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From: albert@harvard.ARPA (David Albert)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: why do we Christians worship on Sunday
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Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 11:56:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  5 11:56:56 1985
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> >
> >Since orthodox Jews have been around continuously celebrating
> >the Sabbath for at least 3000 years, it is inconceivable that
> >they could have "lost track" or forgotten one day.  
> >
> 
> More like 5745 years.
> 

No, not quite; when the earth was created (assuming for the
purposes of this posting that it was in fact created 5745
years ago) there were no orthodox Jews.  Orthodox Judaism
began some 1000 or 1500 years later, when God gave Moses the
first five books of the Bible at Mount Sinai.
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