Neither the Pope or Constantine changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday

Sabbatarians Falsely claim: "The pope changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday"

This false argument originated with the Adventist's inspired prophet E.G. White:

"The holy Sabbath looked glorious- a halo of glory was all around it. I saw that the Sabbath commandment was not nailed to the cross. If it was, the other nine commandments were; and we are at liberty to break them all as well as to break the fourth. I saw that God had not changed the Sabbath, for he never changes. But the pope had changed it from the seventh day to the first day of the week; for he was to change times and laws." (Early Writings of Ellen G. White, page 33, official Adventist publication) Again on page 65 of the same book Mrs. White says, "The pope has changed the day of rest from the seventy to the first day."
Ellen G. White was a false prophet: Colossians 2:18 "Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by... taking his (her) stand on visions he (she) has seen, inflated without cause by his (Ellen White's) fleshly mind" (NASB)
We can PROVE that Ellen White was a false prophet by proving that the Pope (Catholic church) DID NOT change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday! You be the judge!

Answer:

A. The first Pope did not exist until 606 AD! (over 500 years too late) This is far too late because Christians were meeting on Sundays from the earliest record of history. So Ellen G. White is a false prophet!

B. But Adventist's have modified White's argument (corrected the inspired prophet) Listen to what Seventh-day Adventists now teach in their public "Revelation Seminars":

"Sundaykeeping was introduced into the Christian Church rather innocently, and its first advocates never dreamed that it would take the place of the seventh-day Sabbath of God. Sundaykeeping had its origin in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian in the second century. Hadrian persecuted the Jews in Rome incessantly. In an attempt to separate themselves from the Jews and avoid being persecuted with them, these early Roman Christians began keeping Sunday in addition to the Sabbath." "Now That's Clear, Schreven, p97, 1994)
Hadrian was Emperor of Rome (117-138 A.D.) THIS IS LONG BEFORE the first Pope.
Seventh-day Adventists in the 1990's are refuting what their founding "prophet" Ellen G. White was "told by God in a vision"
Seventh-day Adventists claim that "Christians in Rome", changed the Sabbath, not the Pope.
Seventh-day Adventists OFFER ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF that Christians in the church in Rome changed the Sabbath!

Samuele Bacchiocchi, the Seventh-day Adventist's top scholar wrote in an E-mail message to the "Free Catholic Mailing List" on 8 Feb 1997 and said:

I differ from Ellen White, for example, on the origin of Sunday. She teaches that in the first centuries all Christians observed the Sabbath and it was largely through the efforts of Constantine that Sundaykeeping was adopted by many Christians in the fourth century. My research shows otherwise. If you read my essay HOW DID SUNDAYKEEPING BEGIN? which summarizes my dissertation, you will notice that I place the origin of Sundaykeeping by the time of the Emperor Hadrian, in A. D. 135.

This proves once and for all time that Ellen G. White was a false prophet!

Seventh-day Adventists also publicly teach:

The Catholics themselves claim they changed the Sabbath!

Quote out of Adventist Revelation seminar book: Catholic Catechism, Peter Geierman, The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50.

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."

Answer:

A. Catholics make all kinds of false claims!

There are lots of things the Catholics claim that Sabbatarians don't accept.
Do Adventist believe the Catholic churches claim that Peter was the first Pope? Of course not!
Catholics make all kinds of claims that are neither true or supported by history!
Just because the Catholics claim they changed the Sabbath doesn't mean they actually did.
We strongly dispute both the Catholic and Adventist claim that the pope changed the Sabbath day as the "inspired" Ellen White (Adventist prophet) claims!

B. The Catholic Pope could not have changed the Sabbath:

The first universal Pope did not exist until 606 AD! (over 500 years too late)
History records that Christians were meeting Sundays from the first century AD!

C. Sabbatarians have absolutely no actual proof of ANYONE changing anything!!!

If Sabbatarians had any actual historical proof the Pope "changed the Sabbath" LET THEM SUPPLY IT TO US AND THE WORLD.

D. IF YOU HAVE PROOF ANYONE CHANGED THE SABBATH: click here

We already know about Colossians 2:16-17 which say God abolished the Sabbath, so please don't send us that.

E. We have effectively proven Ellen G. White to be a false prophet by

the facts of history
the mouths of her present day disciples!

Sabbatarians have also said that Constantine changed the Sabbath to Sunday:

Constantine's decree: "On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed." (Constantine, March 7, 321. Codex Justinianus lib. 3, tit. 12, 3; trans. in Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 3, p. 380, note 1)

Answer: Constantine did not change the Sabbath to Sunday, he merely created the first "Sunday closure law" because Christians had been worshipping on the first day of the week since apostolic times.

Sabbatarians can't get their story straight! Who changed the Sabbath? Is it the pope, Constantine or some Christians in Rome?

First they say the Pope changed the Sabbath. Then, when that proves false, they claim Constantine changed it! Then when that is proven wrong they now say that "Christians in Rome" changed the Sabbath to Sunday
There is nothing here to say that Constantine changed anything. Constantine is making a civil decree that because Christians were already meeting on Sunday, as they were doing since the time of the Apostles, that Christians should not work on Sunday. Read it again!
Today, it is not a sin to work on any day of the week! But it is a sin to not partake of the communion and give every first day of the week! Acts 20:7; 1 Cor 16:1-2; Heb 10:24-25

Three wrong guesses, you're out!

The so called "inspired prophet" Ellen White originally claimed the Pope started "Sunday worship" White later changed her mind and said the Emperor Constantine introduced "Sunday worship" in 325 AD. Today, Adventists blame the interaction of Sunday worship on Christians in 135 AD and not the Pope or Constantine!

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Guess #1: the Pope introduced Sunday worship.

The Roman Catholic Pope DID NOT change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday as Sabbath keepers falsely teach. Yes Catholics do claim they changed the Sabbath, but they also claim that Peter was the first pope! Sabbath Keepers reject the Catholic claim that Peter was the first pope, so they are in grave error for accepting the Catholic claim that the pope changed the Sabbath to Sunday!

Guess #2: It was Constantine in 325 AD.

Constantine (325 AD) DID NOT change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday as Sabbath keepers falsely teach. Christians never kept the Sabbath from the apostolic age (33 AD) through the time of Constantine (325AD). Constantine merely made the first "Sunday closure law", since it had already been the day Christians worship for 300 years!

Today's guess #3: Christians in 135 AD.

The historical claims of Samuele Bacchiocchi, Seventh-day Adventist, refuted. Bacchiocchi is likely the top Seventh-day Adventist historian in the world. His search for the origin of "first day worship" has led him to reject the traditional position of his church, and his founding prophet, Ellen G. White who claimed "Sunday keeping" began with Constantine in 325 AD. His view, which is increasingly being adopted by the Seventh-day Adventist church, is that Christians in 135 AD were first to worship on the first day of the week.

The truth: Apostles in 33 AD introduced Sunday worship.

In addition to Acts 20:7 and 1 Cor 16:1-2, click here for irrefutable historical proof!

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