Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: crowe@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Daniel Crowe) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sabbath, Sunday, Saturday, Lord's Day? Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 89 03:57:05 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: City College Of New York Lines: 38 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu I wrote: >> 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. In article clh writes: >I find these comments very strange. First, there are no real >historical records describing establishment of worship on the first >day. The Church generally claims that it is celebrating the >Resurrection. You have chosen to accept an uncharitable conjecture >instead. Furthermore, you have chosen to extend this uncharitable >intepretation to modern Christians. Surely you don't believe that >most of us were Sun-worshippers before we joined the Church. The historical records that do exist are discussed by Samuele Bacchiocchi in his book *FROM SABBATH TO SUNDAY: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity* (Rome: The Pontifical Gregorian University Press, 1977, distributed in the USA by the author, 230 Lisa Lane, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49103) The book is an abridgement of Bacchiocchi's doctoral thesis which was prepared at The Pontifical Gregorian University. The book has received an imprimatur. My statement was not an uncharitable conjecture: it was based upon Mr. Bacchiocchi's research. Also, I did not mean to imply that I believe that most Sunday-keeping Christians were sun worshippers before they joined the church. Our moderator has read more into my statements than they contain. I also did not mean to imply that the only appropriate terms are the Sabbath and Sunday, but merely that these terms are appropriate. Our moderator stated that the *only* correct terms are the Sabbath and the Lord's Day. -- 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)