I don't think you will find a Biblical example for cancelling it altogether, but limiting the number of services seems apropo, expecially in light of the fact that most Churches have Christmas eve services. Just pretend your Christmas eve service is in another time zone. That would be consistent with our time/space discussions.
I have no trouble with buggman's (and others) info that the evening prior was counted as the following day in biblical times.
Sat eve is actually Sunday, if I understand him correctly.
The actual day begins right after 12 midnight for us, but we think of it from morning to morning. It does sound like an arbitrary thing.
If a church is accustomed to having 2 or more services on Sunday, because of the volume of worshippers, and if they truly expect a huge number less on any given Sunday, then I can see good cause for having only 1 service....it accomodates the number of worshippers. I have no problem with that.
"Just pretend your Christmas eve service is in another time zone. That would be consistent with our time/space discussions."
Well, we here in "neenerland" celebrate our days from sunset to sunset, so actually, it is all the same day.
Somewhere, it's three o'clock. There's always somewhere where it's 3 o'clock....