CHRISTMAS

Or should I say 'wrappings'.

(Yes, I laugh at my own jokes.)

Fair enough, but so many Christians automatically call another believer's conviction to do something, or not to do something that they don't agree with 'legalistic'.

I can think of at least two uses of the word 'legalism' in the Bible.
1) Trying to earn salvation through 'legalistic' works, and
2) doing something in a 'legalistic' way that removes the original intent or meaning of what that something was supposed to accomplish.

Does Christmas fall into either of those categories?
With all due respect, I don't see the Christmas non-observant believer refraining for either of those reasons. But maybe somebody can show me otherwise.

Celebrating Christmas is not biblical, so we should be careful how we do it. Is what we’re doing honoring to God? That’s all.

Neither is driving a car, or typing messages into a forum, or microwave ovens, or literally millions of stuff that is part of our everyday lives.

Neither is driving a car, or typing messages into a forum, or microwave ovens, or literally millions of stuff that is part of our everyday lives.

Absolutely, so we better be careful what we place in the microwave.😂

If something is not biblical, then we should look to bible principles that we could apply to that situation.

Amen! If certain people are convinced that they cannot, in good conscience, observe a particular Christmas tradition, then they don't need to observe it. If such people are convinced that a particular tradition is too steeped in paganism then they are free to forsake that tradition, yet there is no need to be legalistic about it. At the same time, if we are convinced that we can honor and worship God during Christmas, then we should honor and worship God. For Christians, Christmas can be an important part of the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and it reminds us of that wonderful event that changed the world! So for Christians who celebrate Christmas, let us celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

3Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth - Romans 14:3

Just replace 'eateth' with whatever disputable custom or observance you want, but the point is clear that we need to let people be governed by their own conscience without despising or judging them.

Fair enough, but so many Christians automatically call another believer's conviction to do something, or not to do something that they don't agree with 'legalistic'.

I can think of at least two uses of the word 'legalism' in the Bible.
1) Trying to earn salvation through 'legalistic' works, and
2) doing something in a 'legalistic' way that removes the original intent or meaning of what that something was supposed to accomplish.

Does Christmas fall into either of those categories?
With all due respect, I don't see the Christmas non-observant believer refraining for either of those reasons. But maybe somebody can show me otherwise.

Celebrating Christmas is not biblical, so we should be careful how we do it. Is what we’re doing honoring to God? That’s all.

Read the last part of the passage you quoted:

3For the customs of the peoples are delusion;
Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

4“They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.

5“Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not fear them,
For they can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.” Jeremiah 10:3-5 NAS

And this:

"we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one." - 1 Corinthians 8:4 KJV

For those who know and are convinced in their heart, idols and false gods are nothing. That is the knowledge that allows some Christians to celebrate Christmas.

Ah, I see you posted the rest of the passage.

A little knowledge can educate a person's conscience about this matter and set them free to do the things you listed above.

So we should celebrate something that is nothing? Why celebrate what God looks down on?

Read the last part of the passage you quoted:

3For the customs of the peoples are delusion;
Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

4“They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.

5“Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not fear them,
For they can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.” Jeremiah 10:3-5 NAS

And this:

"we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one." - 1 Corinthians 8:4 KJV

For those who know and are convinced in their heart, idols and false gods are nothing. That is the knowledge that allows some Christians to celebrate Christmas.

There is no such knowledge to set a Christian FREE to celebrate Christmas.

They cannot do any good. They are useless, nonsense.

We are to busy ourselves with the things of God and not the things of the world. Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen

Except a tree is not a graven image. Graven images are created, not grown naturally as a tree is..