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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by kikid:
Not good enough, the days in the time of Christ were from sundown to sundown --- the disciples "broke bread" on what we now refer to as Sat evening -- to them it was the first day of the week or Sunday.</font>
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by kikid:
Not good enough, the days in the time of Christ were from sundown to sundown --- the disciples "broke bread" on what we now refer to as Sat evening -- to them it was the first day of the week or Sunday.</font>
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Yauming:
But what of the changes to the (Gregorian) calender and the leap days etc.. how do the Seventh Day Addys take into account of that? Are they seriously believing that Saturday is the actual week day that God made Sabbath? To be chronologically accurate, you got to ask God.</font>
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Matthew 24:20 "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day."
We now ask, for the sake of all the respect and honest analysis that this subject deserves, what was the point of the Master giving this kind of advice to His predominantly Jewish followers, who all kept the seventh day Sabbath (Saturday) if the Sabbath commandment was going to be abolished at the cross? Why advise them to keep a commandment, and even pray to God that He would arrange circumstances to facilitate its keeping, if the Sabbath command would supposedly be obsolete at the time of Jerusalem's fall? </font>
Originally posted by foo:
The Gregorian calendar didn't change the number of days in a week. So the first day of the week is still Sunday. The only difference is whether or not you believe the day starts at sunset or sunrise.
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Foo, you don't get it. Due to leap days etc.. errors in the calculation of months in the post-modern era, people were eventually forced to make changes to the calender, ie. make several weeks "disappear". Example: Europeans were "celebrating" Christmas in Summer time. IIRC, there was a riot in Europe in the 15th century when the governments "wiped out" a few weeks.
Not only that, but due to wars and disasters the recording of events and days fall into error.
Imagine this, if people got thrown out of Eden or enslaved and made to build pyramids night and day for 400 years or got lost in the desert wilderness for 40 years. After awhile, people probably forget whether today - this day - is a "Thursday" or "Friday"? And does it matter?
A day ... any day can be called anything. I'm sure if we had a nuclear holocast now - the survivors would not be taking accurate records to remember whether tomorrow was Sunday. What matters most is not whether the day that we call "Sunday" or "Friday" was the actual week day that God ordained as Sabbath... sure ask Him if you want to know but that we keep one day in the week aside to rest from our labors. Our many Christians do that anyway? They are busy cleaning their houses, doing their homework, preparing for their exams, fixing their cars....
BTW in jest, I asked God and He told me that we got the days mixed up a little. He said that 8,000 years ago, he ordained this day as the 2nd day of creation and its not called "Tuesday" - a pagan name anyhow. Just kidding....
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Yauming:
Foo, you don't get it. Due to leap days etc.. errors in the calculation of months in the post-modern era, people were eventually forced to make changes to the calender, ie. make several weeks "disappear". Example: Europeans were "celebrating" Christmas in Summer time. IIRC, there was a riot in Europe in the 15th century when the governments "wiped out" a few weeks.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by foo:
But you can always check given old records. Astronomy and mathamatics have a strong link and you can calculate what the day of the week it is for any given date.
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