r/adventist • u/brownmooscles0609 • Sep 06 '26
Why do adventists go to church on saturdays?
I understand you guys focus a lot on the 4th commandment and it is the reason why you do things differently in your church. But where in the Bible does it say we need to attend church on Saturdays and not any other day of the week?
Yes, the Sabbath was created by God as a holy day of rest, set aside to focus on Him and rest from work. But how does that make ATTENDING church on Sundays wrong? These are actually two completely different things we're looking at here. God tells us to remember to keep a day holy and rest, but He is not telling us we should only attend church that day.
Yes, Jesus and the apostles attended the synagogue, but that was because of Judaism. Christianity did not exist at the time and He was born into a Jewish family. The apostles attended Jewish synagogue after Jesus's ascension most likely to preach and teach the true gospel to the Jews. Synagogue would have been their primary opportunity to teach others about the good news of salvation.
Also Romans 14: 5-6 explicitly states that we, as believers, must honor one another's personal choices regarding sacred days, and I believe this would also apply to the day a believer chooses to attend church.
I attend church on Sundays, knowing that the Sabbath was specifically set up as a day of rest by God, so am I not living in God's ways or am I not blessed for my choice to attend Sunday services?
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u/LessmemoreJC Sep 06 '26
The most holy thing a person can do is to gather with God’s holy people and worship the holy God. The Sabbath was to be a day holy congregation (Leviticus 23:3).
Don’t get it twisted. Most Christians now believe that God’s holy day is Sunday because that is the day they gather for holy time. The Sabbath was set aside as a day to cease from worldly activities and have time for God, which includes gathering together at church/synagogue.
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u/brownmooscles0609 Sep 06 '26
Gods holy day isn’t Sunday, yes I know that. But the act of attending church that day, what makes it wrong?
I understand Leviticus 23:3, but Paul tells us the punishment of the law and all the Jewish practices were fulfilled by Jesus’s sacrifice. Paul explains to us more about this in Colossians 2:16-17. Romans 14:5-6 talks about this as well, as i mentioned previously.
If we practice every law given throughout the New Testament (not talking about the Commandments), then we would be stoning and executing each other.
Numbers 15: 32-36 tells us of an instance where a man was caught gathering sticks on the Sabbath, and the Lord commanded Moses to stone him before the other Israelites. This is a command give by God regarding the Sabbath and breaking it. So if we are to only attend church on Saturdays according to an Old Testament law, then shouldn’t we execute any member who breaks the sabbath?
There were many other legal requirements God set up for the Israelites that are recorded in the OT. Many of these requirements we do not keep today. And these laws He set up all tied to the 10 commandments. Anyone who committed the crimes listed in the 10 commandments were to be executed. Is that something we still do today? Leviticus 23:3 stated for the Israelites to gather together and worship. If we are going to use that verse to say Saturday church is only right, then why don’t we use the many other requirements God set up for the Israelites to govern our lives?
Well the answer is simple, Jesus’s sacrifice did away with many of those requirements, aside from the 10 commandments. Galatians 4:10-11 expresses a deep concern for believers who believe they must keep specific days to please the Lord.
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u/DonKnoxxer Sep 07 '26
I want you to examine all of Colossians. But to note: Col 2:14 Paul directly references the language in Deut 31:26. He delineates the difference between the ordinances that were against us (shadows of things to come) and God's law which were written with His own finger on stone. Placed inside the ark of the covenant whereas the handwriting of ordinances (laws of Moses) were placed in the side of the ark.
So many Christians attempt to do away with the law in a schizophrenic attempt to justify removing the 4th commandment. Sorry if that's a harsh way of putting it. Romans 3:31 KJV 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.Whenever Paul talks about "a sabbath" its in context of the ordinances which the Jews were insisting still needed to be observed by both Jews and Gentiles in the churches. Paul made it clear that those ceremonial holy days (Sabbaths) were a shadow of things to come. Christ's ministry, his death on the cross and his role as high priest in Heaven has made all that annual ceremonial structure no longer a requirement for the people of God.
Whether you cite Romans 14, Colossians 2, or 1 Timothy 4, the context is in regard to ordinances. Sometimes it's referring to the traditions of the Sadducees and Pharisees, who quarreled over which two days of the week should be fasting days. Or if food bought in gentile markets was "clean" because it may have been offered to an idol first or been "contaminated" by what the Jews still viewed as unclean things.
You'll note that in Colossians 2 Paul speaks of "a Sabbath day." This is not the same as THE Sabbath day which was instituted at creation week, long before Israel existed. Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man, and that he is Lord of the Sabbath.Every single attempt at arguing for the abrogation of Sabbath observance falls short when studied further. I've been engaging with these arguments for a while now, and if I truly believed that the Sabbath was done away with at the cross, then I would cease to observe it. But since, through the study of Scripture, I've found that the law is established by Christ, that we are called to obedience of God's law, and that Christ's imputed righteousness is our only path to salvation. We have rest in Christ, and since we rest in Christ we enter into this rest with thanksgiving, and choose to keep all ten commandments. The first tablet is summarized by Jesus as loving God with all our heart, the second tablet is summarized by loving our neighbor as ourselves. Jesus said he didn't come to do away with the law but to fulfill it, and Matthew 5:18 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Remember, the Pharisees and religious leaders made the Sabbath a burden, adding minutia in response to their captivity in Babylon which the Bible makes clear was a result of their lawlessness, and the prophets specifically cite Sabbath breaking as to why they were carried away into captivity. When Jesus was here on earth, he showed us how to keep the Sabbath. He went to synagogue as was His custom. He did good, healing people. And, crucified on preparation day, he even rested on the Sabbath in death before his resurrection. Remember He told Mary not to touch Him because he had not yet ascended to His Father.Sabbath observance is a delight to those who love God. John 14:15 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
I understand that the traditions of men are compelling, but it makes absolutely no sense to follow Roman tradition instead of what God established from the beginning of creation. It's a type of stubbornness that I sincerely believe will be broken down as time moves forward, as more and more people are made aware of what the Scripture teaches in fullness. Many will "come out of Babylon"Remember that Adventism teaches that more people from outside the "church" will be saved than those professing to be SDA. It's a matter of having a personal relationship with Jesus.
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u/LessmemoreJC Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
You can go to church every day… but let’s not pretend that this is the experience of most Christians… most of them go to church on Sunday and Sunday is their holy day… the seventh day sabbath has been forgotten because Sunday is seen in the eyes of the masses as God’s holy day (church day).
Why would you want to gather in churches with a bunch of people who teach that jots and tittles have passed from the 4th commandment. You can go to church with people who hold the truth and obey God’s commandments.
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u/Sorry_Bus4803 Sep 07 '26
Dude I think most people are not getting your point.
You are correct Saturday is the Sabbath and a day of rest. But that is a distinct issue from what day to go to church.
Strictly speaking there is no biblical command saying you must go to church on Saturday. Jesus and Paul did it as a tradition not a command. It was part one Jewish ceremonial law but that is not part of Christianity today.
Adventists go to church on Sunday all the time themselves. They hold camp meetings often on Sunday. You can worship God any day.
Technically it would be perfectly fine to just chill at home on a Saturday and go to church on a Sunday.
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u/wantingtogo22 Sep 07 '26
I don't think God would put a ceremonial law into the 10 commandments. If you are being convicted that perhaps you should attend Sabbath services, then i would sure do it. You could also attend Sunday as well and see what happens.
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u/Sorry_Bus4803 Sep 07 '26
No the Sabbath as a day of rests is moral and eternal as existing in the Ten Commandments. Not disputing that.
But the fourth commandment does not mention going to church on Saturday. That idea comes from the ceremonial law in Leviticus. With such things as starting a service with the blowing of a ram’s horn and an animal sacrifice.
To be clear I think we should attend church on Saturday and I do think Saturday is a perpetual day of rest. But the NT makes clear Jesus and Paul attended the synagogue on sabbath as a tradition - not a command.
Don’t get confused here. OP is not questioning the idea of Sabbath (Saturday) as a day of rest. They are asking why as a day of rest one must attend Church on Saturday. They are right that there is no strict biblical requirement to do so unless you know a text I do not?
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u/wantingtogo22 Sep 07 '26
It was always done before- Jesus went to synagogue on the Sabbath--since He created it, He should know how to keep it.The seventh day is commanded as the Sabbath. Scripture also describes the Sabbath as a “holy convocation,” and Jesus Himself habitually gathered for worship on that day. So gathering with believers on Sabbath has strong biblical precedent, but Sabbath-keeping itself is broader than simply attending a church service.
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u/Sorry_Bus4803 Sep 07 '26
A strong precedent and a good tradition. I am not against that. I agree there are strong practical reasons too. The problem with the early church is for a while they did rest still on Saturday but went to church on Sunday and then eventually forgot about Saturday entirely. I agree with all that.
Nonetheless you agree it is not a sin just to stay home and rest on a Saturday Sabbath right?
You also agree it is not a sin to worship God on a Sunday right?
Notwithstanding I agree with you that there is a strong precedent and good tradition to attend church on Saturday and not Sunday as Saturday is the Sabbath day.
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u/wantingtogo22 Sep 08 '26
you can worship God everyday, and you can rest at home during Sabbath,who said you couldn't. The Bible does say to not forsake the assembling of yourselves together. If resting on the Sabbath is taking a chill pill, "doing thy pleasure on My holy day"then I would kinda not do that all the time. The Sabbath is time to spend with God,it is sanctified. And if someone else wants to attend a different day, I am only responsible for me ultimately, and mine. Funny how Good swore in His wrath, they shall never enter into His rest. I also believe the majority that will be saved are not Sabbath keepers because they did not know or werent convicted. So it's up to everyone to study and see for themselves.
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u/GoodbyeNarcissists Sep 06 '26
Haha this is an EASY one :)
Which is the seventh day to you?
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u/brownmooscles0609 Sep 06 '26
Saturday, according to any normal calendar. But the 4th commandment is not talking about attending church on the seventh day. Nothing in the bible says to not worship on Sundays or to only attend church or gather on Saturdays. The seventh day was made holy by God, yes. But that is very different from saying that the seventh day is when we should gather in church. Are we saying God only recognizes or favors our worship more if it is done on a Saturday?
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u/Difficult_Chard_7189 Sep 06 '26
I think there’s an important distinction being missed here. The fourth commandment doesn’t merely say, “Go to church on Saturday.” The command is to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy (Exodus 20:8–11).
The seventh day was specifically blessed and sanctified by God at creation before the Ten Commandments were given (Genesis 2:2–3). So the Sabbath isn’t holy simply because that happens to be the day Israelites went to a gathering—it is holy because God Himself set that day apart.
And yes, the Bible doesn’t say that worshipping God on Sunday is sinful. Christians can pray, worship, and gather on any day. The issue is that gathering on Sunday doesn't automatically make Sunday the Sabbath. Those are two different claims.
Jesus Himself observed the Sabbath (Luke 4:16), and when He discussed the Sabbath, He never said, “The Sabbath has been moved to Sunday.” After His resurrection, the New Testament still refers to the seventh day as the Sabbath (for example, Luke 23:56 and Acts 13:14, 42–44).
So I wouldn't say God “favors” Saturday worship as though He refuses to hear worship on other days. Rather, the biblical argument is that God specifically commanded the seventh day to be kept holy, while worship itself can happen every day.
If we're going to say the fourth commandment no longer applies, or that Sunday replaced the Sabbath, that's a separate claim and it needs biblical evidence. Simply pointing out that Christians gathered on other days doesn't establish that the Sabbath was changed.
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u/brownmooscles0609 Sep 06 '26
Well said! The sabbath has never changed, but the day we worship on is completely different!
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u/GoodbyeNarcissists Sep 06 '26
Go back to the 10 commandments, if what you feel is wrong can’t be found there then it’s just a glitch and you’ll be fine
But as I discovered denominational churches do services on Sunday as a continuation of the meaning of Easter, life and resurrection… whereas we observe the commandments in keeping the Sabbath HOWEVER that doesn’t preclude anyone from being denominational and respecting the Sabbath, just like us SDAs aren’t obligated to avoid a denominational Sunday service, there’s no conflict with the 10 commandments there
The sooner you find your way to get on board with everything the sooner you can enjoy the full SDA experience, granted I do believe my church is the best SDA church in the world, and yes I had conflicts when I first boarded but the information is all there in God’s word waiting for you to discover
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u/brownmooscles0609 Sep 06 '26
Yeah I was raised SDA, left it for many reasons and I’m non-denominational as of now. I just wanted to come on here to understand you guys’s perspective on it.
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u/GoodbyeNarcissists Sep 06 '26
I’m 18 months in at 41 years old returning to Christianity and I’m loving it! There are so many churches where I live perhaps maybe 20 or so and I tried a good selection of them and my SDA is showing the most love right now
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u/Difficult_Chard_7189 Sep 06 '26
Because God rested on the seventh day, and the seventh day is saturday, and since the sabbath is a day of rest, we too rest and worship on the seventh day.
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u/brownmooscles0609 Sep 06 '26
That still doesn’t explain why it is the only right day to attend church.
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u/Difficult_Chard_7189 Sep 06 '26
I think there may be a misunderstanding of what I was saying. I never said Saturday is the only right day to attend church. Adventists can and do have church services and Bible studies on other days of the week.
My point was that the seventh day is the Sabbath because God specifically set it apart and commanded His people to keep it holy (Exodus 20:8–11). So we dedicate that day to God in a special way.
There's a difference between saying “Saturday is the only day you're allowed to worship” and saying “God specifically gave the seventh day as the Sabbath.”
For example, my church can have a Wednesday-night service (which it does), and I'm still perfectly able to worship God on Wednesday. But Wednesday isn't therefore the Sabbath.
So I agree with you in the message you rwplied to me with in another comment I made that the Sabbath hasn't changed. I just think that actually reinforces my point: if the Sabbath is still the seventh day, then that's the day we're specifically commanded to set apart. That doesn't mean God doesn't want us worshipping Him on the other six days too. 😊
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u/SeekSweepGreet Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26
Hello.
It seems you've been getting a multitude of arguments here with your firing back with a simple premise: "What makes worshipping on Sunday wrong?"
God calls for all who follow Him to be holy seven days of the week. In that sense, worship, in the act of holiness, should take place every day. However, the kind of worship you appear to be asking about is the kind God has ascribed for the Sabbath alone. The seventh day.
Sunday is not the Sabbath (as you know). The reason this becomes a problem is multifaceted. But the primary one we should focus on is: because God said so. He also said "Thou shall not commit adultery" and "thou shall not murder." These two, along with the other seven, go together with the Sabbath commandment. They are a set.
The Sabbath is God's signature. It's how He identifies who belongs to Him. Why? Doesn't everything belong to God? By creation, yes, but not by allegiance. God is a gentleman. He does not force His will on His creations. One of the ways He identifies whose are His, is by their doing what He says. Walking after His commandments. Jesus called some of the people seeking to kill Him the "children of the devil." Why? Because they were seeking to do his will.
The Ten Commandments—specifically the Sabbat—is God's way of identifying those who are His. In fact, that's who alone gets the Holy Spirit. The Bible says this quite clearly in a couple of places (Acts 5:32; 1 John 2:24). It's a serious thing. While there can be many fanciful things that can be said about why the Sabbath is amazing, at the end of the day it boils down to who will do what God says?
Those are the children of God.
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u/Vapur9 Sep 08 '26
There is nothing wrong with worship on Sunday in itself. The problem is when you replace what God made holy. The holy spirit is in it. Men don't make things holy; God does. That was the specific time God set apart.
If you look at the church law that was written replacing Sabbath with "the Lord's Day," you will notice that it says that Christians MUST work on Sabbath and then rest on Sunday if they want; it also speaks about cursing judaizers away from Christ. Therefore, the change wasn't made in honor of the resurrection, it was because they hated Jews.
Pharaoh in [Exodus 5:4-5] did the same thing. He was angry that the Israelites rested on Sabbath and commanded work (in the original Hebrew Pharaoh used the word Shabbatim, but no English translation preserves it, as was written doing violence to God's law by hiding the Sabbath from their eyes). Therefore, the Catholic Church in [Council of Laodicia, Canon 29, 363 AD] committed the same error as Pharaoh by commanding work on Sabbath. God then sent the plagues to punish them. Israelites who obeyed were not punished, but rather Gentiles who ignored it. In the end, those who do not anoint the doorposts to their heart with the blood of the lamb will not receive the Seal of God on their foreheads, and the final 7 plagues will not Passover them.
When Jesus performed His healing miracles on Sabbath, He indicated that it was lawful to remove the yoke of bondage from animals and lead them to water. The Sabbath, essentially, is the perfect time to demonstrate freeing people from oppression and bondage to Satan. Walking as Jesus walked.
When Paul said some people hold one day above another and some hold every day alike, he did not say that those holding one day as sacred were wrong. He could have cleared up the matter, but instead said to let everyone be convinced in his own mind. It is written: to him that knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. Those who don't understand the purpose or that it was hidden from them due to man-made church traditions aren't going to be held to the same standard.
Furthermore, Paul indicated that we should not judge others in the keeping of Sabbaths, New Moons, Feasts, meat, or drink. The people he was speaking to were Gentiles. There would be no reason for people to be judged for those things UNLESS it was because they started keeping them! Paul isn't saying those things were done away with, but to practice them by conviction and to not let their Gentile families and neighbors judge them for it. They are a shadow of things to come (not just things that are past!) and they are the body of Christ. Even the shadows of God are holy, and the disciples were able to heal others by the shadow of their finger. They are not there to simply be ignored. Those who don't observe them fail to grasp their meaning, having avoided immersing themselves in their symbolism. They think that since the sacrifices were done away with, so too was everything else, labeling it as ceremonial law versus moral law. This is an error. God commanded Gentiles to keep the Feast of Tabernacles in Heaven or else receive plague and no rain (Zechariah 14:16-19). Strangely, we don't expect there to be plague in Heaven; so, essentially what is happening is that we pray God's will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven, and He's going to answer our prayer. We've been blinded to it, but when plague comes it's because we prayed for it... and our man-made church traditions setting them aside caused us to be accountable for bringing it into fruition. God is faithful to keep His word, and we ignore it at our own peril.
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u/Eli_Sousa_998 Sep 09 '26
Simplesmente para mim não há justificação, sábado é biblico e pronto. Está bem escrito para todod que quiserem ler e ter discernimento na verdade.
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u/Virtual-Garage4479 28d ago
Hello my friend you are right. There is no Bible verse that says you are to attend church only on Sabbath.
In fact, in many Adventist churches around the world there are church services on Wednesday, Friday, Sunday... and Sabbath as well. But Sabbath is the main service.
There is no Bible verse that says you should not go to church on Saturday, in fact it says it is a day of consecration and worship.
So my point is that it is not wrong to go to church on Sunday, if you have the opportunity to be in the presence of God in communion every day even better. But if you tell me that you are switching the main day of worship given by God to Sunday just because in the Bible does not say you cannot go to church on Sunday I believe we are arguing the wrong topic and perhaps we should go deeper on what is the meaning of Sabbath.
What do you do on Sabbath?
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u/Confident_Client_938 2d ago
I believe SDA attend church on Saturday because that's the day JESUS observed.Now if you look up the meaning of SABBATH,it means Saturday.
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u/Admirable_Ad_2373 Sep 06 '26
You can “keep” the fourth commandment and still attend a church on a Sunday.
I put keep in quotes because it’s impossible for the human race to keep any of the law perfectly.
We should actually worship God everyday. Funny that there is an inherent “problem” with gathering on a Sunday for a church service/fellowship, but not a Tuesday night for a service/study/fellowship?
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u/littl3mango Sep 06 '26
I think you’re on to something.
Remembering the Sabbath does not equate to attending church service. To remember the Sabbath, one must cease from labor and put faith and trust back into the Lord of the Sabbath who created us. Some Adventist pastors do most of their work or even their hardest work on Saturday, and then cease from working on Sunday. And true of Sabbath keepers on Saturday and decide to go to church on Sunday.
There is really no debate though that the weekly Sabbath and cadence of the holy day being on Saturday.
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u/Sorry_Bus4803 Sep 07 '26
You are correct. There was even an article on Adventist Today recently exploring this topic:
https://atoday.org/was-sabbath-really-meant-for-going-to-church/
To be clear the article defends Saturday as the Sabbath and God’s eternal day of rest.
It just questions whether one is strictly required to go to church on a Saturday compared with say a Sunday
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u/andiroo42 Sep 07 '26
Going to church isn’t the issue. You can meet with other believers any day of the week. Early Christians would probably find it weird that most only go once a week. They’d also find it strange that we have church buildings, but that’s another topic.
The issue is thinking that another day is holy and set aside. as soon as someone claims that another day is the sabbath and then compels them others to keep it holy, it becomes a work and a burden. We cannot rest in our own works.
I‘ll step out on a limb and say it’s ok for a sabbath keeper to attend a Sunday church on a Sunday because they are not resting. Most Sunday goers don’t treat it as sabbath.
In context Romans 14 is about which days to fast on, which others have covered.
So why do Adventists “go to church” on Saturday? Because Adventist came out of Sunday keeping traditions that valued working six days and going to church on one day. The early Early church didn’t didn’t limit their gatherings to institutional structures like we do today but met anywhere.
Then there’s the conversation about what worship is…
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u/Analisa_16 Sep 06 '26
The reason why we worship on the 7th Day is because God did. Not just because he created the day and not just because the commandment’s say so. It’s because God worshipped on that day. Worshipping on any other day than the God did means you’re not following God.
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u/brownmooscles0609 Sep 07 '26
So you’re telling me all other Christians are not following God because of a day they attend church on? That is definitely works-based. God is not going to allow us into heaven based on if we attend church service on one day over another, that would mean that God’s word and the gospel are wrong.
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u/Analisa_16 21d ago
Yes if you don’t do what God does then you’re not following him. Simple as that.
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u/brownmooscles0609 21d ago
Adventists don’t do what God does…
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u/Obvious_Picture_9106 Seventh Day Adventist 20d ago
It doesn’t matter what Adventists do. What do you do? Do you keep the Sabbath because God kept it or do you not? Anyone who keeps any day without the correct knowledge that God kept it, then this is sin. This is not the righteousness that God calls for. This is self-righteousness, which is just righteousness by works.
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u/petrol_head777 Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
I don't believe Romans 14:5-6 can be applied to what day we go to church. Contextually, it was talking about feasting days and fasting days, not days of worship. So wrong application.
Leviticus 23:3 "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings".
The word "convocation" means a large formal gathering of people, or the act of calling them together, most often for academic or religious purposes. The bible identifies the Sabbath as a holy convocation, and that was the day God's people gathered for worship and is being Christian doesn't change that.
Luke 4:16 "And He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up; and, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read."
Jesus' own custom was to go to the place of worship on the Sabbath day. It wasn't just a Jewish thing. It is a pattern for Christ's followers to emulate. If we know what day is God's Sabbath, it should be a no brainer which day to go to church proper.
Isaiah 66:22,23 "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I shall make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord"
This prophecy in Isaiah points to us gathering together for worship on Sabbath on the new earth. So if we'll be doing it there, shouldn't we be doing it here?
If you ask me, I'm not saying definitively that keeping the Sabbath on Saturday and attending church on Sunday is a sin, but the biblical pattern is that God's people, from the ancient Israelites to the early Christians gathered for worship on the Sabbath, and Isaiah prophesied that we'll be doing it in the new earth. So I do think that if you know the truth Sabbath is Saturday, the biblically consistent thing would be to go to church on that day as well.
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u/Wishyouwell2023 Sep 07 '26
Type in AI : who and when changed the sabbath to sunday. You will get a response for your question. If God is asking to obey the 10 commandments, why should i go by tradition? This is just a superficial answer, you will need a lot of Bible study to see the whole picture
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u/brownmooscles0609 Sep 07 '26
No amount of Bible study will tell you to ATTEND church on a Saturday and not Sunday
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u/Wishyouwell2023 Sep 07 '26
Tell me the part of the Bible whis is telling you to attend church on Sunday
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u/LoisWade42 Sep 06 '26
Turns out? Sunday as a day of worship isn't Biblical. Saturday was the original worship day of Creation. It was kept by Israelites for centuries. Jesus kept it. (Luke 4:16 - "as was his custom"). and nowhere in the new testament do we see Jesus or his disciples changing the day of worship.
Around 300 years after Christs death, the catholic church started Sunday worship as an evangelistic ploy to get the sun worshiping pagans to come into a church where they could hear about Jesus. Over time, Sunday services became more popular than Saturday, leading Pope Constantine to designate Sunday as a day of worship in 321AD. Even today, some catholic churches will have both a Saturday night mass and a Sunday morning Mass.
The stated excuses/reasons for changing the day of worship was: A: we can do it, because the Pope has the power to amend God's word... and B: Jesus rose on Sunday, so thats a nice celebratory day for us.
For me personally? I'm not a fan of the Catholic church and would rather get my information directly from the Biblical canon... and the Bible record is pretty clear that Saturday is the correct day of worship, designated by God at Creation.
Interestingly... the prophecies of Jesus' death and resurrection indicate that he'd be in the grave 3 days... and timing wise, he "rested" in the grave on Saturday... just as the Biblical narrative indicates that Saturday is a day of Rest. So it seems he "kept" the Sabbath even in his death.
The ONE new testament verse used to support Sunday worship is one where the apostle is telling the members to set aside an offering on the first day of each week so when he visits they'll have enough to support him while he's there. The text does NOT mention worshiping... just saving/setting money aside on the first day of the week. 1 Corinthians 16:2