Why do Mormon's have Sunday as their Sabbath?

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Re: Why do Mormon's have Sunday as their Sabbath?

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Oh, I can't stop myself.

Tertullian makes reference to the Lord's Day being a festive day. Doesn't sound like a rest day to me.

Others, with greater regard to good manners, it must be confessed, suppose that the sun is the god of the Christians, because it is a well-known fact that we pray towards the east, or because we make Sunday a day of festivity.
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Re: Why do Mormon's have Sunday as their Sabbath?

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Wikipedia defines Sabbath as generally a weekly day of rest or worship! Again, the point I am making is that the Sabbath day was changed to the first day of week, and it has been restored as the first day of the week.
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gdemetz wrote:Wikipedia defines Sabbath as generally a weekly day of rest or worship! Again, the point I am making is that the Sabbath day was changed to the first day of week, and it has been restored as the first day of the week.


The LDS church did not restore what was anciently practiced and that would by my point.

They basically did what the religions of their youth did and Brigham added some more Old Testament crap on top.
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Re: Why do Mormon's have Sunday as their Sabbath?

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No, the church restored many things, and among them were Baptism for the dead, to mention one.
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Re: Why do Mormon's have Sunday as their Sabbath?

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gdemetz wrote:No, the church restored many things, and among them were Baptism for the dead, to mention one.


I thought we were talking about Sunday and Sabbath worship in this thread.
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Yea, when I stated "restored," I meant that it was part of the teachings of the primitive church which was restored as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In fact, there is a revelation in the D & C which confirms the correctness of the Sunday worship.
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Re: Why do Mormon's have Sunday as their Sabbath?

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gdemetz wrote:Yea, when I stated "restored," I meant that it was part of the teachings of the primitive church which was restored as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In fact, there is a revelation in the D & C which confirms the correctness of the Sunday worship.


Almost everyone here understands LDS stance on it. I am just not sure why it matters. Most Christians worship on Sunday.
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Re: Why do Mormon's have Sunday as their Sabbath?

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Yea Themis, you're right. Maybe we are heaving at a nat here.
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Re: Why do Mormon's have Sunday as their Sabbath?

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Should have written "gnat."
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Re: Why do Mormon's have Sunday as their Sabbath?

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gdemetz wrote:Should have written "gnat."


At least I didn't try to insult you with it. My point is that we all know LDS doctrine on this, so why bring it up. Even most Christians have Sunday as the sabbath.
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