The different shades of Christianity

A point of contention between a lot of Christians today is the recognition and worship of Saturday as the Sabbath. It is interesting to note that due to the creative dissonance struck by a common enemy our in- fighting over this issue has only grown over the years.

If you’re a practicing Christian and I am not worried which denomination you belong to, I want you to read this piece after a mindful prayer, for that is what will bring you to the Truth. For generations, some of you reading this have believed, Sunday is the Sabbath. Now let’s hit the pause button on your existing beliefs and let’s look at some logical reasoning here:

The Fourth commandment as given by God to the people of Israel, read, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy…” Rewind a little to the Book of Genesis and you look at the first reference to the Sabbath with God Himself creating the world in six days and resting on the seventh. Now if you look at the Gregorian calendar perched in your living room, you will notice that Sunday is the first day of the week on your calendar, so how can the first day of the week play the role of the last day of the week as well?

The second point to appreciate here is that while many Christians observe the Season of Lent, it culminates in the Easter weekend. Here too you will see that Easter weekend has Good Friday, “Holy” Saturday and finally Easter Sunday. Inadvertently the Holiness of the Sabbath has been manifested by the very ones who choose to disregard it. Even Jesus was taken from the cross on Friday evening which meant that even in death he observed the Sabbath. He rested. The Sunday being a day of new beginnings became the day of Resurrection.

So, here’s the question then, How can the beginning be the end?

Here’s the history behind it: Emperor Constantine, Christianity’s first converted king, by means of playing to the gallery wanted two important things to happen; he wanted his people to adopt Christianity and he wanted to do it without hurting the sentiments of the pagan believers. A middle — ground was struck. By way of a decree in A.D 321, Emperor Constantine immediately called for all work to be suspended on Sunday which was otherwise just another day of work for the Romans. He made them adopt the practice of shutting shop on Sundays and Resting — Here it must be noted that the change came about with a view that Sunday which is named after the Sun god would be easily adopted by these pagans because it would not hurt their beliefs. This re-integration of faith while it brought political peace, also misguided millions of Christians around the world for generations.

So here’s a simple request, if you have a question we’d like to help you further your Bible study, not just once a week or once a fortnight, we’d like to do it daily. Write in to https://bible.awr.org/the-counterfeit/ should you prefer to find the truth, rather than blindly emulate what someone else has done.