Good idea, but ...

Re article about traffic authorities launching weight inspection programme: Good idea. Go for it.

But is the authority mindful of the huge trucks travelling the Kingston to Port Antonio routes?

How could the Government allow some of these truck in Jamaica and not restrict their operation to larger roads? These trucks help to create the large potholes that never get fixed; or they get fixed by greedy repair companies that need to fix them again after the first rainfall.

Winston Searchwellsearchie@msn.com

Mutual assistance treaties

Why don't we have mutual assistance treaties in relation to economic challenges with all those countries with which we have mutual assistance treaties for the detection and prosecution of crimes, while it is well known that national economic challenges often have their origins in corruption, of which crime is a species?

In this connection, it is recognised that there are established institutions for public finance of treaty and non-treaty members, but there should be no harm in members such as the United States, Britain, Canada and Trinidad, our trading partners coming together at this time to grant us a soft loan.

I think Trinidad should lead the charge, because if Jamaica goes down, it is bound to go down, because of its strong dependency of trade with Kingston and the enormous wealth it has earned in trading and profits from the acquisition of Jamaican assets.

Owen S. Crosbieoss@cwjamaica.com

The Christian day of worship

The early Christians eventual commemoration of Jesus' Resurrection was not intended to supplant the weekly seventh-day 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.

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 co-relationship 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 and not Christian Sunday worshippers.

E.A. Spenceeasp02@gmail.com