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1 | what was the org. day of the sabbath | Matt 28:1 | prayon | 72225 | ||
Greetings dgodsdiva and welcome to the forum, In order to get an answer to this question we must look at the crusifixion of Christ. Christ was crucified on Friday( the preperation day),rested on the sabbath day in the tomb,(Saturday),and arose on the first day of the week(Sunday). How did the change take place from Saturday to Sunday take place? Church history tells us. It happened during Roman times when the church and government became one. During the reign of Constintine,(a pagan and nominal christian), who worshiped the sun. Their festival day was Sunday (the venerable day of the sun). In order to unite the empire with the churches apostasy and to incorporate the pagans into the church (along with many of their practices and idol worship), the day was slowly changed to Sunday. prayon |
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2 | what was the org. day of the sabbath | Matt 28:1 | Reformer Joe | 72276 | ||
Actually, blaming Sunday worship on Constantine is not accurate. It is possible that the Bible is speaking of a Sunday worship for Christians, and the extra-biblical Epistle of Barnabas (written between 130 and 14) definitely describes the Sunday worship of Christians: "For which cause we observe the eighth day with gladness, in which Jesus rose from the dead; and having manifested himself to his disciples, ascended into heaven." --Barnabas 13:10 While this paragraph isn't part of the canon of Scripture, it is historically significant because it does specifically refer to Christians worshipping on the day Jesus was raised, almost two centuries before Constantine would become emperor. Constantine really gets more credit than he deserves. We would do well to carefully examine any arguments that center around Constantine changing or distorting church practice or Christian theology. --Joe! |
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