[M22291]

I just wanted to clarify that we don’t see birthdays as ‘evil’. Obviously, they are a part of life and we are very glad to be alive. However, there is no reference to either Jews or Christians celebrating their birthdays in the Bible. As mentioned above, there is specific reference to pagans celebrating birthdays. So, it was a custom for some people to celebrate, but not for God’s people. To contract this, there is mention of marriage feasts – Jesus’ first miracle was performed at a marriage celebration. Obviously, those celebrations had a place in the lives of First Century Christians. We live our lives as those early Christians did. By the same token, there is no mention in the Bible of Christ celebrating his own birthday. There is no mention of any of his followers celebrating Jesus’ birth. 1 Corinthians 11 mentions the celebration of the Lord’s Last Supper (Communion to many religions). This commemoration of Jesus’ death (and all the benefits applied to mankind) was practiced by Christians. So they did celebrate certain things. Of course, there is so much more to say about the rituals and traditions associated with Christmas. Every single tradition began as a tradition used in a pagan celebration to honor a pagan god. In each case, the church adopted these traditions to ‘win over’ pagans to the Christian way of life. The pagans were very fond of their celebrations and would not have ‘converted’ to Christianity without their festivals. God strictly warned that we aren’t to serve him using the same methods people use to worship false gods. There are a couple of older questions about this subject. Feel free to look up the answers found there.

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Name : M22291, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Jehovahs Witness, Age : 29, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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