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FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

BY WHOM, WHEN AND HOW THE SABBATH WAS TRANSFERRED TO SUNDAY

What was the response of the bishops assembled at the Council of Nicene to Constantine’s perverted concept of conversion that he sent as an instruction to them? Does the record say they prayed to God for enlightenment, guidance and direction, as under shepherds and men of God should always do? No! Instead:

“The bishops were only TOO WlLLING to follow the emperor’s instructions. and the result was DISASTROUS to the church. J. A. W. Neander in the following paragraph some of the results of this policy:

‘Such were those who, without any real interest whatsoever to the concerns of religion, living half in Paganism and half in an outward show of Christianity, composed the CROWDS that thronged the CHURCHES on the festivals of the Christians, and the THEATERS on the festivals of the Pagans.’ – ‘History of the Christian Religion and Church,’ Vol. II, Sec. 3, Part I, Div. 1, par. 1, p. 233. Boston. 1855.

“No wonder Rev. H.H. Milmann exclaims:
‘Is this Paganism approximating to Christianity, or Christianity degrading to Paganism under another form??’- Ibid, p. 412.

“Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, and an admirer of Constantine,  co-operated with him in bringing ‘the venerable day of the Sun’ into the Christian church. Speaking of POPE SYLVESTER, CONSTANTINE, and HIMSELF [Eusebius], he says:

“All things whatsoever that it was a duty to do on the Sabbath these things WE have transferred to the Lord’s day, as more appropriately belonging to it, because it has a PRECEDENCE and is FIRST in rank and more honorable than the Jewish Sabbath. For on that day, in making the world, God said, ‘Let there be light, and there was light.’ – ‘ Commentary on the Psalm;’ quoted in ‘Literature on the Sabbath Question,’ Robert Cox, Vol. 1, p. 361.

“Eusebius evidently used the strongest argument he knew as proof for Sunday keeping: but advocates of this new holiday had probably not yet considered the IDEA that Christ’s RESURRECTION would be an argument in favor of Sunday-keeping, so he used creation instead!”

Many Christians today are using the latter reason as to why they keep Sunday! No wonder the papacy’s question as to why they keep Sunday instead of the Sabbath, as the Bible clearly teaches, remains unanswerable Biblically! Only the truth can set man free from the bondage of error and sin! Bless all, NMF 

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

WHAT THE AUTHOR OF THE ‘BAPTIST MANUAL’ SAYS ABOUT THE BURNING ISSUE OF WHICH IS THE TRUE SABBATH

“Dr. Edward D. Hiscox, author of the ‘Baptist Manual’ says:
‘There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will be said, however, with some show of triumph [?!], that the Sabbath was TRANSFERRED from the seventh day to first day of the week, with all the duties, privileges, and sanctions. Earnestly desiring INFORMATION on this subject, which I have studied for many years, I ASK, where can the record of such a transaction [change] 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.

‘‘I wish to say that this SABBATH QUESTION, in this aspect of it [the ‘transactional change’] is THE GRAVEST and MOST PERPLEXING QUESTION CONNECTED WITH CHRISTIAN PEOPLE; and the only reason that it is not a MORE DISTURBING ELEMENT in Christian thought and in religious discussions, is BECAUSE the Christian world has settled down CONTENT on the conviction that SOMEHOW a transference has taken place at the beginning of Christian history.

‘To me, it seems UNACCOUNTABLE that Jesus during three ears’ intercourse with His disciples, often conversing with them upon the SABBATH QUESTION, discussing it in some of its various aspects, FREEING it from the false glosses, NEVER ALLUDED TO A TRANSFERENCE of the day; also that during 40 days of His resurrection life, no such thing was intimated.

‘Nor so far as we know, did the (Holy) Spirit which was given ‘to bring to their remembrance all things whatsoever He had said unto them,’ deal with this question. Nor yet did the inspired apostles, IN PREACHING THE GOSPEL, founding churches, counseling and instructing those founded, discuss or approach this subject.

‘Of course I quite well know that Sunday did come into the early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the Christian Fathers and other sources. But what a PITY it comes BRANDED with the mark of Paganism, and christened with the name of the SUN-GOD, when adopted and sanctioned by the PAPAL APOSTASY, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy(??) to PROTESTANTISM!’” – A paper read before a New York Ministers’ Conference, held Nov. 13, 1893. From a copy furnished by Dr. Hiscox for the ‘Source Book,’ pp. 513, 514. Wash., D.C., Review & Herald, 1892 – Facts of Faith, Christian Edwardson, pp.107, 108. Southern Pub.Asso., 1943.

Bless all, but only with and in the truth as it is in Jesus, NMF.