Why Christians keep the Lord's Day and not the Jewish Sabbath By Robert Clanton RWClanton1@cs.com] Why? Because Sabbath keeping of Gentile nations or Christians is not taught in scripture. The Sabbath before Moses Genesis 2:1 displays God as having rested on the seventh day. The Adventist and Armstrong splinter groups, usually named "_?_Church of God" use this scripture to say that the commandment to keep the Sabbath was given on the day God rested and that God also kept the ...