The Bible Does Not Teach Christians Must Keep the Seventh-day Weekly Sabbath

My point is not that you shouldn't keep the Sabbath. In fact, if you already keep it, and its a blessing in your life, I see no reason to stop. But I think its wrong to force the Sabbath on people by teaching them its required by God, and he will be displeased with them if they don't keep it. As I have shown in my opening argument, the Sabbath was abolished, just like animal sacrifices. While its not WRONG of SINFUL to practice sabbath-keeping and animal sacrifice, it is simply UNNECESSARY. And its wrong to teach people that they are obligated to do thing the Bible doesn't say they have to do. Let me ask you this. A man is a published author. He writes books for a living. He works five hours, three days week, writing. Those days are Saturday from 8am till 1pm, Sunday after church is over, from 5pm till 10pm, and Monday from 10am till 3pm. Notice this man works on both Saturday and Sunday, but it doesn't stop him from going to church, nor does it stop him from making other time for God, because he also has Tues - Friday, four days for other spiritual activities. He can go out preaching, make time for prayer, Bible Study and so forth. What is wrong with that? Even more important, what will you get from worshiping God on Saturday that he won't get from worshiping God any other day of the week? Will God not hear his prayers? So its simply not necessary to keep a Sabbath. And even if it were, you still couldn't prove which day it is. The Bible doesn't say the seventh day is Saturday and the first day is Sunday, it was historians of the world that came up with that. The customary teaching that Jesus died and was buried on Friday evening, laid dead the Saturday Sabbath, and was resurrected on Sunday, is not Biblical nor provable. Jesus said, "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale"s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." (Matthew 12:40) These three days and nights begin not from the moment he hung on the cross, but from the moment he was placed in the tomb ("in the heart of the earth"). His enemies recalled he said "After three days I will rise again." (Matthew 27:63) That"s three complete days. Jesus taught the disciples that he would rise again "AFTER three days." (Mark 8:31) The word "after" showing these are three complete days. The Bible says that Joseph of Arimathea buried Jesus in the tomb late on the evening just before the Sabbath began (Luke 23:50-56; Matthew 27:57-61), so we know he was in the heart of the earth just before sunset. The Jews counted their days from sunset to sunset (Leviticus 23:32), so even if we assume that Jesus died on Friday, counting three days and three nights from here using today"s calendar would give us Friday sunset to Saturday sunset (= 1 day and one night), Saturday sunset to Sunday sunset (= 2 days and 2 nights), Sunday sunset to Monday sunset (= 3 days and 3 nights). Now, we are already past Sunday, so the first day of the week when the women went to the tomb simply cannot be Sunday at all. Notice that the women came to the tomb, not at sunset, but somewhere around sunrise (Mark 16:2), "very early in the morning" (Luke 24:1). So this brings us to Tuesday morning according to our current calendar. The only way to get around this is to argue that Jesus didn"t really mean three days, that he only meant one day and parts of two days and so forth, which is not allowing Scripture to speak for itself but forcing ones interpretation into the text. Further, notice that when the women came to the tomb at sunrise on the first day of the week they found it empty, Jesus had already been resurrected. (Mark 16:2-7) The resurrection therefore occurred before sunrise, which means it would have occurred during the night portion of the Jewish first day. We use the Roman calender, but not even the original one, because the Roman calender in the time of Jesus was the nundinal calendar which had 8 days, so the weekly Sabbath would fall on a different day every week on that calendar. There is just so much more that shows we can't even know for sure which day is the seventh day, it makes no sense arguing over the point. But since Scripture is clear that these days are no longer binding, we should not tell people they have to do it. At best, we should just encourage them to make time for God, and let them know that setting aside a day free of distraction to commune with him is a helpful tool, but not a law!