If I know Jesus Christ and celebrate a heathen holiday am I no different than the person who goes out and commits adultery?

James 2:10 says: For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

A sinner is a sinner whether it's murder or a little white lie. Both result in death to the sinner. God is interested in reconciliation no matter what sins or how many sins we've committed.

That said, the believer has the Holy Spirit dwelling in him or her (Ephesians 1:13-14, 2 Corinthians 1:21-22). The believer may or may not know of the pagan origins of the Christmas and Easter dates and that knowledge is irrelevant to worshiping the birth and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. But when a believer actually celebrates these pagan holidays, their redemption then becomes suspect.

So while a sinner is a sinner is a sinner, there is a vast difference between a saved and an unsaved sinner.

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1 Corinhians 10:20-21 points out one cannot partake of the cup and sit at he table of both the demons and of Jehovah God .Meaning it is not acceptable to combine pagan holidays and the pure worship of Almighty God.

Then there is 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 where Jehovah God makes it clear by several examples that there can be no pagan practices. So you are correct in your details.f de.ons, paganism or any unclean practices of those and expect God to accept them into his favor and Kingdom. Verse 17 makes it clear by saying, "Separate yourselves from the unclean thing and I will take you in."

The only observance we were commanded to keep was Christ's death, not resurrection. This is shown at 1 Corinthians 11: 20-34 how it to be done. We know exactly when to do it n Nisan 14th of the Jewish lunar calender. This took the place of Passover. So it s to be done yearly. Every holiday currently celebrated comes from again religious rites.

Jesus celebrated Passover and other Jewish holy days. Do you not think that some of those holy days fell on days celebrated by the heathen? If Jesus didn't mind, we shouldn't mind.

Don't you like to surprise your loved ones with birthday celebration? No difference with my Dad God Jesus.

You are wrong about the other celebrations. There are 7 Feasts of the LORD.

The first 4 Feasts (Appointment with God) of the LORD include Easter. They are His death (without death people would not believe that He would rose again, wouldn't we), burial (of His old body to be replaced with the resurrection body), resurrection (Yea ... He defeated death), and Pentecost corresponding to the OT Feasts of Pesach, Chag Hamotzi, Yom Habikkurim, and Shavuot).

The Orthodox call Easter Pascha. There is nothing heathen about it.

You are totally different.

No educated person in this day & age uses the words heathen or sinner.

Christmas (the Mass of Christ) and Easter are not Pagan holidays.

The English word "Easter" relates to the name of the month in which the Holy Day was celebrated in ancient England, a month which may have been named after a Pagan goddess of spring.

The great feast of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was celebrated long before the unchristian English word "Easter" was first used. And the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is directly related to the Jewish feast of Passover going back to about 3,000 B.C.E.

Most other languages use the Jewish/Christian word for "Passover" for the great celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ that English speakers call "Easter."

The Greek term for "Passover" is Páskha. It is the Aramaic form of the Hebrew pesach (meaning passover). Other languages:

Afrikaans: Paasfees

Albanian: Pashkët

Breton: Pask Seder

Catalan: Pasqua

Chamorro: Pasgua

Cornish: Pask

Danish: Påske or Paaske

Dutch: Pasen or Paschen

Esperanto: Paskon

Finnish: Pääsiäistä

French: Pâques

Galician: Pascuas

Icelandic: Páska

Indonesian: Paskah

Italian: Pasqua

Jèrriais: Pâques

Latin: Pascha

Norwegian: Påske

Portuguese: Páscoa

Russian: Pascha

Scottish: Pask

Sicilian: Pasqua

Spanish: Pascuas

Swahili: Pasaka

Swedish: Påsk

Welsh: Pasg

Even in the German provinces of the Lower Rhine where the Teutonic goddess Estre had its origins, the people call the feast Paisken not Ostern.

The popular observance of Easter has incorporated a couple of pagan symbols of fertility in rabbits and eggs but they have nothing to do with the actual celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. If some Christians want to do away with Easter bunnies and Easter eggs then I have no problem with that but do not throw Jesus Christ out with them.

With love in Christ.

He was an observant and practising Jew and celebrated the high holy days.