Hi Family,
As I look to the different denominations I see some riddled with traditions that some individuals find necessary to bless or to appease God.
Do we need these traditions?
Are we naive or small minded to place value on traditions?
Do traditions save you?
Are they necessary?
Why do traditions that are contradictory to the Word even allowed to continue?
~Natsumi Lam~
They aren't needed. Some traditions are great, so long as you don't wave them about like a command of God. But most that we have today, are worthless, and actually go against God, and we just don't realize it.
Like having our "sabbath" on sunday, instead of the 7th day, saturday. It's a tradition that originates from catholicism. It's against scripture, but the majority of christianity observes it, because we've inherited it, and it takes a lot of faith to come out of that, and a lot of people don't like what it implies, so they stick to it anyway.
Christmas, and Easter are other traditions against scripture, because they both originate from the worship of other "gods". Christmas, is a conglomeration of 3 different sun-god birth stories, and we mashed them up on the day of "sol invictus", and swap out the "sun-god" for the Son
of God.
Easter, is a pagan Ishtar, a godess of fertility, whose symbols were bunnies and eggs.
Much more to these things I've mentioned, but these are simply entry points I've mentioned.
Many more things we do like this, that scripture calls us away from, and if you're seeking, I urge you to research into all of the things I've mentioned. See if what I've said is true, by researching into unbiased sources. Don't go to the catholic encyclopedia, or to other christian sources, go to unbiased sources. Because what you'll find with most christian sources, is a twisting of the facts to fit their traditions, due to their biases. So it's best to look at as unbiased a source as you can.