Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!voder!kev From: kev@voder.UUCP (Kevin Hoskins) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Why Do We Christians Worship On Sunday? Message-ID: <558@voder.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 13:27:47 EST Article-I.D.: voder.558 Posted: Wed Dec 12 13:27:47 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:43:14 EST References: <152@ihu1m.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 42 > After having gone through many passages of the Bible that things > like "Blessed are those who keep my Sabbath" what justification > do we give for worshiping on Sunday's rather than on the Sabbath? Well Gene, there is a simple, two part answer to your question. Can you find this or similar passages in the New Testament? If they are found only in the Old Testament, they apply to a people under the covenant of the Law. If found in the New Testament, their discussion is a response to people outside of the early church attempting to force the Law and all of its implications on the new Christian believers. In the arguments of the New Testament writers they demonstrate how the death of Jesus Christ fulfilled the requirements of the Law. With these requirements met, Christians are now free in the Lord to worship God, through Jesus as the Intercessor, at any time. Also realize that the early church met almost exclusively in the homes of fellow believers and not in the Temple or synagogue. If they were to keep the Sabbath, why meet and worship in a home and not in the building set up for this purpose? > It seems to me Jewish people are right in worshiping on the Sabbath > but of course wrong by not accepting Christ. Even Christ said to > worship, and he himself did, on the Sabbath. > > gene foster > ihu1m!ewf The Jewish people are right in worshiping on the Sabbeth. They are still choosing to continue to live under the requirements of the Law. Christ himself worshiped on the Sabbeth. He did so as not to violate any part of the Law. Remember, He committed no sin against God or the Law that God gave to the Jewish people, but fulfilled it. Of secondary importance is the tradition of worshiping on Sunday. This is a result of the early church celebrating the bodily (in the flesh, complete with the holes in the hands, feet, and side and the cuts on the forehead) resurrection of Jesus Christ on the Sunday following the Friday crucifiction. Thanks for the chance to respond.