Last time I checked all the days of the week belonged to the Lord.
"The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein."
To suggest one day of the week is more "pagan" than another is pure nonsense.
We also know that Jesus Christ Himself is "Lord of the sabbath".
The Word of God includes the testimony of the apostles and prophets in what we call the New Testament. It reflects the reality of Christ's new kingdom and the new covenant made in His blood.
God's people no longer live in the shadows of the old covenant that was decaying and has passed away. When Christ rose on the first day of the week, and met with His disciples on the first day of the week, and poured out His Holy Spirit on the first day of the week, He established an infallible pattern that His apostles used to teach the church, baptized Jews and gentiles, how to truly worship Him in Spirit and Truth on the first day of the week.
"Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight." (Acts 20:7)
How odd that Luke would record Christians worshipping on an allegedly "pagan" day.
Paul preached a message and the baptized believers in the Lord Jesus Christ participated in His communion meal. This is Christian worship in the simplicity intended by God Himself.
The beggardly elements of the ceremonial law no longer bind God's people. We do not worship according to Hagar, the earthly Jerusalem. Those who worship on the last day are the children of Hagar. But the Jerusalem above is free.
"The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein."
To suggest one day of the week is more "pagan" than another is pure nonsense.
We also know that Jesus Christ Himself is "Lord of the sabbath".
Amen, topcat. You've helped me to understand this.
I'm always puzzled by the few Christians who do not embrace the fact that when the old covenant ended, the new covenant called for a new beginning, the first day of the week, the day Christ was resurrected and proved it all true.
A perfect symmetry.
"Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight." (Acts 20:7)
How odd that Luke would record Christians worshipping on an allegedly "pagan" day.
Paul preached a message and the baptized believers in the Lord Jesus Christ participated in His communion meal. This is Christian worship in the simplicity intended by God Himself.
The beggardly elements of the ceremonial law no longer bind God's people. We do not worship according to Hagar, the earthly Jerusalem. Those who worship on the last day are the children of Hagar. But the Jerusalem above is free.
94 posted on 10/10/2006 1:04:53 PM MDT by topcat54
To a Jew as Paul, the first day is Saturday evening when it was traditional to have a meal after the shabbat. I believe this has been answered more than once.
b'shem Y'shua
You always come back to this false statement. I have showed you time after time this is totally non scriptural....but you persist. You obviously wish this were the case....to support your "Pagan Day of the Sun" theory....but you know it's not.
Mat 5:17 Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to destroy but to fulfill. Mat 5:18 For truly I say to you, Till the heaven and the earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any way pass from the Law until all is fulfilled. Mat 5:19 Therefore whoever shall relax one of these commandments, the least, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven. Mat 5:20 For I say to you that unless your righteousness shall exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
Mat 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Mat 7:22 Many will say to Me in that day, Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in Your name, and through Your name throw out demons, and through Your name do many wonderful works? Mat 7:23 And then I will say to them I never knew you! Depart from Me, those working lawlessness!
2Co 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness? 2Co 6:15 And what agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever? 2Co 6:16 And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people." 2Co 6:17 Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you 2Co 6:18 and I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he is now holding back until it comes out of the midst. 2Th 2:8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming, 2Th 2:9 whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 2Th 2:10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved. 2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, 2Th 2:12 so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.
1Jo 3:4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.
How do y'all square your theologies which are squarely in opposition to God's Law with the above scriptures? And how do you square you doctrines, especially TC's, which are rife with the commandments of men and very light on scripture?
Mat 15:9 But in vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." 2Ti 4:3 For a time will be when they will not endure sound doctrine, but they will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts, tickling the ear. 2Ti 4:4 And they will turn away their ears from the truth and will be turned to myths.
Eph 4:13 And this until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; Eph 4:14 so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.