From: zechar1

Date: 6/11/17


Early in the second century the teachings and example of our Jewish Savior were being subverted and perverted into the framework of the false sun god religion.  Ignatius, the bishop of Antioch sent out epistles to congregations in Asia Minor which condemned their ongoing observance of God's Sabbath and other Torah aspects observed by Jews.  These epistles by Ignatz , occurred less than a century after the Resurrection of our Savior.   It was less than eight decades of transition from Yeshua to Ignatz.

Generally the edict by Constantine against Judaizing and which enforced Sabbath as a work day and sungod day as the proper time to rest and worship is considered as the start of the false religion of xtianity, but we see it started much earlier. 

Ignatius is claimed to be the first known Christian writer to argue in favor of Christianity's replacement of the Sabbath with the Lord's Day:

Be not seduced by strange doctrines nor by antiquated fables, which are profitless. For if even unto this day we live after the manner of Judaism, we avow that we have not received grace ... If then those who had walked in ancient practices attained unto newness of hope, no longer observing Sabbaths but fashioning their lives after the Lord's day, on which our life also arose through Him and through His death which some men deny ... how shall we be able to live apart from Him? ... It is monstrous to talk of Jesus Christ and to practise Judaism. For Christianity did not believe in Judaism, but Judaism in Christianity — Ignatius to the Magnesians 8:1, 9:1-2, 10:3, Lightfoot translation."


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