The early Christians' eventual commemoration of Jesus' resur-rection was not intended to supplant the weekly Sabbath. We have records of how the early Christians observed the Sabbath, but we have no record of how they observed the first day of the week.

Contrary to popular belief, they were not Sunday worshipers. However, pagan Rome had a god for every day of the week. Therefore, pagan Rome worshipped the sun on Sunday.

The early Christians took it upon themselves to pay homage to the resurrection without authorisation from Jesus and the apostles. Early Christians should be defined as approximately second-century Christians in order to give justice the primitive Christian Church.

Observation redundant

Commemoration of the resurrection through the first day of the week observation is redundant, since the resurrection was already commemorated with baptism by immersion.

Notice that there is a correlation between Sunday worship and baptism. When the first day of the week was observed without authorisation, it eventually supplanted the Sabbath.

When sprinkling was introduced centuries later, it eventually supplanted baptism by immersion.

The first and second centuries were dominated by Sabbath keepers, not Christian Sunday worshippers.

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E.A. Spence

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