Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: crowe@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Daniel Crowe) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Sabbath, Sunday, Saturday, Lord's Day? (was Re: Law and Love) Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 89 16:33:01 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: City College Of New York Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu >[A number of our readers may find the suggestion that they are >worshipping Baal to be slightly lacking in Christian charity. If they >worship the Sun because they worship on Sunday, do you worship Saturn >because you worship on Saturday? The proper terms are, of course, the >Lord's Day and the Sabbath, respectively. In common speech we often >use the normal English words because we are speaking English. --clh] Two points: 1) The Lord's Day appears in the Bible only once, and most probably does not refer to Sunday, or the first day of the week in the Jewish calendar. In fact, it most probably refers to the seventh day, the Sabbath. The usage of the Lord's Day to refer to the first day of the week began much later. 2) Christians began worshipping on Sunday primarily because most of them had been pagans and were accustomed to worshipping the sun on that day. For these two reasons, it is appropriate to refer to the days of worship as the Sabbath and Sunday. -- Daniel (God is my judge) | "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to physics graduate student | speak and slow to become angry, for man's City College of New York | anger does not bring about the righteous crowe@sci.ccny.cuny.edu | life that God desires." (James 1:19-20,NIV)