WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON THE NATIONAL SUNDAY LAW?
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MANY CHURCH LEADERS as good as politicians have been one upon a hotly debated emanate of legislating Sunday as a day of rest. Today, good efforts have been being done to benefit shift in a senior manager as good as legislative circles of a United States sovereign supervision in sequence to order laws for a tact of Sunday as a inhabitant day of rest. The bearing is not sincerely eremite though is couched in a courtesy for a gratification of a American family. This wake up is being repetitious in alternative tools of a universe as good underneath a same pretense.
It is mocking to see this kind of legislation being promoted when we cruise what has been pronounced by a leaders of a Christian churches during opposite times in history. Considering this, it is additionally mocking to see what was a use of Christians via history.
In even stronger words, Pope John Paul II has asked for some-more strident measures be taken to protection a day of rest is observed, as good as to inflict low symbol upon those who would transgress. Of course, a day which he wants kept is Sunday, in any case of your persuasion.
“In Europe, a Sunday Law emanate is approaching to be quarrelsome as Pope John Paul II continues to press for imperative Sunday shutting laws” (Church & State, May, 1992).
As not long ago as July, 1998, a Pope, in his Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, was quoted as observant which a delinquent should be “punished as a heretic” (Detroit News, Jul 7, 1998).
Currently, a Vatican is asking a “civil authorities” to concur with a Church in legislation of Sunday as a nation’s day of rest.
“The polite authorities should be urged to concur with a church in progressing as good as strengthening this open ceremony of God, as good as to await with their own management a regulations set down by a church’s pastors. For it is usually in this approach which a true will assimilate since it is Sunday as good as not a Sabbath day which we right away keep holy” (Roman Catechism, 1985, importance supplied).
Someone Admits to Changing God’s Law
In a new Catholic church newsletter, it stated, “Perhaps a most insubordinate shift a Church ever did, happened in a initial century [actually in happened in a fourth century]. The holy day, a Sabbath, was altered from Saturday to Sunday. ‘The Day of a Lord’ [Dies Domini] was chosen, not from any citation remarkable in a Scriptures, though from a Church’s clarity of a own power.…People who consider which a Scriptures should be a solitary authority, should logically turn [Seventh-day] Adventists, as good as keep Saturday holy.” Saint Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995.
No Scriptural Support
Sunday is a Catholic establishment as good as a explain to tact can be shielded usually upon Catholic principles.…From commencement to finish of Scripture there is not a singular thoroughfare which warrants a send of weekly open ceremony from a final day of a week to a first.”—Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia, 1900.
Mark of Authority
“Sunday is a symbol of authority.…The church is on top of a Bible, as good as this dumping of lords day tact is explanation of which fact.” The Catholic Record, London, Ontario, Sep 1, 1923.
A Catechism
“Question: Which day is a Sabbath?”
“Answer: Saturday is a Sabbath.”
Question: Why do we comply Sunday instead of Saturday?”
“Answer: We comply Sunday instead of Saturday since a Catholic Church in a Council of Laodicea (A.D. 336) eliminated a gravity from Saturday to Sunday.” The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, by Peter Geiermann, 50.
What Do You Think?
Do we need to be forced to keep Sunday in a approach discordant to what we believe? Should we be punished for your responsible courtesy or negligence for which day? Is this something a Federal supervision should legislate?
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It will come to pass just as sure as the sun rises every day.
“And that no man might buy or sell . . .” Revelation 13:17
Frankly, I really couldn’t care less what day Christians think they’re supposed to worship on, or what the Bible does or doesn’t say about it. It is reasonable to conclude that even the earliest Christian congregations (who were a mix of both Jews and gentiles) held different ideas and followed all kinds of different practices, and worshipped on both saturday and sunday depending on local custom. The rulers of Rome and Constantinople later standardized and enforced sunday worship probably to finally break away from the old Jewish traditions.
In any case, I cannot see any economic or practical reason for having a “day of rest” enforced by the government on everybody, and it smacks of nothing more than religious doctrine. And last I checked, we’re not living under a theocracy. Customers, storeowners, and employees should have a right to decide when it is most convenient and profitable for them to work or do business. Telling people that they can’t work, do business, or buy booze on sunday is just a disquise for telling them they’re supposed to be in church. And it also isn’t fair to people of other religions such as Jews and Seventh Day Adventists who observe a different day of the week. Keep the government out of it, and let the free market decide!
This is one of the funniest arguments to me.
1) Let’s say the law is passed……WHERE does it say anyone has to go to worship that day??? You don’t, to the non-Christian, your Sunday would be a day off. Rest, take it easy, have a soda and chill.
2) If you are a Christian, you worship every day…..so if Sunday is set as a National Sabbath Day….that is a POLITICAL announcement, NOT a SPIRITUAL one. If your faith says that your sabbath is Saturday, then it is STILL Saturday even if you are given “off” on Sunday.
3) Would it be so bad that if some of the blue laws were brought back for one day? For one day that folks, even non-spiritual, could focus on family, friends, etc?
4) Imagine – we’d have to learn PATIENCE and wait 24 hours to shop or go out to eat…..such a burden on all of us!
5) For decades we’ve been told in the US that we work too hard, too many hours and the stress is killing us. So the Blair Amendment is revived from 114 years ago and everyone has a kitty about it. Geez.
This is just one law I can’t get fired up about either way…..the fight is ludicrous in my mind.
Heck, I’d be in an interesting situation there, because I negotiated my weekends to go on the days Friday and Saturday, so I often work on Sunday.
Exodus 20:8-11: The Ten Commandments command everyone to preserve the seventh day, Saturday, as a day of rest:
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: (in it) thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed
“Strangers” presumably means any non-Jewish person in your home. Even though a person was not Jewish, he/she would be required to follow the Saturday Sabbath.
Isaiah 58:13-14: Isaiah speaks for God: “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, (and) the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking (thine own) words: then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.”
Matthew 24:14-20: This passage, referred to as the “Olivet Prophecy”, describes the second coming of Christ. Jesus recommends in Verse 20 that everyone pray: “…that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath” . Presumably, he believed that the sabbath would still be observed at time of the second coming.
Mark 3:1-5: In this and many other Gospel passages, Jesus was severely criticized by the Pharisees because he collected food and healed people on the Sabbath. Jesus observed the Sabbath, but criticized the Pharisees’ overly strict rules and regulations concerning the day of rest.
Luke 4:16: Jesus is describing as entering the synagogue on the Sabbath, and teaching there, as was his custom. Similar messages appear in Mark 1:21, Mark 6:2, Luke 4:31, Luke 6:6, Luke 13:10, and John 5:14.
Luke 23:56: The women followers of Jesus “rested according to the commandment” on the Sabbath following Jesus’ death. In Mark 16:1, three of Jesus’ female followers waited until the Sabbath was over at sundown on Saturday before bringing spices to anoint Jesus’ body.
With all of these references to the observance of the Saturday Sabbath found in the history of the Jewish people, the life of Christ, and the practices of disciples and other followers of Christ, one would naturally assume that Christian churches would have continued with the Jewish Sabbath. So tightly linked is Saturday to the Sabbath that in over 100 languages (one source says 160) the name for Saturday is some variation of the word “Sabbath.” (English is one exception; Saturday is named after the Roman Pagan god Saturn).
Question: If we are Christians and Christ observed the Sabbath, shouldn’t we as well? Where in the Bible does it say that the Sabbath was changed to Sunday?
There are very few places that are not open on Sunday. These were laws of the past. And Saturday is the Sabbath and Sunday is the Lord’s Day.Why do we not have the Sunday Blue laws any longer? Because of GREED
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I’m breaking with my tradition of not answering rants to asnwer this one.
WHERE do you get a “Sunday closing law” is in effect in the U.S.? The “Sunday blue laws” have not been in place for well over 30 years!
Some of you are merely incorrect.
Where I live (IL), I cannot buy a beer before noon on Sunday, I have to drive to the next city.
I understand it is the same in KY that alcohol sales are prohibited before noon on Sunday.
In the mid-to-late 80s, in VA, nearly everything was closed on Sunday, by law.
Helio “Well, if I can’t get a beer, I guess I’ll just haul off and go to church!” Centrist
Christ said the saboth was made for man not that man was made for the saboth
That sounds like a lot of propaganda around another blatant religious power-grab. If christians don’t want to do anything on Sunday, that’s fine with me, but the rest of us should be able to get along with our lives. This is the sort of thing that the seperation of church and state should prevent, nobody should be forced to live according to the religious beliefs of another.
Holy cow. I’m going to need a day of rest after reading your question. You’ll have to wait until Monday for my answer.
cut and paste much?
Why should we be FORCED into following the beliefs of one religion? If I had a restaurant, I wouldn’t want to be forced to keep it closed on the most profitable day of the week! Most church goers like to go out to eat so THEY won’t have to work. That’s fine for them, but others should never be forced to do the same.
Well I would see it as interesting, since many other religions observe the Sabbath on Saturday, and how would the Sunday Law affect them? Would they still be able to have their religious days too? Would they be forced to keep open their businesses on their Sabbath? I think if there were more answers, then we could be more fair about giving an answer.
Yes, the Sunday law would be a good thing, no matter what anyone believes.
Anyway sunday is already a day of rest in most of country. Weekends are weekends no matter what ya believe.
When I was a kid no stores were open on Sunday, there was no law as to that but just common practice. And it worked quite well, really, for everyone. I mean really, think about it, if all the stores are closed on Sunday, big deal, it ain’t like they aren’t open 6 other days.
This is not so much a matter of religion, is it? Sunday is still Sunday to everyone anyway. The end of the weekend.
You guys are so lame, you don’t even know a good thing when ya hear it. Anyway if the vast Christian majority wants this law, too bad, it will be law. And, as always, you non-Chtistians get to benefit too.