Truth Revealed- Part 1: Sunday Worship

I was going to write this as a letter to my mom, if you didn't know I was raised in a strict Christian household. Due to this fact I spent most of my life identifying nearly exclusively as a Christian. This is part one:

Dear Mom:

If you are wondering why we haven't been going to church and why for whatever reason there's this belief that I suddenly don't believe in God (which isn't even 0% correct) I would like to explain why.

SUNDAY WORSHIP

The first reason is because I found out a few things about Sunday worship. I will link some videos for you so you see what I am speaking of. The videos usually have scriptural reference either right on screen or it's spoken so please watch and then go read.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fjHpQXOEzk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvNTynnzN-E

So that means any church that worships on Sundays is not following the word of God! That means that we have NEVER kept the Sabbath day holy. The same way you make sure not to kill or steal or commit adultery, is the same way you must keep the Sabbath holy. But in most countries Sunday is considered the Sabbath. Most businesses are closed or are on an abbreviated schedule. However it says:

Exodus 20:8-11

⁸ Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.

⁹ For six days you shall labour and do all your work.

¹⁰ But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns.

¹¹ For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.

Look at the calendar, Sunday is day #1, Saturday is day #7 or the last day of the week.

Sunday worship was created to worship the Sun god, thus Sun-day. In this country and many others, Sunday is the one day of th week that most businesses are closed down or operate on an abbreviated schedule. Also, as non-Catholics, we are subscribing to the "sabbath" day of Catholicism, which is not biblical (the worship and praying to of Saints and confessing to Popes and priests is satanic in it's origins). Note how many people who are heads of states and worldwide leaders and country representatives pay homage to the Pope, even if they are NOT Catholic. George Bush said it best in an interview, when asked what does he see when he looks in the face of the Pope (a mere man a mortal!!), to this he replied "God." That is very telling. The Bible states that we should have no other God's before Him. So to call a MAN God, is blasphemous on so many levels!

If someone is leading a church that worships on Sunday but KNOWS the Bible, how is that to be explained. Well I like to think of a little something called How to Interpret the Bible… Many churches and Theology colleges teach Bible interpretation as a subject. Each person can bend the words to work for the situation (see prosperity and tithes below) such as during slavery. You know the scripture:

However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)

This shows how the Word was used to make slavery seem okay There is a verse in the Bible that (paraphrased) there is to be no interpretation of the scriptures. Like you can't take the scriptures and put them in the way that will benefit what you are trying to accomplish. So when a preacher takes a scripture and matches it to his sermon- like prosperity preaching, it's really just him deciding how to twist the words to what he wants you to see and think. (I can't find the scripture now so if someone knows it feel free to add it in the comments section.)

So if the scripture says don’t interpret the Bible and make up your own meaning, then why do we do it? Because that’s what they are teaching us in the church. But it’s not biblical and if they are not teaching us the Bible what are they really teaching us?