Christians Who Don't Celebrate Easter: What Do They Know?

Good News Magazine ^ | Spring 2007 | Jerold Aust

[kerryusama04]

The Apostles were obviously going through extreme changes, being persecuted by everyone, while evangelizing, and having the Spirit poured on them causing them to act incredibly strange. If they DIDN'T have every meal together or meet as often as possible, then THAT would be noteworthy.

The facts are not against me. The scriptures enforce the observance of Sabbath for the Christian because Christianity is the continuance of the Hebrew faith. We worship the same God, and in many aspects, in the same manner. The Christian is grafted into the Hebrew vine, not the other way around.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Ya. They just can’t fathom that NT writings
are a product of the Church and that
the writings didn’t spawn the Church.
Its understandable. I’ve been there,
done that and bought the t-shirt. :-)

[kawaii]

Scripture never mentions them breaking bread on any other day than the first day, the same day that Mary found the empty tomb, the same day Christ was resurected, the same day St Paul told the Corinthians they should tithe.

Face it. The idea of Church on Saturday is anti-biblical, and invented within the last 100-200 years.

[kawaii]

Nope better to side with the folks who were so happy with the messiah they murdered him.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Face it. The idea of Church on Saturday is anti-biblical, and invented within the last 100-200 years.

Not true. Otherwise the council of Laodecia in the 4th century wouldn't have made it an issue.

[kerryusama04]

Face it. The idea of Church on Saturday is anti-biblical, and invented within the last 100-200 years.

LOL!

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Nope better to side with the folks who were so happy with the messiah they murdered him.

I'd rather side with folks that didn't build their religion as a result of Jew-hatred.

[kerryusama04]

Nope better to side with the folks who were so happy with the messiah they murdered him.

Maybe you didn't get the memo, but if they hadn't put Him to death, a death he did not deserve, He wouldn't have died for OUR sins, and He couldn't have been resurrected at all. Good grief. Your telling me to read the Bible? (Shaking head in disbelief). Really, who wouldn't want to go to church with such a holy and righteous man as yourself. This is despicable.

[kawaii]

The issue at Laodicea (not Laodecia) a LOCAL council (not a church wide one) was whether Christians should REST on Saturday, not whether they should WORSHIP on SUNDAY which they’d already been doing since the 150s.

[kawaii]

So go read their torrah which denies he ever came. Kind of like asking a guy who went blind 30 years ago what color the paper in your hand is.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

The issue at Laodicea (not Laodecia) a LOCAL council (not a church wide one) was whether Christians should REST on Saturday, not whether they should WORSHIP on SUNDAY which they’d already been doing since the 150s.Thank you for making my point.

[kawaii]

Your telling me to read the Bible? (Shaking head in disbelief).

Indeed Read Scripture!:

“Upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread” (Acts 20:7).

Jhn 20:1 ¶ The first [day] of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Jhn 20:19 ¶ Then the same day at evening, being the first [day] of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you.

The prophesy of pentecost places it on a Sunday: Lev 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.

Act 20:7 ¶ And upon the first [day] of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

1Cr 16:2 Upon the first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as [God] hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

Ignatius 110 A.D. wrote in his epistle to the Magnesians 9…” If they who were concerned in old things, arrived at a newness of hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living according to the Lord’s day, by which our life sprung from him and by his death (whom certain persons deny)…we have been made his disciples, let us live according to Christianity.”

Barnabas 120A..D. “Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day, also, on which Jesus rose again from the dead”

Justin Martyr 140 A..D. “Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness, made the world; and Jesus Christ our savior , on the same day rose from the dead.”

Didache 80-90 A.D. “And on the day of our lords resurrection, which is the Lord’s day meet more diligently.”

[kawaii]

Strictly speaking the Sabbath wasn't replaced it was however distinguished from the Lord's day, Sunday.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

So go read their torrah which denies he ever came.

Lol. The Torah was written about 1500 years before he supposedly came. But I have no doubt you could string a few verses together to proove it anyway. lol.

[kawaii]

As opposed to those who re-wrote Scripture out of messiah hatred?

[kawaii]

Yeah sure, except that it had vowels added only 1200 years ago (at most). Not that they’d ever slip a few altered meanings in while they’re at it.

[kerryusama04]

You haven’t read the thread and I am not going to respond to your posts anymore. It is not sinful to congregate on any day of the week. It is sinful to break the 4th Commandment by not keeping the Sabbath Holy. Is is sinful to invent your own Sabbath like Aaron and one of the harlotous (is that a word?) kings of Israel did. I am also shocked at your blatant anti-semitism. It does not bode well for the church you are advertising for.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

You’re still wrong. There were Christians who attempted to observe Sabbath before 200 years ago. Hell, Jesus and Paul both attended synagogue. Wasn’t Paul a Christian?

[Invincibly Ignorant]

As opposed to those who re-wrote Scripture out of messiah hatred?

Are you really that dense? You're going to argue that the Torah denied Jesus ever came when it was written over a thousand years before he came. Quit changing the subject and be a man and admit you screwed this one up.

[kawaii]

The 7th day Sabbath (Subota) is still kept, it simply pails in comparison to the Lord’s day. The fact is the Jews who did not convert after hearing the word reject God. They rewrote scripture to deny the messiah and are not Christians, nor freinds of anything like the truth Christians acknowledge, if you follow them check out revelations to see where it leads.