This topic is very controversial in the Christian community.
Some say it is fine if you are celebrating it for the right reasons. Others say you should not be celebrating it at all, or any other pagan holiday for that matter.
Ultimately, the decision is yours and should be discussed between you and your family.
Some Christians have a hard time with holidays in general because they are pagan, and they stem from those roots.
The Christmas tree, for example, is not Christian or even Hebrew at all. It stems from the pagan tradition of celebrating the forest and reminding them of spring to come. Some will say that the tree symbolizes the trinity or Christ and a new life, but nowhere in the Bible does it mention such things.
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”(Colossians 2:8)
Some say, the true tradition and true holidays we should be celebrating as Christians are the traditional feasts.
Some of the feasts Yeshua/Jesus celebrated:
- Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
- Feast of First Fruits
- Pentecost
- Feast of Trumpets
- Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
- Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
- Hanukkah
- the Sabbath
Do I think you will go to hell if you continue to celebrate the pagan holidays?
NO.
Did I celebrate Christmas this year?
YES.
Am I going to celebrate Christmas next year?
IDK.
Above all, do what Jesus would do. It’s that simple.
Whatever you decide, should be between you and God with a clean conscience.
“Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
(1 Corinthians 5:8)
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