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To: LadyDoc
My mistake. I thought it was in my book Irenaus Against Heretics. But it's in Justin Martyr's First Apology:

No problem. There is no doubt that gentile Christians, which Justin Martyr was, had already begun to distance themselves from Jewish converts as soon as 100 years after the death of Christ. Martyr spent most of his life in Rome where false Gods were rampant. Perhaps worshipping on Sunday served two purposes: It didn't look so suspicious since there was weekly feast to the Sun god on that day...and it also served to make them appear less "Jewish". Either way it did seem to be a departure from from scripture.

But I think the authors intent wasn't to prove that Constantine was the first person to come up with the concept of Sunday worship, but was the person who made it official for the Roman church, which ultimately became the Roman Catholic church and her protestent sisters.

17 posted on 04/26/2002 9:23:37 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
I suspect that the question on what day to worship the Lord goes back furthur, since Paul ordered his followers not to argue over which day to worship the Lord. The arguments over how much of the Jewish law to follow goes back to the council in Jerusalem, where Paul argued that change of heart was the main thing necessary, not following rigid rules.

Christians to this day continue to argue over these things, but as he pointed out in Romans, we should not do so.

19 posted on 04/27/2002 8:17:49 AM PDT by LadyDoc
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