Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: palosaari@tiger.oxy.edu (Jedidiah Jon Palosaari) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: re: sunday vs. saturday Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 89 03:56:57 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 Lines: 18 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu If this question has been asked already, I apologize, but if that's so, I'm sure the moderator won't send it through the net. If we are susposed to worship on Saturday (Sabbath) and not Sunday, how do we know that the day we now see as the Sabbath is the same day as the early Christians saw as the Sabbath? In other words, could it be possible that we messed up the calender not only in respect to years and months, but also as concerns days of the week, so that someone worshipping on Saturday might now be actually worshipping on Thursday? (I'm genuinely curious.) [I would be fairly confident that we haven't dropped a day between now and the 1st Cent, but I have no idea how to check it for thousands of years previously. There are several reasons to be confident that our Saturday is the same as the early Church's. One is that Christians and Jews each keep track of the days, and I've never heard any suggestion that they got out of sync. Nor have I heard of, for example, European and Egyptian Jews disagreeing about the Sabbath. --clh]