Does Sunday worship come from the Catholic Church?
Is attending church on Sundays a pagan Catholic day? The answer is simple. No, it’s not.
Is it true that the Catholics were the ones who created Sunday? Yes.
Some people look only at certain parts and pieces of history, but they don’t look at the overall picture of history. If you are a person who has a critical mindset, and a person who’s very open-minded, and also skeptical and critical, you can’t just believe information so easily, just because it’s just one or two pieces of information that are true. We have to look at the overall picture.
It’s true that the Catholics were the ones who created Sunday, after the name of some pagan god of the Sun. Constantine was mostly involved in that, and Constantine was practically the last Roman Emperor and probably the first Roman Pope so to speak. He’s the one that combined this together, and that’s why we’re all worshipping on Sunday.
Satan Copycats God
Sunday is obviously the first day of the week. Just because pagans do their religious ceremonies on the first day of the week, that should not scare us from worshipping God on the first day of the week, as long as we don’t have those pagan observances with us.
Pagans will even use the Bible. Will that scare you from having the Bible? Didn’t you know pagans worship Jesus too? Pagan Catholics worship Jesus. Should that scare us from worshipping Jesus too?
We’ve got to realize that, just because pagans’ wrong religions are doing something that the Bible shows that it’s okay to do and it’s right, that shouldn’t scare you from doing it. Sometimes Satan will do something to copycat God, so that he can scare saved believers from serving God the right way. That should be thought-provoking.
No Judgement on Observing Specific Days
First of all, it doesn’t matter what day you worship God. There’s a crazy saying that the mark of the beast is actually the Sabbath. That’s what they are going to be saying, and that everyone is going to be paying the mark of the beast when they worship on Sunday. That is so not true. Look at Colossians 2.
Colossians 2:14 “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.”
Notice right here, God blotted out the law, the Old Testament law.
Colossians 2:16 “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:”
When people online, religions, and some cult members judge you for worshipping God on Sunday, the Word of God says in this passage, no judgement.
Nothing Wrong with Observing Sunday
Here’s another point. What’s wrong with observing a day when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ resurrected, and he completed his mission of salvation and that we were saved in the Lord Jesus Christ, and we celebrate a day when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ resurrected? Isn’t that something to ‘Amen’ about?
Matthew 28:1-2 “In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.”
It’s not the Sabbath God thought was important. Instead, in the end of the Sabbath, which is Saturday, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week. Then, the angel of the Lord came down and rolled away the stone. Then there was a resurrection.
Pastor Kim talked with some weird guy, and he mentioned, what was the real name of Jesus? I said, it’s ‘Jesus’, and he said no. Not Jeshua either. He said it was pagan. Pastor Kim then went by the black Hebrew Israelites, ‘Yashua’ or ‘Yahweh’. He said, no, and he mentioned ‘Yah-‘ something. This man claimed that Jesus Christ did not resurrect on Sunday, but if you look at verse one, you’ll notice it’s dawning.
It’s started the first day. Verse 2, that’s the resurrection occurring. The angel rolled the stone away. Therefore Jesus resurrected at that time, at the first day. This is proof right here. What’s wrong with observing the day when our Lord resurrected?
Scriptural Evidences for Sunday Worship
Let’s also look at scripture. In the Bible, Christians worship God on Sunday (it’s not the Catholic church). Long before the Catholic Church ever did it, Christians were doing it.
Satan was copycatting the Christians. Satan knew that there would be people who get fooled by some teaching that the Catholic church created Sunday, and he knew that that thing would scare people from worshipping God on Sunday. Maybe that’s why he copycatted.
Acts 20:7 “And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.”
That’s similar to our church setting. We meet together so that we can hear the pastor preach and we even eat meal together. We fellowship. Notice right here, that church attendance was on Sunday. Therefore, before you accuse Christians for having the mark of the beast or whatnot, you got to call Paul an antichrist-worshipper. That doesn’t make sense.
Notice in 1 Corinthians 16, there when they gather together again for offering. That’s why in church we do offerings, tithes and offerings at the day. Christians gathered together and they were doing offering in the church.
1 Corinthians 16:1-2 “Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by hi in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”
Notice here, the church collected offering. There was a collection in the church. When? On the Sabbath? No, again on Sunday.
Were they all gathering together to worship the sun and took up a collection to buy a more fancy idol for the sun god? That obviously doesn’t make sense.
Historical Evidences for Sunday Worship
There are many people throughout church history, early Christians (there’s too much historical evidence) who gathered together in churches on Sunday long before the Catholic church made up this thing. Let’s look at some documented sources.
‘Wherefore we Christians keep the eighth day (after the seventh day, Saturday) for joy, on which also Jesus arose from the dead, and when he appeared, ascended into heaven.’
15:8F The Epistle of Barnabas at 100AD. This can be found with Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol.1 Pg.147.
Another one is quoted by Bardesanes at 200AD. This is found in his book on fate.
“Wherever we are, we are all called after the one name of Christ Christians, on one day, the first day of the week, we assemble ourselves together “
Here’s another one from Didascalia at 225AD. This is found at Didascalia 2.
“The apostle further appointed on the first day of the week, let there be service and the reading of the Holy Scriptures, and the oblation, because on the first day of the week, our Lord rose from the place of the dead.”
Another one is Ignatius at 250AD. This is found at his work fragments by Ignatius.
“This custom of not bending the knee upon Sunday is a symbol of the resurrection through which we have been set free by the grace of Christ from sins and from death which has been put to death under him. Now this custom took its rise from apostolic times as the blessed Irenaeus, the martyr and Bishop of Lyons declared in his treatise on Easter in which he makes mention of Pentecost also, upon which we do not bend the knee because it is of equal significance with the Lord’s Day for the reason already alleged concerning it.”
Here’s another one from Justin Martyr from 150AD. It’s found at the first apology of Justin at the weekly worship of the Christians Chapter 68.
“And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place and the memorials of the Apostles or the writings of the prophets are read as long as time permits, and when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs and exhorts to the imitation of these good things, then we all rise together and pray; and as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought and the president in like manner, offers prayers and thanksgivings according to his ability, and the people assent, saying ‘Amen’.”
Now doesn’t this sound like your typical Sunday services so far? This isn’t something made up. This isn’t long before the Catholic church. Let’s keep reading.
“And there at the distribution to each and a participation of that over which thanks have been given and to those who are absent, a portion is sent by the Deacons; and they who are well-to-do and willing give what each thinks fit and what is collected is deposited with the president who suckers the orphans and widows, and those who through sickness or any other cause, are in want; and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us and in a word takes care of all who are in need.”
It sounds like your typical collection on Sunday.
“But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God having wrought a change in the darkness and matter made the world and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead.”
There’s no doubt that the early Christians realized the significance of this, which is why they gathered together to worship and read the Scriptures.
Conclusion
Sunday is not something of a pagan Catholic holiday, because there are so many evidences. There should be sufficient satisfactory evidences that early Christians did it long before the Catholic church and Catholicism.
Not only that, the Apostle Paul and the early churches in the Bible did it. The Bible says don’t judge on a specific day to observe.
There are some people who can’t worship on Sunday, if they are in communist countries. Maybe the communist government can trace them easier that way, so the Lord doesn’t judge that.
We believe in doing as many of the early Christians did and the Apostle Paul did. If we want to be as scriptural and historical as possible to the early Christians, we should be worshipping God on Sunday.