The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
For these Jews who believed in Jesus, and all the
early Christians were Jews, to switch over from strict
observance of Saturday as their holy Sabbath to Sunday
as the all-important “the Lord’s day,” as it is called in the
New Testament, was a monumental shift. The
Resurrection was the cause of that shift. Christians have
been worshiping Jesus Christ on Sunday from the very
beginning until the present.
Dan Brown claims that “Christianity honored the
Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to
coincide with the pagan’s veneration of the sun.” 132 It is
true that Sunday is so-named because of the sun. It is
true that Constantine made the change official, but what
he is leaving out is this: Christians worshiped Jesus on
Sunday (on the Lord’s day) from the very beginning—to
honor His resurrection. Constantine just made official
what Christians had been doing all along.
CONCLUSION
The Apostle Paul had to deal with a first century
false teaching going around in the Church at Corinth.
Some of the members of that church were claiming that
there was no resurrection of the dead, which would
imply that Jesus had not risen from the dead. Paul then
wrote the following words, which have assured tens of
millions of Christians down through the centuries:
And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is
empty and your faith is also empty. . . . And if
Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are
still in your sins! Then also those who have
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