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Shabbat Shuffle

November 25th, 2005
  

Did you know that the western culture is the only one in the world that thinks Sunday is the Sabbath?

Why do you suppose that is?

Ask your pastor when Sunday became the Sabbath and see if he tells you.

Here’s a hint:

In 321 CE, a pagan sun-worshiper, the Emperor Constantine, declared that Sunday was to be a day of rest throughout the Roman Empire:

"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 however persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits because it often happens that another day is not suitable for gain-sowing or vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost."

So, a pagan sun worshipper mandated that people observe Sunday as a day of rest.  Sabbath is still the last day of the week, which is Saturday, but many Christians choose to worship on the day declared by Constantine as their holy day.

Before you say it isn’t important, the Lord seemed to think so, didn’t He?  He kept the Sabbath, as instructed by the scriptures.

How much of your Christian life is based in paganism?  Ask your pastor and see if he tells you.  He knows because he studied this in seminary.  Ask him why he adheres to pagan rituals and teaches others to do so.

Feel free to worship on Sunday, obviously a pagan tradition, but according to the scriptures, you must also keep the Sabbath, which are two different things in western Christianity.

Here is what Jerry Falwell says about the Sabbath.

"The church always met on Sunday throughout the New Testament," says Rev. Jerry Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University in Virginia. "Saturday is clearly the Sabbath as is recorded many times in the Old Testament. In Christian Church tradition, Sunday became ‘the Lord’s Day’ when Jesus rose from the grave." (source)

Obviously, Falwell has no scripture to back his theology, but that doesn’t stop him from preaching this from the pulpit.  Other pastors are also guilty of spreading the falsehood even though they are aware of the pagan origins of worshipping on Sunday.

Ask your pastor what he knows about Constantine’s edicts.  Compare it to what he preaches.  Find another church if there is a discrepency.

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