Scripture or Tradition?
What brought about a Sunday observance in place of the seventh-day Sabbath? Noted Roman Catholic theologian James Cardinal Gibbons wrote, in his book Faith of Our Fathers: “But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” Gibbons admits that if the Bible is your authority, you have no basis for observing Sunday. Scripture, as he writes, enforces “the religious observance of Saturday.” Gibbons acknowledges that it was the Council of Laodicea in the fourth century ad—not the pages of your Bible—that caused the professing Christian world to change from the seventh-day Sabbath to a Sunday observance.
Similarly, prominent Southern Baptist minister Harold Lindsell—a former editor of Christianity Today magazine—wrote: “There is nothing in Scripture that requires us to keep Sunday rather than Saturday as a holy day.”
What should you do? You need to study your Bible and decide whether you will live by “every word of God” as Jesus admonished us in Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4. Jesus said He is Lord of the Sabbath. He observed the seventh-day Sabbath regularly, and He did not break the law. As He said, “I have kept My Father’s commandments” (John 15:10). Will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and the instructions of your Bible? Or will you oppose them, in order to follow the tradition of men?
If you still have any doubt about which day is the Christian Sabbath, notice what your Bible teaches about the coming Kingdom of God, where Jesus Christ will rule all nations on Earth. “‘For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me,’ says the Lord, ‘So shall your descendants and your name remain. And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon [month] to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,’ says the Lord” (Isaiah 66:22–23).
In God’s Kingdom, everyone will keep the seventh-day Sabbath. What a wonderful world that will be. True Christians, in their worship, are foreshadowing that time today. – See more at: http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/magazines/2014/july-august/does-the-sabbath-matter#sthash.453fF6fJ.dpuf