“Not in any bible I’ve ever read...the 7th day (not the first) was created holy: Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Gen 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
He never changed this and never did this for the 1st day of the week”...
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Douglas, I recall two places in the Gospel, it is written the first Christians assembled to worship on the first day of the week.
Christians no longer worship on Saturday But on Sunday since our Lord rose from the dead on a Sunday (John 20:1, Luke 24:1on the First day of the week), thus from then onwards Sunday became the day of Public worship for the apostles as we read in 1Corinthians 16:2 “ On the First day of the week (Sunday) (in Hebrew yom rishon) every one of you must put aside what he can afford, so that collections need not be made after I have come.”
The law to worship God in public one day a week has in no way been violated but rather affirmed and brought to its fullness. This is because all the covenants of the Old Law were given to God’s chosen people to prepare them for the coming of their redeemer who would reign for ever (John 1:45). St. Paul makes this clear saying “ These (former things of the Old Law i.e., New Moons or Sabbaths) were only pale reflections of what was coming; the reality is Christ” (Colossians 2:16-17). As baptism was the fullfilment of the Jewish circumcision (Col 2:11-12) for Christians, so to was Sunday the fullfillment of the Sabbath (Saturday). Christians must never make lightly of the price Christ paid for our redemption as for this reason does St. Paul say “ I wish to know nothing but Christ and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2). The early Church for this reason, adopted Sunday as the day of the Lord (Acts 20:7 “On the first day of the week”) for our faith is not in sum superficial messiah but in Christ the Son of the eternal Father who died for us and rose again on the third day. Christ resurrection is an integral part of our faith as St. Paul puts it “if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:14). Thus in deed was Saturday substituted for Sunday (with divine approval) since Christ came to “fulfil the law and not abolish it” (Matt 5:17).
I understand that is the tradition, but that is not the correct interpretation of those verses.
For example:
1Co 16:2 On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.
The word "day" is italicized in most translations to make it clear that the word does not actually appear in the greek text.
In greek, from which this is translated, the literal meaning is "the first of the sabbaths". Most likely it is referring to the count of the sabbaths that occur between the days of unleavened bread and Pentecost, two of the feasts of the Lord.
One of the oldest English translations, the Bishops Bible, renders the verse:
1Co 16:2 Upon some Sabboth daye, let euery one of you put asyde by hym selfe, and laye vp as God hath prospered hym, that then there be no gatherynges when I come.
Nearly all instances of "first day of the week" in some English versions means the same thing...one of the sabbaths or the first of the sabbaths.
I understand that is the tradition, but that is not the correct interpretation of those verses.
For example:
1Co 16:2 On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.
The word "day" is italicized in most translations to make it clear that the word does not actually appear in the greek text.
In greek, from which this is translated, the literal meaning is "the first of the sabbaths". Most likely it is referring to the count of the sabbaths that occur between the days of unleavened bread and Pentecost, two of the feasts of the Lord.
One of the oldest English translations, the Bishops Bible, renders the verse:
1Co 16:2 Upon some Sabboth daye, let euery one of you put asyde by hym selfe, and laye vp as God hath prospered hym, that then there be no gatherynges when I come.
Nearly all instances of "first day of the week" in some English versions means the same thing...one of the sabbaths or the first of the sabbaths.