Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: conan@jif.berkeley.edu (David Cruz-Uribe) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sabbath change and History (was a question for those in love ...) Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 03:49:22 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Lines: 31 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Some random comments on this thread: In article davidbu@loowit.wr.tek.com (David E. Buxton) writes: >If early church history is >to be taken as proof then annul the Protestant Reformation. Which would be fine by me :-) [A number of quotes deleted] I cannot comment directly on the sources David Buxton quotes since I have not read any of them. However, Many of them are quite old and seem to be quite sectarian in nature--this is not sufficient reason to disregard them, but it certainly means that I would not accept them uncritically. I would also like to point out another source which is relevant to this discussion: the Letters of Pliny the Younger. Pliny was a Roman governor in Asia Minor (Bithynia?) under the emperor Trajan (circa 100-110). Pliny, a pagan, wrote to the emperor asking for advice on how to deal with a new and possibly subversive cult which had recently come to his attention--Christianity. To the best of my memory, the letter clearly indicates that these early Christians (who were far from Rome and its "influence") met on Sundays. I would be interested in a discussion on this passage, or at least a correction if I remembered it incorrectly. Yours in Christ,