There isn’t much debate over which day is actually the Sabbath – i.e the seventh day of the week which for us is the pagan-named after the planet Saturn day ‘Saturday’ (whether we as Christians should observe the seventh day or the first day (Sunday) is still much in debate)).
It is interesting to note that many middle-aged people in the UK still think Sunday is the Sabbath as my brother still did when I mentioned that the Sabbath was Saturday – he was convinced it was Sunday – a throw-back from when we were kids and all shops in the UK were not allowed to open on the Sunday. Hence without anything actually being said we all subconscioulsy saw the Sunday as the day of rest.
When I told him that actually the Sabbath was Saturday he was very perplexed and a little shocked, as if we had all been told a lie. But it’s no lie, it’s just that the Sabbath’s sanctity was ‘changed’ by the Catholic church many years earlier and this bled into the ‘protestant’ Church of England making most of its worshippers take for granted – the Sunday as The ‘new’ Sabbath.
To start off and understand how the Sabbath managed to go and was ‘changed’ (please note the inverted commas) from Saturday to Sunday, take a look at the video below.
