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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Why Do We Christians Worship On Sunday?
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Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 20:42:46 EST
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[This is a followup to an item in net.religion.christian.]

>> 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.

That's funny -- in many countries, calendars are printed "M T W T F S S"
instead of "S M T W T F S".  Does anyone know how far back is "way back?" Is
one way of showing the order of the days of the week older than the other?
Which is more widespread?  And is anyone out there knowledgable enough about
the ancient Hebrew calendar to say whether there is a strict identity between
its seven days and any particular seven days in the modern calendar?  (I may
go try and look this up for myself, but for now the libraries are all locked
up for the holidays.)

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