Re: Is the Pope the Vicar of Christ? Can he change God's laws?

On 12 Oct, 16:51, Michael J Davis <mjduse...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Ah, Paul was not constrained by Jewish law, and the concept of 'rest
day' was also not part of the 'Lord's day' because early Christians may
have had to travel for fellowship.

Paul always endorsed the 10 commandments e.g. Rom. 13:9; 7:12; 3:31;
3:20; Eph. 6:1-2

If the early Christians had celebrated the 'breaking of the bread' on
the sabbath, they would have called it by its scriptural name -
'Sabbat'. The only reference to 'the Lord's Day' in the New Testament[1]
is John 1:10; the other references are to the first day of the week.

Saturday evening was not Sabbath, it was the first day of the week.

        [1] Of course there are lots of references to the 'Day of the
        Lord' or the second coming, reflecting back to 'Dies irae, dies
        illa' eg Zeph 1:15.

The term Lord's day to a Jew of John's time would refer to the
Sabbath, it was only in later centuries that it was applied to Sunday.
In any case, Sunday was introduced in the 2nd century but not as a
replacement of the Sabbath. By the 5th century according to two
independent historians, most Christians were keeping both days.
The move to replace Sabbath with Sunday was gradual over centuries,
but the 6th century can be seen as a turning point.

The western church tried to get rid of the Sabbath by making people
fast on that day, but his was rejected by the eastern orthodox church
who said it was a day of celebration. It cause a huge scism for
centuries.

Marc


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