#440 Was the Sabbath Changed from Saturday to Sunday? - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 20 July 2022

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Seventh Day Adventists claim that the Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday centuries after the life of Jesus. Joe Heschmeyer, author of The Early Church was the Catholic Church, joins us to debunk this claim. Cy Kellett: Apologist, Joe Heschmeyer, thank you for being here with us on Catholic Answers Focus. Joe Heschmeyer: The pleasure is mine. Cy Kellett: You want to talk about the Sabbath? Joe Heschmeyer: Yeah, lets. Cy Kellett: It seems very straightforward, and yet it’s a matter of some great controversy. Joe Heschmeyer: It’s even a denominational splitting issue. Cy …

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0:00.0	It seems very straightforward and yet it's a matter of some great controversy.
0:17.4	It's even a denominational splitting issue.
0:20.0	Yeah, right.
0:21.0	We're split off.
0:22.0	So maybe we should start with the seventh-day Adventist who are most famously differ from
0:28.5	us.
0:29.5	Yeah.
0:30.5	So the name highlights like two beliefs that they have.
0:35.4	Advent means coming.
0:36.4	It does not mean they celebrate like a seven-day season of Advent.
0:40.5	These are two separate beliefs they have.
0:42.1	Their Adventist meaning they believe that Christ is about to come back.
0:44.9	First, I thought it was going to be in 1844 and then they kind of moved the dates around
0:48.2	a little bit.
0:49.2	They keep making predictions that keep being wrong.
0:52.0	But they also believe in a seventh-day Sabbath that Christians need to rest on Saturday and
0:58.2	that needs to be the day of rest and of worship rather than Sunday.
1:01.2	That's the seventh-day part of seventh-day Adventism.
1:03.9	So this, I have to say, this seems like sort of a marginal issue from a Catholic perspective
1:11.0	is like if you're going to break off from mainstream Christianity, there's so many other things.
1:16.4	How do we end up focused on this particular thing, the day of the celebration of the Sabbath?
1:22.5	I think it in a couple of ways.
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