Are Birthday Celebrations Pagan
 

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Re: Are Birthday Celebrations Pagan
 

I don't have the answer but I did find two birthdays in the bible

Genesis 40:20-22
Matthew 14:6-10

Re: Are Birthday Celebrations Pagan
 

Some have claimed they are wrong.

Re: Are Birthday Celebrations Pagan
 

I have not found any Scriptural prohibition against having a feast on your birthday. The Rregulative Principle of worship applies to worship, liturgics, morals, ethics, etc. I do not see it applying or governing (in a strict sense) things like whether or not to have birthday celebration or school graduation or marriage anniversary or other such things. I could be wrong, but that's where I'm at, at this point.

Re: Are Birthday Celebrations Pagan
 

Using the above line of thinking, then there is nothing wrong with picking a day to celebrate the birthday of the greatest man who ever lived?

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That's called a non sequitur. Just because I havent found a Biblical injunction against celebrating birthdays does not therefore mean it is okay to designate a holy day to God that is nowhere commanded in Scripture. Besides, nobody just "picks a day", they keep the catholic holy day, Feast of the Nativity aka Christ's Mass, which is the birthday celebration of Mithra/Sol Invictus, the Unconquerable Sun, the Sun God (elsewhere known as Baal).

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i would have to ask myself but im pretty sure i dont care.

Re: Are Birthday Celebrations Pagan
 

I think we have enough RESTRICTIONS AND DON'TS in our churches without adding something else. As one sister used to say, GOOD GRIEF!!!