Saturday or Sunday?

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Saturday or Sunday?

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The world has leaned toward Sunday as its day of worship. But what biblical proof is there for the change?

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And Saturday is named for Saturn, who castrated his own father and devoured his own children.

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kayky wrote:And Saturday is named for Saturn, who castrated his own father and devoured his own children.
Of course, the Jewish names for the week are not 'Sunday , etc etc etc'.

Literally translated, the names man "first day, second day, third day, forth day, fifth day , sixth day, rest"
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We Christians are SO pagan... 8-)

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kayky wrote:We Christians are SO pagan... 8-)
Technically. no.

Does the Christian religion use a lot of Pagan writings and sources, of course.

So does Judaism. It would be naive to think that there isn't any influences of surrounding cultures.
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I personally have no problem with these pagan ties. They are part of my history as far as I'm concerned.

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mtbike61384 wrote:Well according to the Bible, the ten commandments make it pretty clear I think.

Exodus 20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
But does it provide for which day is the first day or last day, and how? For that matter, would even the days then be the days now?

Going by this alone, it seems that any day could be the sabbath day.

If the work week starts on Monday, doesn't that make Sunday the seventh day from this perspective?

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Here is a good site that explains that Saturday is still the seventh day of the week.

http://avoiceinthewilderness.org/vital/sermon61.html

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mtbike61384 wrote:Here is a good site that explains that Saturday is still the seventh day of the week.

http://avoiceinthewilderness.org/vital/sermon61.html
G'day Mtbike61384.

Saturday comes from Saturn's Day.

Solomon worshipped the god El, of the Saturnalian cult, as El was the god of Saturn.

The word debir is identical to a nickname of the Holy of Holies in Solomon's temple.

The Jewish Holy of Holies, the Debir, (DBIR) is 216 or 6 × 6 × 6.

Interesting huh.

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mtbike61384 wrote:Here is a good site that explains that Saturday is still the seventh day of the week.

http://avoiceinthewilderness.org/vital/sermon61.html
G'day Mtbike61384.

Saturday comes from Saturn's Day.

Solomon worshipped the god El, of the Saturnalian cult, as El was the god of Saturn.

The word debir is identical to a nickname of the Holy of Holies in Solomon's temple.

The Jewish Holy of Holies, the Debir, (DBIR) is 216 or 6 × 6 × 6.

Interesting huh.
That is interesting.

Also, the Spanish word for Saturday, Sabado, also means "Sabbath".
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I'm pretty sure El was a Canaanite god and the father of Baal.

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