Are holidays a form of idolatry, the worship of a day or idea?

Question

I think most people know that holiday is derived from "holy day". Do you think holidays seperate God from the person's normal everyday life by distinguishing one day from the rest?

Do you think God wants you to take time out for Him everyday or just a few special days every year?

Answer 1

--OF INTEREST is that most persons it seems look to a concept for worship and NOT the true God himself!

--FOR INSTANCE, Many holidays seem to be linked with the idea that if they celebrate the holiday well, it will mean good luck for a year or so! This also might improve their destiny!
---THUS the CONCEPT of good luck seems to be the favorite "god" today!
--Please note the warning God had to give the Israelites:

(Isaiah 65:11-12) 11 “But YOU men are those leaving Jehovah, those forgetting my holy mountain, those setting in order a table for the god of Good Luck and those filling up mixed wine for the god of Destiny. 12 And I will destine YOU men to the sword, and YOU will all of YOU bow down to being slaughtered; for the reason that I called, but YOU did not answer; I spoke, but YOU did not listen; and YOU kept doing what was bad in my eyes, and the thing in which I took no delight YOU chose.”

--The apostle Paul indicates that the concentration on activities can indeed take the place of God in worship:

(Galatians 4:9-11) 9 But now that YOU have come to know God, or rather now that YOU have come to be known by God, how is it that YOU are turning back again to the weak and beggarly elementary things and want to slave for them over again? 10 YOU are SCRUPULOUSLY (my caps) observing days and months and seasons and years. 11 I fear for YOU, that somehow I have toiled to no purpose respecting YOU."

Answer 2

Holiday is a from of idolatry.not a worship of a day or idea but a day of religious festival

Holiday as a religious practice is a plain observance of a day which is declared holy by any religious group and should be celebrated .
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Answer 3

The religious idea of a holiday is to take time apart to remember what God has done in our lives. It is not unlike the need to take time apasrt from our busy work-filled days for special times with our spouse, children or parents. Yes God is present in our everyday life, but there is also a need to allow ourself to give up the mundane to celebrate the eternal.

Answer 4

Absolutely not. Do you feel separated from your brother because you celebrate his birthday once a year? It certainly distinguishes one day from the next.

Don't you think God enjoys being worshipped, having one aspect of His magnificent self glorified for a day?

Answer 5

Colossians 2:16-17 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days, Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.

Answer 6

Titles purposely designed to deceive.






Have you ever taken the time to analyse just how many things in life are designed to deceive us and how many things we have been taught, that just aren't so?



For example:-

The Honourable M.P. for . . . - denotes a politician and everyone knows that most politicians are professional liars and therefore are the opposite of the definition.

Italian Renaissance statesman and political writer, Niccolo Machiavelli, wrote in The Prince, one of the most influential political works of all time, that governments are created to lie to the greatest number of people the greatest amount of the time.
And why do governments lie? Why, to cover up their previous lies in order to protect the perpetrators, of course.

Conservatism:- Conservatism in politics denotes a party whose doctrine is runaway consumerism and a disposable and "throw-away" society. Conservatism and Consumerism are by definition opposites. It is impossible to consume and conserve: it is either consumed or it is conserved and it is impossible for one to be the same as the other, so Conservatism is the opposite of its definition.

Labour - Labourism in politics normally denotes people wanting as much pay as possible for the least amount of labour, so Labourism is the opposite of its definition.

National Economy - a national economy in the western world is totally wasteful; where most products are consumed and thrown away as quickly as possible and are actually manufactured to be waste within a very short space of time; so a National Economy is the opposite of its definition.

Feminism - denotes women who want to be men and who act in a totally unfeminine manner, so feminism is the opposite of its definition.

Gay-homosexual - denotes someone who is unhappy with their gender and wants to pretend to be the opposite gender or to have a relationship with someone of the same gender because they are not happy with normality, so gay, which really means happy, is the opposite of its definition.

These groups of people choose a title that is the opposite of what they are or do to try to deceive the world into believing that they are something that they are not. In other words they are a LIE designed to hide the TRUTH and deceive us.

Please feel free to add your own discoveries to this list.

Here's one or two to get you started:-

Holiday - holy-day to worship and serve God; now used to denote the period/s when people often go abroad and spend their time doing many different unholy acts that they would not dare to be seen doing at home, so holiday is now the opposite of its definition.


Joy-riding - the unlawful, "taking without the owner's consent" (TWOCing - theft in the eyes of most sensible people) of another person's motor-vehicle, which often involves damage to, or the "writing-off" of the vehicle and the death and/or injury of innocent third-parties, as well as the perpetrators themselves, causing havoc and distress, not only to the owner, but to everyone concerned. So joy-riding is the opposite of its definition, because, even if there is no damage done to the vehicle, the owner is left distressed, at what he considers to be the theft of his vehicle, and greatly inconvenienced. There is certainly no joy in that.


JAH.

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Answer 7

The only holiday is the First of April... all other fade in it's mighty glory.

Answer 8

"One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord."

Romans 14:5-8