Christmas and Easter are manmade. Neither are in the Bible, and neither events were likely to happen on those dates. They were created to convert pagan holidays into Christian holidays. Not necessarily a bad thing, but not biblical. There is also no mandate in the Bible for us to celebrate anything or do anything other than the sacraments, but that again doesn’t mean one cannot celebrate.
Huh? Bible has feasts / holidays. Feasts are Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Firstfruits, the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles. I'm sure Sucot is in there somewhere. Go build a hut and party.
Yes there are lots of feasts and holy days in the Old Testament but there is no commandment within the New Testament to celebrate any of these. The law was fulfilled, there is no need to hold to those old rearmament feasts. Again I’m not against people celebrating, just pointing out this biblical perspective. Many reformed churches strictly adhere to the regulatory principle of worship and have no Easter or Christmas Sunday services.
The day of rest and weekly observance of God’s completion of creation.
Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish New Year—a holiday observed with festive meals and a day spent in prayer or quiet meditation.
Yom Kippur
The Jewish Day of Atonement—the most solemn day of the Jewish year. A day devoted to self–examination, and the chance to begin the New Year with a clean slate.
Sukkot
A celebration of the fall harvest, this holiday also commemorates the time when the Hebrews dwelt in the Sinai wilderness on their way to the Promised Land.
Shemini Atzeret
Literally the “8th day of assembly,” this holiday marks the end of Sukkot with an annual prayer for rain.
Simchat Torah
The day marking the end and the beginning of the annual Torah reading cycle.
Hanukkah
A festival celebrating liberation from oppression, freedom of worship, and finding light in the darkest of times.
Tu B’Shevat
The Jewish “New Year of the Trees,” celebrated with observances that connect us to our environment and the natural world.
Purim
A day celebrating the saving of the Jews from a diabolical plot of destruction, as recounted in the Book of Esther.
Passover
A festival of freedom that marks the Hebrew exodus from Egypt long ago.
Christmas? Easter? Get back to your Bible. Others are manmade holidays, or political holidays. You can participate or not.
Christmas and Easter are manmade. Neither are in the Bible, and neither events were likely to happen on those dates. They were created to convert pagan holidays into Christian holidays. Not necessarily a bad thing, but not biblical. There is also no mandate in the Bible for us to celebrate anything or do anything other than the sacraments, but that again doesn’t mean one cannot celebrate.
Yuuup
There is Lev 23:39… And i think a little Rom 12:15…
Huh? Bible has feasts / holidays. Feasts are Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Firstfruits, the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles. I'm sure Sucot is in there somewhere. Go build a hut and party.
Yes there are lots of feasts and holy days in the Old Testament but there is no commandment within the New Testament to celebrate any of these. The law was fulfilled, there is no need to hold to those old rearmament feasts. Again I’m not against people celebrating, just pointing out this biblical perspective. Many reformed churches strictly adhere to the regulatory principle of worship and have no Easter or Christmas Sunday services.
Sorry, don't quite understand. It is my understanding that the Old Testament IS part of the Bible. YMMD
Christmas trees?
Jeremiah 10:1-49
1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Ishtar eggs?
These holidays are not Biblical.
These ones are-
Shabbat
The day of rest and weekly observance of God’s completion of creation.
Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish New Year—a holiday observed with festive meals and a day spent in prayer or quiet meditation.
Yom Kippur
The Jewish Day of Atonement—the most solemn day of the Jewish year. A day devoted to self–examination, and the chance to begin the New Year with a clean slate.
Sukkot
A celebration of the fall harvest, this holiday also commemorates the time when the Hebrews dwelt in the Sinai wilderness on their way to the Promised Land.
Shemini Atzeret
Literally the “8th day of assembly,” this holiday marks the end of Sukkot with an annual prayer for rain.
Simchat Torah
The day marking the end and the beginning of the annual Torah reading cycle. Hanukkah
A festival celebrating liberation from oppression, freedom of worship, and finding light in the darkest of times.
Tu B’Shevat
The Jewish “New Year of the Trees,” celebrated with observances that connect us to our environment and the natural world.
Purim
A day celebrating the saving of the Jews from a diabolical plot of destruction, as recounted in the Book of Esther.
Passover
A festival of freedom that marks the Hebrew exodus from Egypt long ago.