Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way......Opps....wrong season. As we enter the spring season of the year, the lid comes off the box for pagan traditions being marketed as what every Christian should be engaged in....phooey! The Bible is clear, there is a God who created all things, Jesus Christ is that God who died for the sins of all mankind, was buried and rose again the third day, and of course the Bible is the very Word of God. At the same time, all the engagement in pagan, worldly, mysticism, and just down right fairytale activities makes Christianity hard to be taken seriously. Who's fault is it? Do you have a mirror nearby? It could be you are taking part. Let's look at some examples.
Mardi Gras...which is French for gross or fat Tuesday. In New Orleans where the carnival is celebrated nearly 1700 people were arrested for public intoxication, nudity, disorderly conduct and other illegal activities. The day is set forth to sin to your hearts content because the next day is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent.
The Mardi Gras carnival is the celebration of the abstinence from eating meat. The word carnival literally means "goodbye to meat". Therefore, the eating of fish for the 40 days of Lent. Did you notice all of the fast food joints advertising fish sandwiches lately? Since the word "Lent" does not appear in the Bible, it is clearly a pagan tradition which gives the word meaning. The Bible (KJV) speaks to this in 1st Timothy 4.....
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Enter Tammuz. The pagan god of the sun, lived for forty years. When he died, those that were his followers mourned one day for every year he had lived. Are you getting where "Lent" originated from? This mourning for Tammuz evolved into a season of abstinence and penance during the spring season at the time of Tammuz's demise.
How did this pagan sun god die? He was gored to death by the killer pig, a wild boar, you know, the mean ugly ones with the tusks. How did Tammuz followers get revenge? They killed the pig, hence the tradition of Easter ham is born. I didn't think Jews ate ham so clearly eating ham evolved from a pagan tradition. What are the grocery stores in your area promoting in the meat department lately? What will be on your dinner table on the 14th of April? Why?
Here comes Peter Cottontail, running down the bunny trail....Eggs, bunnies, rabbits with eggs, all that junk are all springtime sex symbols. Could this be why Hugh Heffner chose the bunny as the symbol and name for his magazine and trade in the marketing of female sex objects? One plus one still equals two. The sex goddess, Astarte, was honored in the spring season with fertility rites. Her name evolved into Eostre and eventually, Easter. Can anyone please tell me how all of this pagan trash displays Bible believing Christianity? Does all this hogwash make our job easier or harder to convince the gainsayer when it is so obvious none of this modern marketing techniques of warmed over pagan traditions are not even in the same ballpark pertaining to the resurrection of Jesus Christ for our justification?
Good Friday is another case along with the traditional "sunrise services" being observed at so many churches around the world. Have you ever done the math from Friday to Sunday? Is it me or is it just impossible to fit 3 days and 3 nights into that time frame? Jesus declared it to be 3 days and 3 nights in Mathew 12....
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
I am going to stick with the Biblical account. It was 3 days, 3 nights, not as second more nor a second less. In John chapter 20....
John 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
Since it was yet dark and Christ had already risen, cleary the sunrise services are another Christianization of pagan worship of the sun god Tammuz. The job of presenting Christianity in it's pure Biblical sense becomes more difficult when the Christian community is jumping head first into the sea of pagan traditionalism. There is no time of the year more than the spring season in which Christians seem to check their brains at the door and run with the course of this world following the traditions which make the Word of God of none effect.
Hippidy hop hop....Hippidy hop hop.....Hippidy hop hop.......
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