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Simply, but crudely put, the Sabbath day is any day that the Lord wants it to be, and it is celebrated for any reason that the Lord wants it to be celebrated or commemorated for. For example, when the ten commandments were given again as recorded in Deuteronomy chapter 5, the Lord stated that the reason for the Sabbath day commemoration would be, not for the creation as was given before, but for remembrance:

"...that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence {from Egypt} through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm; therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day."

After the Lord's resurrection, which was on the first day of the week, the Sabbath celebration was changed to Sunday in commemoration
of the resurrection of our Lord. Acts 20:7 states:

"And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to brake bread..."

Some would argue that this was not a Sabbath worship service in which the sacrament was taken, but merely an occasion where the disciples came together to eat. However, this argument proves to be faulty in the light of the following scripture (1 Corinthians 11:20-22):

"When ye come together therefore into one place this is {is this} not to eat the Lord's supper.{?}

"For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry and another is drunken."

"What? Have ye not houses to eat and drink in? Or, despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not."

So, it is very apparent from this last scripture that the Apostle Paul didn't think highly of those saints who would seemingly despise the church of Christ during their Sabbath sacrament meetings on Sunday by eating their meals also instead of eating them at their own homes!

This change of the Sabbath was prophesied in Hosea 2:11:

"I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts."

Of course, modern revelation also confirms this change as part of the great "restitution of all things" (see Acts 3: 19-21).

Um, how can a change be a restitution?

It was a restitution of the practice of Sunday worship in the primative church.

gdemetz wrote:It was a restitution of the practice of Sunday worship in the primative church.

Which was The Lord's Day observed by early Christians. Not the Sabbath.

A Sabbath is defined as; generally a weekly day of rest or worship, and the meaning and usage is totally appropriate here since the disciples camme together weekly, on the first day of the week, to worship and partake of the sacrament.

gdemetz wrote:A Sabbath is defined as; generally a weekly day of rest or worship, and the meaning and usage is totally appropriate here since the disciples camme together weekly, on the first day of the week, to worship and partake of the sacrament.

The word "Sabbath" has evolved and the ways in which it has been observed are widely varied.

Heck, the calendar has undergone a lot of change as well.

"I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts."

If we are restoring all things, why has the church not restored the feast days, solemn feasts, new moons and Sabbaths? Why is the church using a solar calendar rather than a lunar calendar?

So, it is very apparent from this last scripture that the Apostle Paul didn't think highly of those saints who would seemingly despise the church of Christ during their Sabbath sacrament meetings on Sunday by eating their meals also instead of eating them at their own homes!

I think you are in error here. The early Christians came together to partake of the Lord's Supper...to feast together. It wasn't some boring old Sacrament Meeting with a tiny crumb of bread and a thimble of water.

Of course, it was much more than the mere breaking of bread and partaking of wine in remembrance of Christ as He commanded and instituted, although this was an very important part of the meeting. However, there was also much feasting on the words of Christ and the gospel which constituted, by far, the greater part of those meetings.

gdemetz wrote:Of course, it was much more than the mere breaking of bread and partaking of wine in remembrance of Christ as He commanded and instituted, although this was an very important part of the meeting. However, there was also much feasting on the words of Christ and the gospel which constituted, by far, the greater part of those meetings.

Could you point me to documentation of this? Are there meeting minutes somewhere that you have read?

Also, why does it matter that Mormon's aren't actually observing the Sabbath? No need to keep the Law of Moses anymore.

Under Moses, the Sabbath was celebrated on the 7th day, but it the primitive Christian church, it was celebrated on the 1st day as I previously wrote.