Sunday is the day for worship for most Christian denominations. It is the holy Sabbath day for worship and rest for most Christians. However, there are some things that aren’t holy about Sundays from a Christian point of view-


1) Sunday is the most popular day for watching porn; This was found out by research on porn done by Online MBA. This is an ironic but not so surprising fact because it reflects the truth of the popular saying that “an idle mind is the devil’s workshop”- a lot of people do not work on Sundays and therefore, will have more idle time then, than compared to other days.


2) The word “Sunday” has pagan origins; Sunday as a word has its origin in Egyptian astrology, in which days were named after planets. It was then imported from Egypt to Rome. However, to be fair, Sunday worship in itself is a very Christian thing- the other major religions worship mostly on Fridays and Saturdays


3) Sports is now competing with worship on Sundays; The modern scheduling of sporting fixtures on Sundays, especially football, has left many Christians in a dilemma go to church or prepare for “Super Sports Sunday”. There are three popular instances that prove that sports is interfering with Sunday worship-

-People wearing jerseys to church and then rushing to watch their team play- even priests
-People giving thanksgivings for their football team winning trophies or cups
-Pastors either making football prophecies (predictions) or praying for their team to win


4) Sunday is the worst day to have an emergency; In Nigeria, many services are shutdown on Sunday afternoons. While the roads might be freer on a Sunday, you will find that

-many ATMs are out of service and so, many queues will be around the ones that work
-there are very few places to buy airtime credit
-there are less policemen and road officials on the road in case of any emergency
-many mechanic workshops are closed
-after 8pm, you will rarely see an open restaurant to buy food from


5) Some other countries actually work full-time on Sundays; For those Christians travelling to Israel, Iran, Bahrain and Bangladesh, your work week starts includes Sunday. This is mostly as a result of Judaism and Islam having differing worshiping times from Christianity.



Source;
http://allnaijablog.com/5-shocking-facts-about-sunday-for-christians

Sunday is named after our Sun
Sunday, being the day of the Sun, as the
name of the first day of the week, is derived
from Egyptian astrology, where the seven
planets, known in English as Saturn,
Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and
the Moon, each had an hour of the day
assigned to them, and the planet which
was regent during the first hour of any day
of the week gave its name to that day.
During the 1st and 2nd century, the week
of seven days was introduced into Rome
from Egypt, and the Roman names of the
planets were given to each successive day.
The Teutonic nations seem to have adopted
the week as a division of time from the
Romans, but they changed the Roman
names into those of corresponding Teutonic
deities. Hence, the dies Solis became
Sunday (German, Sonntag).


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday

Watch porn?

Tallesty1:
Watch porn?

You seem surprised

AllNaijaBlogger:




You seem surprised

Honestly

those are not really facts, neither shocking.

MrPresident:
those are not really facts, neither shocking.

Sir, do you expect people to watch porn on Sundays?

Or is it a lie that the work week includes Sunday in Israel?


Your excellency, did you remove the pages for "F" and "S" in your dictionary?

About point #2, that is a myth.

Acts 20:6-12 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. (7) And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. ( And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. (9) And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. (10) And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. (11) When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. (12) And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

Here Paul sails with Luke, the author of Acts, to Troas, a church which he had planted, and stays for 7 days. Now Paul was there on Saturday, but that is not when Luke tells us the church worshiped. Saturday was not their customary day for worship. When was the day when the disciples came together to worship? We read the answer in verse 7, it was first day of the week, and the first day of the week is NOT Monday, the first day of the week is Sunday. That is when they had their corporate worship including the Lord’s Supper (hence the reference to the breaking of bread) and preaching, and a very long sermon. But why had they made that change?

They had made the change because it was on the first day of the week that Jesus Christ forever set that day apart from all the others by rising from the dead. From that point onwards Sunday became a memorial to the turning point in the history of redemption. The Sabbath day from the beginning was the Seventh Day, and hearkened back to the Creation. The original Sabbath pointed to God’s creating work, but the Christian Sabbath points us to God’s redeeming work. It marks the great transition in the bible from redemption promised to redemption accomplished.

As RC Sproul put it – “In Christian history the sacred time of the Sabbath has three distinct orientations. The first is the commemoration of God’s work of creation. The second is the celebration of God’s work of redemption. The third is the celebration of the future promise of the consummation of redemption when we enter our Sabbath rest in heaven. Thus the whole scope of redemptive history, from start to finish, is made sacred in the observance of the Sabbath.”

Jesus also marked that day by appearing to his disciples after his resurrection on successive Sundays in John 20:19 and John 20:26 and it was why they called that day the Lord’s Day as John did in Revelation 1:10 – “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet”

All the references in early Christian writings also make reference to Christian worship being held on the Lord’s Day, for instance the Didache – which dates back to either the late 1st or early 2nd century states, “Chapter 14. Christian Assembly on the Lord’s Day. But every Lord’s day gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure.”

Ignatius, the celebrated martyred bishop of Antioch, says, in his epistle to the Magnesians, written somewhere between 107-116 AD, that this is “the Lord’s day, the day consecrated to the resurrection the queen and chief of all the days.”

Justin Martyr, who died about A. D. 160 says that the Christians “neither celebrated the Jewish festivals, nor observed their Sabbaths, nor practiced circumcision.” And in another place, wrote that “they, both those who lived in the city and those who lived in the country, were all accustomed to meet on the day which is denominated Sunday, for the reading of the Scriptures, prayer, exhortation and communion. The assembly met on Sunday, because this is the first day on which God, having changed the darkness and the elements, created the world; and because Jesus our Lord on this day rose from the dead.”

drjellyjoe:
About point #2, that is a myth.

Acts 20:6-12 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. (7) And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. ( And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. (9) And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. (10) And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. (11) When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. (12) And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

Here Paul sails with Luke, the author of Acts, to Troas, a church which he had planted, and stays for 7 days. Now Paul was there on Saturday, but that is not when Luke tells us the church worshiped. Saturday was not their customary day for worship. When was the day when the disciples came together to worship? We read the answer in verse 7, it was first day of the week, and the first day of the week is NOT Monday, the first day of the week is Sunday. That is when they had their corporate worship including the Lord’s Supper (hence the reference to the breaking of bread) and preaching, and a very long sermon. But why had they made that change?

They had made the change because it was on the first day of the week that Jesus Christ forever set that day apart from all the others by rising from the dead. From that point onwards Sunday became a memorial to the turning point in the history of redemption. The Sabbath day from the beginning was the Seventh Day, and hearkened back to the Creation. The original Sabbath pointed to God’s creating work, but the Christian Sabbath points us to God’s redeeming work. It marks the great transition in the bible from redemption promised to redemption accomplished.

As RC Sproul put it – “In Christian history the sacred time of the Sabbath has three distinct orientations. The first is the commemoration of God’s work of creation. The second is the celebration of God’s work of redemption. The third is the celebration of the future promise of the consummation of redemption when we enter our Sabbath rest in heaven. Thus the whole scope of redemptive history, from start to finish, is made sacred in the observance of the Sabbath.”

Jesus also marked that day by appearing to his disciples after his resurrection on successive Sundays in John 20:19 and John 20:26 and it was why they called that day the Lord’s Day as John did in Revelation 1:10 – “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet”

All the references in early Christian writings also make reference to Christian worship being held on the Lord’s Day, for instance the Didache – which dates back to either the late 1st or early 2nd century states, “Chapter 14. Christian Assembly on the Lord’s Day. But every Lord’s day gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure.”

Ignatius, the celebrated martyred bishop of Antioch, says, in his epistle to the Magnesians, written somewhere between 107-116 AD, that this is “the Lord’s day, the day consecrated to the resurrection the queen and chief of all the days.”

Justin Martyr, who died about A. D. 160 says that the Christians “neither celebrated the Jewish festivals, nor observed their Sabbaths, nor practiced circumcision.” And in another place, wrote that “they, both those who lived in the city and those who lived in the country, were all accustomed to meet on the day which is denominated Sunday, for the reading of the Scriptures, prayer, exhortation and communion. The assembly met on Sunday, because this is the first day on which God, having changed the darkness and the elements, created the world; and because Jesus our Lord on this day rose from the dead.”

I'm sorry but I will have to disagree.

The etymology is what we are talking about. The origin of the word "sunday" and not the origin of the practice of worshiping on Sunday.

Just google it and you will see that it has pagan origins.

AllNaijaBlogger:



I'm sorry but I will have to disagree.

The etymology is what we are talking about. The origin of the word "sunday" and not the origin of the practice of worshiping on Sunday.

Just google it and you will see that it has pagan origins.

Okay, yes, you are right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week

Between the 1st and 3rd centuries the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. Our earliest evidence for this new system is a Pompeiian graffito referring to the 6th February (viii idus Februarius) of the year AD 60 as dies solis ("Sunday". Another early witness is a reference to a lost treatise by Plutarch, written in about AD 100, which addressed the question of Why are the days named after the planets reckoned in a different order from the actual order?.

Sunday: Old English Sunnandæg (pronounced [ˈsunnɑndæj]), meaning "sun's day." This is a translation of the Latin phrase dies Solis. English, like most of the Germanic languages, preserves the original pagan/sun associations of the day. Many other European languages, including all of the Romance languages, have changed its name to the equivalent of "the Lord's day" (based on Ecclesiastical Latin dies Dominica). In both West Germanic and North Germanic mythology the Sun is personified as a goddess, Sunna/Sól.

Doesnt Christianity itself have pagan origins? Is Judaism not paganism?

musKeeto:
Doesnt Christianity itself have pagan origins? Is Judaism not paganism?

Different cultures have been mixing together throughout history and so, is the same with religion

SUN-DAY!

Truth be told, I will rather go to work on Sunday and earn an extra cash than go to that place where people of different mind and reason gather to deceive themselves.

stardragon:
SUN-DAY!

joseph1832:
Truth be told, I will rather go to work on Sunday and earn an extra cash than go to that place where people of different mind and reason gather to deceive themselves.

People go to church on Sunday and still work