tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815675.post113339348771976600..comments2023-10-17T01:47:22.890-07:00Comments on The Discipler: Happy Holy-days!Michael Hineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181066621100395991noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815675.post-1146144376668907352006-04-27T06:26:00.000-07:002006-04-27T06:26:00.000-07:00The holidays afford us the opportunity to spend jo...The holidays afford us the opportunity to spend joyous times with family and friends. But it is important that we understand the origin of Christmas in pagan times and that the pope assigned Dec. 25 as the date to celebrate Christ's birth in an effort to replace the pagan worship of the sun god, but still withheld biblical truth from the people and observed pagan practices then and now in their assemblies. It should be noted that those early Christians who quoted scripture from the Bible against idolotry, infant baptism, etc. were burned alive for heresy by direct order from the popes. Although Christ's birth is an important event in the Bible and one we should read and appreciate at any time of the year, we are not instructed to celebrate it as a religious holiday. The Bible instructs that we are to observe Christ's death every first day of the week by partaking of the Lord's Supper (Acts 20:7). These matters may seem trivial and harmless to us but when we read Rev. 22:18-19 we are made to realize the danger in adding to or taking away from God's word.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com