Bmaster:
how is sabbath day Sunday ?

Don't bother to ask bro, he's a full-fledged atheist

SultanOfAbia:
I have never seen a religion so divided like Christianity..

Pentecostal, Adventist,catholic,protestant, Methodist,Anglican, cherubim, Jehovah witness...etc

Dem go come dey compete among themselves
Who is more closer to Jesus

If Christians can't come together as one and stop dividing into different business centers.
Then it means you all are not following Jesus

Sabbath day is on Sunday

But some werey say it's on Saturday

Jesus was crucified in both hands on the cross

But Jehovah witness say no be Cross
Say na Nepa pole Dem use crucify Jesus

Too many division and man made doctrines
And everybody thinks their own church is superior

Seems someone is MISTAKEN as so many have also missed the simply Biblical reconning of days of the WEEK.

Exodus 20:10 (KJV)
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Point 1:
The 7TH DAY is the LORD'S SABBATH DAY.
You can choose the 1st, 5th, 6th or any other as your Sabbath day, but if you talk about God's Sabbath day, it can only be the 7TH DAY

But which day is SUNDAY?
Matthew 28:1
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.


Point 2:
The end of the Sabbath marks the beginning of the 1st Day of the week

Hence after THE SABBATH DAY (7TH DAY), we return again to the 1ST DAY.

(Also Note that Leviticus 23:32 says .......from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.)

Mark 16:9
Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.


Point 3:
Jesus Rose on the First day of the week.
This day "NO ONE ARGUES ITS SUNDAY"


Mark 16:2
And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
Mark 16:9 (KJV) Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

More Verses

Luke 24:1-6 (KJV)
1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,


GOD'S SABBTH DAY =7TH DAY =SABBATH DAY = SATURDAY

1ST DAY = SUNDAY (THE DAY OF JESUS'S RESURRECTION)

Infact God Himself warned us about this seemingly CHANGE
Daniel 7:25 (KJV) And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:......


I HOPE IT'S CLEAR.
MORE CLARIFICATION? FEEL FREE TO CHAT ME UP.

GOD BLESS YOU IMMENSELY BROTHER.

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They are minorities. It may be painful to you but that's the fact.
They are abusing their position as minorities by trying to impose their practices on the majority. That's wrong.

Are Ijaws or Tivs minorities in Nigeria?

Are Tutsis minority in Rwanda?

Or, is the Gaza strip a minority compared to the world land geography?

Minorities might not have their way, but they should not be ignored, you don't want to rub it in their faces.

Abbeyme:


Are Ijaws or Tivs minorities in Nigeria?

Are Tutsis minority in Rwanda?

Or, is the Gaza strip a minority compared to the world land geography?

Minorities might not have their way, but they should not be ignored, you don't want to rub it in their faces.

So, we shouldn't have elections on Saturdays because of the selfishness of Jehovah's witnesses. Even the JW themselves, do they vote?

They are minorities and an insignificant lot at that. They shouldn't impose their selfish wishes on the majority.

OLAADEGBU:


I wonder what the JW cultists on NL has got to say about this?

I did not expect less from you, Kumuyi has brainwashed you and you have no insight to reason on your own

60 BIBLE FACTS Concerning the SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH (SATURDAY)

1. After working the first six days of the week in creating this earth, God rested on the seventh day. Gen 2:1-3.

2. This stamped that day as God’s rest day, or Sabbath day, as Sabbath day means rest day.
To illustrate:
When a person is born on a certain day, that day
becomes his birthday. So when God rested upon the seventh day, that day became His rest, or Sabbath day.

3. Therefore the seventh day must always be God’s Sabbath day. Can you change your birthday from the day on which you were born to one in which you were not born? No. Neither can you change God’s rest day to a day on which He did not rest. Hence the seventh day is still God’s Sabbath.

4. The Creator blessed the seventh day. Genesis 2:3.

5. He sanctified the seventh day. Exodus 20:11.

6. God made it the Sabbath day in the garden of Eden. Genesis 2:1-3.

7. It was made before the fall of Adam; hence it is not a type, for types were not introduced till after the fall.

8. Jesus says it was made for man (Mark 2:27); that is, for the race, as the word man is here unlimited, hence, for the Gentile as well as for the Jews.

9. It is a memorial of creation. Exodus 20:11; 31:17. Every time we rest upon the seventh day, as God did at creation, we commemorate the grand event.

10. It was given to Adam, the head of the human race. Mark 2:27; Genesis 2:1-3.

11. Hence through him, as our representative, to all nations. Acts 17:26.

12. It is not a Jewish institution, for it was made 2,300 years before ever there was a Jew.

13. The Bible never calls it the Jewish Sabbath but always “the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Men should be cautious how they stigmatize God’s holy rest day.

14. Evident reference is made to the Sabbath all through that patriarchal age. Gen 2:1-3; 8:10, 12; 29:27-28, etc.

15. It was a part of God’s law before Sinai. Ex 16:4, 27-29.

16. God placed it in the heart of His moral law. Ex 20:1-17.
Why did He place it there if it was not like the
other nine precepts, which all admit to be immutable?

17. The seventh-day Sabbath was commanded by the voice of the living God. Deuteronomy 4:12-13.

18. Then He wrote the commandment with His own finger. Exodus 31:18.

19. He engraved it in the enduring stone, indicating its imperishable nature. Deuteronomy 5:22.

20. It was sacredly preserved in the ark in the holy of holies. Deuteronomy 10:1-5.

21. God forbade work upon the Sabbath, even in the most hurrying times. Exodus 34:21.

22. God destroyed the Israelites in the wilderness because they profaned the Sabbath. Ezekiel 20:12-13.

23. It is the sign of the true God, by which we are to know Him from false gods. Ezekiel 20:20.

24. God promised that Jerusalem would stand forever if the Jews would keep the Sabbath. Jeremiah 17:24-25.

25. He sent them into the Babylonish captivity for breaking it. Nehemiah 13:18.

26. He destroyed Jerusalem for its violation. Jer 7:27.

27. God has pronounced a special blessing on all the Gentiles who keep it. Isaiah 56: 6-7.

28. This is in the prophecy which refers wholly to the Christian dispensation. See Isaiah 56.

29. God has promised to bless every man who keeps the Sabbath. Isaiah 56:2.

30. The Lord requires us to call it “honorable.” Isaiah 58:13.
Beware, ye who take delight in calling it the “old Jewish Sabbath,” “a yoke of bondage,” etc.

31. After the holy Sabbath has been trodden down for “many generations,” it is to be restored in the last days. Isaiah 58:12-13.

32. All the holy prophets kept the seventh day.

33. When the Son of God came, He kept the seventh day all His life. Luke 4:16; John 15:10. Thus He followed His Father’s example at creation. Shall we not be safe in following the example of both the Father and the Son?

34. The seventh day is the Lord’s day. See Revelation 1:10; Mark 2:28; Isaiah 58:13; Exodus 20:10.

35. Jesus was the Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2:28); that is, to love and protect it, as the husband is the lord of the wife, to love and cherish her. 1 Peter 3:6.

36. He vindicated the Sabbath as a merciful institution designed for man’s good. Mark 2:23-28.

37. Instead of abolishing the Sabbath, He carefully taught how it should be observed. Matthew 12:1-13.

38. He taught His disciples that they should do nothing upon the Sabbath day but what was “lawful.” Matthew 12:12.

39. He instructed His apostles that the Sabbath should be prayerfully regarded over 30 years after His resurrection. Matthew 24:20 (their flight took place in A.D. 66).

40. The pious women who had been with Jesus carefully kept the seventh day after His death. Luke 23:56.

41. Thirty years after Christ’s resurrection, the Holy Spirit expressly calls it “the Sabbath day.” Acts 13:14.

42. Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, called it “the Sabbath day” in A.D. 45. Acts 13:27. Did not Paul know? Or shall we believe modern teachers, who affirm that it ceased to be the Sabbath at the resurrection of Christ?

43. Luke, the inspired Christian historian, writing as late as 62 A.D., calls it “the Sabbath day.” Acts 13:44.

44. The Gentile converts called it the Sabbath. Acts 13:42.

45. In the great Christian council, A.D. 52, in the presence of the apostles and thousands of disciples, James calls it the “Sabbath day.” Acts 15:21.

46. It was customary to hold prayer meetings upon that day. Acts 16:13.

47. Paul read the scriptures in public meetings on that day. Acts 17:2-3.

48. It was his custom to preach upon that day. Acts 17:2.

49. The book of Acts alone gives a record of his holding eighty-four meetings upon that day. See Acts 13:4, 44; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4, 11.

50. There was never any dispute between the Christians and the Jews about the Sabbath day. This is proof that the Christians still observed the same day that Jews did.

51. In all their accusations against Paul, they never charged him with disregarding the Sabbath day. Why did they not if he did not keep it?
52. Paul himself declared that he had kept the law. “Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.” Acts 25:8. How could this be true if he had not kept the Sabbath?
53. The Sabbath is mentioned in the New testament 59 times, and is always with respect, bearing the same title it had in the Old Testament, “the Sabbath day.”

54. Not a word is said anywhere in the New testament about the Sabbath’s being abolished, done away, changed, or anything of the kind.
55. God had never given permission to any man to work upon it. Reader, by what authority do you use the seventh day for common labor?

56. No Christian of the New testament, either before or after the resurrection, ever did ordinary work upon the seventh day. Find one case of that kind, and we will yield the question. Why should modern Christians do differently from Bible Christians?

57. There is no record that God has ever removed His blessing or sanctification from the seventh day.

58. As the Sabbath was kept in Eden before the fall, so it will be observed eternally in the new earth after the restitution. Isaiah 66:22-23.
59. The seventh-day Sabbath was an important part of the law of God, as it came from His own mouth, and was written by His own finger upon stone at Sinai. (see Exodus 20). When Jesus began His work, He expressly declared that He had not come to destroy the law.
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets.” Matthew 5:17.

60. Jesus severely condemned the Pharisees as hypocrites for pretending to love God, while at the same time they made void one of the Ten Commandments by their tradition. In the same way, the keeping of Sunday is making void God’s law and is only a tradition of men.


Let's also look at 40 Bible Facts Concerning the FIRST-DAY (SUNDAY) of the Week.

1. The very first thing recorded in the Bible is work done on Sunday, the first day of the week. Genesis 1:1-5.
This was done by the Creator Himself. If God made the earth on Sunday, can it be wicked for us to work on Sunday?

2. God commands men to work upon the first day of the week. Exodus 20:8-11. Is it wrong to obey God?

3. None of the patriarchs ever kept it.

4. None of the holy prophets ever kept it.

5. By the express command of God, His holy people used the first day of the week as a common working day for at least 4,000 years.

6. God Himself calls it a “working” day. Ezekiel 46:1.

7. God did not rest upon it.

8. He never blessed it.

9. Christ did not rest upon it.

10. Jesus was a carpenter (Mark 6:3) and worked at His trade until He was 30 years old. He kept the Sabbath and worked six days in the week, as all admit. Hence He did many a hard day’s work on Sunday.

11. The apostles worked upon it during the same time.

12. The apostles never rested upon it.

13. Christ never blessed it.

14. It has never been blessed by any divine authority.

15. It has never been sanctified.

16. No law was ever given to enforce the keeping of it; hence it is no transgression to work upon it. “For where no law is, there is no transgression.” Romans 4:15; (1 John 3:4).

17. Nowhere does the New Testament forbid any work to be done on Sunday.

18. No penalty is provided for its violation.

19. No blessing is promised for its observance.

20. No regulation is given as to how it ought to be
observed. Would this be so if the Lord wished us to keep it?

21. It is never called the Christian Sabbath.

22. It is never called the Sabbath day at all.

23. It is never called the Lord’s day.

24. It is never called even a rest day.

25. No sacred title whatever is applied to it. Then why should we call it holy?

26. It is simply called the “first day of the week.”

27. Jesus never mentioned it in any way--never took its name upon His lips as far as the record shows.

28. The word Sunday never occurs in the Bible at all.

29. Neither God, Christ, nor inspired men, ever said one word in favor of Sunday as a holy day.

30. The first day of the week is mentioned only eight times
in all the New Testament. Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19; Acts 20:7; 1 Corin 16:2.

31. Six of these texts refer to the same first day of the week.

32. Paul directed the saints to look over their secular affairs on that day. 1 Corinthians 16:2.
33. In all the New Testament we have a record of only one religious meeting held upon that day. Acts 20:5-12.

34. There is not an intimation that they ever held a meeting on it before or after that.

35. It was not their custom to meet on that day.

36. There was no requirement to break bread on that day.

37. We have an account of only one instance in which it was done. Acts 20:7.

38. That was done in the night--after midnight. Verses 7-11.
Jesus celebrated it on Thursday evening, (Luke 22), and the disciples sometimes did it every day. Acts 2:42-46.

39. Nowhere does the Bible state that the first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ. This is a tradition of men, which makes void the law of God.
Matthew 15:1-9. It is baptism that commemorates the burial and resurrection of Jesus. Romans 6:3-5.

40. Finally, the New testament is totally silent with regard to any change of the seventh day as God‘s Sabbath day or any sacredness given for Sunday—the first day.




These 100 plain Bible facts, SHOWS conclusively that the seventh day of the week, or Saturday, is the Sabbath of the Lord in both the Old and New Testament.

Hence what should be our response to this fourth commandment of God?

“For he spake in a certain place on the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works....

There remaineth therefore a rest (Sabbath) to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” Hebrews 4:4, 9-11.

“And hereby we do know that we know him (God), if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him....By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” 1 John 2:3-5, 5:2-3.

“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city (of God). For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” Revelation 22:14.

GOD BLESS YOU IMMENSELY FRIEND

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So, we shouldn't have elections on Saturdays because of the selfishness of Jehovah's witnesses. Even the JW themselves, do they vote?

They are minorities and an insignificant lot at that. They shouldn't impose their selfish wishes on the majority.

Even in the political space, it is noted that 'minorities can have their say, majorities will always have their way'.

Abbeyme:


Even in the political space, it is noted that 'minorities can have their say, majorities will always have their way'.

Keep saying.
That's why you lost in court.
When they are tired of your talks, they will shut you up.

rupatch:
The dismissal of the Seventh Day Adventist Church's lawsuit seeking to halt elections and exams on Saturdays by the Nigerian court reflects a nuanced understanding of religious freedom and governmental obligations. Justice Omotoso's characterization of the claim as "frivolous, vexatious, bothersome, and unjustified" indicates a careful consideration of the broader societal implications. By affirming that the government's actions do not impinge upon the fundamental rights of the Seventh Day Adventist Church members, the ruling underscores the necessity of balancing religious practices with the practical necessities of governance. Moreover, the recognition of Nigeria's diverse religious landscape acknowledges the rights of minority groups while preventing the imposition of one belief system on the majority. This decision serves as a reminder of the complexities inherent in navigating religious freedoms within a democratic framework, emphasizing the importance of upholding the rights of all citizens while maintaining the functioning of governmental processes.

GOD bless brother for seeing beyond the Bar.

More inferences here is that the laws of the land can be overlooked, and individual consttitutional liberties might be compromised when the government sees it "justified" for THE COMMON GOOD or GREATER BENEFIT of the MAJORITY.

Reflecting on the occurrences during the COVID 19 Lockdown, it's evident that people's rights to mobility and association were infringed for the GREATER GOOD OF EVERYONE, using health as the underlying reason or excuse.

We should expect thesame logic or arguments by our government when the National Sunday Law is put into effect

May God help us to stand on the side of TRUTH/RIGHT whether appeal is granted or not.

AMEN


God does not work with the majority.
He works with the FAITHFUL FEW THAT STAND TRUE TO HIS COMMANDS.

At the entrance of Cannan, Joshua and Caleb
At the Flood, only 8 Faithful Persons were Saved
Matthew 24:37 (KJV) But as the days of Noe (Noah) were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 7:14 (KJV) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

MAY GOD HELPS US TO BE PART OF THE FAITHFUL FEW, AMEN.

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Keep saying.
That's why you lost in court.
When they are tired of your talks, they will shut you up.

So that you know, I wasn't in court.