The root derivations of sabbath are unclear; but as I noted, sabbath is associated with a specific day of the week. Which is unequivocally 'Saturday' as evidenced by the Greek translation and the fact that when looking at a weekly calendar, Saturday is the last day of the week; from left to right, the week starts on Sunday and ends on Saturday.
Do you believe that the current calendar has some kind of continuity dating back to the time God commanded us to keep the Sabbath holy, or back to the creation of the universe? I personally find either idea difficult to believe.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
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