Matthew 5:17, 1 John 2:3-6, Romans 7:12, Mark 7:6-9
Those verse's all have one thing in common, they all say the law is standing. Now this can become tricky, because verses like 1 Corinthians 7:18-19 where Paul almost says one commandment is not necessary but still tells us to follow it... This is cleared up with a parallel in Romans 2:29. Saying that the law is in obeyed your heart, not in your religion. Such as praying alone to God in a closet, compared to having a public showing of how holy you are by praying in a mall for public attention. This also goes hand and hand with Jesus saying if any many looks lustfully at another, then you have committed adultery in your heart. (Matthew 5:28).
This is not what my question is over, but is a pivoting point for the answer. If I am correct the answer will lie in, do you follow it in only your heart. Or is a thing like James 2:8 more of the issue here?
I know that I have skimmed over like 8 preaching lessons in less then two paragraphs, and if I am wrong please show me. But I think I have a pretty good grasp over what I have said. I just had to law a foundation to build the question upon.
Here we go gnawing towards the bone.
In Deut. 4 it says do not add or subtract even one commandment.
In Exodus 32 The people of God who had just made a blood covenant with them, grew tired of waiting on God... So they went to Aaron and asked for him to make them a calf, Aaron did and dedicated a feast to the Lord. Even though the feast was dedicated to God, He was furious! He was about to slay them right then and there. Now, I believe that God became even more furious when they worshiped Him in the way Egyptians worship their gods... Why do I think this?Duet 12:28-32. God specifically told us, that when they get spread out upon the earth. Do not worship Him in the way the pagans worship their god's for it is an abomination unto God. He even warns us that the those people who worship their gods in those ways will be burnt in the fire.
Here is my question...
If Easter and Christmas were pagan holidays, should we worship Christ on those days? (No way was Christ born on the 25th, or died Easter Sunday...
December 25th being the day they worship their sun god's. And on Easter where they would sacrifice children and die eggs in the baby's blood, because Ishtar/Easter was Nimrods wife who was the god of fertility was reincarnated and when she came back down from the moon she came in a egg, To proclaim divinity she turned a bird into a rabbit that lays eggs. So, they would impregnate virgins on the alter of Easter and slaughter the children when they were 3 months old. And dye the eggs in the baby's blood as a remembrance of the goddess of the moon.
Tammuz was Nimrod's reincarnation name, and died in a freak hunting accident from a boar. So on Easter they would not only sacrifice children and die the egg's for the moon goddess, but they would slaughter a pig and eat it for the sun god on Easter.
Furthermore they would deny themselves 40 days of pleasure each year around the time of Easter so the sun god could have pleasure in the after life. Nearly identical to lent.
Ishtar/Easter Nimrod's wife said that she saw a tree appear when her husband/son ascended into heaven. And every year he would return to give presents under it...
Chemosh/Molech god of prosperity, his people had a tradition on December 25th that they would get a statue of him with a phrygian cap, red hot with a fire, and the people would make a list of their desires and then set a child on his lap so the desire would be fulfilled.
Zeus/Jupiter on December 25th a Greek general Antiochus Epiphanies set a statue of that god on the Temple Mount and sacrificed a pig on the Alter of God and declared Jupiter god over God.
Ra and Artis, both castrated themselves so worshipers would hang gold and silver balls in honor of them from palm tree's.
Do you think it would be pleasing unto God if I were to celebrate Christmas, even if I have a good intention? I know this is a very anti dramatic question after all of that... But I don't think that the answer lies around "BUT CHRISTMAS MEANS THIS TOO ME" If this were true then Deut 12:28-32 would be false...
