Sabbath in Christianity

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Many Christians observe a weekly day set apart for rest and worship called a Sabbath in obedience to God's commandment to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Early Christians, at first mainly Jewish, observed the seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath with prayer and rest. At the beginning of the second century the Church Father Ignatius of Antioch approved non-observance of the Sabbath. The now majority practice of Christians is to observe Sunday, called the Lord's Day, when many significant events occurred during the New Testament—notably the Resurrection—rather than the biblical seventh-day Sabbath as a day of rest and worship. In line with ideas of the 16th and 17th-century Puritans (present-day Congregationalists), the Presbyterian, Baptist, as well as Methodist traditions, enshrined first-day (Sunday) Sabbatarian views in their confessions of faith, observing the Lord's Day as the Christian Sabbath. While practices differ among Christian denominations, common First-day Sabbatarian...

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