Sunday Myth Exposed

Author: Larry Wishon

It has long been held that the early Church chose Sunday as its new day of worship in honor of the idea that Jesus rose from  the dead on Sunday morning.  However, there is stark evidence that Sunday was not the first day of the week in the first century A.D.

SUNDAY MYTH EXPOSED    Sunday has been forever linked with going to Church.  It is the day that the Church has claimed for itself as the day of worshiping and honoring God.  It has made an indelible mark on the conscience of society that this is the day of God’s choosing to gather in His Name.  This is the day of God’s choice because it is the day on which Jesus rose from the dead and the early first century Church met to honor that event.  However . . .   What if in the course of your research on a topic, you come to find out that something which has long been held as truth or fact, is in reality a fabrication . . . a myth if you will.  This is what happened to me.    During my work in researching for my book Redigging The Wells Of Our Fathers, a study on the Jewish roots of our Christian beginnings and how those roots were tossed aside in favor of a more Gentile expression, I came upon something interesting.  No, more than interesting, ground-shaking evidence.   This historical evidence pointed to the seemingly established idea that in the first century A.D., the Sun’s Day (Sunday) was not the first day of the week in the Roman calendar, but the second day.  Why is this important?  That should be obvious.    The whole of the Church’s ideology is based on the fact that Jesus was resurrected on Sunday morning, because it was the first day of the week.  And since this is held to be true, then every instance of the phrase “first day of the week” in the New Testament is interpreted as Sunday.  Many modern translations even translated the Greek phrase mia sabbaton as Sunday.   The whole concept of Sunday as the first day of the week, is based upon using the Roman calendar.  Why?  Well, quite simply because the Jewish calendar did not use and knew nothing of the days of the week named after pagan gods.  The traditional Jewish calendar only has one day with an actual name.  Can you guess what day that might be?  Yes, the Sabbath is the only day that has a name.  Every other day is counted in its relationship to the Sabbath.  The day after the Sabbath, which would be the first day in the Jewish week, was called “echad Shabbat” in Hebrew, or in Greek it is called, “mia sabbaton”.   So since the Jewish calendar, which is the one used in the New Testament, did not use these named days, it fell to the Roman calendar to base the change upon.     Like it or not, we have been duped, lied to and hood-winked.  Want to know how and why?  Read the whole article on this topic and arm yourself with the truth that has been hidden from you for almost two thousand years.   Get instance access to the rest of the valuable information on this issue by subscribing to my weekly newsletter.  Just fill in your name and email address below and you will immediately be directed to the full article.  I hate spam as much as you, maybe more.  Your email address will not be shared with anyone and will only be used to send you my weekly offering of more interesting studies, and whatever I think may be of interest to you.   Thank you in advance for your interest. Larry Wishon. Name: Email:

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Larry Wishon has been a pastor/teacher for almost 30 years.  He received his BTh from Clear Creek Baptist Bible College and continued his post-graduate studies at Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY and also at the University of Biblical Studies and Seminary in Bethany, OK, where he also taught under-gradute studies.  He has pastored Baptist churches in Kentucky and Oklahoma, served as associate pastor in a non-denominational church and also served as associate for three years in a messianic congregation in Oklahoma City.

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