From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity (Biblia.com)

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How did the change from Saturday to Sunday worship happen in early Christianity? Samuele Bacchiocchi spent five years researching that question at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, examining ancient documents. He concluded that the transition from Saturday to Sunday began a century after Christ’s death, resulting from an interplay of political, social, pagan and Christian factors. He...

beings use or abuse it. Such a conclusion would make man and not God the ultimate arbiter who determines the validity of any commandment. What did Christ actually mean by the affirmation that “the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27)? To interpret this saying as meaning that “the well-being of man is superior to the Sabbath rest” would imply that the Sabbath rest had been imposed arbitrarily upon man to restrict his welfare. But this interpretation runs contrary to the very

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