How our Christmas celebrations started

[Nehemiah6]

Should we also include in this thread how the name of the days of the week was started, too?

Why not?

Sunday for Sol's day (day of the sun)
Monday for Monen day (day of the moon)
Tuesday is Tiu's day (Norse god)
Wednesday is Wodin's day (Norse god)
Thursday is Thor's day (Norse god)
Friday is Freya's day (Norse goddess)
Saturday is Saturn's day (a very evil Roman god)

So we are all stuck with these pagan gods.

 

[oldethennew]

let us not play dumb and be the cow that is milked -
do your research, but please don't do it in vain,
just to 'prove' yourselves in the 'right' for your own actions -
find your peace with all of your hearts and don't be afraid
of this wicked world's judgment, for God is our refuge forever and forever,................

 

[JamOn]

Why not?

Sunday for Sol's day (day of the sun)
Monday for Monen day (day of the moon)
Tuesday is Tiu's day (Norse god)
Wednesday is Wodin's day (Norse god)
Thursday is Thor's day (Norse god)
Friday is Freya's day (Norse goddess)
Saturday is Saturn's day (a very evil Roman god)

So we are all stuck with these pagan gods.

Wednesday is hump day, jk.

 

[JamOn]

I dunno, but one thing's for sure: Wednesday and Thursday don't get much love when it comes to song titles........

Cause Friday never hesitates

 

[crossnote]

It is a thread simply and only telling of what happened, you guys are the ones making it into a judgement thread. And your judgments are not even based on facts but you bring in your prejudices you acquired mostly through ignorance.

I suggest you read and understand the Lord's Prayer, it tells about judgment posts such as these.

Yeah right...

Gentile Christians took over with pagan backgrounds and little biblical knowledge. We have their names and lots of their writings. For a while they introduced lots of strange ideas and they thought of Jews and their ways as strange. They had always celebrated idols on Sunday, so now they celebrated the Lord on Sunday and converted their pagan holidays to Christian celebrations. They eventually converted a winter celebration to Christmas.

And you will tell me there are no 'judgments' in your paragraph above? 'Kettle-black' and all that.

 

[Dino246]

It is a thread simply and only telling of what happened, you guys are the ones making it into a judgement thread. And your judgments are not even based on facts but you bring in your prejudices you acquired mostly through ignorance.

If you are wanting to share "history", it might be helpful to provide citations of actual historical sources, or at least links to reference works where you got your information.

 

[Blik]

Are you sure that it's not a Christmas is pagan don't celebrate Christmas thread?

Absolutely sure that learning of how God has worked in our world is not a "pagan thread". God is in truth. I am not sure how God is using what happened for good, but I am positive that God is working for our good. To try to find truth is of God, and must be done carefully.

Personally I have used the information to motivate me to learn more about the OT and the ways it tells of the ways of our Lord and that has opened my mind and heart more completely to the Triune God.

 

[7seasrekeyed]

Just like Christians...take that which the world does, adopt it, but put a “Christian” spin on it. (Holidays, clothes, music, tattoos, etc.) We’re always one step behind the world.

geez louise

speak for yourself

 

[Blik]

If you are wanting to share "history", it might be helpful to provide citations of actual historical sources, or at least links to reference works where you got your information.

If it was so that posters would actually want to study the Lord's church I can only give some rules for choosing the histories to study, I didn't make a list of the books and articles I have gone through. I can give some rules I used in choosing the sources of information.

I found that there has to be great care to find accurate information. The study of the dead sea scrolls has given the latest that is accurate. History books can be misleading for even though a book can be accurate it still can be misleading because of the information it chooses that can hold back some so a rounded view of a period is not given. Each history has to be checked for prejudices. Always care must be taken that two views of any period is studied. Our top colleges turn out reliable history authors, it is one check on an author that is quite reliable. Always an author's education and background must be checked. Surprisingly, a valuable source I found was the archives of the Catholic Church. They have lots of first hand writings that are not a teaching of their interpretation of scripture but accurate historical information.