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To: Diego1618

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Well that should be easy to answer. The NT was written in GREEK. So, just what day do the GREEK ORTHODOX gather? Sunday. Now how could they get THE DAY OF THE LORD wrong since they speak, think, read, write in GREEK.


153 posted on 05/13/2013 4:14:44 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Well that should be easy to answer. The NT was written in GREEK. So, just what day do the GREEK ORTHODOX gather? Sunday. Now how could they get THE DAY OF THE LORD wrong since they speak, think, read, write in GREEK.

Why don't we ask some earlier Greeks?

Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus; [From His Epistle to Victor and the Roman Church Concerning the Day of Keeping the Passover]

As for us, then, we scrupulously observe the exact day,2 neither adding nor taking away. For in Asia great luminaries3 have gone to their rest, who shall rise again in the day of the coming of the Lord, when He cometh with glory from heaven and shall raise again all the saints. I speak of Philip, one of the twelve apostles,4 who is laid to rest at Hierapolis; and his two daughters, who arrived at old age unmarried;5 his other daughter also, who passed her life6 under the influence of the Holy Spirit, and reposes at Ephesus; John, moreover, who reclined on the Lord's bosom, and who became a priest wearing the mitre,7 and a witness and a teacher-he rests at Ephesus. Then there is Polycarp, both bishop and martyr at Smyrna; and Thraseas from Eumenia, both bishop and martyr, who rests at Smyrna. Why should I speak of Sagaris, bishop and martyr, who rests at Laodicea? of the blessed Papirius, moreover? and of Melito the eunuch,8 who performed all his actions under the influence of the Holy Spirit, and lies at Sardis, awaiting the visitation9 from heaven, when he shall rise again from the dead? These all kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in accordance with the Gospel, without ever deviating from it, but keeping to the rule of faith.

Moreover I also, Polycrates, who am the least of you all, in accordance with the tradition of my relatives, some of whom I have succeeded-seven of my relatives were bishops, and I am the eighth, and my relatives always observed the day when the people put away10 the leaven-I myself, brethren, I say, who am sixty-five years old in the Lord, and have fallen in with the brethren in all parts of the world, and have read through all Holy Scripture, am not frightened at the things which are said to terrify us. For those who are greater than I have said, "We ought to obey God rather than men."

What do you think he meant by the words, "In accordance with the gospel?"

Did you notice......the last living Apostle, John has here, instructed his disciples and their followers well into the second century to keep the Passover and observe the Days of Unleavened? Do you think he said...."Well boys....it's now O.K. to observe Sundays as your day of rest.....cause the Greeks say it's alright? Of course he didn't. He observed the Sabbath and taught others to do the same. So did the Apostle Paul!

Have you never heard of the great schism? Polycrates link

You're digging your hole deeper.............

158 posted on 05/13/2013 4:51:30 PM PDT by Diego1618 ( Put "Ron" on the rock!)
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