Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!shark!shark!davidb From: davidb@shark.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sabbath, infallible, legalism, and other concepts Message-ID: <1208@shark.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 14:30:01 EST Article-I.D.: shark.1208 Posted: Tue Jan 8 14:30:01 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 22:36:02 EST Sender: davidb@shark.UUCP Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 39 tom> However, there are numerous passages in the New Testament to tom> indicate to us that the Sabbath observance changed from the tom> last to the first day of the week in rememberance of Christ's tom> resurrection from the dead. fred> The assertion that the New Testament shows examples of the Apostles fred> observing other days as Sabbath bears examining in the light of fred> Scriptural and patristic evidence. I would refer the interested to fred> a seminal paper by Dr. Samuele Bachiochi (sp?) as his PhD thesis fred> for the Pontifical Gregorian University. Dr. B is the only Protestant fred> of record to attend (or at least complete doctorate) at the "Pope's fred> University". Pope Paul gave Dr. B a gold medal for it. Among other fred> things, it demonstrates what Catholics have been saying for some fred> time (in several catechisms) that Sunday is the Sabbath for Catholics fred> because the Pope made it that way; thus Protestants who disbelieve fred> his authority should, rather, be worshiping on Saturday fred> (sunset Fri -> sunset Sat. - FC). I would like to point out that the Bachiochi document clearly shows that there is no New Testament basis for the switch from Sunday to Saturday. One way in which the New Testament has been missinterpreted is that we recon our days at Mid Night. The New Testament authors still used sundown to sundown reconing. For example, they would refer to a Saturday Night meeting as being held in the evening on Sunday. Bachiochi's document uses New Testament, other religious and secular sources to show that the New Testament authors were in their graves before Sunday was even being taken seriously in the Early Christian church. Sunday observance started up in the Roman Christian church (not in Jerusalem) many years later as a way of making it clear the Christians were not Jews. The Jewish Zeolots at the time were returning the blood shed of the Romans with a double vengeance. The Christians wanted to avoid any possible confusion. In fact, as I scan through Bachiochi's document, Sunday observance starts to have some very strong Anti-Semitic undertoans. I would imagine that this could have been because many of the converts in Rome had friends and/or relatives who had been killed and/or tortured at the hands of the Jewish Zealots. Dave Buxton tektronix!davidb