The Christian Sabbath View believes that the Sabbath is part of God's unchanging moral law for all people of all time. However, although they believe it is God's unchanging moral law, they believed it has been changed! They have changed the day the Sabbath is to be observed, the reason for observing it, and the manner in which it is to be observed. Proponents of this view believe that the Sabbath was changed from the seventh day to the first day of the week. Furthermore, they believe the Sabbath is to be observed on Sunday, not because God is our Creator or Redeemer, but because Jesus Christ rose from the dead on that day. Finally, advocates of the Christian Sabbath View believe that the Sabbath is to be observed not only by resting from labor, but by public and private worship observed throughout the day.
The problems with this view are numerous. First, there is no New Testament command to change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. In fact, there is no New Testament command to worship on any particular day! In addition, there is no New Testament command to observe Sunday as a day of rest because Christ rose from the dead on that day. Finally, all of the Biblical teaching on the Sabbath in the Old Testament leads us to the conclusion that it was to be observed by complete cessation of labor, not to acts of public and private worship. It must be admitted that even though advocates of the Christian Sabbath View believe that the Sabbath is God's unchanging moral law, their understanding of the Sabbath involves several major changes. Either the Sabbath is part of God's unchanging moral law for all people of all time or it isn't. If it is, then we have no right to change the day from Saturday to Sunday, the reason for observing it from creation and redemption to the resurrection of Christ, and the manner of observing it from total rest to rest and public and private worship.