How Jesus' Teachings of the Sabbath Would Effect the Life of a Christian Today
Christians have many denominations, they are all believers of God’s
teachings and there beliefs are all similar, however, they all
interpret these beliefs in different ways. Some of the ways these
religions interpret Christ’s teachings are that, Christians, believe
that Jesus was the son of god and ascended into heaven after dieing
for us on the cross so all our sins could be forgiven, his is why we
celebrate our Sabbath on the Sunday, we do no work on this day and go
to mass to keep it holy. Jehovah’s witnesses, who are another
denomination of Christianity, try to follow Christ’s teachings by not
worshiping in what is seen as the ‘wrong’ church, (catholic or
protestant churches) and by never receiving a blood transfusion.
Mormons, yet again, interpret Christ’s teachings differently by
worshipping from home, and allocating a day of the week and space
where they can be ‘close to god’.
An average Sunday for a Christian would be very different from that of
an atheist. Where as Christians attend mass religiously every Sunday,
atheists do not as they do not share the same beliefs as Christians
do, or for that matter any other religion, they do not believe in
‘any’ religion and some atheists may even take it as far as opposing
religions. So while Catholics attend mass every Sunday and keep there
Sabbath holy by not working, and receiving holy communion, atheists do
not do that and are free to play sport, work, sleep, go shopping, and
just carry on with their everyday lives as normal.
Marks gospel, in many ways explains why Catholics must attend mass
every Sunday. This is because, one of the main messages from marks
gospel was that we should keep the Sabbath holy, and this involves
going to church to worship on Sundays. ‘The Sabbath was made for man,
the man not for the Sabbath’, was also another of the main messages
marks gospel sends, this means that although Christians try generally