A birthday has NOTHING to do with astrology or divination. It's a complete invention.
Where do you think the celebration of birthdays comes from? There are two mentioned in the Bible....neither were worshippers of Jehovah and at the whim of these two rulers, someone lost their life.....Herod had John the Baptist beheaded, so how would Jehovah feel about that?
The customs associated with birthday celebrations have spiritistic origins that you see no harm in.
The date was used to cast horoscopes and to divine a child’s future...you cannot celebrate a birthday and divorce it from its pagan roots. The “birthday cake” and the “wishes” associated with the original were there in the original celebration. If the Israelites were commanded NOT to imitate the ways of the nations by adopting their religious customs, then birthdays, Easter and Christmas have no place in our lives at all.
But that is for you to evaluate and to do as you wish. Once you know the truth, you can’t ‘unknow’ it. You make decisions to comply with it, or to justify retaining it. That is your choice Wrangler. What you decide to do has nothing to do with me. That now becomes something between you and Jehovah. So you can stop yelling at me.....
This is why when I ask where does the Bible prohibit birthday celebrating, you falsely connect it to astrology and divination.
Just because birthday's have an origin in a different culture does not mean they have the same meaning in our culture. And I have explained that several times.
If God’s command was not to imitate the pagans in their beliefs and customs, do you think God now accepts them under a different name in a different age? You have been informed of the origins of these things yet here you are valiantly trying to justify them....but to whom? To me?...to Jehovah?....or to yourself?
You can’t change the truth by disbelieving it.....and you can’t make something abhorrent to God into something he loves by merely changing the name. A Roman emperor did that centuries ago in order to make “Christianity” attractive to his subjects. He could not unite his religiously divided empire, so he fused the worship of both and called it “Christianity”....now all would be united in worship as this became the state religion of the empire. The “weeds” of Jesus parable were firmly planted, and they are still polluting the world today, as the rebellious daughters of Rome broke away and spread their poison into every corner of the globe. This is why “few” are on the road to life......and “many” are on the road to death. (Matthew 7:13-14)
By our choices, we will be found in only one of two camps......”wheat or weeds”....”sheep or goats”...on “the road to life”...or “the road to destruction”. That’s how God sees us....as either one or the other. So it doesn’t matter how we see ourselves because God will not interfere with our free willed choices. He allows us to decide which camp we belong in....and we will not know until the judgment comes, if we have made the right choices.
Again, you are falsely equating celebrating someone's birthday with worship. It is no kind of worship, whatsoever.
That is because the celebration was originally rooted in false worship....you cannot separate it from its pagan origins unless you stop doing it and celebrate something unique....something that wasn’t adopted like a homeless puppy centuries ago. What do you love about the things you celebrate? Are they things that you can only do because a date on a calendar dictates that you must? Seriously, step back and look at what happens to the world at these times of year.....the ‘sheeples’ are all led to sacrifice on the alter of greed, and the commercial world always keeps the treadmill running because they no sooner have one celebration over than the fleecing of the masses begins all over again......it’s one continual commercial greedfest.
I chose to divorce myself from these things decades ago, but it doesn’t mean that I can’t engage in all the things you love about these occasions that are not in themselves wrong....giving gifts, having a good meal with family and friends, bringing people together to celebrate a wedding or an engagement or an anniversary is not wrong in itself. We just don’t need pagan celebration under another name to do that.
Our kids can have parties where no one is the special one...they are all special.
Can you not see the slavery?
I have not ignored your false proclamations but blasted them out of the water, leaving them completely annihilated.
In your mind you may have done that, but don’t speak for others Wrangler.....your opinion is your opinion.
God knows what is right with him...and what is not. We seek to please Jehovah in these things because Jesus told us that the one “faithful in what is least, will be faithful also in much” (Luke 16:10)
I mentioned before the man who tried to save the arc of the covenant...and the man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath...both were struck down because they disobeyed God. Why? Was what they did so terribly wrong? Obviously they didn’t think so.....why did God think so?
Answer the simple question of what year it is, THEN I'll explain. LOL
It is very obviously a baited question......so I am wary of traps set by those who have an agenda.
It is self-evident. That is why you refuse to answer the question of what year is it. Everyone reading this grasps it is not cryptic at all that the year is a celebration of a specific event, an event you pretend celebrating is evil, a sin with no Scriptural support whatsoever! JW's have lost all credibility over this issue, the hill you've proverbially died on. JW may be Christian but they are spurious also.
Ah, now we are getting somewhere.....did the Jews celebrate a new year? Did the first Christians operate by the calendar that we use today? Counting time in today’s world is based upon the year that Jesus is supposed to have been born...but since that date is not recorded in God’s word, we really don’t know the precise date or even the year.....
Do you know where the name of the first month of the year comes from? January is named after Janus, the god of beginnings and endings and of gates and doors.....so even your new year celebrations are rooted in paganism. It’s a mire of the devil’s making.....he turns what is repulsive to God and decorates it with pretty things and people go...”aaaawe...isn’t it nice?” But scrape off the veneer and it’s all very disgusting to a God who tells us what he thinks of false worship and it’s trappings.
Did Jesus command that a new era be be celebrated yearly to commemorate his birth? Are you serious? Jesus was Jewish and would have lived by the Jewish calendar.......that has little to do with a calendar instituted by a Catholic Pope who retained the name of pagan gods to identify the days of the week and the months of the year.....you have got to be joking!
The Jews did not have days of the week, but called their months by name and the day by number.
Jesus did not institute a single celebration that you hold dear. Apparently that is something you do not want to hear? But it’s your choice Wrangler, and yours to make as your heart dictates....can you trust it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
I trust the Bible because it gives us commands and principles so that we can evaluate things as God does.....justification only works on the one justifying......and if others join in with the justification, what is abhorrent to God then becomes something that is widely and collectively acceptable to the masses.....is there safety in numbers? The devil want us to believe that.