You would be wrong. My mother does, each Easter morning when they have a sunrise service on Sebago lake. And btw, that is taken directly from pagan lore about Beltane which was the basis for Easter in the first place. Many churches continue to have sunrise services. Please explain how you know without a shred of doubt that God could not be contained within the sun?? Or a part of it? You seem so hooked on God being flesh and blood being that it staggers the imagination to be that closed minded when the simple truth is you have no proof of any of this.
1. I did not say that a Christian (if your claiming your Mom is one) does not worship the Sun. I said Christianity does not teach sun worship. It in fact emphatically condemns it. A Christian can do all sorts of things but doing them does not make the actions consistent with Christianity. There is not one verse in the bible that even lowly interpreted would suggest anyone worship the sun. Doing so is considered a grave sin in the bible. A Christian can do anything but doing this is contradictory to the bible not consistent with it. It is not my business to judge whether a person is a Christian or not but it is easily within my capacity to point out sun worship is forbidden by the bible.
2. Easter is not nor ever was based on anything in paganism. There is no Easter in the bible. Soon after Christ died small communities celebrated his rising from death but it was only much later that any kind of universal celebration was enacted and the word Easter applied to it. It got tangled up with paganism because the Catholic authorities wanting to make the celebration more appealing to pagans played around with its date, meaning, ceremonies, etc........ However the original recognition of Christ's rising from death had nothing what so ever to do with paganism, as it took place in regions completely hostile to paganism in it's early years.
3. A sun rise service has nothing what so ever with worshiping the Sun. The word sunrise appears in that phrase because of two things. The monks that began it stayed up all night praying and then celebrated Christ's resurrection when the sun rose, and because it is believed Christ rose in the morning. Nothing to do with worshiping the sun.
4. I am concerned with God in the flesh because I am flesh and that is exactly the intent God had when he came here. He came in the flesh so we may better relate to him and he may better exhibit the standard we should follow. If he was a rock or a camel he would be less relatable and not a very good example. BTW I am not obsessed with God being flesh, I don't even know what that means exactly. I think of God as a spirit generally but I think of him as the suffering messiah as well. BTW Jesus' flesh was not God, God took on human flesh in the form of Jesus.
5. I am sure God is in the sun because he is omnipresent. But not only does it make no since to worship God by worshiping a ball of gas that will cease to exist in a few billion years, it is strictly condemned in the bible. That is idol worship and one of the least logic forms of it I can think of.
Now you might react emotionally to this since your mother is involved but I am not judging your mother. She may be twice the Christian I am, but if she worships the sun I can judge that specific act as condemned in many ways by Christianity. IN fact let me give you 1 of the many scriptures that pertain to this.
New Living Translation
They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.
