Why most Christians say Jesus’ resurrection was on a Sunday?
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So, if other Christians say that the first day of the week is Monday ...
Indeed, in many countries (for example here in Germany) the week starts with Monday and ends with Sunday.
However, in Jewish culture the week always started with Sunday and ended with Saturday. (More precisely: The sunset between Saturday to Sunday.)
Why most Christian say Jesus resurrection is on Sunday?
Monday makes absolutely no sense:
The three women prepared the dead body of Jesus for the funeral with expensive oil and interrupted their activities because of the Jewish holiday, which is the Saturday.
They wanted to continue the funeral preparations after the Jewish holiday, which means: After the Saturday.
It makes no sense that these women waited another extra day, so they surely planned to continue Sunday in the morning.
And the Bible tells us that Jesus was already alive when they tried to continue the preparations.
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TLDR: The Hebrew word translitterated "Sabbath" means "time of rest". It does not mean "seventh day". In Genesis, it says God rested (Sabbath) on the seventh day (our Saturday). Some Christians (not just Adventists) continue the Jewish practice of resting (Sabbath) on the seventh day. Most Christians choose their primary day of worship to be Sunday, the first day of the week, because Jesus was resurrected on "the first day of the week".
Some Christians now say Sunday, the first day of the week, is their "day of rest" (Sabbath). They may apply some, but not all, of the Jewish rules about no work on the Sabbath to Sunday. Other Christians prefer to call the seventh day, Saturday, the Sabbath but say we no longer keep it as a day of rest, because we have entered into a perpetual time of rest.
The modern practice of calling Monday the "first day of the week" didn't exist until a few decades ago. Saturday has always been the seventh day and Sunday the first.
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The difference between Adventists and other Christians is NOT which day is the seventh or not. It is whether the christian Sabbath should be on the seventh day (the day of the jewish Sabbath, the day that was set as sabbath in the OT) or on the first day (the day Jesus was resurrected), changing the day of the sabbath. Note that the NT says the disciples gathered on the first day of the week, so it doesn't come out of nowhere that Sunday is the day that is now used by most christians as the sabbath.
So everyone agrees as to what day of the week Jesus was resurrected, that is not the point of dispute at all.
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