Dear metis,
Being as it is impossible to introduce anything to someone who knows everything, I will just list the Catholic 10 Commandments, and you can chew on them. As for the "Lord's Day", that is an abomination stemming from the dating of Easter, the feast of Astarte, by the Council of Nicaea, convened by the emperor Constantine. It is all pagan in origin, and has nothing to do with Passover, which happens on the 15th of the month of Nissan. The day of rest was formalized by Constantine in the year 321 AD by decree. His church follows the decree of the emperor, who was the head of the pagan church, and whose god was Sol Invictus, the sun god, whose day was the Sunday, the "day of the sun".
Catholic Ten Commandments
I am the Lord your God;
you shall not have strange gods before me.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Remember to keep holy the Lord's day
Honor your father and your mother.
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I'm sorry but some of your "facts" are incorrect. There are historical references written in the immediate post Apostolic period of Gentile Christians keeping Sunday (c., 120 AD) as the Lords day. They did this to commemorate the Resurrection. This is the same term John uses in Revelation (c.100 AD). I know you will say he is referring to "the sabbath": However the term is used nowhere else in the NT or OT Further, the term , referring to sunday was in use at the time of the writing of Revelation. As stated, Gentile Christians kept sunday because of Christ, not because of an edict that would come two centuries in the future. The Roman Catholic church did not exist when sunday keeping began
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Constantine's law of…321 [C.E] uniting Christians and pagans in the observance of the "venerable day of the sun" It is to be noted that this official solar worship, the final form of paganism in the empire…, was not the traditional Roman-Greek religion of Jupiter, Apollo, Venus, and the other Olympian deities. It was a product of the mingling Hellenistic-Oriental elements, exemplified in Aurelian's establishment of Eastern Sun worship at Rome as the official religion of the empire, and in his new temple enshrining Syrian statutes statues of Bel and the sun…. Thus at last Bel, the god of Babylon, came into the official imperial temple of Rome, the center of the imperial religion. It was this late Roman-Oriental worship of one supreme god, symbolized by the sun and absorbing lesser divinities as subordinates or manifestations of the universal deity, that competed with young Christianity. This was the Roman religion that went down in defeat but infiltrated and colored the victorious church with its own elements, some of which can be seen to this day. (Cramer 4)
On March 7, 321, Sunday was declared the official day of rest, on which markets were banned and public offices were closed,
[ Constantine the Great and Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
