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Originally Posted by Ohio
Because you condemn the entire household of faith for what was done thousands of years ago.
Because Christians celebrate Christmas differently than the Gentiles. They worship the Lord and focus on their family.
Because the scripture gives us the liberty to celebrate that day to the Lord. You have definitely torn Romans 14 out of your Bible.
What if your great-great-grandmother's fourth cousin twice removed worshiped Mary, and then I went around condemning you and all your relatives for being pagan idolaters? That's kind of what you are doing to my Christian family.
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Christmas, is like taking a copy of the Quran, decorating it with pretty adornments and saying it reminds us of the Bible. That's what Emperor Constantine did when he merged paganism with Christianity.
Romans 14 was about Jewish converts to Christianity who felt the need to continue their traditions (including the Sabbath) .They had biblical instructions to do so and these came from God in the first place.
Romans 14 does not, however, give a person a license to celebrate any old false religion day however they want. Take any idol, decorate it up and call it "worshiping God", without any instruction in the Old or New testament to do so.