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RE: SUNDAY REFLECTION: THE CHALICE, THE HOST, AND THE PEACE I FOUND TODAY.
I understand your point, but I think the bigger question is what the New Testament shows the Church actually doing after Christ’s resurrection.
The issue isn't simply whether Genesis 2 uses the word “Sabbath.” Genesis says God blessed and sanctified the seventh day, and Exodus later explicitly identifies that day as the Sabbath.
But after the Resurrection, we repeatedly see Christians gathering on the first day: Jesus rose on the first day (Mark 16:9), appeared to the disciples that day (John 20:19), appeared again on the following first day (John 20:26), and the disciples gathered to break bread on the first day in Acts 20:7.
So I agree that Scripture should be our foundation. But Scripture also shows the Church gathering on Sunday because of Christ's Resurrection. That is why Catholics don't claim that Jesus simply said, “Change the Sabbath to Sunday.” The practice is understood from the whole New Testament witness, not from one isolated verse.
O.k., let's see what they did after the resurrection...
First Jesus say pray that your flight be not in the winter and on the Sabbath day. Why would He warn followers if the Sabbath wasn't binding anymore? This is 70 AD that He was talking about....
Also, when He was buried, the woman stopped working on His body because the Sabbath drew on. They kept Sabbath and He did even in death.
The apostles kept Sabbath, look at Paul and the 'reasoning' he did on the Sabbath. There ws times when both Jews and Gentiles came to worship on the Sabbath and even said they would return the following Sabbath.
I know Acts 20:7 is the big claim, but all that said was that they gathered on late Saturday night (first day of the week was as soon as the sunset) so they were preaching from Sabbath into the late hours of the night.
And appearing to His disciples doesn't make a day holy. The day is sanctified and made holy by Christ in Genesis 2.
It's interesting of what Catholics do say about Sabbath....And you can Google it to confirm it if you wish:
from the Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine by Reverend Peter Giermann.
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 transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
This is what I mean when I say we need to be very careful we are following what God says, and not what man says.
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