Historians on Sunday vs. Sabbath Controversy

 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God. Exodus 20:10

"Noted historian Arthur Weigall enlightens us: “The church (Rome) made a sacred day of Sunday … largely because it was the weekly festival of the sun; for it was a definite Christian policy to take over the pagan festivals endeared to the people by tradition and give them Christian significance” (The Paganism in Our Christianity, page 145).

 

Walter Woodburn Hyde, another renowned historian, writes of this apostasy: “Remains of the struggle between the religion of Christianity and the religion of Mithraism are found in two institutions adopted from its rival by Christianity in the fourth century, the two Mithraic sacred days:  

December 25 dies natalis solis” (birthday of the sun)

 as the birthday of Jesus; 

and Sunday, the venerable day of the sun,

 as Constantine called it in his edict of 321 AD” 

(Paganism to Christianity in the Roman Empire, page 60).

 

***Neither the God of creation nor any of his holy prophets, and most assuredly, not Jesus Christ, endorsed such a change from God’s Seventh-day Sabbath to the first day of the week, Sunday. 

 

Augustus Neander, another church historian, educates us in his classic account of church history: “The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals was always only a human ordinance and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a Divine command in this respect, far from them, and from the early apostolic church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday”."  

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