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Originally Posted by ndigila
Grip, Christian worship is marked by the partaking of communion, not scripture reading. Scripture readings is a part of the prayers done on Saturdays. The Reformation did away almost entirely with communion and so the highlight of the service in the churches after reformation is the preaching.
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Communion activities are documented very rarely in the early Church's history. It was also done any time the faithfulls had chance to meet so nothing to do with Sunday, and personally I dont consider it the determining factor to worship because it is simply a ceremony anyone can do without heart searching and true reverence.
By the way the fathers you provided as evidence for Sunday observance are in dispute, therefore it is difficult to convince me about their authenticity.
On remnants, documents could not be written by a people who had been deprived of their freedom, whose writings were destroyed, and who were not an organised group. There presence is factified by the persecution itself and reformation. They were truly in the wilderness as recorded in the prophecy. If God did not say that 7000 individuals were still in Israel in His honour during Jezebel's persecution, how could you know?
Please reason with me why the apostles would look for a place of prayer on a Sabbath day, and specifically a
place for prayers.
On sacrament, would you describe for me the current ingredients and shape of orthodox sacrament? I am aware of the Catholics's which is very different from that offered by Jesus at the Lord's supper.
Eastern orthodox is said to have special days to celebrate or honour departed souls. I find this practice very weird.
Something I know about the bible is that not all God's given messages were included. I also know that someone like Jude quoted from the book of Enoch, a book personally I can not agree with on a number of points. So there is more to the canonisation of the scriptures which simply speaks of God's hand in the entire work.