It wasn't. This is one of the misunderstood points in all of Christian mythos. There was never a change from Sabbath being Saturday to Sunday.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) December 17, 2025
The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week. The Lord's Day is the first day of the week.
Matthew 28:1 – Now after the Sabbath, toward…
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Jesus declared the “Lord’s Day” the sabbath or 7th day in Matthew 12:8. When Rome merged paganism with Christianity and the “Christian” emperor declared Sunday the day of rest and worship, that is when the sabbath changed. You can read about it in the second volume of Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. Sabbath actually never changed. Read your bible carefully, put away what anyone else says (including me) and you will see.
Colossians 2:16-17 does not mean anything goes or you can change God’s sabbath to what you want, it means don’t let people judge you for HOW you keep it. For example, Jesus was condemned by the Pharisees for healing on the Sabbath, which is ridiculous.
As for 1 For 16, taking a collection is separate from the Sabbath. Saying that since the collection was taken on the first day of the week that the Sabbath was changed is ludicrous at best. Remember Jesus flipped tab les on the money changers; commerce and money does not mix well with Sabbath.
The only problem with Sabbath keeping is that most people who do take things too far and do kosher and all sorts of other stuff that the New Testament DID do away with.
What is the “7th” Day? Does simply the way modern man prints a calendar mean it is Saturday? How do you know what we call Sunday is not the 7th Day? “Saturday” is never used in the Scriptures. If the Sabbath is pinned to one particular point in time disregarding the multiple calendar changes through out history, does God’s Day of rest come earlier in Russia than it does Alaska? As I write this, it is Thursday 5am in Pevek Russia, but Wednesday 8am in Anchorage. Can you have it be the Sabbath in one part of the world but not all parts of the world?
A convenient excuse, but every significant culture agrees on what is the seventh day. What is hard is not figuring out what day the seventh day is, but in breaking with common tradition. Celebrate Sabbath when the seventh day rolls around where you are, silly, if you want to do things God’s way. Unless you are on the international space station it is not hard.
You are correct, ‘Saturday’ is not used in scripture, nor is Sunday. Saturday is Shabbat, and Sunday is first day or the first day of the week.