if Christians believe in the old testament, why don't they celebrate Hanica?

Answer 1

because Jesus fulfilled the OT covenant, and brought the new covenant into being. I'm not sure where it is in the Bible, but in one part, an angel apears to Simon Peter with a sheet full of forbidden Jewish foods, and basically tells him it's okay to eat that stuff now. The old traditions, including festivals, passed away.
btw, it's Hanukkah.

Answer 2

Because the old testament was basically the historical part of the text. It tells about the things that came to be before the Christians were even allowed to be thought of, much less called Christian. We as Christians did not have the trial the Jews did that resulted in things like Hannukah and the passover, therefor we do not celebrate them. It is not that we do not believe it, we simply were excluded from it at that time.

Answer 3

Which Jewish feast or festival is "Hanica"??

Since you celebrate it, why don't you tell the rest of us a little about it, how you celebrate it, and why you celebrate it?

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Until then I guess the rest of us will be content with Chanukah (Hanakuh, Hanukkah) even though it is NOT in the Old Testament [just in the Apocrypha] -- but it is Jewish history!


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Hanukkah, or the Feast of the Dedication, commemorates the Jewish victory in 165 BC over the Syrians, who had tried for years to force the Jews to abandon their own way of life and adopt Greek religion and culture. In the course of this persecution, the Temple in Jerusalem had been desecrated with pagan worship.

Judas Maccabeus led the fierce and ultimately successful resistance to the attempted suppression of Judaism; and the ceremony of the rededication and consecration of the Temple (cf., 1 Maccabees 4:52-59) was the institution of the Feast of Hanukkah, in Hebrew, Dedication.

According to legend, the Jews had found only enough consecrated oil for the ceremony to keep the Eternal Light burning for one day.

Miraculously, the one-day supply of oil lasted for eight days, after which a fresh supply of oil was obtained. This tradition is reflected in the central ceremony of the Hanukkah celebration: the lighting of the menorah, or eight-branched candelabrum, kindling one light on the first night of the feast, two on the second, and so on until all the candles are lot on the eighth and last day of the feast. (A ninth candle, called the shammash, is used to light the other candles each night.) This ceremony gives Hanukkah its alternate name, Feast of Lights.

Answer 4

Christians believe in the OT, but do not live under the laws of the OT, The OT shows us the law and the New Testament shows us the grace of God.

Answer 5

Well we believe in the old testament and the new testament

Answer 6

Probably because we're too busy celebrating Christmas.

But you do have a point, and I want to say that I have an aunt that is Jewish and have had friends who are too, and I've sang Hanukkah songs and played the dradle with them, and it was a lot of fun...I thought it was great, I mean, you're right, the story of the fire continuing to burn without oil is in my scriptures too :)

Answer 7

Many Christian churches (including mine, Christian Church Disciples of Christ) consider themselves to be New Testament Churches and do not follow the regulations of the old church(OT).

Answer 8

it's not in the Old Testament

Answer 9

Holidays are one thing that Paul says we don't need to follow. Another thing is circumcision, but a lot do it anyways. Plus all the cermonial laws,e.g. unclean till nighttime if you have a period and all that jazz. Jesus fulfilled those laws. It is the same reason we do not have to sacrifice animals anymore.

Answer 10

Hanica?

Perhaps you mean hanukkah?