'The very name of the tradition of Easter comes from the pagan Astarte.
To the point.
Consider the scriptures that clearly proclaim that the keeping up of these festivals is sinful.
Checking on the origins of these festivals will reveal the truth of paganism.
However, I ask that you seek this out for yourself. God?s people always seek the truth. Consider these scriptures:
Jeremiah 10:1-5 1 ¶ HEAR ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
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.
First of all, God is telling us in this verse "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles" Don't even learn it, let alone practice it!
The Gentiles were dismayed at the signs of heaven. When the sun began to go further away from the earth and the days grew shorter in the winter, the sun worshipping Gentiles feared that the sun would not return. So they held certain festivals around the time of the Winter Solstice when it did begin to return. One of the customs was to decorate a tree that they had cut down and fasten it so that would not topple.
God tells us not to learn the way of the heathen. And here He even describes a custom that is a way of the heathen. Yet, we see this same custom exist even today which is called the Christmas tree.
Have you ever wondered why in the world someone would do something as strange as cut down a tree and put it in their house and then decorate it with all different types of ornaments?
Not only is it odd, it is pagan. This custom, along with other pagan customs like it are clearly condemned in this passage.'
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