Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!duke!nlt From: nlt@duke.UUCP (N. L. Tinkham) Newsgroups: net.religion.xian Subject: Re: Why do we Christians worship on Sunday? Message-ID: <5201@duke.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 13:51:43 EST Article-I.D.: duke.5201 Posted: Wed Dec 19 13:51:43 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 08:47:52 EST Organization: Duke University Lines: 21 > 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