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From: tombre@crin.UUCP (Karl Tombre)
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Subject: Re:  Sundays
Message-ID: <139@crin.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 09:13:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 09:13:53 1985
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In article <829@dcl-cs.UUCP> stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
>I would just like to throw in my two-penneth here.  According to the Bible God,
>when creating the world, worked for 6 days and rested on the 7th, which was a
>Sunday.  So, historically, Sunday is the last day of the week.
 ^^^^^^                     ^^^^^^

Sorry, but this is wrong. The day when God rested was the Sabbath, that is
saturday. The jews still consider saturday as being the holy day. So do some
christian movements too, such as adventists for example. But why then do
most christians have sunday as the holy day? This probably comes from the
fact that Jesus ressurected on a sunday, and wasn't also pentecost day on a
sunday? 

In the Bible, we see that the early christians gathered on different days.
In Acts 16,13 for example, they were gathered on they day of sabbath
(saturday). But in Acts 20,7 they came together, on the "first day
of the week" (sunday) to share the bread and listen to Paul. What was the
official holy day for them? I don't know. Anyway, I don't want to start a
religion fight, it is not the place for this here and it would be useful.
But facts remain that the 7th day of week according to the Bible IS saturday.

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