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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Because they did it does not mean all Christians celebrated the Resurrection at the same time. Even the Jews changed the keeping of the Feast of the First fruits, tieing it to the Passover when it was originally celebrated at the end of the week when the first crops were brought in on the day after the weekly sabbath.

Well......I guess the question then would be, "Which day does your creator prefer? The one inspired in His Holy Scriptures....or the one the Church has portrayed."

They're obviously not the same....and since you folks cannot come up a legitimate commandment from His scriptures to honor Sunday as His Sabbath............then I'll go with His way....the scriptures.

I'm not Jewish so I don't care what they've done or what they might do. The first fruits are waved on the 16th of Nisan [Leviticus 23:11].

163 posted on 05/13/2013 5:25:08 PM PDT by Diego1618 ( Put "Ron" on the rock!)
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****...and since you folks cannot come up a legitimate commandment from His scriptures to honor Sunday as His Sabbath***

So? Can you come up with PROOF that worshiping on SUNDAY is the MARK OF THE BEAST? That used to be taught by Sabbatharians many years ago.

Meanwhile...back to “the first day of the week”.

After spending years examining Jewish writings in the Babylonian Talmud, Hebraist John Lightfoot wrote A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica, in which he expounded upon the Hebrew method of counting the days of the week.

He noted: “The Jews reckon the days of the week thus; One day (or the first day) of the sabbath: two (or the second day) of the sabbath;” etc. (1859, 2:375, emp. in orig.). Lightfoot then quoted from two different Talmud tractates. Maccoth alludes to those who testify on “the first of the sabbath” about an individual who stole an ox.

Judgment was then passed the following day—“on the second day of the sabbath” (Lightfoot, 2:375, emp. in orig.; Maccoth, Chapter 1).

Bava Kama describes ten enactments ordained by a man named Ezra, including the public reading of the law “on the second and fifth days of the sabbath,” and the washing of clothes “on the fifth day of the sabbath” (Lightfoot, 2:375; Bava Kama, Chapter 7). In Michael Rodkinson’s 1918 translation of Maccoth and Bava Kama, he accurately translated “the second day of the sabbath” as Monday, “the fifth day of the sabbath” as Thursday, and “the first of the sabbath” as Sunday.

http://www.apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=11&article=2022

I will stick with 600 years of real Greek translators and not some johny-come-lately who thinks he has suddenly found something “new”.

As was said in the past....

“Pertness and ignorance will ask in three lines a question that will take thirty pages of learning and ingenuity to answer.
And when this is done, the same question will be triumphantly asked again the next year, as if nothing had ever been written on the subject”.—Bishop Horne (1837)


189 posted on 05/13/2013 8:27:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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