Catholics are making it up.

For what it's worth, I did not try to shut down AZPaul. I find that the points he made are already well responded to. But if in fact, the subject of this discussion is that the Bible itself is made up, then that seems to be distinct from the subject in the OP. It seems to me that Paul is in some agreement on the point.

I believe I saw Galileo on that list of names.

Interesting. It seems to me that the Sabbath is the subject of the fourth commandment in both Exodus and Deuteronomy. I suppose that must be different in the Catholic Bible.In any event, the commandment says to work six days and rest on the seventh day. It seems that a rest on a seventh day is what nearly every church does, with the question being whether seventh means an ordinal numbering of the days of the week, or merely any day following six other consecutive days. There is also the question of whether the difference even matters.The issue of which of the seven days is the rest day obviously does matter to some folks, but is that fact enough to raise the issue to any real importance? Does it really matter on which weekday our calendar begins? Don't we actually consider Saturday and Sunday the weekend regardless of where we place Sunday on a calendar. Can we really trace the calendar accurately back to seven days of creation, anyway? Does not the entire idea that a particular day matters require a literal reading of Genesis, something that only fundamentalists seem to accept anyway?I understand that there are people who celebrate Christmas on Jan 6th because they believe that the added 10 days to the Gregorian calendar were inappropriate. But that stuff ignores the fact that nobody actually believes Christ was born during December in the first place. The exact day of celebration is a matter of tradition and has no actually religious import. The same is true of the Sabbath.

I would have to agree that the gymnastics involved with Faith's explanation are pretty bizarre. The Jewish Sabbath day is actually sunset Friday till Sunset Saturday. It is not even properly a single day of the week, particularly for people whose primary source of light is artificial and for whom sunset and sunrise don't start and end the day.In any event, instead of speculating or just assuming that you are right, you might consider looking at the explanations given yourself. Searching why Christians worship up on Sunday will uncover the fact that there are various answers given with no one really sure of the right one. Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

The problem with that bit of research is that worship on Sunday predates the purported changing of the date by the Church. Sunday church services actually date from the first and second century after Christ's death.At best the pope would have established an official policy for the Church by choosing one of the existing practices.Edited by NoNukes, : change chosing to choosing

Why isn't the use of the Julian calendar for religious purposes a matter of belief? Why is it considered important to use an old calendar that has the problem of having seasons, solstices etc. moving around the calendar over time?Orthodox Christmas Day

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Christmas on January 7 is also known as Old Christmas Day. Eleven days were dropped to make up for the calendar discrepancy that accumulated with Julian calendar when England and Scotland switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1752. Many people, especially in rural areas, did not accept the loss of these 11 days and preferred to use the Julian calendar.

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