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I had someone tell me yesterday that since the biblical new years doesn't start until the spring, that New Years Eve Celebrations Dec 31 has ties to paganism. While I Know we are on a different calendar that was was originally around, how can going to church for a watch night service have anything to do with paganism?
If you are not getting drunk, participating in lewd behavior, or having wild relations with strangers, how can bringing in the New Years on the current calendar we have possibly have any ties to paganism?
Means that New Years Eve will be the end of the year 2013 Anno Domini or A.D. or year of the Lord or year of the dominion of the Lord , to the next year of 2014 A.D. or year of the Lord , see Jesus was traditionally born of the first year of the calendar 0 A.D. , and that is indeed not Pagan
I had someone tell me yesterday that since the biblical new years doesn't start until the spring, that New Years Eve Celebrations Dec 31 has ties to paganism. While I Know we are on a different calendar that was was originally around, how can going to church for a watch night service have anything to do with paganism?
If you are not getting drunk, participating in lewd behavior, or having wild relations with strangers, how can bringing in the New Years on the current calendar we have possibly have any ties to paganism?
If you are a Jew, Christian, or Muslim you are not a Pagan. Let it go and breath easy.
pa·gan [pey-guhn] Show IPA
noun
1.
one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks. Synonyms: polytheist.
2.
a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim. Synonyms: heathen, gentile; idolator; nonbeliever.
3.
an irreligious or hedonistic person.
4.
a person deemed savage or uncivilized and morally deficient.
I had someone tell me yesterday that since the biblical new years doesn't start until the spring, that New Years Eve Celebrations Dec 31 has ties to paganism. While I Know we are on a different calendar that was was originally around, how can going to church for a watch night service have anything to do with paganism?
If you are not getting drunk, participating in lewd behavior, or having wild relations with strangers, how can bringing in the New Years on the current calendar we have possibly have any ties to paganism?
There is no correlation. At least not in the minds of reasonable people.
From what I read in the Watchtower,Jesus didn't command his followers to celebrate New Years; also,New Years Eve was made a holiday because it replaced the honoring of Janus,an old Roman god.
In other words,some early Christians still wanted the celebrations they practiced while still pagan ,but once they turned Christian,they still needed something to celebrate
From what I read in the Watchtower,Jesus didn't command his followers to celebrate New Years; also,New Years Eve was made a holiday because it replaced the honoring of Janus,an old Roman god.
In other words,some early Christians still wanted the celebrations they practiced while still pagan ,but once they turned Christian,they still needed something to celebrate
If it's in the Watchtower, it's gotta be true!
Jesus never said anything about the Fourth of July, President's day or Thanksgiving. Are these Pagan holidays?
You celebrate Christmas and that is a pagan holiday and all Christmas decorations are pagan.
So why worry about New Year's Eve?
First-century Christians did Not celebrate Christmas. Only non-Jews celebrated a person's birth.
Not Scripture, but Julius Caesar established January 1st as New Year's Day, the day the Romans dedicated to Janus the false god of gates, doors, and beginnings.
Romans 13 v 13 counsels to stay away from the behavior associated with New Year's celebrations.
Let us walk decently as in the daytime, not in wild parties [ revelries/ shameful conduct ] and drunkenness, not in immoral conduct and brazen conduct, not in strife and jealousy.
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