Chris' Christian Blog

January 7, 2018

"January 7, 2018" 

"It's one week into January...what do you make of people who still have their Christmas decorations up?"

I live in the West Virginia Veteran's Home, an assisted living facility in Barboursville WV, USA. The Christmas decorations are still up here though they are slowly coming down. Personally I could not care less if they never put Christmas decorations up. Christmas decorations, particularly Santa Claus decorations, are for children. I could go into an entire tirade about how Christmas is not a Biblically authorized holiday anyway but it would do no good. Besides even Jesus celebrated Jewish religious holidays that were not part of the Jewish Law, so if our Master can celebrate unauthorized holidays I guess I can.(Jesus celebrated the Feast of Kislev or Hannakak, which is a feast in honor of the purification of the temple by the Maccabees. It was not a holiday authorized by the Jewish Law. So if Jesus can celebrate a religious holiday not authorized by the Old Testament, I can celebrate one not authorized by the New Testament. The difference is that the one He celebrated was to celebrate a landmark in Jewish history and was steeped in religious meaning. The celebration we have is steeped in pagan culture and has pagan roots that we gave a Christian meaning. However I won't bother to argue that point because it would be useless to do so.