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Originally Posted by Esaias
Wasn't aware new year's was a pagan holy day? It's a secular holiday. Every culture with a calendar had a new year's day.
We don't pay any attention to it except to keep up with the civil calendar.
Churches that do communion only on new year's eve ... well, they have their own religion it seems. The Lord's Supper ought to be often, but if you're gonna only do it annually seems like Passover would be the preferred time. New year's has no connection with the bible whatsoever.
But I have given up trying to understand "why" so many churches do what they do...
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Mesopotamia (Iraq) created the concept of new year celebration 2000 BC.
[3][4] The Romans dedicated New Year's Day to
Janus, the god of gates, doors, and beginnings for whom the first month of the year (
January) is also named. After
Julius Caesar reformed the calendar in 46 BC and was subsequently murdered, the Roman Senate voted to deify him on the 1st January 42 BC
[5] in honor of his life and his institution of the new rationalized calendar.
[6] The month originally owes its name to the deity Janus, who had two faces, one looking forward and the other looking backward. This suggests that New Year's celebrations are founded on pagan traditions. Some have suggested this occurred in
153 BC, when it was stipulated that the two annual
consuls (after whose names the years were identified) entered into office on that day, though no consensus exists on the matter.
[7] Dates in March, coinciding with the
spring equinox, or commemorating the
Annunciation of
Jesus, along with a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the
Middle Ages, though calendars often continued to display the months in columns running from January to December
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day
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