by John S Foster

Created on: October 18, 2009   Last Updated: October 19, 2009

Perhaps the better statement would be Should Christians work on Sunday.

I would like to know, why anyone, Christian or anyone else would want to work on Sunday. Are we as a society expected to work seven days a week? I thought there was a labor law against this. If one works on Sunday than I am going to assume that, they would get another day off instead.

Our society is much different now from in the early 1900's when men like Ford created the eight-hour shift, 40 hour a week. No Saturdays or Sundays. Not that those businesses were not driven then, but perhaps there were other things that were important as well.

In today's society, we are driven by greed and status much more than then, because it is more attainable now than it was then. Therefore, the normal workweek is basically null and void.

We already have heard the advice of Doctors that tell us that we generally work too much and that we need to take some time off to smell the roses. Overwork and the related stress causing all kinds of problems. However, do we listen? No.

As far as Christians go, it is generally believed that Sundays are a Holy day and we dare not do anything other than go to Church or God is going to get you.

I make light of this because nowhere in the Bible does it say that Sunday is a Holy day. It is simply a religious practice and has no basis in scripture.

Now I know the Seventh day Adventist would agree with me on this. The Adventists hold Saturday as the day of worship and will fight you if you disagree. They will use the argument that God rested on the seventh day of creation and that He called it Holy, and that the Jewish nation according to the Law of Moses held Saturday as Holy and as the day to worship God. Moreover, all of this is true.

Standard Christians. I'm sorry, Protestant Christians, use the excuse that they worship on Sundays because Jesus resurrected on Sunday after the crucifixion and so to worship on Sunday is giving honor to God for what He did for Humankind in salvation.

Again, there is no scriptural proof of a doctrine that commands us to worship on either Saturdays or Sundays. Saturday worship was done away with, with the establishment of the Church in that scripture tells us that the practices of the Old Testament were a type and shadow of what was to be in Jesus. This deserves more explanation but that is a more detailed subject.

The scripture tells us that the day of rest has to do with resting our selves in the Lord. In another words, putting

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