The Pig by definition

Pigs, also called hogs or swine, are ungulates which have been domesticated as sources of food, leather, and similar products since ancient times. More recently, they have been involved in biomedical research and treatments. Their long association with humans has led to their considerable representation in cultural milieux from paintings to proverbs.
Native to Eurasia, they are collectively grouped under the genus Sus within the Suidae family. Despite pigs' reputation for gluttony, and another reputation for dirtiness, a lesser known quality is their intelligence. The nearest living relatives of the swine family are the peccaries.

Pigs are omnivores, which means that they consume both plants and animals. Pigs will scavenge and have been known to eat any kind of food, including dead insects, worms, tree bark, rotting carcasses, garbage, and even other pigs. In the wild, they are foraging animals, primarily eating leaves and grasses, roots, fruits and flowers. Occasionally, in captivity, pigs may eat their own young, often if they become severely stressed.

Pigs do not have functional sweat glands,[3] so pigs cool themselves using water or mud during hot weather. They also use mud as a form of sunscreen to protect their skin from sunburn.

Pigs harbour a range of parasites and diseases that can be transmitted to humans. These include trichinosis, cysticercosis, and brucellosis. Pigs are also known to host large concentrations of parasitic ascarid worms in their digestive tract.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig#Health_issues)

Super Boink

The Therapeutic House Martin Keymer

Why is this absolute pork meat prohibition so imperative? The answer is: pork is highly toxic (highly poisenous) for human beings, for several reasons:


a. First of all, pork meat contains a high percentage of fat. Pork meat is the only animal meat that also has fat inside the cell. (Normally, the fat is only found within the fatty tissues.) That is the reason why we can also bake a pork roast in its own juice, even if the meat was bought completely without fat.


b. Pork meat also has a very high amount of cholesterol. The human body needs cholesterol to fulfill certain tasks, for example, to build up cell membranes, but too high amounts of cholesterol lead to cholesterol sedimentation in the blood vessel walls, a prerequisite for arteriosclerosis.


c. Pork meat has a very bad protein structure and therefore also a very high decay rate. It rapidly goes to a putrefaction stage. The putrefaction products that develop in this process affect considerably the intestine, lymph, blood, liver, and all the organs that have to do with detoxification, and also all elimination organs. The fast putrefaction can easily be seen and proven by leaving out a piece of this kind of meat at body temperature (about 37°C) with a high humidity rate (as in the intestines), for about 48 hours (intestine passing period). So it is not strange that in some warm regions of the world, pork meat is not to be found at the butcher. The fact that in many countries there is a religious prohibition to pork-meat consumption then appears to be a prohibition with a very practical background. Pork meat has a very negative effect on the connective tissue structure. The connective tissue has the task of maintaining the body as a whole structure. The water that is absorbed by the connective tissue is held by small molecular compounds, the so-called mucopolysaccharides that for the most part contain sulphur. The more mucopolysaccharides are present in the connective tissue, the more water is held and the more swollen it is. Pork meat is highly sulphurous therefore high pork meat consumption leads to depositing high amount of these sulphurous compounds in the connective tissue. The connective tissue absorbs water like a sponge. This damages the collagen and elastic fibers a great deal and causes them to age in a short time. As these sulphurous compounds are organ-specific, it can be recognised which pork meat a certain person likes the best: abdomen/bacon, back/bacon, neck/chops and ham. Unwanted fat accumulations on the buttocks and on the thighs are mostly due to ham fat.


d. These mucous substances contained in pork meat are also accumulated in the tendons, ligaments and cartilage of the musculoskeletal system. As a result, this tissue swells up, it becomes soft and less resistant. Tendons and ligaments overstretch more easily. They are not longer capable to withstand the strains, and the cartilage degenerates. The development of ligament problems, rheumatism, arthritis, and intervertebral disk damage is often related to the consumption of pork products.


e. Pork meat is rich in growth hormones, an effect that not only contributes to fast growth in children up to puberty, but also has an important effect on adults. An excess of growth hormones supports infections and tissue swelling, besides other problems. Due to the fact that pork meat supports all kinds of growing processes, it also contributes to the development and growth of cancer cells.


f. Pork meat also has a high histamine concentration, the highest to be found in meat animals. Histamine is a highly effective tissue hormone and plays a special part in the violent reactions of allergic persons. So pork meat promotes allergic processes from hay fever and asthma to skin allergies and neurodermatitis, etc. Histamine also supports infectious processes like abscesses, furuncles, carbuncles, intestinal inflammations, vein inflammations, infectious skin diseases, and eczema formations. In every stress problem there is a histamine release, which promotes the negative appearance of stress problems; and as a consequence surpasses the reasonable stress level, causing problems like stomach aches, heart arrhythmia, and heart infarct.


g. Particularly due to the massive production of this animal, pigs have become very stressed animals. In the past, pigs were robust animals. Our grandparents knew that it was possible to ride on a pig, but these days the back of a pig can no longer support all that weight. Pigs suffer from massive stress, a high adrenaline release, and with heart attacks. This is known in every pig breeding farm. Because of their high sensitivity , they constantly need to be inoculated and treated and filled up with antibiotics, sedatives and other medications, the residues of which are then surely present in their meat. Altogether, we can say that the pig is a sick and contaminated animal.



-taken from "Untitled" (http://www.therapeutisches-haus.de/englisch/e-th/info/th_essen.html#3)

1 Corinthians 6:19 (New International Version)

"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;"

Holy Day

So the question is.. if there is no direct passage in the Bible that says that the first day of the week (Sunday) is a Holy day.. then from whom or where did that teaching came from?

I got this article from the website http://www.catholic.com/ in their page catholic answers.. it goes as this..
http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2004/0403frs.asp

The Fathers Knows Best
Sabbath or Sunday

...passages of Scripture such as Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Colossians 2:16–17, and Revelation 1:10 indicate that, even during New Testament times, the Sabbath is no longer binding and that Christians are to worship on the Lord’s Day—Sunday—instead.

The early Church Fathers compared the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of the rite of circumcision, and from that they demonstrated that if the apostles abolished circumcision (cf. Gal. 5:1–6), so also the observance of the Sabbath must have been abolished. The following quotations show that the first Christians understood this principle and gathered for worship on Sunday.

The Letter of Barnabas
We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead (Letter of Barnabas 15:6–8 [A.D. 74]).
Ignatius of Antioch
Those who were brought up in the ancient order of things [i.e., Jews] have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord’s day, on which also our life has sprung up again by him and by his death (Letter to the Magnesians 8 [A.D. 110]).
Justin Martyr
We too would observe the fleshly circumcision, and the Sabbaths, and in short all the feasts, if we did not know for what reason they were enjoined [on] you—namely, on account of your transgressions and the hardness of your heart. . . . How is it, Trypho, that we would not observe those rites that do not harm us (I speak of fleshly circumcision and Sabbaths and feasts)? . . . God enjoined you to keep the Sabbath, and imposed on you other precepts for a sign, as I have already said, on account of your unrighteousness and that of your fathers (Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 18, 21 [A.D. 155]).But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead (First Apology 67 [A.D. 155]).
Tertullian
Let him who contends that the Sabbath is still to be observed as a balm of salvation, and circumcision on the eighth day . . . teach us that, for the time past, righteous men kept the Sabbath or practiced circumcision, and were thus rendered "friends of God." For if circumcision purges a man, since God made Adam uncircumcised, why did he not circumcise him, even after his sinning, if circumcision purges? . . . Therefore, since God originated Adam uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, consequently his offspring also, Abel, offering him sacrifices, uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, was by him [God] commended [cf. Gen. 4:1–7, Heb. 11:4]. . . . Noah also, uncircumcised—yes, and unobservant of the Sabbath—God freed from the Deluge. For Enoch too, most righteous man, uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, he translated from this world, who did not first taste death in order that, being a candidate for eternal life, he might show us that we also may, without the burden of the law of Moses, please God (An Answer to the Jews 2 [A.D. 203]).
The Didascalia
The apostles further appointed: On the first day of the week let there be service, and the reading of Holy Scripture, and the oblation [sacrifice of the Mass], because on the first day of the week [i.e., Sunday] our Lord rose from the place of the dead, and on the first day of the week he arose upon the world, and on the first day of the week he ascended up to heaven, and on the first day of the week he will appear at last with the angels of heaven (Didascalia 2 [A.D. 225]).
Victorinus
The sixth day [Friday] is called parasceve, that is to say, the preparation of the kingdom. . . . On this day also, on account of the Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ, we make either a station to God or a fast. On the seventh day he rested from all his works, and blessed it, and sanctified it. On the former day we are accustomed to fast rigorously, that on the Lord’s Day we may go forth to our bread with giving of thanks. And let the parasceve become a rigorous fast, lest we should appear to observe any Sabbath with the Jews . . . which Sabbath he [Christ] in his body abolished (The Creation of the World [A.D. 300]).
Eusebius of Caesarea
The day of his [Christ’s] light . . . was the day of his Resurrection from the dead, which they say, as being the one and only truly holy day and the Lord’s Day, is better than any number of days as we ordinarily understand them, and better than the days set apart by the Mosaic law for feasts, new moons, and Sabbaths, which the apostle [Paul] teaches are the shadow of days and not days in reality (Proof of the Gospel 4:16:186 [A.D. 319]).
Cyril of Jerusalem
Fall not away either into the sect of the Samaritans or into Judaism, for Jesus Christ has henceforth ransomed you. Stand aloof from all observance of Sabbaths and from calling any indifferent meats common or unclean (Catechetical Lectures 4:37 [A.D. 350]).
John Chrysostom
When he [God] said, "You shall not kill" . . . he did not add, "because murder is a wicked thing." The reason was that conscience had taught this beforehand, and he speaks thus, as to those who know and understand the point. Wherefore when he speaks to us of another commandment, not known to us by the dictate of conscience, he not only prohibits, but adds the reason. When, for instance, he gave commandment concerning the Sabbath—"On the seventh day you shall do no work"—he subjoined also the reason for this cessation. What was this? "Because on the seventh day God rested from all his works that he had begun to make" [Ex. 20:10–11]. . . . For what purpose then, I ask, did he add a reason respecting the Sabbath, but did no such thing in regard to murder? Because this commandment was not one of the leading ones. It was not one of those that were accurately defined of our conscience, but a kind of partial and temporary one, and for this reason it was abolished afterward. But those that are necessary and uphold our life are the following: "You shall not kill. . . . You shall not commit adultery. . . . You shall not steal." On this account he adds no reason in this case, nor enters into any instruction on the matter, but is content with the bare prohibition (Homilies on the Statutes 12:9 [A.D. 387]).You have put on Christ, you have become a member of the Lord and been enrolled in the heavenly city, and you still grovel in the law [of Moses]? How is it possible for you to obtain the kingdom? Listen to Paul’s words, that the observance of the law overthrows the gospel, and learn, if you will, how this comes to pass, and tremble, and shun this pitfall. Why do you keep the Sabbath and fast with the Jews? (Homilies on Galatians 2:17 [A.D. 395]).
The Apostolic Constitutions
And on the day of our Lord’s Resurrection, which is the Lord’s Day, meet more diligently, sending praise to God that made the universe by Jesus, and sent him to us, and condescended to let him suffer, and raised him from the dead. Otherwise what apology will he make to God who does not assemble on that day . . . in which is performed the reading of the prophets, the preaching of the gospel, the oblation of the sacrifice, the gift of the holy food (Apostolic Constitutions 2:7:60 [A.D. 400]).
Pope Gregory I
It has come to my ears that certain men of perverse spirit have sown among you some things that are wrong and opposed to the holy faith, so as to forbid any work being done on the Sabbath day. What else can I call these [men] but preachers of Antichrist, who when he comes will cause the Sabbath day as well as the Lord’s Day to be kept free from all work. For because he [the Antichrist] pretends to die and rise again, he wishes the Lord’s Day to be held in reverence; and because he compels the people to Judaize that he may bring back the outward rite of the law, and subject the perfidy of the Jews to himself, he wishes the Sabbath to be observed. For this, which is said by the prophet, "You shall bring in no burden through your gates on the Sabbath day" [Jer. 17:24] could be held to as long as it was lawful for the law to be observed according to the letter. But after that the grace of almighty God, our Lord Jesus Christ, has appeared, the commandments of the law that were spoken figuratively cannot be kept according to the letter. For if anyone says that this about the Sabbath is to be kept, he must say that carnal sacrifices are to be offered. He must say too that the commandment about the circumcision of the body is still to be retained. But let him hear the apostle Paul saying in opposition to him: "If you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing" [Gal. 5:2] (Letters 13:1 [A.D. 597]).
Augustine
Well, now, I should like to be told what there is in these Ten Commandments, except the observance of the Sabbath, which ought not to be kept by a Christian. . . . Which of these commandments would anyone say that the Christian ought not to keep? It is possible to contend that it is not the law that was written on those two tables that the apostle [Paul] describes as "the letter that kills" [2 Cor. 3:6], but the law of circumcision and the other sacred rites that are now abolished (The Spirit and the Letter 24 [A.D. 412]).

And lastly from :http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_05071998_dies-domini_en.html

APOSTOLIC LETTER

DIES DOMINI

OF THE HOLY FATHER

JOHN PAUL II

TO THE BISHOPS, CLERGY AND FAITHFUL

OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

ON KEEPING THE LORD'S DAY HOLY

..7. The duty to keep Sunday holy, especially by sharing in the Eucharist and by relaxing in a spirit of Christian joy and fraternity, is easily understood if we consider the many different aspects of this day upon which the present Letter will focus our attention.

What day is it?

The early Christians observed the Sabbath on Saturday, but by the first half of the second century an increasing number of Christians would gather for worship on Sunday. Some continued to observe the Sabbath on Saturday, until even the crusader period. The practice was discouraged, but not suppressed. Most Christians today consider Sunday to be the Sabbath day, a holy day and a day of rest and church-attendance. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday)

I read many articles about this subject, written by different authors from different religious affiliations and backgrounds. They made very good arguments and explanations regarding their beliefs. The purpose of this blog is not to condenm any religious groups and promote one. I believe we are all worthy of God's love and saving grace. It is up to you to decide and be guided by the Holy Spirit. God bless you...

What day is the Biblical Sabbath day?

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done (Gen. 2.1-2).

The chronology of the crucifixion, death, and Resurrection of Christ as follows:

Friday, the Day of Preparation: Jesus is crucified with two thieves. From noon to three in the afternoon, a darkness covers the land (Matt. 27:45). Then, "[s]ince it was the Day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath . . . the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away" (John 19:31). Then Joseph of Arimathea obtains Jesus’ body and buries it: "It was Preparation Day [that is, the day before the Sabbath]. So as evening approached, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body" (Mark 15:42-43, NIV).

Saturday, the Sabbath: "On the Sabbath they [the women] rested according to the commandment" (Luke 23:56b). Also on this day, "that is, after the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate" and asked for a guard to be placed on the tomb (Matt. 27:62).

Sunday, the first day of the week: "Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulcher" and found that Jesus had risen from the dead (Matt. 28:1).

(http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1999/9903chap.asp)

Ok.. let's start with the what the Bible tells us about the Sabbath- Seventh day (Saturday):

*this is not the complete list*

Exodus 20:8

The fourth commandment

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you,"

Jesus

Matthew 12:8

For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.

Luke 4:16

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

Jesus' followers

Luke 23:56

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

Paul

Acts 17:2

And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures.

Acts 13:14

But when they departed from Perga,they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

Acts 13:44

And the next sabbath say came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

And now what about the First day(Sunday) Sabbath:

In the Bible:

The phrase First day of the week is mentioned 8 times but NOT one Passage in the Scriptures is found that says the First day became a Sabbath, rest day, day of worship or holy day...

1. Matthew 28:1[ The Resurrection ] After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.Matthew 28:1-3 (in Context) Matthew 28 (Whole Chapter)

2. Mark 16:2Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tombMark 16:1-3 (in Context) Mark 16 (Whole Chapter)

3. Mark 16:9[ ((The most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have Mark 16:9-20.)) ] When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.Mark 16:8-10 (in Context) Mark 16 (Whole Chapter)

4. Luke 24:1[ The Resurrection ] On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.Luke 24:1-3 (in Context) Luke 24 (Whole Chapter)

5. John 20:1[ The Empty Tomb ] Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.John 20:1-3 (in Context) John 20 (Whole Chapter)

6. John 20:19[ Jesus Appears to His Disciples ] On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"John 20:18-20 (in Context) John 20 (Whole Chapter)

7. Acts 20:7[ Eutychus Raised From the Dead at Troas ] On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.Acts 20:6-8 (in Context) Acts 20 (Whole Chapter)

8. 1 Corinthians 16:2On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.1 Corinthians 16:1-3 (in Context) 1 Corinthians 16 (Whole Chapter)

(http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=first+day+of+the+week)

New International Version (NIV)

Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

And there is the Lord's Day found in Revelation 1:10.. Apostle John while in the exile in the island of Patmos Wrote:

"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet"

The New Bible Dictionary says regarding the term, ‘The Lord’s Day’ in Revelation 1:10: "This is the first extant occurrence in Christian literature of heµ kyriakeµ heµmera. The adjectival construction suggests that it was a formal designation of the church’s worship day. As such it certainly appears early in the 2nd century (Ignatius, Epistle to the Magnesians, 1. 67).

(http://www.carm.org/questions/sabbath.htm)

CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS AND RESEARCH MINISTRY

The answer:

Some believe that "the Lord's day" mentioned in Revelation 1:10 refers to Sunday. However, when we read the passage, we find no hint of it being either a Sunday or a worship day. John here simply states that he "was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." Although it is true that eventually the term "Lord's day" came to be used for Sunday, no evidence indicates this was the case until about a century after the book of Revelation was written![11] Most pointedly of all, there is neither prior nor contemporary evidence that Sunday had achieved in New Testament times a status that would have caused it to be called "Lord's day." Another day--the seventh-day Sabbath--had, of course, been the Lord's holy day from antiquity (see Isaiah 58:13)

(http://www.biblehistory.com/The%20Origin%20of%20Sunday%20Worship.html)

Copyright 1978 by Kenneth A. Strand

Change in the days of the week.

I was walking in a bookstore with a friend one day, and he showed me a small book. Wrote by a Pastor. It explained each of the Ten Commandments, and it is good to discuss such a very interesting subject and its application in our time. However he showed me the 4th commandment. It made me wonder a little bit then. I saw the book again recently and read it again. He laid out many good arguments, and he has a point. But i want to know if it is true. It made me think... should we make our own schedule for our day of rest and worship? where did the calendar came from? who invented it? Is it accurate? what day is the first day and the seventh day? DID THE ORDER OF THE DAYS OF THE WEEK REALLY CHANGED?

I would just like to share with you some things I found out while doing a little research about this topic. These are articles I found in some websites (links are found after some paragraphs so you can check it also).
Hope this can help.. :)



Humans have measured time since, well, time immemorial. The most natural kind of year is marked by the coming and going of the seasons. Ancient people needed to know when to expect the cold winter season, and when to plant and harvest. By keeping calendars they could prepare for the future. Today we still define our year based on the seasons

The Lunar Calendar
Some of the earliest calendars used the moon to measure the passage of time. A year was twelve lunar months (moon-ths). Each lunar month was the time from one full moon to the next, about 29.5306 days. This made the lunar calendar year 354.3672 days long. This was not very accurate for keeping track of the seasons, since it is about 365.2422 days from the first day of spring (called the vernal equinox) to the next first day of spring. This meant the vernal equinox was almost 11 days earlier each year.

The Julian Calendar
Julius Caesar
In ancient Rome the lunar calendar was constantly being adjusted, adding days here and there to bring the seasons back into sync. Some corrupt politicians and officials even added days to the calendar to lengthen their stay in office, or for financial gain. Then in 45 B.C. Roman Emperor Julius Caesar decreed that a new calendar, called the Julian calendar, would be adopted. The astronomer Sosigenes designed the calendar to strictly follow the seasons, not the moon. Each year had 365 days, with an extra "leap" day added every 4 years. This made the length of a Julian year 365.25 days, not far from the actual value of 365.2422 days.

The Gregorian Calendar
Pope Gregory
But the average length of the Julian year was a bit too long, by some 11 minutes. Slowly the first day of spring shifted to earlier and earlier dates, at the rate of about eight days every thousand years. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII, advised by the astronomer Christopher Clavius, decreed that the date of the vernal equinox, which had crept forward to March 11, should revert to March 21, its date at the time of the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325. It was at the Council of Nicaea that the church decided Easter would be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. By bringing the calendar back into sync, Easter would be celebrated closer to its original date.
The only way to make such a change was to skip ten days; and so in Catholic countries the day after October 4, 1582, was October 15, 1582. Many non-Catholic nations, however, did not go along with this jump. England and the British colonies held out until 1752 when September 2nd was followed by September 14th. Many citizens thought they were being cheated out of 11 days of life and in the resultant riots a number of people were killed!
The change brought the first day of spring back to March 21st, but it was necessary to prevent future date-jumping. So the new Gregorian calendar was shortened a tiny amount. A leap day was still added every four years, but with a special rule about century-end years: only century-end years divisible by 400 would be leap years. Therefore, the years 1800, 1900, and 2100 have no February 29th, but 2000 and 2400 do. This makes the average length of the Gregorian year 365.2424 days, less than half a minute off each year. This will produce an error of only one day every 3000 years.(http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/news/2000/news-newyear.asp)

Questions and Answers

Where did the days of the week got its name?

The ancients carefully observed the motions of the stars, moon, and sun. Because the paths of the planets across the sky were different from the orderly, unchanging procession of the stars, they were thought to have special powers and were named after mythological gods and goddesses: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter. These planets, along with the sun and moon, then lent their names to the days of the week.
The English names for the days of the week are derived from Anglo-Saxon, and some of the names of the gods and goddesses are different than the Greek and Roman. The god Tiw was the equivalent of Mars, Woden of Mercury, Thor of Jupiter, and Frigga of Venus. (http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/time/weekdays.html)

also check this link:
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/week-connotations.html


Has the 7-Day Week Cycle Ever Been Interrupted?
There is no record of the 7-day week cycle ever having been broken. Calendar changes and reform have never interrupted the 7-day cycles. It very likely that the week cycles have run uninterrupted at least since the days of Moses (c. 1400 B.C.E.), possibly even longer.
Some sources claim that the ancient Jews used a calendar in which an extra Sabbath was occasionally introduced. But this is probably not true.

Which Day is the Day of Rest?

For the Jews, the Sabbath (Saturday) is the day of rest and worship. On this day God rested after creating the world.

Most Christians have made Sunday their day of rest and worship, because Jesus rose from the dead on a Sunday.

Muslims use Friday as their day of rest and worship. The Qur'an calls Friday a holy day, the "king of days."

What Is the First Day of the Week?

The Bible clearly makes the Sabbath the last day of the week, but does not share how that corresponds to our 7 day week. Yet through extra-biblical sources it is possible to determine that the Sabbath at the time of Christ corresponds to our current 'Saturday.' Therefore it is common Jewish and Christian practice to regard Sunday as the first day of the week (as is also evident from the Portuguese names for the week days).

However, the fact that, for example, Russian uses the name "second" for Tuesday, indicates that some nations regard Monday as the first day.In international standard ISO-8601 the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has decreed that Monday shall be the first day of the week. (http://webexhibits.org/calendars/week.html)

"the early Church commemorated Christ's resurrection on Sunday, the first day of the week, because that was the day Christ arose" (Mark 16:9, see also Mark 16:2 and Luke 24:1). (http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1993/9312chap.asp)

When is Easter?

The calculation of Easter is complicated because it is linked to (an inaccurate version of) the Hebrew calendar. Jesus was crucified immediately before the Jewish Passover, which is a celebration of the Exodus from Egypt under Moses. Celebration of Passover started on the 15th day of the (spring) month of Nisan. Jewish months start when the moon is new, therefore the 15th day of the month must be immediately after a full moon. It was therefore decided to make Easter Sunday the first Sunday after the first full moon after vernal equinox. Or more precisely: Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the "official" full moon on or after the "official" vernal equinox. The official vernal equinox is always 21 March. The official full moon may differ from the real full moon by one or two days. (Note, however, that historically, some countries have used the real (astronomical) full moon instead of the official one when calculating Easter. This was the case, for example, of the German Protestant states, which used the astronomical full moon in the years 1700-1776. A similar practice was used in Sweden in the years 1740-1844 and in Denmark in the 1700s.) The full moon that precedes Easter is called the Paschal full moon.
(http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-christian-easter.html)


Exodus 20:8-11


(8) "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. (9) Six days you shall labor and do all your work, (10) but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. (11) For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. (New International Version)