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10-06-07, 05:23 PM
HLF,
What you are saying is right, if I remember correctly, you are not a believer (Christian?). There are many denominations of the Christian church which do keep Sabbaths, Seventh Day Adventist, 7th Day Church of God in Christ, Messianic Judaist (not really a part of the "church"). The comon belief that the day of worship changed from the 7th day to the 1st is as a result of the misinterpretation of scripture, and this has been underpinned by the principality of Rome (note Dan 7:25), both in terms of Rulers such as Constantine, and the Roman Catholic Church.
When Yeshua rose on the 1st day of the week, this was actually to fulfill the festival of First Fruits, where the first batch of the harvest was brought in, Yeshua is said to be the Firstboarn from the dead (Col 1:18), because death could not contain him, and this is the harvest that God intended, a harvest of our souls redeeming us from sin - which leads to death, to life, and life eternal. I don't always explain things well, but Romans 6 carries the message well.
However, what we see is that the original intention of God's commandments is sidestepped to let man's traditions take their place (note Matthew 15), and so the significance of Yeshua rising on the first day of the week, and how carefully God planned his statutes and the events in Yeshua's life is lost. And not only that, but the whole body of God's law is undermined, as other traditions take its place, and man looks upon more and more of God's commandments as being relics of the past, if not with contempt.
The effect of this is that "Christianity" has moved away from being what it should, to being a distortion of the truth that actually persecutes those who follow the truth to a greater degree than its own followers.
Peace.
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