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Yet Another Question for Christians
Posted on: October 10, 2008 - 6:36pm
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Yet Another Question for Christians
If working on the Sabbath is a sin, do priests and ministers all go to Hell?
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Wouldn't that also make going to church a sin since if you didn't they wouldn't be working, either?
Yep, holy shit, you got us on all counts.
I think the rules are different if you're working for God. Besides, in the New Testament, Jesus cured people on the Sabbath, so maybe it lost some of its important after that.
.....I don't know.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
Actually, isn't Jesus supposed to have said somewhere that "the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath", or some such? But, I suppose he had to say something after being caught out red handed disobeying the Law.
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"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition". - Isaac Asimov
First get people to agree on which day the sabbath is (Saturday or Sunday) then we can worry about them possibly not following their own rules about it.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
British General Charles Napier while in India
i don't think there's ever been any major theological argument that sunday is the sabbath. i was a religion major and i've never heard of one. the book of acts says that the early church worshipped "on the first day of the week," which is why most churches worship on sunday, to follow the early church's precedent. since the early church were all observing jews, they would have been in a synagogue or the temple on the sabbath, observing the normal jewish rites.
i think only the seventh day adventists worship on saturday, and i think they did that because they felt worship should be on the sabbath. you hear a lot of christians call sunday the sabbath, but i think that's just out of ignorance (believe it or not).
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
24/7 work is a sin ....