People ask why we don’t celebrate holidays, birthdays, etc. I have even been asked, “Where do you get this stuff?”. With all do respect, I might ask, “Where did you get all those holidays?”.
I am not a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or pagan of any kind. What I am is a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. My “tenets of faith” is the infallible word of God, the Bible and no other (see Revelation 22:18).
Most of the holidays that are celebrated in America are pagan in origin. They are rooted in other Gods, but don’t take my word for it, do your own search. Here are the results of a Google searchs for Origins of birthdays , Origins of Mothers Day, Origins of Easter, Origins of Christmas just for starters. Decide for yourself. Are these pagan holidays? What do you think God sees them as? Or could it be that our traditions have blinded us?
It would be a strange thing for us to celebrate these pagan Holidays, knowing what God has said about such things. If every idle word is going to be judged (Mat. 12:36), what can be the end results of these heathen celebrations going to be?
The book of Jeremiah is a prophetic book about the days we are living in now. What does this passage remind you of?
(Jeremiah 10:2-4) Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Do we think God was joking when he said to not have anything to do with other Gods? Why would we think God would take this lightly now when he NEVER did in scripture?
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