Sunday is not sabbath, but we meet on "the Lord's day" because: (1) Jesus rose on a Sunday, and (2) the early church did so.
There may also be a case for doing this to distinguish between keeping the law for righteousness and the free gift of salvation.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus 20 KJV
Good to remember the resurrection any and every day, but the sabbath is on the seventh day, which is saturday.
Sunday worship was a later development, and even then only in Rome and Alexandria. It took many centuries of the traditional catholic technique of conversion by murder to spread the heresy, and the battle continues.
What is righteousness if it goes against God’s law?
Jesus is the fulfillment of the law. I basically disagree with most of your conclusions, but doubt I will convert a works-based person to the gospel of grace here on poal
I believe we should do the commandments not to be saved, but because we are saved.
It was the ceremonial law (Mose's law) that was nailed to the cross; not the moral law.
And so morally, we have an obligation to obey His law, not because it saves us, but because it is out of our gratitude, that by our faith, He saved us through His grace.
I find it odd that most Christians believe that only 9 of the commandments are to be kept and the 4th commandment - the only commandment that begins with 'Remember', may be forgotten.
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