The Origin of
the Sabbath
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APPROVED BY THE
POPE
THE ALTERED! TEN
COMMANDMENTS
You may ask, why was
this done? To make Christianity more
attractive to pagans!
The commandment
against images is removed in the
second commandment.
The Saturday Sabbath
day is replaced by Sunday!
The last two
commandments were split in two so
there are still 10 Commandments!
*See Daniel 7:25! They
think they have changed God’s
law, but they really have not!
See Matthew 5:18
“I tell you the truth, until
heaven and earth disappear, not the
smallest letter, not the least stroke
of a pen, will by any means disappear
from the Law until everything is
accomplished.”
Part 10
The Council of Trent
It was at this council
that the Catholic Churchformulated
its permanent fundamentals of the Catholic
Creed– these series of sessions
were held to consider the questions
that had been raised and forced upon
the attention of Europe by the Protestants
Reformers: The reformers had charged
that the Catholic Church had apostatized
from the truth “as contained in
the written word.” Thus was the
proclaimed platform of the
reformation and of Protestantism: The
Written Word, “the Bible and the
Bible Only,” these were their
constant watchwords…
But the Catholics
insisted on “the Scripture
and Tradition,” the Bible as
interpreted by the Churchand the
reasoning of its “Holy
Fathers,” the Popes and Bishops,
etc., of earlier generations…
There was a strong
party even of the Catholics within
the council who were in favor of
abandoning “Tradition” and
adopting The Scriptures Only as the
standard of authority!
This view was so
decidedly held on the debates that
the Pope’s legates actually
wrote to him that there was “a
strong tendency” to set aside
tradition altogether and to make
Scripture the sole standard pf
appeal.” However, to do this
would manifestly be a big step toward
justifying the claims of the
Protestants…
By this crisis there
was developed within the
ultra-Catholic portion of the council
the task of convincing the others
that “Scripture and Tradition”
were the only sure ground to stand
upon – If this could be done,
the council would be convinced to
issue a decree condemning the
reformation, otherwise not…
The question was
debated day after day, until the
council was brought to a standstill!
Finally, after a long and intensive
debate, the Archbishop of Reggio
introduced into the council
substantially the following argument:
The Protestants claim
to stand upon “The Written Word
Only” – they profess to
hold the Scripture alone as the
standard of faith. They justify their
revolt by the plea that the church
has apostatized from the written word
and follows tradition. Now the
Protestant’s claim that they
stand upon the written word only is
not true. Their profession of holding
“the Scripture alone as the
standard of faith” is false!
The Proof: The written
word explicitly enjoins the
observance of the seventh day as the
Sabbath! They do notobserve the
seventh day, but reject it! If they
truly hold the Scripture alone as
their standard, they would be
observing the seventh day as is
enjoined in the Scriptural
throughout! Yet they not only reject
the observance of the Sabbath enjoined
in the Written Word, but they have
adopted and do practice the
observance of Sunday, for which they
have only the Tradition of the Church…
Consequently the claim of
“Scripture alone as the
standard” fails, and the
doctrine of “Scriptural and Tradition”
as essential, is fully established,
the Protestants themselves being the
judges! By this observation the
Archbishop scored a telling point,
for the Protestants’ own
statement of faith (The Augsburg
confession of 1530) had clearly
admitted that “The observation
of the Lord’s Day” had been
appointed by the Church only!
The argument was
hailed in the council as pure
inspiration– the party for
“Scriptural Alone” surrendered…
Moreover, thecouncil at once
unanimously condemned Protestantism
and the whole reformation as only an
unwarranted revolt from the communion
and authority of the Catholic
Church… This information is from
the Rome’s Challenge pamphlet,
pages 25-27.
Thus the inconsistency
of the Protestant practice with
“Protestant Profession”
that gave to the Catholic Church her
long-sought and anxiously desired
ground upon which to condemn
Protestantism and the wholeReformation
Movement…ALL BECAUSE THE
PROTESTANTS REJECTED THE BIBLE’S
HOLY SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH! …Therefore,
theCatholics won out… Moreover,
the Protestants failed in winning an
important victory for the Lord… “Tradition”
was to continue…
Part 11
“Tradition”
So, what did Jesus say
about “Tradition”… He
said… “Why do ye also
transgress the Commandment of God by
your Tradition?” Matthew 15:3
The Jews had enacted a rule that let
a person by-pass leaving his
possessions to his parents in case of
his dying, which ran contrary to the
commandment to “Honor thy Father
and Mother”…
“…Thus have
ye made the Commandment of God of
None Effect by your tradition!
”Matthew 15:6 Clearly the Lord
is not pleased with us following the
“traditions” of men in
place of his commandments! “In
vain do they worship me, teaching for
doctrines the commandments of
men,” said the Lord in Matthew
15:9! However, this is exactly what
the Catholic Church has perpetrated!
In addition, when Protestantsendorse
worshipping on “Sundays,”
they support the Roman Church’s
“Traditions”!
Part 12
Rome’s Challenge
This 32-page pamphlet
reprints four editorialsthat appeared
in the Catholic Mirror back in
September 2,9,16,and 23, 1893! The
Catholic Mirror was the official
organ of Cardinal Gibbons and the Papacy
in America…
In 1893, the United
States Congress and the Supreme Court,
declaring our country to be “A
Christian Nation,” passed the
orders that the World’s Fair was
to be closed on Sundays…
The International
Religious Liberty Association of the General
Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists
Churchpublished a 21-page brochure,
which cited the fact that it is
improper for our government to
legislate public behavior concerning
“Religious Matters!
Rome’s
Challenge
Why Do
Protestants
Keep
Sunday?
Its called “Separation
of Church and State”! See, if
people did not want to attend the World’s
Fairon “Sunday,” they could
stay home! But by passing a law to stop
all from attending, that’s
getting very close to legislating
religion!
The Adventists
outlined their belief in worshipping
the Lord on His Saturday Sabbath day,
via “free will,” and their Catholic
Mirror wrote their articles to verify
that “Saturday” isthe Bible
Sabbath Day!
Rome’s Challenge
– Here are quotes from what the
editor of The Catholic Mirror wrote:
“In the Old
Testament, reference is made 126
times to the Sabbath, all these texts
conspire harmoniously in voicing the
will of God commanded the Seventh Day
to be kept, because God Himself first
kept it, making it obligatory on All
‘a perpetual covenant.’
Nor can we imagine any one foolhardy
enough to question the identity of Saturday
with the Sabbath or Seventh day,
seeing that the people of Israel have
been keeping the Saturday from the
giving of the Law, A.M. 2514 to A.D
1893, a period of 3383 years.”
“Examining the
New Testament from cover to cover,
critically, we find the Sabbath referred
to 61 times. We find, too, that the Savior
invariably selected the Sabbath
(Saturday) to teach in the synagogues
and work miracles. The 4 gospels
refer to the Sabbath (Saturday) 51
times.”
“…The Redeemer
refers to Himself as “The Lord
of the Sabbath”… He never
once hinted at a desire to change
it… Thus the Sabbath (Saturday)
from Genesis to Revelation!
“Hence the
conclusion is inevitable… that
of those who follow the Bible as
their guide, the Israelites and the Seventh-Day
Adventistshave the exclusive weight
of evidence on their side, while the Biblical
Protestant has not a word in self
defense for his substitution of
Sunday for Saturday…”
“While the
Pharisees of old kept the true
Sabbath, our modern Pharisees have never
once in their lives kept the true
Sabbath, which their divine master
kept to His dying day, and which the
apostles kept, after His example, for
30 years afterward, according to the
scared record.”
“The Bible and
the Sabbath constitute the watchword
of Protestantism; but we have
demonstrated that the it is the Bible
against their Sabbath… We have
shown that no greater contradiction
ever existed than their theory and
practice! We have proved that
neither their Biblical ancestors nor
themselves have ever kept one Sabbath
Day in their lives…” Now,
remember, this was from the pen of an
extremely knowledgeable Catholic
Theologian – and he told it
exactly like it is… Now, in
2004, it has been 3,504 years.
“The Catholic
Church for over 1,000 years before
the existence of a Protestant, by
virtue of her divine mission, changed
the day from Saturday to
Sunday…”
“We say by virtue
of her divine mission, because he who
called Himself the ‘Lord of the
Sabbath’ endowed her with his
own power to teach, ‘He that
hearth you, hearth me’… In
addition, promised to be with her to
the end of the world. She holds her
charter from Him – A charter as infallible
as perpetual…”
“The Protestant
world at its birth found the
Christian Sabbath (Sunday) too
strongly entrenched to run counter to
its existence… It was therefore
placed under the necessity of acquiescingin
the arrangement, thus implying the
Church’s right to change the
day, for over 300 years…”
“… The
Israelites and Seventh-Day Adventists
are witnesses of this weekly
desecration of the day named by God
so repeatedly…”
“The history of
the world cannot present a more
stupid, self-stultifying specimen of
dereliction of principle than
this… That immense concourse of
Bible Christians, the Methodists,
have declared that the Sabbath has never
been abrogated, while the followers
of the Church of England, together
with her daughter, the Episcopal
Churchof the United States, are
committed by the 20th
article of religion that the Church cannot
lawfully ordain anything ‘contrary
to God’s Written Word,’ yet
God’s Written Word enjoins His
worship to be observed on Saturdayabsolutely,
repeatedly, and most emphatically…
All Biblical sects occupy the same
self-stultifying position which no
explanation can modify, much less
justify.”
“They have
ignored and condemned their teacher,
the Bible… In addition, they
have adopted a day kept by the
Catholic Church. The ‘Mother of
Abominations’…”
“…Their
pretense for leaving the bosom of the
Catholic Church was the apostasy from
the truth as taught in the Written
Word. They adopted the Written Word
as their sole teacher, which they had
no sooner done than they abandoned it,
as these articles have abundantly
proved…” There it is
Rome’s challenge to all
Protestants! Shocking isn’t it?
By the way, the prophet Isaiah
clearly foretold that the Sabbath
would falsely done away with, but
then reestablished! Please look for
this information in Part 13 the
Repairer of the Breach.
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