But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God. Exodus 20:10
"Noted historian Arthur Weigall
enlightens us: “The church (Rome) made a sacred day of Sunday … 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 give them Christian significance” (The Paganism in Our
Christianity, page 145).
Walter Woodburn Hyde, another renowned
historian, writes of this apostasy: “Remains of the struggle between the
religion of Christianity and the religion of Mithraism are found in two
institutions adopted from its rival by Christianity in the fourth
century, the two Mithraic sacred days:
December 25 dies natalis solis”
(birthday of the sun)
as the birthday of Jesus;
and Sunday, the
venerable day of the sun,
as Constantine called it in his edict of 321
AD”
(Paganism to Christianity in the Roman Empire, page 60).
Augustus Neander, another church
historian, educates us in his classic account of church history: “The
festival of Sunday, like all other festivals was always only a human
ordinance and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to
establish a Divine command in this respect, far from them, and from the
early apostolic church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday”."
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