In the Abrahamic religions Saturday is the Sabbath. Did they forget? I took this in my home town a few days ago. It was good for a chuckle.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Who really cares? No such thing to a lifelong atheist....all days are for living life to the fullest! The idea of devoting any day of the week to a fictional character is ridiculous....why don’t we say Wednesdays will be Mickey Mouse Day so we will all stop going to work and watch the Disney Channel all day!
Marionville
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Sep 13, 2018
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I'm in, then we could make theme parks all around the world...wait a minute..
@DavidLaDeau Yea, it’s already been done!
Seventh-day Adventists and Seventh Day Baptists most certainly 'remember the Sabbath day.' Note that the Italian word for Saturday is 'Sabato,' which is based on the Latin. It's easy to forget that the 4th commandment was quite explicit:
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 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 male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 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.”
Exodus 20:8-11 (NIV)
Last time I checked, the week ends on the 7th day (Saturday) and begins on the 1st day (Sunday). The question is, where in the New Testament did Jesus, who was a practicing Jew, change the day of worship to Sunday? Not that any of this really matters, mind you!
p-nullifidian
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Sep 13, 2018
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If we accpt that Adam and Eve were real for the sake of argument, they did not keep a calendar. Somone had to arbitrarily "decide" what day of the week it was when the first calendar was made. This being the case we do not know that Saturday actually corresponds to the "first" Saturday. In other words saturday could actually be tuesday as we don't have an actual calendar from the beginning. Sometimes its just fun to play the game...
@DavidLaDeau I have heard this argument many times, and trust me, I too am merely playing along at this point. It's like arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin!
Is the calendar from God, or from man? Clearly the Almighty is outside of time and doesn't need a calendar, all three of which (time, the calendar and God) are manmade constructs. Since Judaism appropriated the Babylonian seven-day week, hanging their creation story on top of it, this faith has, for millennia, kept calendars, and it is the Jews’ understanding of which day is the Sabbath that sets the precedent, at least in the West. Emperor Constantine is generally credited with changing the official day of worship for the early Christian church from Saturday to Sunday.
In an interesting side note, a controversy amongst the Seventh-day Adventist inhabitants of Tonga and Samoa continues to this day, as the islands straddle the International Dateline which was altered, not long ago. Some refused to adopt the change, and now go to church on Sunday!
i don't know about islam but in judaism every day begins and ends at sundown. this includes the sabbath of course, so the sabbath is friday night sundown to saturday night sundown.
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genessa
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Sep 13, 2018
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Very true, It is funny that Jesus was supposed to rise in three days according to Prophecy. If one looks at the Bible passages closely it was at best 2 1/2 days. He did not according to the gospels fufill the prophecy. This oversight is due to later christian writers that were unaware of the Jewish calendar using the Roman system we still use today. Check it out and do the math!!! It will be good for a chuckle!
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