Did The Early Christians Observe a Saturday Sabbath Until Constantine?
Over the years, zealous Saturday Sabbatarians, especially Seventh Day Adventists, have contacted our ministry about early Christianity and their alleged observance of the Saturday Sabbath until it was changed by the Catholic church under Constantine in the fourth century.
The Isa. 66:22,23 argument for Saturday Sabbath keeping is common in Saturday Sabbath Keeping circles, but not a solid argument.
In Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) circles, a vision that Ellen G. White (EGW) had in 1847 is important to their exaltation of the Sabbath command:
Probably the strangest view of the mark of the beast can be found among the Seventh Day Adventists.
As with any point of doctrine, one must carefully search the Scriptures for an answer to this important question (2 Tim. 3:16, 17). This cannot be stressed too much, for it is only in the Scriptures that we can learn God's truths.
For a Saturday Sabbatarian to say one MUST keep the Saturday Sabbath regulation for salvation is to place themselves under the anathema found in Gal. 1:8,9.
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