Were the creation days in Genesis 1 from day 1 to day 6, only meant for the Jews? Are the Jews the only ones whom God created and sanctified (that’s what the Sabbath is for)? Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath….. Jesus was the One who created heavens and earth and all that is in them….so do you suppose Christians should not observe Jesus’ Sabbath? Who created and sanctified and restored Christians? Isn’t that what the Sabbath is for? And you think Paul had the power to make a day holy when it was never made holy for Sabbath by Jesus in the first place?

Lastly, was the forbidden fruit in Eden a disputable matter? A 5 year old child can understand the days of the week and the name of the days of the week which Jesus had created. A 5 year old can distinguish between the 7th day from the 1st day in Biblical’s calendar. Should we consult 5 year old children to make final verdict on when the Sabbath of Lord Jesus is?

MAN DOES NOT CHOOSE OR SELECT HIS OWN DAY,GOD CHOOSES THE DAY FOR US…SABBATHTRUTH.COM..

The question of rest is not about whether there should be a day, but which day God Himself sanctified. Genesis 2:1–3 and Hebrews 4:4 clearly state that God rested on the seventh day, blessed it, and sanctified it—long before sin, Israel, or any human institution existed. The Sabbath is therefore a divine commandment that reminds us that God is our Creator. Exodus 20:8–11 affirms this truth, pointing back to creation as the reason for keeping the seventh day holy. The Bible never authorizes any transfer that blesses or sanctifies the first day of the week.

“Are believers free to choose the day they want to set aside for worship? The Apostles seemed to worship on two days. They worshipped on Saturdays because they were Jews, as did Jesus, and the Old Covenant was existing, and they, after the crucifixion, worshipped also on Sundays under the New Covenant, the first day of the week.”

This interpretation is a distortion of New Testament history. The apostles never sanctified Sunday or declared it the “new Sabbath.” Scripture records 84 Sabbath meetings in the Book of Acts.

3 Sabbaths: Acts 13:14, 42, 44; Acts 16:13
3 more Sabbaths: Acts 17:2-4
78 Sabbaths (18 months): Acts 18:4, 11
Total: 3+3+78=84

Jesus Himself, after His resurrection, told His disciples, “Pray that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day” (Matthew 24:20)—proving the Sabbath would still be sacred decades later during the destruction of Jerusalem and even in the last days before the second coming of Christ.

“The Sabbath was given to Israel only for its day of worship, not to any other people. The first day of the week is the day the Apostles and the early church chose to meet on and it is the day that Christ rose from the dead and so worshipping on the first day each week is an everlasting memorial of the resurrection.”

This claim directly contradicts Jesus’ words in Mark 2:27: “The Sabbath was made for man”—not for Jews only. God instituted the Sabbath at creation, when only Adam and Eve existed, long before the existence of Israel. Exodus 20 calls it a memorial of creation. Nowhere does the Bible say the resurrection transfers holiness to another day. The Lord gave baptism as the memorial of His resurrection (Romans 6:3–5), not Sunday worship. To call Sunday an “everlasting memorial” is to replace God’s divine institution with the mark of Papal apostasy.

“Saturday worshippers are quick to point out that man, the Pope, changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and is not Sunday named after a false god. This argument is meant to derogate (insult) the first day of the week but it signally fails to do so.”

It is a historical fact, not conjecture, that the Roman Church replaced the seventh-day Sabbath with Sunday keeping. The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine admits, “We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday” (Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, 1957, p. 50). No biblical text authorizes that change. To deny this is to reject Bible truth and history. The name “Sunday,” derived from pagan sun worship, reflects its origin in human authority (see Ezekiel 8:16-17).

“However it must be understood that when the church was united, Jesus gave its leader Peter, and hence the early church, some awesome powers, among them the power to make sweeping and profound changes on earth.”

This is a dangerous misuse of Matthew 16:19. Jesus did not give Peter—or any human authority—the power to change God’s moral law. The “binding and loosing” refers to matters of church discipline (Matthew 18:17-18), not to altering divine law. God’s law is eternal (Psalm 111:7–8). Even Christ declared, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law” (Matthew 5:18). To claim the Church can “change” the Sabbath is to contradict Jesus Himself.

“Jesus replied, ‘Blessed are you Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven’ (Matthew 16:17–19).”

This authority wasn’t just given to Peter. It was also given to the rest of the apostles and to the church as a whole (see John 20:19-23 and Matthew 18:17-18).

“It can be argued that The Church, acting under authority of this scripture, and the dictates of The Holy Spirit can so decide which day Christians regard as their Sabbath. Since no Sabbath was prescribed for Christians then The Church has every right to make such a prescription for its members.”

The Holy Spirit never leads anyone to contradict the Word of God. John 16:13 says the Spirit “will guide you into all truth,” not away from it. The New Testament never gives the Church authority to redefine the Sabbath. When religious leaders elevate tradition above Scripture, they repeat the sin of the Pharisees whom Christ rebuked: “In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Matthew 15:9). The Church’s “right to prescribe” a new day of worship is blasphemy—the very claims of the beast power in Revelation 13, which seeks to “speak great words against the most High” and “change times and laws” (Daniel 7:25).

The seven-day weekly cycle is one of the oldest timekeeping systems and has run continuously and independently of any calendar reform. The Julian and Gregorian calendars changed how months and years were calculated to align with the solar year, but this never altered the succession of the days of the week.

Think of it this way: adding a leap day on February 29th doesn’t make Saturday become Sunday. The weekly cycle just keeps going. The same is true for the Jewish calendar’s leap month; it’s added to align the lunar months with the seasons, but it has zero effect on the continuous seven-day count. The continuity of the week is one of history’s most established facts.

The Bible indicates Sabbath observance before the law was formally given at Mount Sinai.

In Exodus 16, God instructs Israel about the Sabbath through the miracle of manna, establishing a day of rest and forbidding gathering on the seventh day. This happens before the Ten Commandments are given in Exodus 20.

Regarding Abraham, Genesis 26:5 says he “obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws,” which many theologians believe included the Sabbath principle.

Annual festivals like Passover are tied to specific dates on the lunisolar calendar (e.g., the 14th day of the first month). These dates can fall on any day of the week. The weekly Sabbath, however, is always the seventh day of the week, regardless of the date.

If Passover begins on a Wednesday, the weekly Sabbath is correctly observed three days later on Saturday. The two cycles are separate and operate concurrently.

Jesus and the Jewish people of His day observed this same seventh-day Sabbath as Moses, that traces back all the way to the creation, providing a clear and unbroken historical link to the present day.