Creations Sacred

Creations Sacred

Was Sunday ever a sacred rest day in the Old Testament?

The only place I ever found Sunday mentioned in the Bible is at creation: “And the evening and the morning was the first day” (Genesis 1: 5). Did the Jews ever keep Sunday as a holy day?

Yes, it was kept holy by those who wrote the “Dead Sea Scrolls.” They always kept Sunday because God commanded Firstfruits and Pentecost to be kept on “the day after the Sabbath (Sunday)” (Lev. 23: 9, 16; 9:22; Deu. 16:9). It was a sacred rest day because “You shall do no customary work on it” (Numbers 28:26). Jesus was our Firstfruit offering and Pentecost was on Sunday, seven Sundays later on the “day after the Sabbath” (Lev. 23:16).

How fitting that God typified those significant events before Christ fulfilled them. And that is why Jesus or the apostles never commanded Sunday to be kept sacred in the New Testament.

None need worry about being stoned for doing “customary work” on Sunday because the only N.T. events Jesus commanded was baptism and communion—Sunday-sacredness was “nailed to the cross” (Col. 2:14).

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Interpreting Sacred Literature (scripture)

Whether one is reading the Upanishads, Bible, Bhagavadgita, Koran, or other sacred books, HOW one interprets them determines LIFE: your life. Let me reflect on the sacred book that I am most familiar with realizing that the principles are the same regardless of religious culture.

Reading the Bible LITERALLY only is more than confusing. Believing that the Bible is infallible and INERRANT is indefensible of the face of it (contradictions abound). And thinking that the Bible is the ONLY valid sacred literature smacks of arrogance beyond rationality. Why is there even a need to be defensive about the literalness of such stories such as the seven days of creation, the earth standing still, a person living in large fish for several days.

What's the MESSAGE- not is the story LITERAL!

Remember the process and what has happened over time. Once upon a time people didn't read, nor write. So, they told stories and committed them to memory. The events didn't happen IN FACT, but in principle. Thus the three-fold march towards confusion of today satarted when history was metaphorized. From there the metaphors were historized (66 books canonized). But then the Western church literalized the metaphors (which one really can't do and make sense).

The literal sense of the Bible is merely the container for an inner, spiritual sense, or as Emanuel Swedenborg wrote hundreds of years ago,  "As long as the mind confines itself to the sense of the letter alone one cannot possibly see that its contents embody matters that are spiritual and celestial". Hello fundamentalists! Let's look at one Old Testament story.

Noah and the flood!

Did that actually happen? There's evidence from many cultures and ancient civilizations of a "flood story". In fact the Genesis account actually borrows from two other flood stories (Egyptian and Babylonian) into one confusing account. But, what's the meaning of this story that did or did not happen? What can I glean from it? Isn't that the KEY?

Let me begin with this question. Would a loving God really kill off most of the world’s population? The God I know would not, so therefore He did not. This story represents a time in our lives when we realize that we have been turning away from God, accepting the falsity of duality, and being more concerned with selfish ideas. Nothing new there!

The ark represents the new person we build when we come to rely on the Lord, the pairs of animals the good things that we need to keep with us, and the flood the washing away of all the evil that has infiltrated our lives. Now I have something that makes sense and I don't confuse people trying to substantiate the reality of an actual flood that takes away from the point being made.

Obviously I am not going to be able to cover all the "ways" in which we could and should interpret sacred literature, but this should be enough to chew on as a "starter".

About the Author

As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.

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