Would You Celebrate an Occasion if You Knew it came from a PAGAN celebration?
By daylstone
@daylstone (126)
Philippines
March 11, 2010 9:38pm CST
This question is for Christians, would you celebrate an occasion if you knew that it was derived from a pagan celebration?
5 responses
@Masihi (4413)
• Canada
12 Mar 10
I'm glad u brought this up, as I have been really uncomfortable in celebrating christmas and Easter due to its pagan origins. Now, my question to Christians is why are we not celebrating the Biblical feasts when our own Messiah (our Lord Jesus) celebrated them Himself? I admit I go along w/my family in the Christmas/Easter tradition to keep peace, but still, I do it w/a heavy heart...
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@daylstone (126)
• Philippines
12 Mar 10
i believe in the bible and follow the bible and i and i am n0t misc0ntruing it... If Jesus celebrated s0mething else, say, his birthday, it would have documented at least once! When he attended a wedding celebrati0n it was documented... Let us again, not misc0ntrue what the bible is really teaching us simply because we are s0 attached to a celebrati0n. I know that Jesus only have four b0oks written detailing his life but we have 62 m0re books detailing the life of other faithful followers of God and n0t was it was documented any other feast other than the pass0ver.
It's difficult to accept,i kn0w... But it is the truth... Don't be mad at me for trying to say the truth
@Andyvil (793)
• Philippines
12 Mar 10
Well almost all the feasts we Christians celebrate came from pagan practices. You would be surprise how common our practices are to the pagan worshipers before. Even some of the dates were adapted by Christians so that people would easily adapt to the religion. Feasts are actually a pagan practice which was adapted by Christianity.
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@daylstone (126)
• Philippines
12 Mar 10
exactly the point! That's why in order to please God... We should n0t celdbrate these feasts
@daylstone (126)
• Philippines
12 Mar 10
I respect your view but that would be disastrous according to Mat 7:21,22. Even if we think we are honoring God, if not done in the rightway, we will be shunned by him.
@magtibaygom (4858)
• Philippines
27 Mar 10
Is Easter Celebration an example of this? Recognizing the sacrifice of Jesus just to redeem us from sin is OK, but with celebrating it as a tradition on the date prescribed by the Catholic Church, I am not sure if it is OK. The Easter Celebration date this summer falls on the same exact date of the Pagan Celebration of Ishtar, their goddess of Fertility. What can you say about that? Christian beliefs merged with Pagan?
@keep_onwatch (2680)
• India
12 Mar 10
Nope! What isn't in the Bible isn't followed by me. When any celebration gives no meaning, but would symbolize a pagan celebration, I definitely wont do it.
@daylstone (126)
• Philippines
12 Mar 10
exactly! Why should we wait for a certain time of the m0nth to be grateful to our m0m nd dad?why sh0uld we wait for the seas0n for giving to give gifts.
@zoey7879 (3092)
• Quincy, Illinois
12 Mar 10
Do you celebrate Mother's Day or Father's Day? How about May Day or Halloween?
@ckyera (17331)
• Philippines
12 Mar 10
hello daylstone,
in our religion, we are not celebrating anything that is not in accordance to the bible...
i wonder, how we can please God or Christ who is the subject of the celebration if we are doing it in a pagan way? hmmmm just a thought.
good day!
