Why did Paul tell the Corinthians to prepare their offering on Sunday instead of Jewish Friday preparation day

Question

1 Corinthians16: 1-3 indicates that Paul is telling them to “prepare” their offering on Sunday: “On the first-day of the week [Sunday] let every one you lay by him [himself alone] in store [storage], as God has prospered him, that there be no gathering when I arrive.

Answer 1

Probably because Christianity maintains that Jesus was risen on a Sunday, thus making that the new beginning.

But it has to be said that I really dislike Paul.

Answer 2

Paul is doing exactly what Jewish people do today in their Synagogues when work is to be done after the Sabbath--they announce non-sacred activities for after sunset, which is actually Sunday, the first-day of the week.

Paul worked as a tentmaker and preached on every Sabbath when establishing the Corinthian church—“He reasoned in the synagogue EVERY Sabbath” (Acts 18 3-4). He labored there one and one-half years, then established the Ephesus Church for another two years.

Now Paul is journeying to Corinth to collect an offering for the famine-stricken saints in Jerusalem. The first-Corinthian Epistle is sent ahead so the saints can prepare for his arrival next week. PAUL KNOWS THAT EPISTLE WILL BE READ IN CHURCH ON THE SABBTH, AND HE DOES NOT ANYONE TO DESICRATE IT BY LEAVING EARLY AND PREPARING AN OFFERING BEFORE SUNDOWN. PAUL IS GUARDING THE SABBATH’S SACREDNESS.

The Catholic Church prepared an informative pamphlet that belittles Protestants for keeping Sunday when the Bible plainly guards Saturday-sacredness. Why insult Protestants? Because Rome changed the Sabbath commandment to Sunday over 1,000 years before the Protestant Reformation revived some forgotten truths.

The Catholic publications is posted at: www.revelado.org/challenge.htm

Blessings and AGAPE love, One-Way

Answer 3

They celebrated the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist on Sunday which they called the Lord's Day.

One of the principal parts of the Eucharistic celebration is the offering of gifts which we still do today. Obviously, the collection was to be offered during the "Offering of Gifts" part of that celebration.

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 4

Because Paul was a former Mithras worshiper, and that religion always held more sway in his mind that his supposed Jewish education.

Answer 5

I suppose for the same reasons the Apathetic Agnostics have chosen Monday as their Church Day.

Answer 6

Because the old law had been fulfilled in Christ and was no longer binding on believers of the new covenant.

Answer 7

Because that is the day he preferred.

Answer 8

Saul was an idiot... anything he said or did was a lie. He was the Anti-Christ...