Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliven.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!oliveb!oliven!hawk
From: hawk@oliven.UUCP (Rick)
Newsgroups: net.religion.xian
Subject: Re: Why Do We Christians Worship On Sunday?
Message-ID: <762@oliven.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 19:15:18 EST
Article-I.D.: oliven.762
Posted: Fri Dec 14 19:15:18 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 00:12:21 EST
References: <152@ihu1m.UUCP>
Organization: Symposium on Alchoholism
Lines: 17

>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?

Spanish and Latin American calendares start the week with lunes (Monday) and
end with domingo (Sunday), making sunday the seventh day.  I'd suspect that
this would be the same in other romance languages (it is in Italian).  With the
week starting on Monday, Sunday is the seventh day.

rick