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Neither are modern things commanded in the Bible like Driving, Using the Internet and so on.
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Celebrating christmas is just a reflection of how the church is guided by men and ideas, that they want to bring into christianity. Celebrating christmas is just one of these type ideas that has been brought into the christian believe system without any support from God given in the Bible.
So whether it is pagan or not, still does not change the fact that, this celebration is not authorized and commanded to be celebrated in The Bible.
I hate to be picky, but Christmas isn't approaching. We are still closer to last Christmas than last. I suggest you repost in about 4 months.
Why would God support a celebration filled with inaccuracies.
The question is, if this celebration is not accurate. Will that be something that God will accept or approve of.
In other words, does God allow man to decide/choose how they should celebrate The Messiah coming into the world. Did God allow The Nation of Israel to choose how they would celebrate the Passover that occurred in Egypt.
This christmas celebration, is kind of like (at least to me) the creation of the christian flag. There is no instruction to create and use a christian flag for the the church.
Or also even subscribe as much importance to the cross that has been given.
Christ gave His Church, through His disciples, real authority which Israel did not have. Christ sent His Holy Spirit upon His disciples to lead them into all truth. Christ's Church has authority to bind and loose, to establish days to celebrate. Did they not have the authority to put an end to the requirement for circumcision at the Jerusalem council?
Some fifty years later, on 25 December AD 274, the Roman emperor Aurelian did succeed to establish the cult of Sol Invictus as an official religion, alongside the traditional Roman cults.
Sol Invictus - Wikipedia
Constantine's coins featured his sun god to his dying day.
SOLI INVICTO COMITI
As the Church had no historical date for Christ’s Nativity they had to invent a date for this and they did so by using an old tradition that associated the day of a holy man's death as being the same day as his conception.
24 rather than 26.Hello, a small aside. There is a date given in Luke's gospel for when Zechariah was in the Temple.
Luke 1:5 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron.
King David divided the year into 26 divisions, the division of Abijah is a known date. From there it is possible to approximately calculate the birth of Jesus, it coincides with the September Feast of Tabernacles. God Bless
It looks like this verse in Colossians 2:8 speaks to many of the now traditions used and followed in many denominations/churches
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
There were more weeks in the year, than there were courses. Not only that, there was a month added to adjust the calendar from time to time.Hello, a small aside. There is a date given in Luke's gospel for when Zechariah was in the Temple.
Luke 1:5 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron.
King David divided the year into 24 divisions, the division of Abijah is a known date. From there it is possible to approximately calculate the birth of Jesus, it coincides with the September Feast of Tabernacles. God Bless
The philosophy spoken of concerned traditions of men. Why do you say pagan? The "traditions of men" Were taught among the jews as well.The philosophy being spoken of was the false teachings of pagan religions like the Gnostics.
As an example, consider the year 2022 (the current year). The Gregorian moon was full on April 16, the same day the astronomical moon was full. Gregorian Easter was the following Sunday, April 17. The Julian moon was full on Wednesday, April 20 in the Gregorian calendar. Julian Easter was the following Sunday, April 24. The date of the Rabbinic Jewish Feast of Unleavened Bread never entered the calculation.A commonly-held superstition is that the Eastern Orthodox Pascha is required by rule always to occur after the first day of Unleavened Bread (15 Nisan) in the rabbinic Jewish calendar. This is false. Both Gregorian and Julian calendars set Easter to the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox in the Northern hemisphere. But the Julian calendar's equinox is 13 days late compared to the Gregorian's and the Julian calendar's full moon is 4 days, sometimes 5 days late compared to the Gregorian calendar's. These two errors, the 13-day error in the equinox and the 4-to-5-day error in the full moon account for the entire difference between Eastern and Western Easter. The rabbinic Jewish feast of Unleavened Bread has nothing to do with it.
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