BAPTIST: “There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath
day was not Sunday… It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the
seventh to the first day of the week. …Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament-absolutely
not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the
week.”—Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, author of The Baptist Manual, in a paper read before a New York ministers
conference held Nov. 13, 1893.
CATHOLIC: “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 [Catholic} never sanctify.” –James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers,
16th edition, 1880. p. 111.
CHURCH OF CHRIST: “Finally, we have the testimony of Christ
on this subject. In Mark 2:27, he says: ‘The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.’ From
this passage it is evident that the Sabbath was made not merely for the Israelites, as Pauley and Hengstengerg would have
us believe, but for man… that is, for the race. Hence we conclude that the Sabbath was sanctified from the beginning,
and that it was given to Adam, even in Eden, as one of those primeval institutions that God ordained for the happiness of
all men.” –Robert Milligan, Scheme of Redemption, (St. Louis, The Bethany Press. 1962). P. 165.
CONGREGATIONALIST: “The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is
not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive church called the Sabbath.” –Dwight’s Theology, Vol.
4. p. 401.
EPISCOPAL: “Sunday (Dies Solis, of the Roman calendar, ‘day
of the sun, ‘because dedicated to the sun), the first day of the week, was adopted by the early Christians as a day
of worship…. No regulations for its observance are laid down in the new Testament, not, indeed is its observance
even enjoined.” --“Sunday,” A Religious Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. (New York. Funk and Wagnalls.
1883) p. 2259.
LUTHERAN: “The observance of the Lord’s day [Sunday]
is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the church.” –Augsburg Confession of Faith,
quoted in Catholic Sabbath Manual. Part 2. Chapter 1, Section 10.
METHODIST: “ Take the matter of Sunday. There are indications
in the New Testament as to how the church came to keep the first day of the week as its day of worshisp, but there is no passage
telling Christians to keep that day, or to transfer the Jewish Sabbath to that day.”—Harris Franklin Rall. Christian
Advocate, July 2. 1942.
MOODY BIBLE INSTITUE: “The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and
it has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment begins with the word ‘remember,’ showing that the
Sabbath already existed when God wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men claim that this one comandement
has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding?” –D. L. Moody, Weighed and
Wanang, p. 47.
PRESBYTERIAN: “Until, therefore, it can be shown that the
whole moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand…. The teaching of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath.”
–T. C. Blake, D.D., Theology Condensed, p. 474, 475.
PENTECOSTAL: “Why do we worship on Sunday? Doesn’t
the Bible teach us that Saturday should be the Lord’s Day?”… from some other source than the New Testament.”—David
A. Womack. “Is Sunday the Lord’s Day!” The Pentecostal Evangel. Aug. 9, 1959, No. 2361. p. 3.
ENCYCLOPEDIA: “Sunday was a name given by the heathen to
the first day of the week, because it was the day on which they worshiped the sun, … the seventh day was blessed and
hallowed by god Himself, and … He requires His creatures to keep it holy to him. This commandment is of universal
and perpetual obligation.”–Eadie’s Biblical Cyclopedia. 1872 ed., p. 561.
