Historicity of the change of the Sabbath Commandment

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Bob I agree. If u don't mind me asking what church do u attend? I have been looking for a long time to fit in somewhere

As noted in a prior post - my icon shows that I am Seventh-day Adventist.

Christianity today did an article on Seventh-day Adventists at the beginning of this year - pointing out that we are the 5th largest Christian denomination in the world.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct...ts-can-ben-carson-church-stay-separatist.html

Yet we have the second largest Christian hospital system in the world, second largest Christian educational system in the world, second largest Christian disaster relief agency in the world. And one of the World's five "Blue Zones" - long-lived-communities is ours - in Loma Linda California.
(google "The world's five blue zones")


We started out a sunday-keeping group around the middle of the 1800's but in 1845 interest in the Bible Sabbath - as unbent, unedited - came up and eventually we changed to keeping the Bible Sabbath in its unbent form.

Like most Baptists and Pentecostals - we practice "believer's Baptism" and "open communion" so all Christians are welcomed to participate in worship.

We accept the 66 books of the Bible, sola-scriptura testing of all doctrine and practice, the Triune Godhead of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit (to name a few beliefs of the group).

we believe the Matt 10:28 text stating that God will 'destroy both body and soul in fiery hell' - in a literal Lake of Fire - with literal torment that ends in utter destruction.

And we believe the 1Thess 4 rapture text just as it reads.

13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

See this link - 13 minutes ago #1

(so it isn't just the Sabbath texts that we accept - unchanged... just as they read.)

in Christ,

Bob
 
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The Sabbath is still Saturday, no matter which way you look at it. While the RCC did change the day of worship to Sunday. per their authority, they still dont have any power to alter a commandment of God, so Saturday will always be the Sabbath and Sunday a traditional day of worship.

That is true.

But it is interesting that both they and the other sources listed in my signature line agree to some basics that I too would agree with.

Yes that is right - 6 of the 7 are actually common ground between Sabbath keeping and Sunday keeping Christians.


1. That the Sabbath Commandment is first given to mankind in Gen 2:1-3
2. That all mankind was obligated by the TEN commandments in the OT and to this very day.
3. That the seventh day as the Sabbath was Saturday the seventh day of the week from Gen 2:1-3 until NT times - including at the cross.
4. That the Ten Commandments are the moral Law of God
5. That the moral law of God is written on the heart under the New Covenant
6. that the Ten Commandments as the moral law of God are in no way opposed to grace and the Gospel.
7. That the Sabbath commandment can rightly be BENT by man-made-tradition to point to week-day-1 after the cross.:scratch:

I agree with 6 out of 7 as listed above - and yet many who post against God's TEN commandments object to all of the points listed above. And sometimes they will even go on to complain that so many of the points above are in agreement with my position and opposed to the war-against-the-Ten-Commandments position.
 
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Still rehashing the same stuff, eh?

Some of it -- yours

Open Heart said:
It is simply called transferrence. Nothing more. Nothing less. The church has the authority to do this. It's like the government changing the route of a highway.

in which case -- 'the highway was changed'

obviously.

Open Heart said:
It is the transferring of the solemnity of the Sabbath to the Lord's Day (Sunday).

I know you don't like it that we did this. That's fine.
 
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to "change that" is to "change the Law"
That "Law" only applied to Israel. And the LORD said, "Speak to the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL..." Not to the Nations. So when the Gentile churches formed, the Church had a right to choose its own day for worship, and they chose the sacred day upon which Christ rose.
 
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That "Law" only applied to Israel.

The idea that the Ten Commandments only apply to Israel - is not the position that the RCC takes as we see on page one of this thread.

ONLY if Israel is "All mankind" can one make that "only for Jews" argument.

"from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship" - Is 66:23
"the Sabbath was MADE for Mankind" Mark 2:27

And the LORD said, "Speak to the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL..." Not to the Nations.

There is no "NOT to the nations" in the text.

"I will make a NEW Covenant with them...This is the covenant that I will make with the house of ISRAEL and the house of Judah ... I will write my LAW on their mind and heart" Heb 8:6-10 and Jer 31:31-33.

Those here who are New Covenant Christians - know what I am talking about.

Open Heart said:
It is simply called transferrence. Nothing more. Nothing less. The church has the authority to do this. It's like the government changing the route of a highway.


in which case -- 'the highway was changed'

obviously.

And the "highway" in this case is the Law of God - "To break one is to break them all" when it comes to Commandments and the LAW of God.
 
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Open Heart said:
Yes, the Shabbat will always be Saturday. My church only changed the solemnity from the Sabbath to the Lord's Day.

God stated the "solemnity of the Sabbath" this way.

"made it holy"
"blessed it"
"Sanctified it".

See Gen 2:1-3 and Ex 20:11.

to "change that" is to "change the Law"


You don't speak for God. The Church speaks for God.

No wait! You didn't just ask for Mark 7:6-13 "again" ?? Oh yes you did!

so yes - I do not speak for God - but GOD speaks for God and HE already spoke to this point of changing His Law via church tradition. As we see in Mark 7:6-13

Mark 7

7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the Commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13 Making the Word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.


That is a case of Christ demonstrating the way that the magisterium is hammered "sola scriptura" in the cases where it is shown via "Sola Scriptura" testing that it is traditions and "doctrines of men" that are at odds with scripture.
 
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"from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship" - Is 66:23
that means that all mankind shall worship God seven days a week. it has nothing to do with keeping the sabbath.
 
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There is no "NOT to the nations" in the text.
I didn't include that in the quotation marks. It was my echo of what "to the children of Israel" means, since you don't seem to get it. If I say give this to your brother Sam, it means don't give it to your sister Sue or to the dog Max.
 
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"I will make a NEW Covenant with them...This is the covenant that I will make with the house of ISRAEL and the house of Judah ... I will write my LAW on their mind and heart" Heb 8:6-10 and Jer 31:31-33.
I don't believe the Jeremiah passage refers to the same New Covenant that we have in Christ. For example, in the Jeremiah New Covenant everyone will already know about God and not need to be taught. That's not true right now. Children need to be taught about God, and even with teaching some are still atheists who do not perceive God and remain unconvinced. The New Covenant of Jeremiah is for the Messianic Age.

At any rate, what does this have to do with the price of tea in China? You inserted this and it had no relationship to what you were talking about.
 
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And the "highway" in this case is the Law of God - "To break one is to break them all" when it comes to Commandments and the LAW of God.
If the government alters the route of highway 10, and you follow the new route, you are not breaking any law, and you still get to your destination.
 
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I do not speak for God - but GOD speaks for God and HE already spoke to this point of changing His Law via church tradition. As we see in Mark 7:6-13

Mark 7

7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the Commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13 Making the Word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.


That is a case of Christ demonstrating the way that the magisterium is hammered "sola scriptura" in the cases where it is shown via "Sola Scriptura" testing that it is traditions and "doctrines of men" that are at odds with scripture.

In this case it is the "one true nation church started by God at Sinai" - - as all agree in Mark 7.


The Church is not "the commandments of men."


Well I am sure the Jewish leaders in Mark 7 thought the same until Christ pointed to the problem.
 
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If the government alters the route of highway 10, and you follow the new route, you are not breaking any law, and you still get to your destination.

That is true - but we are not talking about the "route to the Ten Commandments" we are talking about the "Ten Commandments" - turns out that the Sabbath Commandment is not a "route" to them - it IS one of them.

And so your analogy using the Law of God as the highway - and part of that highway "the Sabbath commandment" is changed -- is a "change" to that highway -- .

In Mark 7 Christ rejects the "highway changes" they were trying to make.
 
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I don't believe the Jeremiah passage refers to the same New Covenant that we have in Christ. .

Then we should actually "read the text" and compare.

Jer 31:
31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah
32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”



Heb 8
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
8 Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—
9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete

All those New Covenant Christians reading this - will see just what is being quoted in Hebrews 8 and will notice whether they themselves are gentiles.

so then - let the objective unbiased reader decide what they are reading in Heb 8 and Jer 31:31-34 for all tradition and doctrine is to be tested "sola scriptura" -- not at all "sola preference".
 
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34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord.
You see, this just isn't true yet.
 
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Yes, the Shabbat will always be Saturday. My church only changed the solemnity from the Sabbath to the Lord's Day. If you go to the Catholic Encyclopedia, you will see that Sabbath is defined still as Friday sundown till Saturday sundown. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/s.htm
Actually the 'encyclopedia' says in a sly deceit:

"... The seventh day of the week among the Hebrews, the day being counted from sunset to sunset, that is, from Friday evening to Saturday evening. ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13287b.htm

Having been born into and raised Roman Catholic[ism] for 30 years myself [now of the true faith, the Seventh-day Adventist movement, foretold in prophecy, by the grace of God], full communion, etc, and family still therein, who working for the present local bishop in the city I reside, I would like to ask you, according to the same encyclopedia, what the word "solemnity" is defined as:

"... Solemnity (From Latin solet and annus — a yearly celebration).

The word solemnity is here used to denote the amount of intrinsic or extrinsic pomp with which a feast is celebrated. ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14133a.htm

Another subtle omission, and replacement, being "one day", rather than being specific as God, "the seventh day":

"... The Sabbath was the consecration of one day of the weekly period to God as the Author of the universe and of time. ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13287b.htm

Another blasphemous and false suggestion:

"... This does not mean that the Sabbath was instituted at the Creation ...

... The Sabbath is first met with in connection with the fall of the manna (Exodus 16:22 sqq.), but it there appears as an institution already known to the Israelites. The Sinaitic legislation therefore only gave the force of law to an existing custom. The origin of this custom is involved in obscurity. ...

... In recent years a Babylonian origin has been advocated. ...

... A Babylonian origin is not in itself improbable, since Chaldea was the original home of the Hebrews, but there is no proof that such is actually the case. ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13287b.htm

Further rubbish and misuse of Paul, as Peter warned of [2 Peter 3:16]:

"... St. Paul enumerates the Sabbath among the Jewish observances which are not obligatory on Christians (Colossians 2:16; Galatians 4:9-10; Romans 14:5). The gentile converts held their religious meetings on Sunday (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2) and with the disappearance of the Jewish Christian churches this day was exclusively observed as the Lord's Day. (See SUNDAY.) ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13287b.htm

We can see some of that early apostasy [2 Thessalonians 2:3] and fraud going on here - http://www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/sunday-fraud.htm

"... The obligation of rest from work on Sunday remained somewhat indefinite for several centuries. ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14335a.htm

You see, when Rome originally changed the "solemnity" it was not eliminating all Sabbaths of the year, but merely attempting to promote a specific Sunday in the year [over and above God's Holy day, the 7th Day the Sabbath of the LORD thy God], namely the pagan 'easter' [Sunday] feast to prominence ["... Easter is the principal feast of the ecclesiastical year. ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm and "... the Apostolic Fathers do not mention it and that we first hear of it principally through the controversy of the Quartodecimans ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm ]. As it once gained this, more then followed.

If you read the encyclicals, bulls, etc from Rome's highest authorities, you will see that the various sundays [throughout the year], masses, etc all culminate in the grand idol-fest of 'easter' Sunday and its 'host', which ultimately they say is the 'new creation', thus the so-called '8th day' ["Epistle of Barnabas (xv)", "we keep the eight day", "the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead"; the pagan ogdoad] of which the 'weekly' Sunday was to be the first/8th day together,called the "little easter" of each week [now having 'mystically' [Mystery Babylon indeed] 8 days].

It was only many years later after the original and subtle shifting, and after many more subtle shifts, did Rome go out further and further from keeping the 7th Day, the Sabbath of the LORD thy God weekly, the true Lord's Day of Revelation 1:10 ["... The day thus being the Lord's ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13287b.htm ], to abandoning it/them altogether [going so far as to be in favour of the '"Traditional Catechetical Formula" of their own [self-righteous] 'ten' commandments' - http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/command.htm], in favor of satan's idol sun-day.

The "protestant" existed long before Romanism, for God Himself protests against all transgressors of His Holy Law:

I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. - 1 Corinthians 15:31

God Himself through His prophets had from the beginning:

For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. - Jeremiah 11:7

Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. - 1 Samuel 8:9

And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word [that] I have heard [is] good. - 1 Kings 2:42

Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. - 2 Kings 17:13

And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying, - Zechariah 3:6
etc, etc.

Protestantism against error and sin [1 John 3:4] is Scriptural.

Apostasy and sin [transgression of the Law; 1 John 3:4] is rebellion toward the Highest Rule.

And we are warned in Scripture about our correct use of Scripture, and that we are not to “wrest”, neither mishandle it deceitfully, nor to add to nor subtract from it [as the so-called "Traditional Catechetical Formula" does]:

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Proverbs 30:6

So also of the Ten Commandments...

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.” Deuteronomy 4:2

...and in Revelation again [which covers the "Everlasting Gospel" from Creation to Re-Creation, Beginning to End]...

“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:” Revelation 22:18

“And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.” Revelation 22:19
For even Balaam knew better, for he wisely said:

“And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.” Numbers 22:18

“If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do [either] good or bad of mine own mind; [but] what the LORD saith, that will I speak?” Numbers 24:13
You see, there is an example of one in the Bible which sought to destroy God's word:

And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king. - Jeremiah 36:20

So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. - Jeremiah 36:21

Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him. - Jeremiah 36:22

And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth. - Jeremiah 36:23

Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. - Jeremiah 36:24

Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. - Jeremiah 36:25

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, - Jeremiah 36:27

Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned. - Jeremiah 36:28

And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? - Jeremiah 36:29
Notice Matthew 1:11:

And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon: - Matthew 1:11

Notice who is missing? Jehoiakim... (for it was Jehoiakim that begat Jechonias, and Josias the father of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23:34; Jeremiah 1:3, 22:18, 25:1, 26:1, 27:1, 35:1, 36:1,9, 45:1, 46:2) and was Jechonias' grandfather (1 Chronicles 3:16; Jeremiah 22:24, 24:1, 27:20, 28:4, 37:1; "Coniah" = "Jeconiah/s")), but why?

For what he [under his supervision] did to the word of God... cutting it up into pieces and having it burned, altering the text.
 
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all culminate in the grand idol-fest of 'easter' Sunday
This is the sort of ridiculous assertion that makes me blow off your entire post, although I certainly had answers to your claims. There is nothing wrong with celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Savior. You can chew on your own goading.
 
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... There is nothing wrong with celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Savior. ...
Never said there was something wrong with celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who truly is LORD [Jehovah Emmanuel, LORD of the 7th Day the Sabbath] and Saviour [for He would save His people from their sins, not in them [1 John 3:4]].

Yet, surely you realize the pagan idol-fest, 'easter' that Romanism does?

"Easter

The English term, according to the Ven. Bede (De temporum ratione, I, v), relates to Estre, a Teutonic goddess of the rising light of day and spring, which deity, however, is otherwise unknown, even in the Edda (Simrock, Mythol., 362); ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm

"... [citing Bede] If this is the origin of our word Easter, then the Church “baptized” the name, using it to denote that first Easter Sunday morning when Christ, our Light, rose from the grave and when the women found the tomb empty just as dawn was breaking. ... Even though the etymological root of Easter may be linked to the name of a pagan goddess or pagan ceremonies, ..." - http://catholicexchange.com/easter-a-pagan-holiday

"...Hence the Church would seem to say, ‘Keep that old pagan name [Sunday]. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified.’ And thus the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder [Baal], became the Christian Sunday...” [Paulist Fathers “Paschale Gaudium,” in The Catholic World, Volume LVIII October 1893 - , March 1894; page 809] - https://books.google.com/books?id=p...#v=onepage&q=Keep that old pagan name&f=false

"... the custom of the Romans and of yourselves and of all of us who from ancient times have kept Easter together with you ..." - http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Councils/ecum01.htm

[Please notice, "custom of the Romans", "ancient times", not scripturally based ones, more on this "ancient" terminology if necessary, as it refers to the ancient "mystery" religions of paganism, Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Persia, etc.]​

"... No writer before Justin Martyr seems to mention such a celebration ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03158a.htm

Roman sources There are more, if you would like to see them, sourced of course.

"... From the ninth century onwards a calendar was a common adjunct to most of the different classes of service-books, e.g. sacramentaries, psalters, antiphonaries, and even pontificals. At a later date, and especially after such books came to be printed, it was hardly ever omitted before missals, breviaries, and horæ. In the printed liturgical calendars with which we are now more familiar, we find little but the bare catalogue of ecclesiastical feasts. In the calendars of early date there is a much greater variety of information. We have, for example, a number of astronomical data referring to the times of equinox and solstice, the sun's entry into the various signs of the Zodiac, the dog days, the beginning of the four seasons, etc., and these are often emphasized by verses written above or below the entries for each month, e.g. Procedunt duplices in martis tempore pisces, referring to the fact that at the beginning of March the sun is in the constellation Pisces. Sometimes, also, the verses thus prefixed bear an astrological import, e.g. Jani prima dies et septima fine timetur, which is meant to convey that the first day of the month of January and the seventh from the end are unlucky. It must be confessed that the traces of pagan, or at least secular, influences in many of our surviving early calendars are numerous. ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03158a.htm

"... According to others, it was much later, in the fourth century, that the Christian religion allowed itself to be contaminated by polytheism and admitted numerous pagan practices (Harnack, Das Wesen des Christentums, Berlin, 1900, 126, 137-38, 148). But most frequently these pretended borrowings are only unmeaning analogies, and when the Church borrowed from the religion of the Gentiles certain general rites which are current in all religions, such as the use of incense, lights, processions, gold and silver ornaments, she did not fail to profoundly change their character. ...

... In conclusion it may be said that, while admitting that certain customs or rites accepted by Christianity may have existed in paganism ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15710a.htm

"... The missionary history of the Church clearly shows her adaptability to all races, all continents, all nations. In her liturgy and her art, in her tradition and the forming of her doctrine, naturally enough she includes Jewish elements, but also elements that are of pagan origin. In a certain respect, she has copied her organization from that of the Roman Empire, has preserved and made fruitful the philosophical intuitions of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, borrowed from both Barbarians and the Byzantine Roman Empire, but always remains herself, thoroughly digesting all elements drawn from external sources. ... In her laws, her ceremonies, her festivals and her devotions, she makes use of local customs after purifying them and "baptizing" them." - Andre Retif, S.J [Jesuit] The Catholic Spirit, trans. by Dom Aldhelm Dean, Vol. 88 of The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism (New York, Hawthorne Books, 1959), p. 85, throughout. - https://books.google.com/books?id=l...ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIgKHir_S7yAIVBimICh3YFwwJ

"... In the Christian system the day of rest has been transferred from the Sabbath to the Sunday. ..." - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03158a.htm
 
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