Does it not at least bother you that we don’t have a problem following ancient pagan customs, names for days and weeks and months, but we just don’t seem to think it’s important to follow the things that God wants us to do?
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These last two weeks, we’ve been doing a lot of Why We Do What We Do videos and broadcasts, and this is Bob Barney with The Plain Truth Today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com.
It is very important that we understand the traditions that we follow and the things that we do and why we do what we do. It doesn’t mean that we can’t continue doing things that maybe came from pagan sources because it seems like, if you’ve been following along with these broadcasts and these videos we’ve been putting up, that most everything in our life has to do with paganism.
But then I have to ask this question. If you are, and this is for people who say they are true believers in Jesus Christ as our Savior and God the Father, and they believe in Christianity, I have a question for you. Do you not find it compelling? Do you not find it a problem that so many customs that we follow have pagan origins, yet we don’t seem to be able to follow the traditions and the will and wants of our Creator God? After all it is He who gives us holidays to follow, gives us holy times to follow and gives us things that we should keep in mind.
We name the days of the week after pagan gods. We name the months of the year after pagan gods, with some exceptions. I understand that we’re following a Gregorian calendar, which is pagan-based, and we are following weekly days, and it would be hard to change Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. It would be hard in our modern society.
I’m not saying we have to change the names. I am asking you this question.
Does it not at least bother you that we don’t have a problem following ancient pagan customs, names for days and weeks and months, but we just don’t seem to think it’s important to follow the things that God wants us to do?
Like the Ten Commandments, one of which, of course, is the Sabbath day. Any good study of the Sabbath day, and you’re going to come to the conclusion and the fact that the Sabbath day is what we call Saturday, and it is not Sunday. It never has been and never will be. We would understand that Christ didn’t even rise from the dead on a Sunday. He rose from the dead on a Saturday, which does make sense, because that is the Lord’s Day.
It just seems to me, and this happened to me a long time ago when I was studying the Bible when I was a non-believer, and I was trying to disprove the Bible, it just seemed to me strange that we do customs that seem to be the exact opposite of what God wants us to do.
Let’s take Easter, for example. Easter, which is a pagan holiday, and it’s even named after the Norse goddess Astarte, or Easter, I should say, from the Babylonian Astarte. But let’s say, for example, we’re going to follow Easter dinner. Isn’t it amazing that the traditional Easter dinner is an Easter ham dinner, and yet ham, pork, of all sorts, are condemned by God in our diet? God makes it clear that we’re not to eat pork, we’re not to eat shellfish, we’re not to eat any fish that does not have scales and fins in general.
It just seems to me, and it seemed to me back then even when I was trying to understand everything, that why is it that we do what we do? Why do we seem to not want to ever follow after God? Well, if you read the Bible thoroughly enough, especially the Old Testament and the prophecies of the Old Testament, you’ll find God has a problem with this too. God has a problem that we just seem to be able to follow pagan, satanic days, but we are unable to follow the will of God and do the things He wants us to do.
So now we’re approaching another pagan holiday, which is New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. It happens every year, and the ball drops, and there’s probably some pagan source to that too, you know, in Times Square. Again, the calendar, the idea that the first month of the new year would start in the dead of winter just doesn’t make sense. It didn’t make sense to me back in when I was not even understanding the Bible.
When do you think the day begins? Well, the day begins for most people when they wake up in the morning as the sun’s coming up, and that is when it begins according to God. Let’s talk the beginning of the year. When do you think, if you were to plan when a year should begin, wouldn’t you think the year should begin in the springtime? In the springtime when all life begins, and all the trees come back and flowers begin to grow again and leaves sprout again and animals are born…when people tend to get married in the springtime? That’s actually a pagan tradition, by the way. It just seems to me, again, that our calendar, the first day of the year, at least we should acknowledge that God says the day begins in the morning and the year begins on the first day of spring, which is the spring equinox, and that, for example, Passover must always be in the spring, and it’s the 14th day of the first month.
It just always has bothered me, and it bothers me to this day. The more I learn to trust my God and the more I learn to love God; it bothers me that we do not take the time to do the things that God wants us to do. Instead, we do the things that it seems like Satan wants us to do, and we wonder why things go wrong in our lives, in the lives of people of different countries and everything. Maybe if people would only try to align themselves a little closer to God’s word, not God’s alleged traditions brought to you by paganized Christian churches, but actually honor and participate in what’s in God’s holy Bible, if we tried to live that life, just maybe, just possibly, we would find ourselves a little closer to God and a lot more blessed by God.
Just think about that. That’s my thought for the day, and it’s my two cents worth, I guess you could say, but this is Bob Barney for theplaintruthtoday.com. You can get there, just go to theplaintruthtoday.com, brought to you by theplaintruth.com, and you can get to all our other websites from theplaintruth.com, the Your Health Today, the Message Board, and these broadcasts. Until tomorrow, Bob Barney saying, thank you for listening. I appreciate you. Bye-bye.