Editing Sabbath in Christianity (section)

==Seventh-day sabbatarian churches==
[[File:Igreja Batista do Sétimo Dia em Newport - Rhode Island.jpg|thumb|The oldest Sabbatarian church in the Americas ([[Seventh Day Baptists|Seventh Day Baptist]]) built in 1730, [[Newport, Rhode Island]].]]
{{Main|Sabbath in seventh-day churches|List of Sabbath-keeping churches}}

Seventh-day Protestants regard Sabbath as a day of rest for all mankind and not Israel alone, based on Jesus's statement, "the Sabbath was made for man",<ref>i.e., purposed for humankind at the time of its creation {{bibleverse|Mark|2:27|NIV}}, cf. {{bibleverse|Heb.|4|NIV}}</ref> and on early-church Sabbath meetings. Additionally some Seventh-day Christians would argue any commandment given to "Israel" ought to be observed by Christians as, through faith in the Messiah of Israel, all Christians become members of the commonwealth of Israel and partake of the covenants God made with Israel, (see Ephesians 2:11-22). Seventh-day Sabbatarianism has been ignorantly criticized as an effort to combine "[[Old Testament]]" laws, allegedly practiced in Judaism, with "[[Christianity]]", or to revive the [[Judaizers]] of the [[Epistle]]s or the [[Ebionites]]. These criticisms assume a discontinuity between obedience as prescribed in the "Old Testament" and "Christianity", which is a concept, entirely foreign to biblical Christianity, according to the whole council of scripture.

[[Sabbath in seventh-day churches|Seventh-day Sabbatarians]] practice a seventh-day Sabbath observance, that is almost entirely distinct than ''[[Shabbat]]'' in Judaism. While Rabbinic Halakah requires strict adherence to a plethora of minutiae detailed throughout Talmudic and Rabbinic texts, the Sabbath observance practiced by Sabbatarian Christians focuses on honoring and observing the day in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Sabbath. The beginning took place in London, where the follower of preacher John Traske (1586–1636), called Hamlet Jackson, self-taught Bible student, convinced Traske of the observance of the seventh day. Many followers adhered to Sabbath observance after Traske's writings and preaching, including his wife Dorothy Traske.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Sanford |first=Don A. |title=A Choosing People: The History of Seventh Day Baptists |publisher=Broadman Press |year=1992 |isbn=0-8054-6055-1 |location=Nashville |pages=127–286}}</ref>

In 1650, James Ockford published in London the book ''The Doctrine of the Fourth Commandment, Deformed by Popery, Reformed & Restored to its Primitive Purity'', which was the first writings of a [[Baptists|Baptist]] defending Sabbath observance. Their ideas gave rise to the [[Seventh Day Baptists]], formed in early 17th-century in England. The establishment of the first Seventh Day Baptist Church was in 1651, is the oldest modern seventh-day Sabbath denomination. The couple Stephen and Anne Mumford were the first Seventh Day Baptists in the Americas, and with five other Baptists who kept the Sabbath, they established in 1672 the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in the Americas, located in [[Newport, Rhode Island|Newport]], expanding into other territories.<ref name=":0" />

The Worldwide Church of God, "W.C.G.," now known as Grace Communion International, "G.C.I.", established by Herbert W. Armstrong in the 1930s, formerly taught strict seventh-day Sabbath observance.  Since Armstrong's death in 1986, G.C.I. no longer recognizes seventh-day Sabbath observance as a strict doctrinal requirement.  United Church of God, Philadelphia Church of God, and International Church of God, denominations begun by former W.C.G. members disillusioned by W.C.G.'s abandonment of Armstrongism, continue to adhere to the seventh-day Sabbath requirement.

===Seventh-day Adventist Church===
[[File:Calhoun SDA Church.JPG|thumb|A Seventh-day Adventist Church.]]
{{See also|Seventh-day Adventist worship|Armstrongism|Seventh-day Adventist eschatology}}

The [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]] arose in the mid-19th century in America after [[Rachel Oakes Preston|Rachel Oakes]], a Seventh Day Baptist, gave a [[tract (literature)|tract]] about the Sabbath to an Adventist [[Millerism|Millerite]], who passed it on to [[Ellen G. White]].

Fundamental Belief # 20 of the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]] states: {{blockquote|The beneficent Creator, after the six days of Creation, rested on the seventh day and instituted the Sabbath for all people as a memorial of Creation. The fourth commandment of God's unchangeable law requires the observance of this seventh-day Sabbath as the day of rest, worship, and ministry in harmony with the teaching and practice of Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath. The Sabbath is a day of delightful communion with God and one another. It is a symbol of our redemption in Christ, a sign of our sanctification, a token of our allegiance, and a foretaste of our eternal future in God's kingdom. The Sabbath is God's perpetual sign of His eternal covenant between Him and His people. Joyful observance of this holy time from evening to evening, sunset to sunset, is a celebration of God's creative and redemptive acts.<ref>{{bibleverse|Gen.|2:1-3|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Ex.|20:8-11|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Luke|4:16|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Isa.|56:5|NIV}}, {{bibleverse|Isa.|6|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Isa.|58:13|NIV}}, {{bibleverse|Isa.|14|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Matt.|12:1-12|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Ex.|31:13-17|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Ezek|20:12|NIV}}, {{bibleverse|Ezek|20|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Deut.|5:12-15|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Heb.|4:1-11|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Lev.|23:32|NIV}}; {{bibleverse|Mark|1:32|NIV}}.</ref>|Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adventist.org/en/beliefs/|title=Beliefs :: The Official Site of the Seventh-day Adventist world church|website=www.adventist.org}}</ref>|}}