"Francis noted that the constant busyness of people today “ruins
mental health, spiritual health, and physical health. More so: It affects and destroys the family, and therefore society.”
“Abstention from work on a Sunday did not exist in the first centuries: It is a specific contribution of Christianity,” Francis declared in a 2017 address.
He added, “By Biblical tradition, the Jews rest on Saturday, while in Roman society there was no weekly day of abstention from servile labor. It was the Christian sense of living as sons and not slaves, animated by the Eucharist, that made Sunday—almost universally—the day of rest.”
Here, the pope admits that Sunday rest was an ordinance instituted by man, but he touts it as one distinctively definitive to the Christian faith.
The only problem is that Sunday rest was not a commandment followed by the early Christian church (Acts 13:14; 16:13; 17:2) nor was it practiced by Jesus Christ (Mark 1:21; Luke 4:16), of whom Christians are followers.
Nowhere in Scripture is there a verse, an indication, a suggestion,
that the command to “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8) has been changed to “Remember Sunday.”
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“Abstention from work on a Sunday did not exist in the first centuries: It is a specific contribution of Christianity,” Francis declared in a 2017 address.
He added, “By Biblical tradition, the Jews rest on Saturday, while in Roman society there was no weekly day of abstention from servile labor. It was the Christian sense of living as sons and not slaves, animated by the Eucharist, that made Sunday—almost universally—the day of rest.”
Here, the pope admits that Sunday rest was an ordinance instituted by man, but he touts it as one distinctively definitive to the Christian faith.
The only problem is that Sunday rest was not a commandment followed by the early Christian church (Acts 13:14; 16:13; 17:2) nor was it practiced by Jesus Christ (Mark 1:21; Luke 4:16), of whom Christians are followers.
Nowhere in Scripture is there a verse, an indication, a suggestion,
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