It feels right to have a day to celebrate the birth of our saviour and when better to celebrate the light of the world than at the darkest time of the year. We all know Jesus wasn't born in December and we all know Christmas WAS ONCE a pagan festival but hey the dark has been turned into light. I'm celebrating!
Can I humbly and gently present this passage, I know its OT but its a lesson to learn from, we do not want to fall after the same pattern;
Heb 3:16-19, "For some, when they had heard, rebelled. But not all rebelled who came out of Egypt through Mosheh. But with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He vow that they would not enter into His rest, but to those who did not obey?So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief."
Deuteronomy 12:29-32, “When Yahweh your Father cuts off the nations from in front of you, and you displace them and live in their land, Be careful not to be ensnared into following them by asking about their gods, saying: How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do the same.
You must not worship Yahweh your Father in their way, for every abomination to Yahweh, which He hates, they have done to their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods. Whatsoever I command you, be careful to observe and do it, you shall not add to it, nor take away from it."
Just because we may not go to the extreme the fact remains, "
You must not worship Yahweh your Father in their way"
Again, I do not want to argue, I just fell obligated toward a fellow believer.