Fun info for all-- Hmmm--- Christmas and Easter originally did not use eggs and bunnies nor trees, socks, ornaments...well you get the idea. Every time the holidays come around we go through the same arguments pro or con. OK, don't flip out, there's a point here and this really is meant to be a lighthearted look at ourselves...so stay calm. =o]
So if you don't put up a tree or hunt for eggs...well, or if you do... do you ever knock on wood? Or call Wednesday, "Wednesday." Or what about Thursday and Friday...how 'bout Tuesday- do you use these days of the week and call them by their names?
If so, you should know that Wednesday is actually Woden's Day or Odin's Day which is the name for a Germanic mythical Zeus-type god. Thursday is actually Thor's Day (the Nors mythical god of thunder, lighting, and farming), Tuesday and Friday are named after minor goddesses, and each time you "knock on wood" you ought to know that it is an old pagan gesture meant to call forth spirits from within the wood.
Now- what's the point? We live in a time when what we choose to do is determined by the depth of our character and that is reliant upon the condition of our soul. When you've hung socks, put up a tree, knocked on wood or made plans to meet a friend on Wednesday...you did so in the simple earnestness of heart and were not giving voice nor reason to the ways and traditions from thousands of years ago.
Some may argue that sin simply rolls forward because it does not know time...and this is true. Therefore, they argue,if we initiate putting up socks or giving an Easter basket we participate in pagan worship and ritual. So then why should we continue to use of days of the week- lest we give support to a pagan ideology? Should we then separate ourselves, to prove that we support Biblical foundational truths? I believe foundational truths are the backbone of God's church, but I ask you-- when is the last time you read your Bible in Latin? You don't? So, to be walking uprightly, should we all return to reading the Bible in its original language? Who is the decider of what can be used for God's glory and what can be used to oppose His glory?
The truth is that we no longer read the Bible in Latin, just like Christians do not observe the same lifestyles from ancient times or the medieval church centuries ago because time and cultures have changed...and I for one say, "Thank God they have!" However, God's and His Word never change! What we must do is align all parts of our lives with God's word-- undiluted and without a price tag...let everything we do and say give glory to God alone.
Ok, that's my prattling for today-- over and out.
