LL-L "Tradition" 2010.09.06 (02) [EN]

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at fleimin.demon.co.uk>

Subject: LL-L "Tradition" 2010.09.06 (01) [EN]



> From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
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> Subject: LL-L "Tradition" 2010.09.05 (04) [EN]

> It's my understanding that according to the Bible we get Sunday off,
> because God did; So surely our "day of rest" is logically the last day
> of the week, not the first? (The first being used for creating
> universes, or serving at supermarket counters, depending on your
> abilities and responsibility level). Oh, and getting resurrected; that
> supposedly happened on Monday (three days after dying) not a Sunday.

But God was Jewish back then :)

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/



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From: Ed Alexander <edsells at cogeco.ca>

Subject: LL-L "Tradition" 2010.09.06 (01) [EN]



At 02:14 PM 06/09/2010, Paul wrote:

I'm not a Christian or any other "Person of the Book" myself.  But doesn't
Genesis have God labouring for six days making everything, then taking a day
off to rest? To precis a bit, "On the First Day he made this, on The Second
he made that, on the Third, he made the other", and so on.


It's my understanding that according to the Bible we get Sunday off, because
God did; So surely our "day of rest" is logically the last day of the week,
not the first? (The first being used for creating universes, or serving at
supermarket counters, depending on your abilities and responsibility level).
Oh, and getting resurrected; that supposedly happened on Monday (three days
after dying) not a Sunday.


Oh, dear, oh, dear.  (1) The days of the week in the Bible do not have
names, but are numbered, (2) Genesis 2:2 says "And on the seventh day God
ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all
his work which he had made."  (1611 AV)  The Hebrew for seventh day is Yom
ha shviyi.  The text makes a play on words on the the ordinal of the word
seventh, "sheba", with the word "shabath" which means to rest.  (3) This is
therefore the day of rest celebrated by the Jews, which is our Saturday.  If
you're not sure about this, you might want to check with your local
synagogue.  (4) If the Resurrection was on Monday, why is Easter always on a
Sunday.  Can Christians really have been that mistaken for so long?  Oh, and
BTW, God did not "make" anything on Day One.  You might want to check this
out.

And let me be the first to wish everyone a Shanah Tova!

Ed Alexander





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