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Below is a link to a picture of a statue of the Gallo-Roman goddess of protection Tutela (150-220 AD) on display at the British Museum. She is seen as supporting the 7-days of the planetary week; Saturn; the eldest of the gods, Sol (sun), Luna (moon), Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus. (Along with with heads of Diana and Apollo on her right and Castor and Pollux on her wings).
https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw.....0.0.0....0.cqJrsEo-vOQ#imgrc=aYc-YzZ77RaNiM:
Below is a link to a picture of a stone carving displaying these same 7 gods which was found at the Baths of Titus in Rome, constructed between 79-81 AD. There are holes in this stone calendar for placing sticks in, so that the days of the week, the date and the month can be shown.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=r...AUICygC&biw=1280&bih=853#imgrc=ebUgIU1cWllPkM:
This planetary calendar was in use as early as 27 BC in Rome. However, by around 150 AD this 7-day week calendar became the dominate calendar.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=r...AUICygC&biw=1280&bih=853#imgrc=Ghvev_MfVxVhrM:
Above is a link to a drawing of the carving, notice Sunday is the second day of the week as depicted by the rays of light coming from Sol‘s crown and Saturday is the first day of the week rather than the seventh! The reason Sunday began to be recognised as the first day of the week on the planetary calendar rather than Saturday was because of the expansion of the Mithra Sun Cult in Rome after 100 AD and it was because of Mithra’s popularity that Sunday became the most important day among the planetary cult worshippers.
As Christianity became more popular in Rome some of these Romanised Christian’s, who had been using this pagan 7-day week, began to use Sunday as there day to worship on. This is recorded in history by Justin Martyr (A gentile historian of Roman decent) in 150 AD, who stated; “But Sunday is the day on which we hold our common assembly, because it is the first day of the week and Jesus our saviour on the same day rose from the dead.” (First apology of Justin, Ch 68).
Justin Martyr’s comment that Sunday was the first day of the week is clearly an error and must just be an assumption on his part based on the fact that by then Sunday was becoming the Roman‘s venerated day of rest as also recorded by Tertullian (a Latin church father in the 2nd century) who admitted that early Christians of his persuasion prayed eastward to the sunrise just as pagans did and that pagans held Sunday as their rest-day just as he did. (Tertullian: To the Pagans. 197 AD).
Further more there is no evidence that Jesus or the Jews of His time ever used this Roman pagan planetary 7-day week calendar that formed the weeks within the Julian calendar.
Eventually this 7-day week became ubiquitous throughout the Roman Empire and on the 7th March 321 AD Rome’s first Christian Emperor; Constantine I, who was a Mithras sun cult worshipper, decreed that Sunday would be observed as the Roman's official day of rest and sanctioned Christians to worship only on this day, declaring: “On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest and let all workshops be closed in the country.”
The conclusion here that Saturday is the first day of the pagan week and that Jesus and the Jews never used this Calendar at all. If you would like to know what Calendar Jesus used click here: https://www.christianforums.com/threads/gods-calendar-explained-from-scripture.8080849/
https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw.....0.0.0....0.cqJrsEo-vOQ#imgrc=aYc-YzZ77RaNiM:
Below is a link to a picture of a stone carving displaying these same 7 gods which was found at the Baths of Titus in Rome, constructed between 79-81 AD. There are holes in this stone calendar for placing sticks in, so that the days of the week, the date and the month can be shown.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=r...AUICygC&biw=1280&bih=853#imgrc=ebUgIU1cWllPkM:
This planetary calendar was in use as early as 27 BC in Rome. However, by around 150 AD this 7-day week calendar became the dominate calendar.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=r...AUICygC&biw=1280&bih=853#imgrc=Ghvev_MfVxVhrM:
Above is a link to a drawing of the carving, notice Sunday is the second day of the week as depicted by the rays of light coming from Sol‘s crown and Saturday is the first day of the week rather than the seventh! The reason Sunday began to be recognised as the first day of the week on the planetary calendar rather than Saturday was because of the expansion of the Mithra Sun Cult in Rome after 100 AD and it was because of Mithra’s popularity that Sunday became the most important day among the planetary cult worshippers.
As Christianity became more popular in Rome some of these Romanised Christian’s, who had been using this pagan 7-day week, began to use Sunday as there day to worship on. This is recorded in history by Justin Martyr (A gentile historian of Roman decent) in 150 AD, who stated; “But Sunday is the day on which we hold our common assembly, because it is the first day of the week and Jesus our saviour on the same day rose from the dead.” (First apology of Justin, Ch 68).
Justin Martyr’s comment that Sunday was the first day of the week is clearly an error and must just be an assumption on his part based on the fact that by then Sunday was becoming the Roman‘s venerated day of rest as also recorded by Tertullian (a Latin church father in the 2nd century) who admitted that early Christians of his persuasion prayed eastward to the sunrise just as pagans did and that pagans held Sunday as their rest-day just as he did. (Tertullian: To the Pagans. 197 AD).
Further more there is no evidence that Jesus or the Jews of His time ever used this Roman pagan planetary 7-day week calendar that formed the weeks within the Julian calendar.
Eventually this 7-day week became ubiquitous throughout the Roman Empire and on the 7th March 321 AD Rome’s first Christian Emperor; Constantine I, who was a Mithras sun cult worshipper, decreed that Sunday would be observed as the Roman's official day of rest and sanctioned Christians to worship only on this day, declaring: “On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest and let all workshops be closed in the country.”
The conclusion here that Saturday is the first day of the pagan week and that Jesus and the Jews never used this Calendar at all. If you would like to know what Calendar Jesus used click here: https://www.christianforums.com/threads/gods-calendar-explained-from-scripture.8080849/
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