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There are strongly-held differences as to whether God wishes Saturday or Sunday to be the main weekly day of Christian assembling and worship. As with many religious issues, both sides appeal to the Bible; then, when arguments based on it fail to convince, they look to the practice of the earliest Christians. For instance, some adherents of a seventh-day Saturday Sabbath allege as fact that Sunday did not become the chief day of the Christian week until the time of the Roman emperor Constantine in the early fourth century AD, when he changed it from Saturday to win over non-Christian sun worshippers.
(Credit to Grace Commission International https://archive.gci.org/articles/sabbath-and-sunday-adventist-theories)
Modern Sunday-keeping Christians often conclude that the apostles authorized or even commanded Gentiles to meet on Sundays instead of Sabbaths.1 This conclusion is rejected by people who think that Christians should observe the Sabbath day.2 Seventh-day Adventists have proposed ways in which the vast majority of professing Christians could have become deceived about the Sabbath. One authoritative SDA book claimed that the change from Sabbath to Sunday “was introduced at Rome about the middle of the second century.”3
(Source: Grace Commission International https://archive.gci.org/articles/does-hebrews-49-command-us-to-keep-the-sabbath)
Those who believe that Christians are required to keep the seventh-day Sabbath, especially as it applies to resting from work, sometimes cite Hebrews 4:9-11 as a proof-text. In the New International Version these verses say the following:
There remains…a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall.
Proposition: "RESOLVED, the New Testament teaches that the first day of the week (Sunday) as a day of worship is enforced upon God's people in this age of the world."
Affirm: John Lewis (Christian)
Deny: Samuele Bacchiocchi (Seventh-day Adventist)
Lewis' First Affirmative
Bacchiocchi's First Negative
Lewis' Second Affirmative
Bacchiocchi's Second Negative
