Acts 20:7

Gerhard,
Acts 20:7 does exist in the Bible.
It exists in the Bible for all.
Acts 20:7 is not perverted.
It is not for the perverted.
This is a horrible slam on the Word of God and the people who study the Word of God.
To state:

Is a perverted lie in and of itself, and is not necessary to post.
If you intend to post and debate please do so with some civility.

Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

 

This is your statement:
"Acts 20:7 only exists perverted in the minds of the deceived"

This is Acts 20:7
Acts 20:7 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.

I don't see any relation between your statement and Acts 20:7, and thus answering your question becomes totally unnecessary. Your statement is nothing but an insult.

 

Which book of Calvin's writing? Source please.

You must note that Calvin was many times foolish to misinterpret the Bible.
For example, he claimed Infant Baptism, and to support this he mentioned that Noah's childre were baptized during the Flood. The Flood relates to the Baptism, which I agree. However, the Sons of Noah were already 100 years, 98 years of age, etc. and they were already married. They were not Infants !
He claimed that there is No Salvation outside the Holy Catholic Church, claimed that the Baptism can be done by sprinkling ( should be left free), Also, he claimed the Baptismal Regeneration, which you objected to strongly ! He claimed one can be born again by the Baptism without faith !
Then the faith can be formed afterwards.
Calvin claimed all the sacraments should be done only by the clergy ( ministers or any ordained people).

All that I mentioned here are stated in his book " Institutes of Christian Religion "

 

Acts 20:7

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.



Is it too difficult to understand this verse?

It is very simple to understand that the Early Church celebrated the Lord Supper on Sunday, on the first day of the week.


Messianic Jews interpret this as Hapdallah instead of Lord Supper.

Hapdallah means some kind of fellowship dinner ( Love feasts - Jude 12).

However, Acts 20:7 is klasai arton and Jude 12 is agapais, which are totally different each other. klasai arton is typical expression for the taking bread of Lord Supper.
Therefore we can be sure that they celebrated Lord Supper on Sunday.

Many people try to distort the Bible when they find their theology contradict the Bible.

 

Acts 20
7 On the [b]first day of the week[/b], when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day[/b], and he prolonged his message until midnight.
8 There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered together.
9 And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.
10 But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, "" Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.''
11 When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left.

There are only two choices.

• This is a week-day one service starting after sunset – on week-day one. In which case the major portion of “week day one” was planned not as a 4th commandment day of “rest” but as a “day of travel and commerce”. - A planned voyage” not a church service. But in the speaking Paul happens to conduct an all-night Bible teaching.
• This is a week-day one service starting before sunset – and the majority of the service is held on week-day two – Monday (weedday-two). In which case drawing from “this incident” to get a new 4th- commandment - it would appear that Monday is “the primary day of worship”.

Regardless of the choice – this one thing is abundantly clear

• In either case IF the purpose was to declare “The LORD’s day” as “Week day one” and “The Lord’s day” as the day for “communion service” – then what a great place to introduce the term “The LORD’s day” along with “week-day one” so that for the FIRST and ONLY time in ALL of scripture we would have actual Bible authority for saying “The Lord’s Day is Week day one”. The silence here on that point is deafening!

 

1. Unless we understand ἐν δὲ τῇ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων as Saturday or the Seventh day, then your argument is pointless.

2. Is the prepositional phrase ἐν δὲ τῇ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων referring to the Sunday or Saturday?

 

AT "best" you have a Saturday EVENING service that would correspond to the evening of "Week-day-one". That would mean that instead of a Roman system-SUNDAY service what you really have is a Roman-system SATURDAY service! And in that case we have "planned travel" for "week-day-one" rather than "planned rest and a reserved holy day of worship".

I can hardly wait to see the entire Christian church switch to Saturday evening using Acts 20:7 a it's argument!.

However what we do NOT see in Acts 20 is any reference at all to "week-day-one" being called "The Lord's Day" or a holy day of any kind.

in Christ,

Bob