Yep... I was raised Seventh Day Adventist and Ellen White and her buddy John Kellogg et Al were disgusting charlatans. But we followed the Hebrew Sabbath and the Kosher and Daniel dietary rules
In the 500 year period leading to Jesus there war many other sects that sprang up, taoism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and others... Islam was a response to the Catholic Church IMO, and the idolatry and statues of catholic Christianity are extremely contradictory, as is the changing of the Sabbath day.
Catholics go by Hebraic time, so our day of rest actually begins on Saturday evening, not Sunday morning. That's why we have so many vigils.
but who moved monday to the first day of the week?
The Latin Church in it's canonical language even uses the Sabbath, or 'Sabbati,' for Saturday, which is better than the Saturn's Day we have in English. Sunday is 'Dominica,' or the Lord's Day. The seven days of the week weren't changed, but even as early as before the Scriptures' writing Christians worshiped on the Lord's Day.
in Spanish that day of the week is still called Domingo
probably other Latin languages are similar but IDK
This idea of statues basically equating to idolatry stems from a misunderstanding of latria, or the worship due to God alone. We make statues all the time in wider society, we let our children play with dolls and action figures, and we set up nativity scenes during Advent and Christmas, which are all philosophically identical. It just so happens that statues in churches have a different context.
What constitutes idolatry is treating something not God like an object of worship, which is what latria means, and is again different from dulia, or reverence/respect/honor. The decalog command that we honor our fathers and mothers, and that's not idolatry. To "worship" is the proper sense is to "make sacrifice to".
wider society is wicked so there's that
Are nativity sets and action figures also?
they are all idolatry, do you see the strict islamic no idolatry people with these things?
even the orthodox with their icons you can find references in both canonical catholic bible and apocrypha that suggest that "image" means any representation
from a psychological perspective, and anthropology, these are all in the category of "fetish" which is a surrogate for an abstract concept, and are the mark of cargo cults and primitive, violent societies
and don't get me started on christmas... coca cola and charles dickens were instrumental in those two travesties
i don't know about easter but it's ishtar and the rabbits and eggs are clearly spring pagan festival images, that have been relabeled christian
