CrossCentered
Senior Member
So in my quest for knowledge, I have come across Christians and nonchristians who claim Christmas and Easter were pagan holidays well before Christ was born and crucified. They stated that celebrating these holidays, as the pagans do is an abomination to God. Also as evidence they asked me to show them anywhere in the Bible where God instructs us to celebrate Jesus birthday, and or his death and resurrection. The Bible does caution us about following traditions of man.
I still celebrate these holidays, and my answer was that the devil, knowing of Christ story, and how it would happen. Deceived men and gave them the false stories of virgin births, and dying and coming back as a way of distracting us from celebrating God. PS if you do not know about the pagan stories I am referring to, look them up. Something about the sun god impregnating a virgin human, the son was born on what we call Christmas now, (something like that, but it shares some common elements of our Christian beliefs, and allegedly it was around WELL before Christ)
I am wondering if someone has supporting or denying Biblical proof of what we should do?
I still celebrate these holidays, and my answer was that the devil, knowing of Christ story, and how it would happen. Deceived men and gave them the false stories of virgin births, and dying and coming back as a way of distracting us from celebrating God. PS if you do not know about the pagan stories I am referring to, look them up. Something about the sun god impregnating a virgin human, the son was born on what we call Christmas now, (something like that, but it shares some common elements of our Christian beliefs, and allegedly it was around WELL before Christ)
I am wondering if someone has supporting or denying Biblical proof of what we should do?