Part 6

The, “Culprit”

The Church of Rome is the source of “Sunday Worship” in the Christian World! So, please bear with me and I shall tell you how The Roman Catholic Church managed to do this!

The Roman Catholic Church changed the weekly Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday… This change came about in the 200-400 A.D. time period! Around 200 A.D. there arose a dispute over picking one day during the year to honor Christ’s resurrection – and Rome picked a Sunday for this! Later, when Lentwas brought into the Church, each Sunday during the forty days was designated to honor the resurrection. Then, in the 4^th century, The Church made the decision to keep every Sunday in the year! …In addition, to stop Christians from “Judaizing” on the seventh day of the week, the powerful Roman Catholic Church passed laws to ensure Sunday observance – on pain of death! Thus, they forcefully annulled the Sabbath Day! Now Remember: This is the same Church that instigated the inquisition, to ensure “total obedience”! It’s a well known historical fact that 50-100 million supposed “Heretics” were put to death by the Church of Rome during the more than 12 centuries that they dominated Europe!

*Not until 1965 did the Roman Catholic Church, stop branding Protestants as “Heretics.” They now deem it fit to refer to Protestants as “Separated Brethren."

Now, wait …before we go any further… I want to try to make things as clear as possible, this study is presenting some very firmprinciples of truth, and to do this I have to heavily dwell upon the “positive and “negative” aspects of various Religious Dogmas…

Now, everyone knows that numerous “bad” things have taken place in the name of “religion” and “Christianity” in our past history – And for me to effectively tell all that I need to tell, some of you may think that I’m too blunt…but the Lord knows the heart…It’s a shame that we all often seem to “argue” over many things, religious or otherwise…

What I want to ask of you while you read this study is to try to keep in mind this one thing: The main message of the Bible is “love”! In addition, please believe this, love motivates my “urgency”! Now, I may say some things that you may never have heard before, but I am only trying to impress upon you, the reader, that these things are extremely important.

Our planet is rapidly approaching the end times when the gloriousSecond Coming of Jesus will take place! Moreover, I see our race as a child riding a bicycle towards the edge of a cliff, unknowingly. Wouldn’t you “raise your voice” to shout a warning?

This study is a plea to everyone, all people everywhere… The bottom line to all of this is that God loves us, ands wants to save you, but he will not be able to unless you love Him and love His laws!

Let us continue with this historical and Biblical study of the Lord’s Sabbath…

Part 7

Constantine’s Sunday Blue Law

“Lets all judges and all city people and all tradesmen rest upon the venerable day of the sun.  However, let those dwelling in the country freely and with full liberty attend to the culture of their fields; since it frequently happens that no other day is so fit for the sowing of grain, or the planting of vines; hence, the favorable time should not be allowed to pass, lest the provisions of heaven be lost.”

Given the seventh of March, Crispus and Constantine being consuls, each for the second time. 321 A.D. The 1^st Sunday blue law!  Many Christians think that this event was “oh-so-wonderful”- Yes, it was good that Constantine helped end the persecution of Christians, but this law orders people to break the 4^th commandment! The questionable conversion of Constantine brought a flood of pagan compromise into the Church! …Idols…”Mother-Goddess” worships… Caesar-like proclamations of being God… and worship on the Sun-Day!

Part 8

What the Catholics say about the Sabbath

The Third Commandment

Q. What is the third Commandment?

A. The Third Commandment is: Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.

Q. Which is the Sabbath Day?

A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.

Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?

A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.

Q. Why did the Catholic Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?

A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday, because Christ rose from the dead on a Sunday, and the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles on a Sunday.

Q. By what authority did the Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?

A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which Jesus Christ bestowed upon her.

Q. What does the Third Commandment command?

A. The Third Commandment commands us to sanctify Sunday as the Lord’s Day.

The above page appears in the Catholic publication “The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine”!

Remember: The Papacy long ago changed and rewrote the Ten Commandments – their Third Commandment is really the fourth! The Catholic Church fully admits that the establishment of Sunday as a “Holy Day” is completely their act!

Part 9

The Real Ten Commandments

Read Exodus 20:3-17

                                    THE LAW          

THE LAW

AS CHANGED BY THE PAPACY

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