Another Round of Paganism

TRUTH and UNDERSTANDING - An electronicSaints that comes on the heels of an ancient
magazine of realCeltic fire
knowledgeMillions, perhaps billions of people willfestival called Samhain (notice that this is a
once again runnations non
full throttle into the upcoming fall and winterHebrew pagan teaching here) now called
holidayHalloween in which
seasons of Halloween and Christmas. Many fullywe have children dressing as demons, ghosts and
acknowledgeskeletons or
that the customs of these events are deeplywe shift to Christmas and really examine through
rooted insome simple
paganism.Many take paganism as an ugly word,web research about the origin of these
but it simply meansBacchanalian or
teachings of the nations that did not know theSaturnalia type festivities.Research the origins of
Jewish orthe
Hebrew God of the Bible. An important point toYule log, tree, mistletoe, wreaths, greenery,
alwaysbirthdays,
remember is that the Hebrews or Israelites andgifts, caroling (yes even seemingly innocent
not theChristmas
nations (non Hebrews) were the ones whocarols are from ancient circle dances dealing with
brought us thefertility
knowledge of God. Even in the New Testamentrites of the medieval Celtic countries of Europe)
we know thatand
Jesus and the Apostles were Israelites. This islights. Bacchanalian festivities also had parties
whycelebrated
scripture says, "You worship what you do notwith drinking and promiscuity orgies and
know; we knowriotousness. The
what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews."Saturnalia festivities also included exchanging gifts,
So it always
comes as a surprise to me that the tail (thegreenery, lights etc. It is impossible to ignore that
nations) trieswe
to wag the dog when it comes to religioushave ties to teachings of the nations or pagans
knowledge. Yetthat we have
this is what is commonly allowed in the so-calledjustified just as the Bible says, "everyone did
Christianwhat was
holidays.The Catholic encyclopedia seems toright in his own eyes." Yet again the Bible says,
struggle"what
somewhere between acknowledging that moderncommunion has light with darkness?" But we say
Christianity haswe cleaned it
incorporated pagan teachings and no it is just aall up. Why we Christianized it Lord! Yet again the
coincidence. A coincidence? When you look at theBible
says, "Who can bring a clean thing out of an
preponderance of coincidences like a day for allunclean? No
the deadone!