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Roman Catholicand ProtestantConfessionsabout Sunday
 
Roman Catholicand ProtestantConfessions
about Sunday
. The Bible Sabbath Association
Firstprinting
1988 - 10,0cx)
Second printing
1990 - 15,0cx)
 
Roman Catholic andProtestant Confessionsabout Sunday
Thevast majority ofChristian churchestoday teach the observance ofSunday. thefirst dayofthe week. as atime forrest andworship. Yet it is generally known andfreely admitted that the early Christiansobserved the seventh day as the Sabbath.Howdid this change come about?Historyreveals that itwas decades afterthe death of the apostles that a politico-religioussystem repudiated the Sabbath of &ripture and substituted the observanceofthe first day ofthe week. The followingquotations. all from Roman Catholicsources, freely acknowledge that there isno Biblicalauthority forthe observance of Sunday, that it was the Roman Churchthat changed the Sabbath tothe first dayof the week.Inthe second portion ofthis booklet arequotations fromProtestants. Undoubtedlyallofthese noted clergymen. scholars. andwriters kept Sunday, but they all franklyadmit that there isnoBiblicalauthority fora first-day sabbath.James Cardinal Gibbons.
The Faith oJ 
Our
Fathers,
88th ed..
pp.
89.
"Butyoumay read the BiblefromGene-sis to Revelation, and you will not find asinglelineauthorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the relig-
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