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From: nlt@duke.UUCP (N. L. Tinkham)
Newsgroups: net.religion.xian
Subject: Re: Why do we Christians worship on Sunday?
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 13:51:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 13:51:43 1984
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> 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?
> God instructed us to save the last day of the week for him and
> ever since way back calanders show Sunday as the first day of the week.
> 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.  Any thoughts on this
> from other Christians?

     The reason for worshipping on Sunday is the celebration of the
Resurrection, which is recorded as having occurred on "the first day
of the week".  I do not understand Sunday to be the "Christian Sabbath";
I do not observe the Sabbath for the same reason that, for instance,
I do not have reservations about eating pork:  I am not Jewish.
Granted, the idea to set aside one day a week may well have come from
the habit of Sabbath observance; but the commemoration of the
Resurrection is quite distinct from the observance of the Sabbath.

                                     N. L. Tinkham
                                     duke!nlt