From the end of the eighth century to the twelve century, the Athinganio, or “touch nots” of Phrygia in Asia Minor, were accused of being neither Christians nor Jews because they observed the seventh-day Sabbath but did not practice circumcision.
The Biblical Sabbath has always been the seventh day of the week, what we call Saturday. However, the “Christian Sabbath” is today almost universally recognized as Sunday, the first day of the week. This day of worship dates back to the convergence of religious and political power under the Roman Catholic Church in the middle ages.
As the early Christian church grew, Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians debated about the continuing relevance of certain institutions and commands dating from Old Testament…
The word Sabbath literally means “rest,” and the Bible says that God blessed and sanctified, or set apart as holy, this first Sabbath rest day as a memorial of His finished work of creation. This is why the fourth commandment begins with a call to remember the seventh-day Sabbath rest.
The twelfth-century Pasaginians of Western Europe observed the seventh-day Sabbath. A Catholic document from about 1200 AD describes the Pasaginians as “opposing us in general,…
A growing number of Christians observed both Sabbath and Sunday during the fourth and fifth centuries. The so-called Apostolic Constitutions from the fourth century taught…
