What are your sources?LOL Too much research on my part...I learned that Ishtar was celebrated for thousands of years before your religion started....As was Christmas...
How many pagan traditions can you find in Christian ones? Hint: Halloween.
So then, explain to me how you can Christianize the demonic and have it Christian. If the roots are rotten how can you have a heathy tree?If the heart is innocent the party happening is innocent. You might as well avoid math because algebra is an arabic word.
Alexander Hislop?Good ones...Christian sources...I'm seventy years old..Old enough to know that one does not listen to fools.
So then, explain to me how you can Christianize the demonic and have it Christian. If the roots are rotten how can you have a heathy tree?
Matthew 7:17
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
How many pagan traditions can you find in Christian ones? Hint: Halloween.
LOLNot sure why one would put Halloween and Christian together. Maybe someone heard the same young man on this Christian Station that plays the songs all the time. Said it was his best holiday. Praise GOD!
So.. what "spirit" as in demon, fallen angel and what human has more power then God? Well the great I am made the days so forth so on. We can find some awful evil thing on almost if not EVERY day of the year. So what? That has no power what so ever. Dec 25.. is the day many just SHOUT FOR JOY that Yeshua was born! And then Easter.. He rose. I can not speak for those that use that day or any other for things NOT of God. They don't answer to me. And nor do I tel them what they should do on holidays as the word tells me.
So.. for SOME they should not.. for SOME they can see it as sin. For THEM it is. Any time I mess up get wrong.. I gave my Father all the right to tell me change me 1st!
So.. sorry I can't find any. I will not give the enemy any glory or power he does not have.
Harmless fun.....Where is that? What celebration are you referring to?
How many pagan traditions can you find in Christian ones? Hint: Halloween.
Well you haven't offered anything else. I'm not psychic you know.Never heard of him.
These are silly arguments that reverses the way language works. Whatever I call the celebration doesn't change what I'm celebrating. Another thing. When Christian missionary's went to other lands to spread the Gospel it wasn't in a spirit of changing their culture. Most cultures centuries, or millenia ago had a foundation of myth that gave their society stability and for themselves meaning.Some have a good measure of truth. Some not much and others have deep meaning and a measure of error. If the Truth belongs to you as a member of the body that Truth was given. The object of myth is truth. In the measure it is true it will point at it's true object. So the truth in myth,true will point to it's true object. Jesus is Truth. BTW If I call my celebration Easter I'm still celebrating the resurrection no matter what it's called. Whatever word I'm using it means what I use it for. Words migrate over time, it's the concepts that don't change. The concepts are symbolized by different words. That's what this easter argument pagan holiday The concept is the resurrection It might be called dweetha in a hundred years. What is celebrated will stay the sameYou need to investigate the celebtion of Easter (Ishtar) a bit deeper It was celebrated for thousands of years before Jesus rose from the dead
Christmas is celebrated on 25th of December (the 12th month in the julian and gregorian calendar) because it is 9 months (guess why) after 25th of March, where the Annunciation was put.
Has nothing at all to do with Saturnia.
Really it's an argument brought forth by people who know not a thing about Church History and have not a single example for these "pagan roots" (Christmas trees came up first in Germany in 16th century, legend has it Luther. And even the most traditional Roman Catholic cannot deny that Germany during the reformation was a christian country)