sdachristian writes:
I have studied this subject but I am still confused how you can get anything such as sunday out of the bible, and I was wondering what your theories happen to be?
I don't mean to be a spoil-sport, but honestly, the good ol' Wiki gives a decent explanation of this. The answer is not so much about religion, but just about customs and traditions.
In summary, early christians up until the 3-5 centuries, held the Sabbath in the traditional Jewish way, and ALSO had a day of celebration afterwards to honor the Resurrection. The symbolism went beyond Sunday being merely the day on which Jesus rose, to also a symbolism of the start of the 'new' creation in Jesus, as in , the 8th day.
I believe in some non-Jewish areas the idea of the Saturday Sabbath was not a big deal. Eventually, the Emperor Constantine declared Sunday a day of rest like Saturday. While some Popes likewise held that it was good to celebrate Sunday, they never denied Saturday as being important to my knowledge.
I am not sure things have changed so terribly much. We still have a Sunday morning breakfast, derived from the times when everyone fasted the day before church, and possibly derived from even older times when they fasted on Saturdays.
And of course, we still have a two-day weekend, though it is not religious in nature. I think that is pretty good for 2000 years.
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