When did Christ Rise? Saturday or Sunday?

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I need a little help refuting that Sunday is a pagan day of worship. I want to focus on the first day of the week and what a day consists of. I’m not really educated in this area so I’m not sure how to answer the email below:
The hebrew calender was different than the roman. God said a day was from sunset to sunset, not sunrise to sunrise. Take into account that it’s the passover & Jesus is now our sacrifice in place of the passover lamb. This means that he was crucified in the afternoon, dead & in the grave in the evening & rose again the third evening. Jesus rose saturday night, not sunday morning. The Greek word “epiphooskoo” is translated “began to dawn towards” in the KJV, but “drawing on” in Luke 23:54. That means that to a Jew, the beginning or “dawn” of the first day of the week was after sunset on the Saturday - not with the sunrise on the sunday.
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John 20:1
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
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When the Mary’s went after sunset on what we see at saturday night & Jesus had already risen.
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Historically, when the roman calendar was finally set, all of the sun-worshiping cultures - including Rome, worshiped the sun gods on sunday - that is why the day of the week was called SUNday. The early church (ie: the churches mentioned in the bible), maintained the Sabbath, which was from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. 300 years later, Constantine legally changed the Judeo-Christian saturday sabbath to the sunday with obvious wording meaning that he still worshiped the sun.
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First Sunday Law enacted by Emperor Constantine - March, 321 A.D.
“On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country, however, persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable for grain-sowing or for vine-planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost.” (Given the 7th day of March, Crispus and Constantine being consuls each of them for the second time [A.D. 321].)
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The Saturday, or Sabbath, was the 7th day of the week. From this quote:
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
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When it was yet dark means that it was almost sunrise, not shortly after sunset. This would place it on Sunday, both in the Hebrew calendar (sunset to sunset) and in the Julian Calendar (sunrise to sunrise).
 
Besides, Matthew’s Gospel seems to imply it happened right around sunrise as well.
1 After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. 2 And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it.
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a) As the first day of the week was dawning - This would be Sunrise on Sunday morning - the Day of the Lord.Notice also in Acts, we see the Apostles celebrating “the breaking of the Bread” on The Lord’s Day - Sunday.
 
BTW, who is the author of that mis-begotten essay? That thing is full of errors.

For instance, in the mid 2nd century, we have Justin Martyr already testifying that the Mass is held on Sunday.
St.** Justin Martyr, First Apology, C. 67**** (C. 155 A.D.):**
***“We all gather on the day of the sun, for it is the first day (after the Jewish Sabbath, but also the first day) when God, separating matter from darkness, made the world; and on this same day Jesus Christ our Savior rose from the dead.” ***
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Wow! Here’s some quotes from the 1st century and early 2nd century:
The Didache** (C. 90-150 A.D.):**
"On the Day of the Lord, gather together, break bread and give thanks, after confessing your transgressions so that your sacrifice may be pure…"
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St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Magnesians** (110 A.D.):**
"Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the Sabbath, but the Lord’s Day, in which our life is blessed by Him and by His death."
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NotWorthy said:
BTW, who is the author of that mis-begotten essay? That thing is full of errors.

For instance, in the mid 2nd century, we have Justin Martyr already testifying that the Mass is held on Sunday.
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A very, very mislead Christian is the author. Please pray for her 😦
 
AttachedToSix said:
A very, very mislead Christian is the author. Please pray for her 😦
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I forgot to mention that she home churches and believes that most everything in modern day Christianity is pagan. She will not accept quotes from the early Church Fathers because “they were mixed with pagan practices too”.
:sigh: :hypno:
 
AttachedToSix said:
I forgot to mention that she home churches and believes that most everything in modern day Christianity is pagan. She will not accept quotes from the early Church Fathers because “they were mixed with pagan practices too”.
:sigh: :hypno:
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Does she still call the days of the week by their “pagan” names? All the days of the week are, after all, named after pagan deities: Sun-day Moon-day, Tiu’s-day, Woden’s-day, Thor’s day, Fria’s-day, Saturn’s day.

So what? They’re just names with a history.

Does she spurn the month of January because it is named after Janus, or March because it is named after Mars?
 
JimG said:
Does she still call the days of the week by their “pagan” names? All the days of the week are, after all, named after pagan deities: Sun-day Moon-day, Tiu’s-day, Woden’s-day, Thor’s day, Fria’s-day, Saturn’s day.

So what? They’re just names with a history.

Does she spurn the month of January because it is named after Janus, or March because it is named after Mars?
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Probably!
I know for certain she doesn’t drive a Saturn 😉
Oh yeah… she also doesn’t celebrate Christmas or Easter “because of their pagan roots”.

I just don’t know how to reason with someone who thinks so illogically.:confused:
 
AttachedToSix said:
I forgot to mention that she home churches and believes that most everything in modern day Christianity is pagan. She will not accept quotes from the early Church Fathers because “they were mixed with pagan practices too”.
:sigh: :hypno:
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But even these “pagan Church Fathers” prove that this happened well before Constantine. It would make one have serious doubts about the veracity of the rest of the essay.

Of course, I have the feeling your friend doesn’t want to get confused with the facts.

BTW, ask her about Acts 20:7, and then ask her just how far back did the Pagan Church take over?
 
Usually this sort of drivel comes from the 7th day Adventist sect.

The same old tired conspiracy theory stuff about paganism and pagan Constantine and sun worshipers, etc.

They even use examples of beautiful Catholic artwork from throughout the ages with “halos” around Jesus or the Virgin Mother to prove their pagan sun worshiper theory of how the Church was perverted.

I am no expert, but there are many helpful sites like Catholic.com to assist you in preaching the Lord’s gospel of Truth to these misguided individuals.

Provide them with the truth and be merciful, but be prepared for a hateful diatribe in return. Once you’ve sown God’s seed of truth and compassionate love, you’ve done your job. The Lord will take care of the rest.

You are all in my prayers,

Mark
 
Also sounds like the JWs. She should learn that things that used to be pagan are no longer pagan. They are part of our history and some of that history has been incorporated into our culture. Like JimG said, all the names of the days of the week are pagan, so are all of the months. Every planet is named after a pagan god and most of the stars are pagan too. Weding rings are pagan, throwing rice is too. But the thing is, though we use pagan names and old customs today they are no longer pagan. I have never seen anyone fall down and worship a Christmas tree! She won’t drive a Saturn car? She has a problem. If I see a pagan driving a Chevy does that mean I can no longer drive a Chevy? I hate to say this but she needs to get a life!
 
According to the Bible, Christ rose the morning after the Sabbath was completed.
 
It’s critical to note that Jesus fulfilled not only the Passover (Feast of Unleavened Bread) by being sacrificed as an unblemished Lamb on 14 Nisan (coinciding with the date of the original Passover), but that He also fulfilled the Sabbath by resting in the grave on the Sabbath (i.e. doing no work, such as rising from the dead), as well as fulfilling the Feast of Firstfruits. Note in Lev. 23 that the Feast of Firstfruits was on the day after the Sabbath. This is irrefutable evidence in my view that Jesus, as the fulfillment of the Jewish Feasts, rose on Sunday.

Lev. 23: 9 The LORD said to Moses, 10 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. 11 He is to wave the sheaf before the LORD so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. 12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect, 13 together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—an offering made to the LORD by fire, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine. 14 You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

I encourage you to ask your friend about this!
 
Additionally, whether you are going by the Hebrew day (evening precedes morning) or the Roman day, Jesus rose on Sunday.

When the Bible says “early on the first day of the week” we are well into Sunday at this point when going by the Hebrew day since Sunday actually started the night before!!

When going by the Roman day, it is certainly past midnight when the women arrive since it is just about dawn.

Again though, the strongest evidence is the type/antitype relationship between the Jewish Feasts and the Jewish Messiah.
 
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