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To: Diego1618
Christ was crucified on a Wednesday (easy to verify for the curious), He was buried shortly before sundown on that same day (14th Nisan, 30 A.D.) (again, very simple to prove with secular world history), and He arose from the dead on the Sabbath.

It's an interesting argument, but a credible non-Christian source detailed the early Christian practice of gathering in the morning on the first day of the week sinning and prating together and then after work gathering and having the Lord's Supper, which was a part of the Agape Feast. If worshiping on Saturday versus Sunday was so critical why did the earliest Christian churches do this?

I realize part of the practice was based in the early church being made up of Jews and Gentiles, but if the holiest day was Saturday why not worship with your Gentile brothers in Christ then and have the Lord's Supper then?

55 posted on 05/03/2009 10:13:26 AM PDT by wmfights (If you want change support SenateConservatives.com)
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To: wmfights
sinning and prating

Should have been singing and praying.

57 posted on 05/03/2009 10:21:57 AM PDT by wmfights (If you want change support SenateConservatives.com)
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To: wmfights
but a credible non-Christian source detailed the early Christian practice of gathering in the morning on the first day of the week sinning and prating together and then after work gathering and having the Lord's Supper, which was a part of the Agape Feast. If worshiping on Saturday versus Sunday was so critical why did the earliest Christian churches do this?

First, you must provide a reference to your "non-Christian sources" and next, you must define what "earliest Christian churches" means. If you mean those in the Second Century, you have no argument. If you mean those in the First Century, you have no such proof. Only Scripture stands in in that regard, there is no such extant text. If, on the other hand you want to show how the Gentile "churches" began to deviate from the Apostles' teachings, as Papias tells us that they did (100 CE), then by all means, cite away.

The most complete scholarly piece written to-date, using the Vatican's own library, was done by Samuele Bacchiocchi. His work sheds complete (non-sectarian) light on the matter. The title is From Sabbath to Sunday : A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity
62 posted on 05/03/2009 10:31:56 AM PDT by safisoft
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To: wmfights
It's an interesting argument, but a credible non-Christian source detailed the early Christian practice of gathering in the morning on the first day of the week sinning and prating together and then after work gathering and having the Lord's Supper, which was a part of the Agape Feast.

Cite?

If worshiping on Saturday versus Sunday was so critical why did the earliest Christian churches do this?

Please show me where they worshiped on Sunday. You obviously can't from scripture because every passage that the translators have translated as "First Day of the Week" actually says in the Greek....."On one of the Sabbaths" or is related to the Sabbath. That's the whole point! [Matthew 28:1][Mark 16:2-9][Luke 24:1][John 20:1][Acts 20:6-7][I Corinthians 16:2]. Show me in the Greek where any one of these scriptures is properly translated "First day of the week'!

71 posted on 05/03/2009 11:00:47 AM PDT by Diego1618
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