Berachiah Ben Yisrael
Active Member
The history of 12/25 as a irreligious holiday and the Christians spend billions of dollars a year worshiping their God on it as his birthday is really beyond comprehension. Most people know Jesus wasn't born in the middle of winter. Some countries have a different date than the 25th. @ least to me worshiping on a pagan holiday make you kind of pagan - doesn't it?
I'm so glad that I don't have all this to worry with any longer. I found truth in the word years ago and decided I best heed it or pay the penalty.
Deu 12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of YAH your Elohim.
Deu 12:29 When YAH your Elohim shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;
Deu 12:30 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their elohims, saying, How do these nations serve their elohims? even so will I do likewise.
Deu 12:31 You shall not do so to YAH your Elohim: for every abomination to YAH, which he hates, have they done to their elohims; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their elohims.
Deu 12:32 Whatever thing I command you, that shall you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
This is why I follow not after those man made "holidays" and follow only after that which Yah commanded. Not what I think or feel and not after such philosophical renderings as He knows what is in my heart. He gave us the instruction to follow and it is up to each of us to decide whether we make ourselves as Yah and say our own thoughts and feelings are above that of His will or to humble ourselves in due reverence unto the word and commands of Yah our Elohim.