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To: kosta50; D-fendr; MarkBsnr; blue-duncan; xzins
Out of, say 16 hours of waking time, we devote 1 hour to God in church and 15 hours on us, we can safely say that a Sunday is 93.75% our day and 6.25% the Lord's Day in our book. Pretty telling, isn't it?

So, then what would a proper Sunday look like? God constructed us to require downtime for our mental well being. For some, that can take the form of sitting motionless on a couch all day. But for others, sitting still and doing nothing would actually be work. They would hate it. For them, rest takes the form of doing something they enjoy. I don't know why this would be a problem for God, or why He couldn't understand the truth of the phenomena.

2,710 posted on 08/18/2007 12:54:43 PM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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To: Forest Keeper; D-fendr; MarkBsnr; blue-duncan; xzins
So, then what would a proper Sunday look like?

This is a fair question. My fair answer is: I don't know. I only know what the Bible says: absolute rest. Devoted to God probably means that we should spend the whole day in prayer, adoring and worshiping God.

You say some people would be bored. Again, this is not about us but about God. We seem to think giving Him 6% is plenty. What do you think?

You know, Protestants/Baptists tell us that God created the world for His own glory and not for man. Yet somehow everyone thinks Sunday, the Lord's Day, is more about us and our needs than about God.

Come to think of it, we have made the same charade out of Nativity (Christmas).

2,716 posted on 08/18/2007 1:10:17 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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