[soc.religion.christian] A modest proposal for the Sabbath

sobarr@ucsd.edu (Carlos Saul Menem) (04/29/91)

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	8-)  THIS IS A SATIRE, AND NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY (-8

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	Time, one of the most interesting mysteries arround.  I
understand the importance of time as written by the prophets of old,
and have seen how the thinking of men have perverted the true
meaning of time, and devided the days of worship, all put there
by the evil one himself.
	Case in point, the Sabbath.  As taught by the Jews, it is
>From sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.  But there is a problem, at
anyone point in time, there are two days on the earth.  This concept
was started in 1884 when an international conference of astronomers
metting in Washington, DC decided that the line passing through
Great Britain's Greenwich Observatory would become the prime
meridian of the earth.  Obviously these were not God abiding men for
they devided the Sabbath in two.
	This defilement of the Sabbath was told of long ago in
Daniel 7:24-25 where it says

	"And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that
shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall subdue
three kings.
	"And he shall speak great words against the most High, and
shall wear out the saints of the most High, AND THINK TO CHANGE
TIMES AND LAWS:..."

	Here the evil workings of "another" [ie the "universal"
conference of astonomers] are brought to light.  They, without
regard to the Holy Scriptures decided that everything west of the
Greenwich Meridian was one day behind that east of the meridian.
	This decision was totally arbitrary.  For example.  It is
first Friday in Jerusalem, and then about eight-eleven hours later,
its Friday in the US (depending on where you live, excluding
Hawaii and Alaska).  Now how do we know that Friday in the US shouldn't come
before the Friday in Jerusalem?  Thus putting in question the true
day  that the Sabbath Day should be observed.  This means that we
could be breaking the Sabbath Day depending upon which one of the
two views above are correct in the sight of God.  But the FACT
remains, and is unchangable, GOD DOES NOT CHANGE HIS LAWS TO FIT THE
WHIMS OF HUMAN CONFERENCES!!
	I propose that we observe both the day before and after the
Jerusalem Sabbath to make sure that we do not recieve the WRATH of
God, for surely it is one of the ten commandments to keep the
Sabbath day Holy.  God's Sabbath and not any arbitarily set, and
universally accepted day.

en cristo

un pecador y un mal observador del sabado del sen~or

flaco