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Hello everyone, I wanted to dialogue about this because I have been researching the Sabbath and Law issues, and I am finding a lot of problems with the standard explanations. I really need to understand the logic of the textbook explanations for why we should throw out the law and Sabbath. I just read an article at https://www.gci.org/bible/torah/exodus2a, and it seems like there are some problems with the logic and claims.
I checked the verses that support Sunday worship and I discovered, to my shock, that there aren't any! With the exception of the Gospel references to Jesus' resurrection, I could only find two verses referencing it. One was Acts 20:7, but when I checked the Interlinear Greek bible I discovered that actually it says "On one of the Sabbaths" instead of the "first day of the week" as it has been translated. After looking closer it appears that they had gotten together for the Sabbath and just stayed really late at night after Sabbath had technically ended, because Paul was leaving in the morning and apparently wanted to preach as long into the night as he could... so basically it was talking about Saturday & Saturday night, not Sunday morning.
Also the other verse was 1 Corinthians 16:2 - where I was once led to believe that they were talking about a Sunday collection - but in the original greek it actually just says "one day out of the week" to set something aside for when Paul was to come... it doesn't even specify a day... so I am super confused. Am I missing something - and are there other verses in the New Testament that clarify this? I appreciate any input, verses or clarifications. Thanks.
I checked the verses that support Sunday worship and I discovered, to my shock, that there aren't any! With the exception of the Gospel references to Jesus' resurrection, I could only find two verses referencing it. One was Acts 20:7, but when I checked the Interlinear Greek bible I discovered that actually it says "On one of the Sabbaths" instead of the "first day of the week" as it has been translated. After looking closer it appears that they had gotten together for the Sabbath and just stayed really late at night after Sabbath had technically ended, because Paul was leaving in the morning and apparently wanted to preach as long into the night as he could... so basically it was talking about Saturday & Saturday night, not Sunday morning.
Also the other verse was 1 Corinthians 16:2 - where I was once led to believe that they were talking about a Sunday collection - but in the original greek it actually just says "one day out of the week" to set something aside for when Paul was to come... it doesn't even specify a day... so I am super confused. Am I missing something - and are there other verses in the New Testament that clarify this? I appreciate any input, verses or clarifications. Thanks.