SA>  GP> Jesus only celebrated Jewish holidays, and never instituted any new
SA>  GP> ones. Elsewhere in the Scriptures it's stated not to add to them
SA>  GP> (them including the God-ordained holidays)
SA>
SA> Which scriptures would they be, George?

At the end of Deuteronomy and also at the end of Revelations.

SA> If any holidays are "God-ordained", would it be reasonable to assume
SA> that they are to be kept by those who remain under the bondage of the
SA> law from which Jesus has set us free?

Except it states that in the time of the Day of the Lord (the End Times),
everybody(the entire world) will keep the festivals of Tabernacles & Passover.
This is obviously to be after Jesus' death/resurrection. . .

Anyway, keeping the festivals isn't a burden of the Law, it's a GIFT!!!

SA> Further, believers in Jesus Christ are not to let people pass
SA> judgement on them in questions of food and drink; festivals, or
SA> new moons, or sabbaths ... these are only a shadow of what is to
SA> come ... the substance belongs to Christ.

Yet, the prophets declared tat in the future times EVERYBODY will keep the two
festivals I mentioned (and Jesus affirmed to his followers to never miss
keeping Passover!)

SA>  GP> Most, if not all of them!  Man soon noticed that the days started
SA>  GP> getting longer about Dec. 21, and self-determined this to be a day
SA>  GP> of celebration!
SA>
SA> December 21 doesn't hold any particular cause for celebration here, that
SA> I am aware of. But it is good that we are 2/3 of the way through Summer;
SA> it has been a scorcher!


You're in S.Africa?  Yeah, you're lucky, getting summer right now! (nothing but
cold & wet here in western Canada! *sigh*) :'(

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))
(aka Reverend George A. Pope)

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