CATHOLIC: "Question.-Have you any other way of proving that the church has the power to institute festivals of precept?"
"Answer.-Had she not such power, she could not have 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, A CHANGE FOR WHICH THERE IS NO SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY." - Rev. Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism, p. 174
(emphasis added)
PRESBYTERIAN: "The Christian Sabbath (Sunday) is not in the Scripture, and was not by the primitive church called the Sabbath." -Dwight's theology, vol4, p. 401.
CONGREGATIONAL: "There is no command in the Bible requiring us to observe the first day of the week as the Christian Sabbath."-Fowler, Mode and Subjects of Baptism.
LUTHERAN: "The observance of the Lord's day (Sunday) is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the church."-Augsburg Confession of Faith," quoted in Cox's Sabbath Manual, p. 287
EPISCOPALIAN: "The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a divine command in this respect, far from them and from the early apostolic church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday."-Neander, The History of the Christian Religion and Church, p. 186
METHODIST: "It is true there is no positive command for infant baptism...Nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week."-Rev. Amos Binney, Theological Compend, pp. 180,181, 1902 ed.
BAPTIST: Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, author of The Baptist Manual said, before a group of New York Ministers, Nov 13, 1893:
"There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will be said,however, and with some show of triumph that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week, with all it's duties, privileges, and sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on this subject, which I have studied for many years, I ask, Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament, absolutely not. There is no Scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week.
"Of course," he continues, "I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the Christian fathers and other sources. But what a pity that it comes branded with the mark of Paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, when adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism!"
A mark of The Antichrist is "...he thinks to change times and laws." Dan 7:25.
No man/institution can over-rule our Creator and change His law.
Jesus prophesied the Sabbath being kept, during The Great Tribulation, and we are not there, yet. Mt 24:20.
Isaiah prophesied, ""For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before Me, saith the Lord." Isa 66:22,23.
God's people will keep the Sabbath in His kingdom.
It is a commandment, not a request.
