Why do Christians worship on Sunday?

WND ^ | 02/27/2011 | Joseph Farrah

[hope_dies_last]

Have you ever wondered why one of the Ten Commandments seems null and void – notably the one calling on believers to observe the Sabbath?

Ask your pastor or priest and you will probably hear it's because Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday... (or because the disciples broke bread on Sunday morning--after a daylong sermon that extended into the night hours the preceding Sabbath Day)

And then there's the little problem of this switch of worship days not being mentioned in the Bible – and the historical fact that most Christians continued observing the Sabbath for hundreds of years after Jesus rose from the dead.

So what happened? What caused the switch?

[roamer_1]

There is not a shred of support for any other day.

TRUE.

[roamer_1]

Christians have worshipped on Sunday since early times

While technically true, not in the way that you seem to assume... Christianity is a sect of Judaism, and followed the worship model of the Jews.

That is, to REST on the Sabbath... That means to go nowhere, do nothing. It is reserved for individual/familial praise of YHWH and to mark the day of the Creator. It lasts from Friday evening until Saturday evening, which is one day.

The custom was to congregate after the Sabbath, in the evening of Saturday, which technically IS Sunday, as YHWH measures days.

The early Christians performed in a similar manner, as the Bible testifies.

The Sunday sabbath is an artifice of Rome's, and began in Rome, and shortly after in Alexandria, but took a long time, and force (taxes, laws) to get the rest of Christendom to comply.

The point is not the congregation meeting on Sunday. The point is failing to observe the Sabbath on Saturday.