ANSWERING TWISTED REASONING : AS CHRISTIANS IS IT FAITH OR FEAR TO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE AND CELEBRATE PAGAN FESTIVALS ?

The following is a comment that was made by a Face book friend to a post that addressed the Paganism of Easter.

"You base your faith on fear ??

Every thing you see is pagan. .names..days ..months seasons holidays??Your God is not bigger than all those things ??"

A BIBLE STUDY ANSWER TO TWISTED REASONING

First of all what is faith, please open your bible to understand this important doctrine.

THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITH

AND WHAT FAITH IS NOT

1. Without Faith it is impossible to please God. Heb. 11:6

2. What is not of Faith is sin. Rom. 14:23.

3. The just lives by Faith. Rom. 1:17; Heb. 10:38.

4. Faith is not believing, the devils also believes. Jam. 2:19.

5. All men have not Faith, but all men have been believing. 2 Thess. 3:2.

6. The Faith we are saved by is not our believing but Jesus’ Faith. Jam. 2:1; Rev. 14:12.

7. This Faith is not human believing, it is a gift of the Spirit. Gal. 5:22.

8. This Faith comes by hearing (understanding), but everyone has the ability to believe. Rom. 10:17.

9. Believing and Faith are separated, the Faith being presented as Jesus’ Faith. Gal. 2:16; Rom. 3:22.

FAITH IS OF JESUS CHRIST PT. 2

1. Faith is the revealed Truths of God. 1 Tim. 4:6.

2. The revealed Truths of God’s Love was in Abraham’s mind when he went to a new land he did not see. Heb. 11:8-10.

3. The Faith Abraham had was the Truths about the death and resurrection of Jesus, that caused him to offer up his son to God. Heb. 11:17-19.

4. Paul kept the Faith (not kept the believing). 2 Tim. 4:7.

5. The faith (revealed Truths) once delivered to the Saints. Jude. 3.

6. Faith is the Gospel. Phil. 1:27.

7. You can preach the Faith, but not preach believing. Gal. 1:23.

Now we can understand that the “just shall live by faith” which is the same as the just lives by “every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.” And what is not of faith is sin. So to think, speak and do the any thing that God did not revealed is sin.

And let us see what God has to say about celebrating the way for the heathen. The voice of the word of God is revealed truths of God. or faith.

Lev 20:23-24

23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Deut 12:30-31

30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

31 Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods

KJV

Ezek 20:32

32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone

KJV

Jer 10:2-9

2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

The truths of Christ is about sinfreeness, false religion have a wrong Idea of faith, which makes one think that they are save in disobedience. My fiends please take time to understand what is faith that your life will be pleasing to God.