Lightkeeper
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Is Sunday the 7th day of the week or the first day of the week?
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Engyo
Prince of Dorkness!
According to my employer, work weeks end at 11:00 am Friday. So it's neither, by that yardstick. There are lots of different yardsticks. When I worked in Qatar last year, Sunday was the first day of the work week, Friday is the holy day, and Saturday is your running errands, etc., day. Which yardstick shall we use?
Scott1
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Good point Engyo... I guess it is a matter of culture or situation what day you believe comes "first" or "last" in a week.
Some religions (such as Seventh-Day Adventists and Seventh-Day Baptists) claim that Christians must not worship on Sunday but on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. They claim that, at some unnamed time after the apostolic age, the Church changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.
But passages of Scripture such as Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Colossians 2:1617, and Revelation 1:10 indicate that, even during New Testament times, the Sabbath is no longer binding and that Christians are to worship on the Lords DaySundayinstead.
The early Church Fathers compared the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of the rite of circumcision, and from that they demonstrated that if the apostles abolished circumcision (cf. Gal. 5:16), so also the observance of the Sabbath must have been abolished.
The Letter of Barnabas
We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead (Letter of Barnabas 15:68 [A.D. 74]).
Scott
www.catholic.com
Some religions (such as Seventh-Day Adventists and Seventh-Day Baptists) claim that Christians must not worship on Sunday but on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. They claim that, at some unnamed time after the apostolic age, the Church changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.
But passages of Scripture such as Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Colossians 2:1617, and Revelation 1:10 indicate that, even during New Testament times, the Sabbath is no longer binding and that Christians are to worship on the Lords DaySundayinstead.
The early Church Fathers compared the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of the rite of circumcision, and from that they demonstrated that if the apostles abolished circumcision (cf. Gal. 5:16), so also the observance of the Sabbath must have been abolished.
The Letter of Barnabas
We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead (Letter of Barnabas 15:68 [A.D. 74]).
Scott
www.catholic.com
Saturday is the seventh day of the week, the day of the sabbath. Sunday is the first day. I believe Jewish people so to church (or is it synagogue?) on saturday, and christians typically go on sunday. Sunday was decided on when Constatine made it the official religion of Rome.
standing_on_one_foot
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Well, I go by Monday being the first day of the week during my everyday life (it being the day I have to go back to school). But for Jewish related stuff, Sunday's the first (in Hebrew, that's what the word for Sunday literally is, "first day" or "day one").
I was told once that the Sabbath was on Sunday for Christians because that's when Jesus was supposed to have risen, but I've really no clue how accurate that it. Anyone know?
I was told once that the Sabbath was on Sunday for Christians because that's when Jesus was supposed to have risen, but I've really no clue how accurate that it. Anyone know?
Monday always feels like the first day of the week for me too. Even on the calander though, Sunday is the first day. Hm....I never heard that it was because Jesus was supposed to have risen then before, but I stopped going to church a while ago.standing_on_one_foot said:
