Does anyone know of a published author who has used Mark 16:9 to support a first day of the week resurrection which in turn they used - at least in part - to justify the establishment of the first day of the week as a special day for rest and worship?

O.k. sorry to admit this, but what are you talking about?

Are you wanting to know how someone came up with the idea of the Sabbath being on Sunday and therefore making that the first day of the week or what? It's late, I had to work today and my brain is fried, so please bear with me.

Umm...the sabbath is just stolen from the Jewish Sabbot. It was originally on Sat.

Everything in Christianity is stolen.

I never denied that. I was just trying to understand his question. Sorry if I picked the wrong word for the day.

Pendragon,


re: “Are you wanting to know how someone came up with the idea of the Sabbath being on Sunday and therefore making that the first day of the week or what?”



A poster on another forum, the topic of which was questioning the authenticity of the last 12 verses in the book of Mark, wrote that it doesn’t really matter because there is no doctrinal teaching in Mark 16:9-20 that cannot be proved elsewhere in agreed Scripture.


I made the mistake of sticking my nose into the discussion by pointing out that actually there is a statement in verse 9, as the KJV has it, that is used for a doctrinal teaching that is to be found nowhere else in Scripture. As the KJV translates it, it is the only place that puts the resurrection on the first day of the week. I then suggested that whenever the discussion of seventh day observance versus first day observance comes up, first day proponents usually use the idea of a first day resurrection to justify the change, and when questioned about the day of resurrection, quote Mark 16:9. The poster came back with: “Quote a published author who has done that.” - I have not yet been able to come up with one, hence my query.

I thought it was the day God rested. It's really arbitrary which day of the week it is.

I thought it was the day God rested. It's really arbitrary which day of the week it is.
Me too. I didn't know the Sabbath had anything to do with resurrection at all.

I thank you for the clarification. I understand, unfortunately I don't know of any authors on the subject. Kind of like Sal and 500 I didn't realize there was a controversy. But then again, maybe I should've known, most things with the bible are argued about unnecessarily. Sorry I couldn't help.

All I know is the writings about Sunday being used because it was the day that the pagans worshiped the sun. It was adopted as worship day to attract them into Christianity.

Umm...the sabbath is just stolen from the Jewish Sabbot. It was originally on Sat.

Everything in Christianity is stolen.

Are you sure "Everything" in Christianity is stolen?