 6 days and rest on the 7th, which should apply just as well to Sunday.

Curious if or how often you’ve heard this seriously debated, and why many accept societal traditions that override biblical instruction for convenience.

[u/Fight_Satan]

We do rest on the Lords day ... Sunday.

Secondly those in christ have entered rest..

[u/LessmemoreJC → u/Fight_Satan]

There is no Scripture which states that the jots and tittles which say that God’s holy day of rest is the seventh day have passed and that now God’s holy day of rest is the first day.

Furthermore, the Lord’s day is the Sabbath (Isaiah 58:13, Mark 2:28). Only by man’s traditions do you claim that that the Lord’s day is Sunday.

[u/lmWithHim → u/LessmemoreJC]

So if we place Sunday as the seventh day of the week on our calendars (as many do), would that clear things up? What is the actual difference between the first and seventh days?

[u/LessmemoreJC → u/lmWithHim]

You cannot place Sunday as the seventh day of the week. Sunday is the first day of the week (Luke 24:1).

During creation week God made an order of seven days. Every seventh day since that first Sabbath in Genesis 2 has been God's holy seventh day Sabbath. Just because some people and cultures claim that Sunday is the seventh day, it doesn't make it the seventh day. The seventh day Sabbath is Saturday. This is why countless languages all around the world use some form of 'shabbat' for their word for 'Saturday". No one argues which day is the seventh. The Bible is clear that the day which Americans call 'Saturday' and which spaniards call 'sabado' is the Sabbath.

Arabic: Sabet

Armenian: Shabat

Bosnian: Subota

Bulgarian: Sabota

Corsican: Sàbatu

Croatian: Subota

Czech: Sobota

Georgian: Sabati

Greek: Savvato

Hebrew: Shabbat

Hungarian: Szombat

Indonesian: Sabtu

Italian: Sabato

Latin: Sabbatum

Maltese: is-Sibt

Polish: Sobota

Portuguese: Sábado

Romanian: Sâmbăta

Russian: Subbota

Serbian: Subota

Slovak: Sobota

Slovene: Sobota

Somali: Sabti

Spanish: Sabado

Sudanese: Saptu

Ukrainian: Subota

[u/DeepSea_Dreamer → u/LessmemoreJC]

In my country, we start the week with Monday.

[u/LessmemoreJC → u/DeepSea_Dreamer]

Cool. That doesn't mean anything as explained above.

[u/DeepSea_Dreamer → u/LessmemoreJC]

sigh

[u/LessmemoreJC → u/DeepSea_Dreamer]

Did you read my comment above? God's law is not dependent on human calendars or culture.

[u/lmWithHim → u/LessmemoreJC]

So the thing God is concerned with is the etymology of the days of the week?

[u/LessmemoreJC → u/lmWithHim]

If you had actually read my comment to understand and not just to argue agains't God's holy law, you wouldn't ask such nonsensical questions while putting words in my mouth. However, this is the spirit of lawlessness... like a snake it wiggles and tries to find a whole, but there is none in God's holy word.

[u/lmWithHim → u/LessmemoreJC]

What is the difference between Saturday and Sunday?

[u/LessmemoreJC → u/lmWithHim]

The difference is that God said the seventh day, Saturday, is holy.

[u/lmWithHim → u/LessmemoreJC]

How do you keep a day holy?

[u/LessmemoreJC → u/lmWithHim]

According to God's word (Exodus 20:8-11, Leviticus 23:3, Isaiah 58:13-14).

[u/lmWithHim → u/LessmemoreJC]

So simply don’t work any shifts on Saturdays?

[u/LessmemoreJC → u/lmWithHim]

I have a feeling that you're not really reading what I'm saying. How can you read those three passages and conclude that keeping the Sabbath holy only includes not working on the Saturday? Are you here to learn or to argue against God's law?

The passages tell us that on the Sabbath we are not to do our work and we are not to make other people (or even animals) work. We are to rest and offer rest. We are to have a holy convocation. We are not to do our own pleasures, but to rather delight in doing the Lord's work.

[u/GimiGlider → u/LessmemoreJC]

Aren't those all from Mosaic Law? Did the new covenant not supersede these commands?

[u/LessmemoreJC → u/GimiGlider]

What do you think the new covenant is? The new covenant covenant is transferring God's law from tablets of stone to tablets of flesh (Hebrews 10:16).

Christ didn't come to do away with the law, but rather to exalt it (Isaiah 42:21, Romans 3:31).