I can remember a time when Sunday was unlike any other day of the week. In my childhood back in the 1960’s, Sunday was a very quiet day. A day of tranquility. Or boredom. It started with Sunday school in my little village Church and then the main act of Worship. Shops were closed so there was nowhere to go in that regard and petrol stations weren’t the thing that they are these days. So you had to entertain yourself. But how, I mean there wasn’t even the Internet and mobile phones had yet to be invented! Simple, we would go for afternoon walks in the countryside if the weather was clement and if wasn’t then we would just sit around and talk as a family! Sound terrible, right? Wrong.
Let’s go back to first principles. If we believe the book of Genesis in The Bible, we understand that God himself (sic) rested.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made,
To remove any doubt, we further discover in Exodus
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work. … For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is: … wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it” (Exodus 20:8–11)
But of course modern man has decided otherwise. Sunday has been ABSOLUTELY transformed and rather being a day of rest it is now one of the busiest days of the week. Churches lie empty, Shopping Centres are full.
The West has turned its back on one the things that distinguished it most and which did have a Biblical and Christian origin. Are people feeling happier? Is Satan?
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