Your Choice Could Mean Life or Death

This evening I will be continuing the results of the study in last hub.

Here are the original Ten Commandments as listed in the King James Version of the Bible. We can use them here as a reference in case some of us have forgotten them. It seems that we may have some kind of selective memory since we can remember the stats of our favorite baseball or football player or the words of a song we like but we can't remember the 50 states or the Ten Commandments, so here they are :

1. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, or serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God , visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daugter, thy manservant, not thy maidsevant nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day, and hallowed it.

5. Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

6. Thou shalt not kill.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbours.

A Christian, according to Webster's dictionary, is: 1. a. one who professes belief in the teaching of Jesus Christ." So if you believe in the teachings of Jesus, you believe in the Bible as the inspired word of God. Jesus does. Do you believe in the Ten Commandments? Jesus does.

We see that there are two commandments that do not start with, "Thou Shalt Not." Did you realize that? The fourth commandment starts with, "Remember.." and the fifth starts with: "Honour..." The fourth commandment was given before there was a Jewish nation. It was given on the seventh day of creation. We also see that the second commandment ends with."...and keep my commandments."

As mentioned above, the fourth commandment starts with the word "Remember..." and for good reason. In the book of Daniel chapter 7, verse 25, God says in a vision that there is coming a time when a power is going to change times and laws. It looks like that power has already changed the law (the Ten Commandments) because the majority of Christian churches have forgotten the fourth commandment or consider it out of touch in the modern age.

So what happened? You can read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and not find one instance, place, sentence or word that transfers the holiness of the Sabbath (Saturday, the last day of the week) to the first day of the week, Sunday. If the Ten Commandments weren't changed in the Bible then an outside source overruled God and changed one of His laws. Can you imagine anyone telling God that one of His commandments just doesn't cut it anymore and, "We will just change it to fit our program?"

"But," you say, " I've been going to church on Sunday my whole life just like my parents and their parents before them. What you are saying couldn't possible be true, our Pastors, preachers and priests have been teaching us this for as long as there has been a church."

Have you read in your Bible where the solemnity of the Sabbath has been changed to Sunday? Of course not.

The Reason you go to church on Sunday is because the Catholic Church transferred the day God designated as the day to worship Him from the seventh day to the first day of the week. The Catholic Church doesn't deny this at all. Here are some quotations taken from Carlyle B. Haynes book entitled, "From Saturday to Sunday."

" A Doctrinal Catechism by the Reverend Stephen Keenan was approved by the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D., Archbishop of New York.

Q. Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?

A. 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 observane of Saturday, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority>" Page 174

The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, the work of the Reverend Peter Geiermann, C.S. R. received on Jan, 25, 1910, the "apostolic blessing" of Pope Pius X.

Q. Which is the Sabbath day?

A. Satuday is the Sabbath day.

Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?

A. We observe Sunday insead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 336) transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." Second edition, p.50.

Cardinal Gibbons in, "Faith of Our Fathers", say this: "You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observabce of Satuday, a day which we never Sanctify."

There are several more quotes listed in Haynes' book. Another book, "America In Prophesy' also lists 16 references but we will use just three. These are from pages 438 and 439.

"Protestants....accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change....But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that..in observing the Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope." From "Our Sunday Visitor," February 5, 1950

"Sunday is a Catholic institution, and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principes...From beginning to end of scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first." Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia, August 1900.

The Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by the right of divine infallible athority given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith has no warrant for observing Sunday. In this matter the Seventh-day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant." The Catholic Universe Bulletin," August 14, 1942,

The next segment of this writing will give you the Protestant view on the change and what they are going to do about it. Until then,

Take Care of yourself,

JEB