Easter: The Holiday of the Pagans

I do not celebrate "Easter" as so many "Christians" do. They have been given a strong dilution to believe this holiday was given by God, it was not. It is a man-made holiday instituted by the Catholic church to inculcate into the church some paganism to draw in the pagans.

You can take anything you like, attach a Christian meaning to it but if it was not commanded by Christ it remains pagan in spite of tacking on a Christian theme to that which comes out of paganism.

Here is what God says:

Mark 7:13-14 "13 Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.” 14 Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:…"

By attaching pagan practices to Christ we do not have a Christianized pagan holiday we just have blasphemy, assigning to Christ what belongs to the pagans.

Many years ago as a Catholic I was into all these holidays believing they honored God. When I became a born-again believer on fire for Christ, He opened my eyes to the origins of all these holidays and gave me a disdain for them.

If every believer would just search the scriptures while asking the Holy Spirit for wisdom they would see that God never commanded or endorsed any of these man-made "Christianized pagan" holidays. They were the devil's trick to distract "religious" people from Christ. Many religious people pride themselves in their practices as though doing these rituals makes them special in some way, it appeals to the flesh.

Notice how so many people show up at church gatherings on these holidays while ignoring Christ the rest of the year? That is because they are "feel good" holidays that relieve the conscience. Many unsaved people gain a sense of safety and happiness from doing what is worthless to God.

I grew up with these traditions, the dress-up clothes, the coloring of eggs, the special services every year, but in the home, there was no mention of Christ and a lot of pride that led to mean-spirited words and actions regularly. There was no fruit of the Spirit in the home, only traditions that caused a lot of stress.

God said you shall know them by their fruit.

What is the fruit? Here it is, the very character qualities of Christ that dwell in every born-again believer.

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things, there is no law.

When these character qualities are missing there will not be continual bad manners, snide, and mean-spirited remarks. In fact, there will be kindness, concern for others, respect for them as though they have value. There will not be raging in a discussion or intimidation to control others. If we were to ponder each quality we would see how love is present in every one of them. Even when there is corrective instruction there is no sense of superiority or intimidation from the one correcting, there is gentle with kindness to help. Those who rage, using intimidation and mocking have no love. Even worse when they are told they are acting badly they will further rage as well as blame their target for daring to show them their fault.

This prideful stance is proof the one doing this is not walking in the Holy Spirit. If this happens continually as a way of life then we can presume this person is not born again no matter what they say. The solution is to not engage with them and pray for their salvation.

You see, many people who love these pagan practices with Christ's name tacked on, are walking in the flesh, full of self-exaltation without the fruit of the Spirit. Yes, there may be some kind people who are not born again who love these holidays, but these people still need to become born again.

If it is difficult to remove the holiday from your life at least call it "Resurrection Day" and stop indulging in the pagan practices that honor the goddess Eostre. Leave behind all that is associated with this paganism and make it all about Christ. Soon after making this choice, you will notice you have grown a hatred for what dishonors God. You will have no need for any of it and even more at peace than you were when you enjoyed the rituals.

Just something to pray about, how much do we love Christ more than our traditions?

Mark 7:7-9 "…7 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ 8 You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.” 9 He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.…"

Yes, it's true, we can worship God in vain without His blessing by adding paganism to our worship.

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Our Anger is Our Problem

We do not cause someone else's anger, anyone who rages at the drop of a hat has underlying anger all the time waiting for a false excuse to emerge.

The narcissist who rages wants us to believe we are all bad merely for questioning them or disagreeing with them. They perceive a disagreement as hatred, this is why we have so many crazy ragers in demonstrations now, they don't even know why they are demonstrating and breaking the things of others.

If the narcissist cannot attack "what you said", they will pretend it was the "way" you said it. They are liars frequently, they count on us not remembering how we sounded or play upon our sense of desire to be kind people and accuse us of what did not happen.

I have experienced this on a number of occasions in my life with narcissistic family members. The mean-spirited person insults us over the style of our hair or some silly unimportant thing, we say, "that was mean" and the entire room comes against us for making the rude person feel bad by calling their actions mean.

This is the sort of culture we are living in right now because of the false teaching that we should be understanding and give a pass to mean people who may have been hurt sometimes in their life in the past. But wait a minute.....That mean person just hurt someone else but they get a pass, why are they not chastised for doing a mean thing. So what if they were hurt before in the past, why does this give them license to do to others unrelated to the past, unkind things that were done to them?

By the way, the people I know who have been mean spirited and arrogant didn't have bad things happen to them in the past that would cause lifelong trauma, just the opposite, almost all of them were indulged as children, having tantrums when they wanted something while the parents bent over backward to quiet them by giving them what they wanted. In fact, the process of giving the blackmailing children what they wanted cast in stone their belief that all they had to do was rage at someone, and others would bow to them.

Yes, I said that; "it is emotional blackmail for the children to demand something, have a tantrum if they don't get it so that every time they demand something the parents know there will be misery if they don't jump to the child's demand. The parents who jump to the child's demands are training their children how to rage and demand from everyone, not just them. These are the narcissists of today. Of course, not all children who are indulged turn out this way but most do, the very reason we have so many selfish young adults and middle-aged children today.

This is a lesson to those who are raising children right now, also for those who are finished raising children and have indulged their children to understand what is happening and repent from former failures. It is also for those who did the best they could and in their human frailties were not perfect but their children chose their own way in spite of their stable family structure.

Only the parents can decide which way they raised their children. No one else can judge another person's family dynamics. The key is that we see what has happened and correct it as far as we are able while warning others with our many years of wisdom.

This life is not about doing things perfectly, it is about learning from our mistakes and sins that allow us to grow in wisdom and holiness.

God never excuses bad behavior based on the bad things that have happened to them. We can choose kindness and the other character qualities of Christ through the power of Christ by becoming born again.

It is only the devil who wants to give us excuses for our bad behavior and attitudes, this keeps us from changing into better people. The more we excuse our actions the more hardened we become.

Let the Holy Spirit soften our hearts through confession of sin to be cleansed by Him.

1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Romans 6:23

"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

No excuses for sin, sin is death, we must decide if we want to be cleansed or remain stubborn.

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