the significance of Sunday
2006-12-02 20:12:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Yes, its your religious day, do you understand the significance of our religious days?
2006-12-02 20:18:19 · answer #1 · answered by Agustin-Jean F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sunday... the day of the sun. A name originating possibly in Egypt where the days of the week were all named after celestial bodies. In India it is Ravivar - the day of Ravi (the sun god). Possibly linked to the Roman god Sol Invictus, a later pagan god favoured by followers of Mithras.
Saint Justin of Caesarea makes the first reference to Christian worship on Sunday in 150AD in his Apologies. Traditionally Chrsitians worship on Sunday as a weekly aniversary of the ressurection of Christ. Before 150AD Christians worshiped on the Sabbath of Saturday in the same was as Jews.
Of course several of the most ancient branches of Christianity such as the Ethiopian Orthodox Church consider Sunday to be a normal day and Friday night until the end of Saturday to be the Lord's Day.
My personal view is like that God should be workshiped whenever appropraite rather than on specific days. "He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays" - Ian Anderson.
2006-12-03 05:12:48 · answer #2 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well the thing is, because in the UK, we are a multi cultural society, we get slated by other faiths if things are closed on a sunday because that it's not their day of rest.
Try living in the Shetlands, they'll show you how a Sunday should be, and heaven help anyone caught washing their socks on a sunday.
2006-12-03 09:45:23 · answer #3 · answered by MrsMac 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure we do. I just hope you know that you consider Sunday to be the Sabbath, but Sabbath in Hebrew literally means Saturday. The significance isn't the day, though, it's a day of rest and observance of faith.
2006-12-03 04:14:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think most 'Christians' are aware that Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest and reflection. A time for spiritually re-charging ones battery so to speak.
The problem is that most 'Christians' are not practising Christians and probably never attend church other than weddings and funerals. From my observations it seems that even for so-called practising Christians their religion is an add-on to their lives which can be easily set aside.
Christianity does not seem to be an integral part of life which affects what you should eat, what you can wear, who you can speak to and who you should marry.
However the ten commandments and the teachings of Christ are a very firm base for leading a decent, moral, law-abiding life whether or not you attend church or observe the Sabbath.
2006-12-03 04:50:02 · answer #5 · answered by DogDoc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That depends what you mean by the question
(The short answer is that some do and some don't)
The Jewish Sabbath says 'God rested, therefore we should rest...and use some of our rest time for worship'
The Christian Sunday says 'God was dead but now He is alive...let's have a celebration....and make part of that celebration worship'
It may look the same or similar to onlookers but it is world of difference.
PS Messianic Jews get the best of both those worlds)
2006-12-03 04:28:39 · answer #6 · answered by alan h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is a confused attempt to adhere to the sabbath day prohibitions of a bronze-age theology.
Or do you mean the inherent significance of 'Sunday', the day of the week named after, and presumably set aside for the veneration of, the Sun?
2006-12-03 04:21:21 · answer #7 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sunday is a day of rest.
2006-12-03 04:29:15 · answer #8 · answered by ANON 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they do.
Do you understand the significance of Holiday?
2006-12-03 04:24:00 · answer #9 · answered by WISE OWL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There has never been, and there will never be, a God. That said, I like Sunday.
2006-12-03 04:21:38 · answer #10 · answered by lulu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋