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NASB | Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath [a day of rest dedicated] to the LORD your God; on that day you shall not do any work, you or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock or the temporary resident (foreigner) who stays within your [city] gates. |
Subject: Why worship on resurrection day? |
Bible Note: Hi, MJH... We celebrate Passover... on Resurrection Day... at least my family does... and the only spring thing tied into it is to remind us of newness of life in Christ. So I can't fault your conclusion in orthodoxy or orthopraxy. But you rest the verity of your posit on the most tenuous of arguments. (Leaving for a moment the question of the reasonableness of this long-distance antecedent to word "this.") If we got the whole communion thing wrong that means the church got it wrong... which means the early church got it wrong... which means the early church fathers got it wrong... which means Paul got it wrong... which means the apostles got it wrong (or at least didn't explain it to Paul properly). All because at least Paul assumed that the word "this" in 1 Cor 11:25 was to the act of communion. Of course, when Paul used the word "this" maybe the antecedent was waaaaaaaay back yonder in 1 Cor 5:7b. But even then he mentions the word in an ancillary fashion; "for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us." If the word "this" has Passover as the antecedent, then that's the only Passover available in the entire book. (Indeed, the word only occurs twice outside of the gospels!) If this were the only proof available to me, MJH, I'd be out coloring eggs and picking daffodils! (No offense intended!) With your interest in the origins of things, church history, and such. May I recommend a study of something called "the liturgical year?" (Some of the more "high church" of our brethren will recognize this immediately. Our Roman Catholic friends will also know about it.) Someone, over a millenia ago, spent a huge amount of effort to fit the teaching of the Christ's life and ministry into the calendar. They actually did a brilliant job of it, too. I've never been able to find the name anyone... I think that brother is buried in the dust of history. Anyway, you're the kind of person who might be able to glean a lot of value for us all from such a study. It might also help you understand some of the reasons that the early church did what they did regarding holidays (i.e., "holy days"). Keep digging, bud... but I really encourage you to always present your strongest argument first -- Aristotle not withstanding. Otherwise you are going to lose people before you even get to your conclusion. In Him, Doc |