Christians and Their Sunday

by huey and Jesus

The choice is yours. It always has been. It always will be. God
has seen to that. Choice was first made available when God
placed the tree in the garden and said “don't”. When God
became the man Jesus and walked among us, he guaranteed our
choice with the blood from his veins.

Looking back, all the wars, all the suffering, all the “water
boarding”, the torture, it was all about choice. Someone was
trying to make somebody else choose the way they wanted them
too. But, your choice is unalienable. It is one of those things
your creator “endowed” you with. The founders of our nation
were very wise. They understood and documented your choice
belongs only to you and can not be taken from you. God himself
gave it to you and even he will not take it from you. Your choice
is the most sacred thing in the universe. When you are in court
and the Judge asks, how do you plead? And, you reply I don't
plead. He says you must plead innocent or guilty so, I'll just
enter an innocent plea for you and we'll proceed. It is obvious
you did not make that choice, the Judge did! It was HIS CHOICE!
An intelligent person, would say thank you for declaring me
innocent and walk out.

When it comes to the wrong choice there is this: “It’s easier to

fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled”.
Mark Twain The bible says: “Keep thy heart with all diligence;
for out of it are the issues of life” Prov.4:23 Our life is made up of
the choices we make. Choices have consequences.

We choose to believe there is only one God but the very phrase,
“Almighty God” indicates there are gods that are less mighty.
God has competition: “For such are false apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall
be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15

Almighty God is the creator and entered into his own creation as
the man Jesus Christ. There was nothing made except by him.
God made the seventh day sabbath and it is the only day he
blessed and made holy. Sunday, as you will see, is a day of God's
competition. The “Will of the Father”, is not that you accept
someone elses Sabbath. The so called “Christian Sabbath” is not
the creator's Sabbath, it is from a lesser god.
,
It seems apparent that our knowing Jesus just an't good enough.
It seems no matter what we do “in his name”, it just ain't gone
fix it. So, it ain't whether we know him, but rather the question
is: Does he know us? As it is written..............

”Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into
the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord,Lord,
have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast
out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you”…. Matthew
7:21-23…

Now let us just read these verses over again. Read them until we
can see that there are two groups here. One group is saying,
look here now, see what all we done accomplished, in your
name. While the other group are those “that doeth the will of my
father”.... Now you just listen, them ain't my words. Them is
Jesus' words right outta the bible! So, now which group do you
think is gonna make it? And, which one is gonna be left out?
Now until we can get this figured out, there ain't much need in
us going no further.

So, you see here now don't you. You smart, you done see those
that are “doing the will of my father” are the ones that are gonna
make it. I'm gone help you out a little bit here now, let me ask
you, what do you suppose the will of my father is? Do you
suppose that it is the father's will that you listen to and do what
he says ....-OR- …..do you think he will be just as happy if you do
what someone else says?
That's a fool question ain't it? But,You just be careful now how
you gone answer it. I don't know what your answer will be, but
YOU do! And, YOU are the one that's got to live with yourself and
there ain't nobody that likes to live with a liar! So, be careful
now, cause we are fixing to go where our minds don't want to
go.

You see now, God has got competition and I ain't talking about
dancing girls or none of that. I am talking about big time
competition. I am talking about a big, direct challenge to God
and his authority. Here are some more words from the bible. The
Apostle Paul asks: “Know ye not that to whom ye yield
yourselves to obey, his servants ye are whom you obey?” And
then the Apostle Peter plain out says: “We ought to obey God
rather than men”

I'm seventy eight years old and I been dealing with this sense I
was twenty seven. That's fifty one years. I aint asking for your
money. I got all I need and a little extra. God is good. He has
made available to me just as much money as I had sense enough
to use.

I ain't gonna connect all the dots for you. That's between you
and God. If you get 'em connected up enough to see the whole
picture and just can't deal with it, I'm available. Your preacher
ain't likely to be able to help you. There are plenty of people
that'll tell you what you want to hear and a few that'll tell you
truth. Truth is what you need to hear.

I know ALL the excuses: the buts, the ands, the ors, the whys.
Look, I done took all the side roads, the dead ends, been down
the blind alleys. I have been there and done that. Fifty one years
of it. And there ain't no valid excuses. They are all just lies we
tell ourselves. The calendar indicates Saturday is the seventh
day. Our bible indicates the seventh day is the Sabbath but, we
go to Church on Sunday, the first day of the week and not the
seventh. The Catholics mock all of us and ALL the other
protestants.

The Catholic group, Knights of Columbus, got President Dwight

Eisenhower to insert the words: Under God, into the pledge of
allegiance and too many of us don't know why, but here is why
most all people go to church on Sunday instead of Saturday. So,
when God asks you why did you forget the Sabbath, when he
already ask you to remember it, are you gone tell him well ….it's
been a long time and the Sabbath just got sorta got lost in all
them gone by years. But now listen, God is going to say, well
then, how did you figure out what day Sunday is? And, you gone
say, why the calendar of course!. And then he is gone say well,
didn't that same calendar show you what day the sabbath is?

Listen -IF- the calendar is good enough to show us what day

Sunday is, why ain't it good enough to show us the Sabbath?
And, why don't we ever stop to think about the choices we
make and, that we show God no respect by choosing the first
day over the seventh? Listen ... WHEN we choose this guy and
HIS day in place of God's day, who are we serving? Are we
serving God? -or- are we serving the other guy?
Listen to me now … We ain't got no excuse. All we got is a
choice, and God gave that to us, bought and paid for with the
blood outta his veins. THE question we must all ask ourselves is:
….......Why do we choose like we do?

Statements made by the Roman Catholic Church about the

Sabbath

“Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblical approved

day of worship. The Catholic Church protests that it transferred
Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to
Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in
the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If
Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it
should worship on Saturday.” — Rome’s Challenge
immaculateheart.com/maryonline Dec 2003.

“Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain

on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the
observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred
duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation,
and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification
of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of
Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” — James Cardinal
Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th
Edition, p 111; 88th Edition, p. 89).

“For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the

Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to
Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to
keep holy the Sabbath day, that is the 7th day of the week,
Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has
been revealed to us by the [Roman Catholic] church outside the
Bible.” — Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947, p. 9, article “To
Tell You the Truth.”

Who Made Sunday Holy? “Written by the finger of God on two

tables of stone, this Divine code (ten commandments) was
received from the Almighty by Moses amid the thunders of
Mount Sinai...Christ resumed these Commandments in the
double precept of charity--love of God and of the neighbour; He
proclaimed them as binding under the New Law in Matthew 19
and in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5)...The (Catholic)
Church, on the other hand, after changing the day of rest from
the Jewish Sabbath, or seventh day of the week, to the first,
made the Third Commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be
kept holy as the Lord’s Day...He (God) claims one day out of the
seven as a memorial to Himself, and this must be kept holy...” —
The Catholic Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, “The Ten Commandments”,
1908 edition by Robert Appleton Company; and 1999 Online
edition by Kevin Knight, Imprimatur, John M. Farley, Archbishop
of New York.

“Question: How prove you that the church had power to

command feasts and holydays? “Answer: By the very act of
changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of
and therefore they fondly contradict themselves by keeping
Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by
the same church. “Question: Have you any other way of proving
that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?
“Answer: Had she not such power, she could not a done that in
which all modern religionists agree with her; -she could not have
substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week,
for the observance of Saturday the seventh day of the week, a
change for which there is no Scriptural authority.” — Stephen
Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism On the Obedience Due to the
Church, 3rd edition, Chapter 2, p. 174 (Imprimatur, John Cardinal
McCloskey, Archbishop of New York).
 “Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the
Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the
Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. ‘The day of the
Lord’ was chosen, not from any direction noted in the Scriptures,
but from the (Catholic) Church’s sense of its own power...People
who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority,
should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep Saturday
holy.” — St. Catherine Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May
21, 1995.

“Nowhere in the Bible is it stated that worship should be

changed from Saturday to Sunday...Now the Church...instituted,
by God’s authority, Sunday as the day of worship. This same
Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of
Purgatory long before the Bible was made. We have, therefore,
the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday.” —
Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About, 1927 edition,
p. 136.

“Question - Which is the Sabbath day? “Answer - Saturday is the

Sabbath day. “Question - Why do we observe Sunday instead of
Saturday? “Answer - We observe Sunday instead of Saturday
because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D.
364), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” — Rev.
Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic
Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd edition, 1957.

“Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten
Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday the first day of the
week and did the Church change the seventh day - Saturday - for
Sunday, the first day? I answer yes. Did Christ change the day’? I
answer no!” “Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons.” — James
Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Md. (1877-1921), in a
signed letter.

“Question. - How prove you that the Church hath power to

command feasts and holy days? “Answer. - By the very act of
changing Sabbath into Sunday which Protestants allow of; and
therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday
strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same
Church. “Question. - How prove you that? “Answer. - Because by
keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the Church’s power to ordain
feasts, and to command them under sin: and by not keeping the
rest by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same
power.” — An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine, composed
by Henry Tuberville, p. 58.

“Some theologians have held that God likewise directly

determined the Sunday as the day of worship in the New Law,
that He Himself has explicitly substituted the Sunday for the
Sabbath. But this theory is now entirely abandoned. It is now
commonly held that God simply gave His Church the power to
set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as Holy
Days. The (Roman Catholic) Church chose Sunday, the first day
of the week, and in the course of time added other days as holy
days.” — John Laux, A Course in Religion for Catholic High
Schools and Academies, 1936 edition, vol. 1, p. 51.

1 “Question. What warrant have you for keeping Sunday

preferably to the ancient sabbath which was Saturday? “Answer.
We have for it the authority of the Catholic church and apostolic
tradition. “Question. Does the Scripture anywhere command the
Sunday to be kept for the Sabbath? “Answer. The Scripture
commands us to hear the church (St.Matt.18:17; St. Luke 10:16),
and to hold fast the traditions of the apostles. 2 Thess 2:15. But
the Scripture does not in particular mention this change of the
Sabbath.
“St John speaks of the Lord’s day (Rev 1:10) but he does not tell
us what day of the week that was, much less does he tell us
what day was to take the place of the Sabbath ordained in the
commandments. St.Luke speaks of the disciples meeting
together to break bread on the first day of the week. Acts 20:7.
And St. Paul (1 Cor.16:2) orders that on the first day of the week
the Corinthians should lay in store what they designated to
bestow in charity on the faithful in Judea: but neither the one or
the other tells us that this first day of the week was to be
henceforth a day of worship, and the Christian Sabbath; so that
truly the best authority we have for this ancient custom is the
testimony of the church. And therefore those who pretend to be
such religious observers of Sunday, whilst they take no notice of
other festivals ordained by the same church authority, show that
they act more by humor, than by religion; since Sundays and
holidays all stand upon the same foundation, namely the
ordinance of the (Roman Catholic) church.” — Catholic Christian
Instructed, 17th edition, p. 272-273.

“Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the (Roman

Catholic) Church, has no good reasons for its Sunday theory, and
ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath.” — John
Gilmary Shea, American Catholic Quarterly Review, January
1883.

“The Catholic church for over one thousand years before the
existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission,
changed the day from Saturday to Sunday...The Protestant World
at its birth found the Christian Sabbath too strongly entrenched
to run counter to its existence; it was therefore placed under
the necessity of acquiescing in the arrangement, thus implying
the (Catholic) Church’s right to change the day, for over three
hundred years. The Christian Sabbath is therefore to this day,
the acknowledged offspring of the Catholic Church as spouse of
the Holy Ghost, without a word of remonstrance from the
Protestant World.” — James Cardinal Gibbons in the Catholic
Mirror, September 23, 1983.

Whose Day of Worship is Sunday?

“They [the Protestants] deem it their duty to keep the Sunday
holy. Why? Because the Catholic Church tells them to do so.
They have no other reason...The observance of Sunday thus
comes to be an ecclesiastical law entirely distinct from the
divine law of Sabbath observance...The author of the Sunday
law...is the Catholic Church.” — Ecclesiastical Review, February
1914.
“The Sunday...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church.” —
American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883.
“Sunday...is the law of the Catholic Church alone...” — American
Sentinel (Catholic), June 1893. “Sunday is a Catholic institution
and its claim to observance can be defended only on Catholic
principles...From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a
single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public
worship from the last day of the week to the first.” — Catholic
Press, Sydney, Australia, August 1900.

“It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and

all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them
anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution
of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day
observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.” — Priest
Brady, in an address reported in The News, Elizabeth, New
Jersey, March 18, 1903.

Who Do We Reverence and Pay Homage to by Keeping Sunday

Holy?
“From this we may understand how great is the authority of the
church in interpreting or explaining to us the commandments of
God - an authority which is acknowledged by the universal
practice of the whole Christian world, even of those sects which
profess to take the holy Scriptures as their sole rule of faith,
since they observe as the day of rest not the seventh day of the
week demanded by the Bible, but the first day. Which we know is
to be kept holy, only from the tradition and teaching of the
Catholic church.” — Henry Gibson, Catechism Made Easy, #2, 9th
edition, vol. 1, p. 341-342.

“It was the Catholic church which...has transferred this rest to

Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord.
Therefore the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an
homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the
(Catholic) church.” — Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk About
the Protestantism of Today, p. 213.

“Sunday is our mark or authority...the church is above the Bible,

and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that
fact.” — Catholic Record of London, Ontario, September 1, 1923.

“Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change

(Saturday Sabbath to Sunday) was her act...And the act is a
mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things.” — H.F.
Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons.

“I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to

me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy.
There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic
Church alone. The Bible says, ‘Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy.’ The Catholic Church says: ‘No. By my divine power
I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the
first day of the week.’ And lo! The entire civilized world bows
down in a reverent obedience to the command of the holy
Catholic Church.” — father T. Enright, C.S.S.R. of the
Redemptoral College, Kansas City, in a lecture at Hartford,
Kansas, February 18, 1884, printed in History of the Sabbath, p.
802.

“Protestants...accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for

public worship after the Catholic Church made the change...But
the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that...In observing
the Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman
for the church, the Pope.” — Our Sunday Visitor, February 15,
1950.

Conclusion and the Challenge

“The (Roman Catholic) Church changed the observance of the
Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority
given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant
claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant
for observing Sunday.” — The Catholic Universe Bulletin, August
14, 1942, p. 4.

“Sunday is founded, not of scripture, but on tradition, and is

distinctly a Catholic institution. As there is no scripture for the
transfer of the day of rest from the last to the first day of the
week, Protestants ought to keep their Sabbath on Saturday and
thus leave Catholics in full possession of Sunday.” — Catholic
Record, September 17, 1893.

“Regarding the change from the observance of the Jewish

Sabbath to the Christian Sunday, I wish to draw your attention to
the facts:
“1) That Protestants, who accept the Bible as the only rule of
faith and religion, should by all means go back to the
observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they do not, but on the
contrary observe the Sunday, stultifies them in the eyes of every
thinking man.
“2) We Catholics do not accept the Bible as the only rule of faith.
Besides the Bible we have the living Church, the authority of the
Church, as a rule to guide us. We say, this Church, instituted by
Christ to teach and guide man through life, has the right to
change the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament and hence, we
accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We frankly say,
yes, the Church made this change, made this law, as she made
many other laws, for instance, the Friday abstinence, the
unmarried priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages, the
regulation of Catholic marriages and a thousand other laws...
“It is always somewhat laughable, to see the Protestant
churches, in pulpit and legislation, demand the observance of
Sunday, of which there is nothing in their Bible.” — Peter R.
Kraemer, Catholic Church Extension Magazine, USA (1975),
Chicago, Illinois, “Under the blessing of the Pope Pius XI”.

“I am going to propose a very plain and serious question to

those who follow ‘the Bible and the Bible only’ to give their most
earnest attention. It is this: Why don’t you keep holy the Sabbath
day?...

“The command of the Almighty God stands clearly written in the

Bible in these words: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it
holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt
not do any work.’ Exodus 20:8-10...

“You will answer me, perhaps, that you do keep the Sabbath; for
that you abstain from all worldly business and diligently go to
church, and say your prayers, and read your Bible at home every
Sunday of your lives... “But Sunday is not the Sabbath day.
Sunday is the first day of the week: the Sabbath day is the
seventh day of the week. Almighty God did not give a
commandment that men should keep holy one day in seven; but
He named His own day, and said distinctly: ‘Thou shalt keep holy
the seventh day’; and He assigned a reason for choosing this day
rather than any other - a reason which belongs only to the
seventh day of the week, and cannot be applied to the rest. He
says, ‘For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea
and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day: wherefore
the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it’, Exodus
20:11, Genesis 2:1-3.

Almighty God ordered that all men should rest from their labor
on the seventh day, because He too had rested on that day: He
did not rest on Sunday, but on Saturday. On Sunday, which is the
first day of the week, He began the work of creation; He did not
finish it. It was on Saturday that He ‘ended His work which he
had made: and God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it He had rested from all His work which God
created and made.’ Genesis 2:2-3...

“Nothing can be more plain and easy to understand than all this;
there is nobody who attempts to deny it. It is acknowledged by
everybody that the day which Almighty God appointed to be kept
holy was Saturday, not Sunday. Why do you then keep holy the
Sunday and not Saturday?

“You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that
the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed!
But by whom? Who has the authority to change an express
commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said,
‘Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day’, who shall dare to say,
‘Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on
the seventh day: but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its
stead?’ This is a most important question, which I know not how
you answer...
“You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the
Bible only; and yet, in so important a manner as the observance
of one day in seven as the holy day, you go against the plain
letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that day
which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep holy the
seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments; you believe that
the other nine are still binding. Who gave you authority to
tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your own
principles, if you really follow the Bible, and the Bible only you
ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament
in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered.”
Excerpts from “Why Don’t You Keep Holy the Sabbath Day?”,
pages 3-15 in The Clifton Tract, vol. 4, published by the Roman
Catholic Church 1869.

“The arguments...are firmly grounded on the word of God, and

having been closely studied with the Bible in hand, leave no
escape for the conscientious Protestant except the
abandonment of Sunday worship and the return to Saturday,
commanded by their teacher, the Bible, or, unwilling to abandon
the tradition of the Catholic Church, which enjoins the keeping
of Sunday, and which they have accepted in direct opposition to
their teacher, the Bible, consistently accept her (the Catholic
Church) in all her teachings. Reason and common sense demand
the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either
Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicism
and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible.” —
James Cardinal Gibbons, in Catholic Mirror, December 23, 1893.