Help needed

[brut4c]

I am certain this information is on the site somewhere but my search foo is weak. I need an article (hopefully written by one of the 12 or first presidency) on why we worship on sunday. My mother is seventh day advent. but is asking some questions which lead me to believe a door may be opening. I know we worship on sunday but I am not able to convey my knowledge in a way that is palatable to other faiths.

Thanks a million

[Palerider]

go to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and look up in the gospel library....get to the part about conference talks...

[brut4c]

I tried that but all I could come up with were talks on keeping the sabath holy. Maybe I am not using the right key words. I seem to remember a talk given by elder oaks on this subject not long ago but am unable to find it. I could be wrong though.

[Moksha]

I would think that we just follow the traditional format of Sunday being the celebratory day since Constantine's edict of 321 AD.

[Honor]

This might not be EXACTLY what you're looking for, but it's from the Doctrines of the Gospel student manual used for institute. If the link doesn't take you directly to the chapter I'm refering to, it's Chapter 27 - The Law of the Sabbath on pg 72. It took a while for it to load, but not too bad. I'm still skimming through it but it looks like it's got lots of scriptural references - always a good thing. Still looking for the article you mentioned. Hope this helps.

Edited October 12, 2008 by Honor
correction on manual name

[Honor]

I would think that we just follow the traditional format of Sunday being the celebratory day since Constantine's edict of 321 AD.

Just a snip from the link I posted above:

The Sabbath day was changed in the meridian

dispensation.

1. In Old Testament times, the Sabbath was observed

on the seventh day (see Exodus 20:8–10; 31:14–17;

Deuteronomy 5:12–14).

2. In New Testament times, Church members began

to observe the Sabbath on the first day of the

week to commemorate the Savior’s Resurrection

(see Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2; John 20:19).

"Keeping holy the Sabbath Day is a law of God, resounding through the ages from Mt. Sinai. You cannot transgress the law of God without circumscribing your spirit. Finally, our Sabbath, the first day of the week, commemorates the greatest event in all history: Christ’s resurrection and his visit as a resurrected being to his assembled Apostles” (David O. McKay, in Conference Report, Oct. 1956, 90).

Edited October 12, 2008 by Honor
My crazy need to look organized when posting, even if i'm not! Chalk it up to fixing a typo or something :D

[brut4c]

Thanks. I havent found exactly what Iwas looking for but there are teachings in the book "We Believe"that will suffice.

[Wingnut]

I would refer to what Honor said. The apostles in the New Testament broke bread on the first day of the week, because that was the day the Savior rose.

[georgia2]

Yes, the Sabbath was actually changed from the last day of the week on the calendar of the first because Christ was resurrected on that day. A better way to look at it is to think Sunday as the last day and it is just written wrong on the calendars.

[Hansel_Halvorsen]

your aunt may get a kick our of your country's hero Stone Wall Jackson. He was very religious and held the sabbath in high regard. Unfortunatley sometimes he had to wage war on a Sunday... his solution to this was, as general, to declare another day of the week "the sabbath" that way he could observe the sabbath in honor of the Lord every week. Of course Im sure keeping the calender accurate was hard this way haha.

I dont think it matters what day we worship. As long as we set a day aside for the lord's purposes.

[brut4c]

Hansel, I share the same belief to some degree. In my searching I found where the church has authorized people in certain parts of the world to observe the sabath on different days. I think isreal was one area. I think the scripture that says something to the affect of "the sabath was made for man and not man for the sabath" fits well here.

[Moksha]

From the Wikipedia: Sabbath in Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edict of Constantine

On 7 March 321, Constantine I decreed that Sunday (dies Solis) will be observed as the Roman day of rest [CJ3.12.2]:

On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits because it often happens that another day is not suitable for grain-sowing or vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost. [36]

Though some Christians use the decree in support of the move of the Sabbath day to Sunday, in fact the decree was in support of the worship of the Sun-God (see Sol Invictus). In any event, the decree did not apply to Christians or Jews. It was part of the Roman civil law and religion and not an edict of the Church.

Although this does not indicate a "change" of the Sabbath, it does favor a different day for rest, in the cities at least, over the Jewish Sabbath day. The dominant religions in the regions of the world where Christianity was developing were pagan, and in Rome, Mithraism, specifically the cult of Sol Invictus, had taken hold. Mithraism met on Sunday.