Posted by Kevin Kamberg on April 02, 1998 at 09:04:39:
In Reply to: Sabbath Resurrection Nonsense posted by Xavier Sweetwater on April 01, 1998 at 20:07:28:
what I find interesting is that the historical documents of the primative Christian church are silent regarding a Monday Resurrection.
With virtually every single heresy introduced by the Roman church we find dissention mentioned directly or indirectly in the earliest documents. We see this with the Roman attempt to change the day of worship from the Sabbath to Sunday, we find this also with the institution of Roman-Easter in place of the Passover. Infact the Roman Bishop (Pope)Victor excommunicated all of the Asian Bishops for their refusal to depart from what they had been taught by the Apostles John and Phillip, which was the Jewish Passover on Nisan 14. Same with the Greek (Platonic primarily)philosophical nonsense, etc., etc.... There is always a record of it somewhere. Where is the record for this?
To the careful student of the historical records there is always a way to directly or indirectly show that these various changes were not without their disenters! We find that the descendants of the Jerusalem church resisted strongly the change from Sabbath to Sunday up to the 4th century for example!
Yet, I know of no place that the Sunday Resurrection is questioned in any way by the early Church. That to me is significant!
I will look into the archives as you suggested. But I would really like you to show me where this issue of Sunday/Monday Resurrection was questioned by the early church, even if it is only one church or Bishop who is doing the questioning.
If those who lived during and shortly after Christ's Resurrection didn't question a Sunday Resurrection, then are we sure that we, living two thousand years after the fact, are not reading into Scripture more than it actually says?