I'm not against Christmas necessarily...but it makes no sense to me knowing that it is a fabrication from the beginning. Something about that worshipping in "spirit and in truth" thing that bugs me now that I know God has ordained festivals which can not be commercialized...and have rich & deep spiritual significance.
ESPECIALLY compared to what we know as holidays.
There is nothing particularly wrong with birthday celebrations but they are a later European cultural thing which God didn't seem to put much emphasis on. Why not celebrate what He has told us to celebrate instead....or at least
also?
I honestly don't see anything wrong with giving a spiritually different meaning for any HoliDay since all days belong to Him. Yet that shouldn't be done to the detriment of even being aware of the HolyDays which He has given us.
We should honestly recognize that Christmas and Easter are not really being done for "Him" as much as for ourselves. WE want a tradition. WE want a holiday. WE want His birthday to be Dec 25th.
His Birthday is more than adequately celebrated on Succot (Festival of Tabernacles) and His death/resurrection are supremely better celebrated by the Passover festivals (unleavened bread, pesach, firstfruits).
Shavuot (Day of Pentecost) is being celebrated by JEWS all over the world as one their biggest HolyDays and the church barely mentions it. How weird is that?
Who doesn't want a festival of rejoicing in the Lord?
rule #1 is that I don't ever want to beat anybody up over it either way. I only bring it up to show the questions I ask myself.