God made the day of rest holy. Yes, the Bible says God rested on the seventh day, and Jews follow that tradition. But the precise definition for 'sabbath' is the day of rest, which happens to fall on the seventh day (Saturday) for Jews, but is celebrated on Christ's resurrection day for Christians. By the way, Catholics do celebrate Mass on Saturday...and every other day of the week.
"Six days shall you labor and do all your work.
Yes, and Germany elected the man to office and willingly went to war under his direction. It was Hitler and Germany marching to war, and it doesn't surprise me that ALL clergy blessed the troops. Of course you are aware of how the Vatican was among the first to help Jews out of Germany. The Catholic Church rescued hundreds of thousands of Jews while trying to stay out of the ongoing world politics. Certainly various clergy voiced their own views without speaking for the Catholic Church.
I would agree many do not keep the Sabbath Day holy. But, that doesn't mean the "churches" aren't true. They aren't true because they can't even start by doing all things in Jesus Christ's name like the names of their churches. As far as the day of the week, there is no commandment when that day should be. Just one in 7 days. Even Jews today keep it only on Friday Sundown to Saturday Sundown or on Saturdays.
Which six days? Are you supposing they called them as we do today?
So, it is consistently admitted that the Roman Church has no high ground to claim, it is merely as human as any other institution and not superior.
God is clear which day is the Sabbath. He authorized no other. You're looking for excuses to follow the traditions of MEN over God. That's YOUR choice.
Because that's how days have been counted from Creation. The SABBATH is sunset to sunset.
Catholics and the church was not established first or at the beginning.
Catholic is a Latin term for "general"....meaning that it was a convention of all the churches and not a hierarchy.
The CC designates Saturday as the Sabbath.
And what about the Gnostic church that was destroyed by the Catholics?
The Gnostic Church was pointedly condemned by the Apostle John in his writings...it was a focus of his Gospel account and his letters to various churches. His book of "Revelations" contains letters to various churches which also condemned the theologies of Gnosticism.
No. Perhaps you are one who takes every word in the Bible as literal, that God created in six 24-hour days. The Hebrew indicates six divisions or time periods of time. When God was through, He rested for that seventh time period. It was man who defined day, and divided the week into seven days. The Jews worked six of these days and then rested on the seventh day, called 'Sabbath' meaning "Rest from labor." If you wish to call this week, defined by the Jewish tribe of man, as the only true calculation, have at it. But leave off calling the rest of us as unobservant. We work six days and keep our Day of Rest (defined by the day Christ rose from the dead) holy.
All the meanwhile, blowing the heads off of their own supposed brothers in Christ, only accomplished by throwing Jesus away.
It appears you believe Jesus taught the world politics and governance. Catholics hold no such belief. We believe Jesus taught us individual interactions with other individuals.
There are well over a billion Catholics in the world today. Add the number of yesteryear and those of you who search to disapprove of something a Catholic did at some time are going to have rich pickings. Kind of like if you were to do investigate the wrongs of your own church.
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