Alla on lainaukset alkuperäiskielellä Arthur Weigallin teoksesta, jota adventistit ovat käyttäneet tukemaan väitettään sunnuntain ”pakanallisuudesta”. Adventistit lainaavat kyseistä teosta valikoivasti ja jättävät kertomatta, että saman kirjoittajan mukaan myös sapatti on pakanallinen päivä alkuperältään ja liittyy kuunpalvontaan. Lisäksi Weigall näyttää kuinka sapatin pyhittämisen juuret ulottuvat babylonialaisiin mytologioihin.
The ”Lord’s Day” (Sunday) is of Pagan Origin: ”The Hebrew Sabbath having been abolished by Christians,the Church made a sacred clay of Sunday, partly because it was the day of the resurrection, but largely because it was the weekly festival of the sun; for it was a definite Christian policy to take over the pagan festivals endeared to the people by tradition, and to give them a Christian significance. But, as a solar festival, Sunday was the sacred day of Mithra; and it is interesting to notice that since Mithra was addressed, as Dominus, ’Lord,” Sunday must have been ’the Lord’s Day’ long before Christian times.” (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, 1928, s.136) Jewish Sabbath and the Sunday Lord’s Day both of pagan origin: ”In the early Christian Church there were no festivals, holy days, or Sabbaths” … ”I have, already mentioned that Sunday, too, was a pagan holy-day; and in this chapter I propose to discuss the origin of this custom of keeping one day in the week as a Sabbath, or ”day of rest,’ and’ to show that the practice was forcefully opposed by Jesus Christ. The origin of the seven-day week which was used by the Jews and certain other peoples, but not till, later by the Greeks or Romans, is to be sought in some primitive worship of the moon, for the custom of keeping the day of the new moon and that of the full moon as festivals, which is widely found in antiquity, implies the recognition of a cycle of about 14 days, of which a week of 7 days is the half, the actual length of a week thus determined being 7 3/8 days. Now the Babylonians had a early adopted the seven-day week, and their calendars contain directions for the abstention from certain secular acts on stated days which seem to correspond to seventh days, and were called ” Sabbaths ”; and though the Jewish Sabbath cannot be directly traced to Babylonian usage, the institution is obviously derived from moonworship and from the concomitant recognition of the number seven as calendrically sacred. The Jews attributed the holiness of the ’seventh day’ to the fact that God was supposed to have rested from His six-days’ creative labours on that day; but this was itself a legend derived from Babylonian mythology, and was not the original reason why the seventh day was a day of rest.” (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, 1928, s. 209-211)
The ”Lord’s Day” (Sunday) is of Pagan Origin: ”The Hebrew Sabbath having been abolished by Christians,the Church made a sacred clay of Sunday, partly because it was the day of the resurrection, but largely because it was the weekly festival of the sun; for it was a definite Christian policy to take over the pagan festivals endeared to the people by tradition, and to give them a Christian significance. But, as a solar festival, Sunday was the sacred day of Mithra; and it is interesting to notice that since Mithra was addressed, as Dominus, ’Lord,” Sunday must have been ’the Lord’s Day’ long before Christian times.” (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, 1928, s.136) Jewish Sabbath and the Sunday Lord’s Day both of pagan origin: ”In the early Christian Church there were no festivals, holy days, or Sabbaths” … ”I have, already mentioned that Sunday, too, was a pagan holy-day; and in this chapter I propose to discuss the origin of this custom of keeping one day in the week as a Sabbath, or ”day of rest,’ and’ to show that the practice was forcefully opposed by Jesus Christ. The origin of the seven-day week which was used by the Jews and certain other peoples, but not till, later by the Greeks or Romans, is to be sought in some primitive worship of the moon, for the custom of keeping the day of the new moon and that of the full moon as festivals, which is widely found in antiquity, implies the recognition of a cycle of about 14 days, of which a week of 7 days is the half, the actual length of a week thus determined being 7 3/8 days. Now the Babylonians had a early adopted the seven-day week, and their calendars contain directions for the abstention from certain secular acts on stated days which seem to correspond to seventh days, and were called ” Sabbaths ”; and though the Jewish Sabbath cannot be directly traced to Babylonian usage, the institution is obviously derived from moonworship and from the concomitant recognition of the number seven as calendrically sacred. The Jews attributed the holiness of the ’seventh day’ to the fact that God was supposed to have rested from His six-days’ creative labours on that day; but this was itself a legend derived from Babylonian mythology, and was not the original reason why the seventh day was a day of rest.” (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, 1928, s. 209-211)
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Vanhimmat
Miten Kristuksen Ylösnousemuksen päivä eli Herran päivä eli Sunnuntai muka nyt liittyy kuunpalvontaan tai Babylonialaisiin mytologioihin... ?????
On kyllä aika kaukaa haettu vertaus...
Että Terve vaa Terve ! :O
Sunnuntai oli kristinuskon ja ylösnousemususkon syntymäpäivä ja siksi se on pyhitetty Herrallemme Jeesukselle Kristukselle !
Eikä se liity yhtään mihinkään kuin siihen , että Herramme Jeesus Kristus nousi
kuolleista juuri Sunnuntaina ja jos Jeesus olisi noussut vaikka Torstaina niin silloin Herran päivää vietettäisiin Torstaina ! :O
1 Kor 15:14 "Mutta jos Kristus ei ole noussut kuolleista, turha on silloin meidän saarnamme, turha myös teidän uskonne;"
Tuonhan jokainen tietää, adventistipastoritkin, että sapatti on vain erään amerikkalaisen lahkon veruke kerätä pölvästeiltä rahat pois.
Lauantai oli muinaisessa Babyloniassa myös Saturnuksen palvontaan liitetty päivä, jolloin papisto uhrasi ja vuodatti eläinten verta epäjumalalleen Jahvelle.
en ymmärrä