Actually I have studied up on the issue. I’m convinced that, since the New Testament period, starting with the Church plants of Paul, the Church amidst (primarily) gentiles, has gathered for worship on Sunday...celebrating the absolute guarantee of the completion of the New Creation in the resurrection of Jesus.
Just as God rested on Saturday, upon completion of the Old Creation, so too, God-the-Son-in-human-flesh rested on Sunday from the keystone act of the New Creation, Jesus’ resurrection. Our worship corresponds to a miracle greater than even Creation itself... our Messiah’s resurrection—and our justification.
Centuries before Constantine (why does the poor emperor get blamed for everything?) Christians were worshiping on Sunday.
Thanks for your reasoned response, my friend.
Just as God rested on Saturday, upon completion of the Old Creation, so too, God-the-Son-in-human-flesh rested on Sunday from the keystone act of the New Creation, Jesus’ resurrection. Our worship corresponds to a miracle greater than even Creation itself... our Messiah’s resurrection—and our justification.
Centuries before Constantine (why does the poor emperor get blamed for everything?) Christians were worshiping on Sunday.
We do know He rose on the first day of the week Careful reading of the Holy Scriptures will demonstrate that May you seek the face of YHvH in His WORD. We have no knowledge that Yah'shua rose on Sunday.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
which began at sundown on Saturday.
Yah'shua rose on the YHvH commanded Feast of First Fruits.
It is all spelled out in Leviticus 23.
It is the day following the Sabbath following Passover.
Actually I have studied up on the issue. I’m convinced that, since the New Testament period, starting with the Church plants of Paul, the Church amidst (primarily) gentiles, has gathered for worship on Sunday...celebrating the absolute guarantee of the completion of the New Creation in the resurrection of Jesus.I take you at your word that you've studied this issue and I ask this question with a tip of my hat to your authority:
How much confidence can we really have that the number of days between Sunday, July 24, 2011 and some Sunday when Paul was alive is exactly divisible by 7? In other words: how much CONTINUITY can we really expect or believe in between the calendar of Paul's day and the calendar of today?
And if if the answer to these two questions is (as I believe) "who the h*ll knows", then why get all priggish and doctrinaire on the issue of what calendar day of the week is "Sunday" or "Saturday" or the "Sabbath"? It all seems pretty arbitrary and stupid to me, to worry about WHICH day to call the sabbath. If the Jews want Saturday, fine. If the Catholics want Sunday, fine. There is no way in h*ll anyone can convince me that there is the least bit of certainty with regard to how our calendar today lines up with a calendar that existed before the fall of the Roman Empire.
What a non-issue to base a whole church on.
Although I have never given SDA's much thought before, after reading this thread I agree with those who call it a cult.