Jesus replaces the Jewish festival of Passover, and becomes the true Passover Lamb.(cf John 19:33ff), The PENTECOST(feast of the weeks/shavout) was originally a Jewish celebration of the harvest and the giving of the law, which happened 50days after the Passover (Deuteronomy 16:16), and the Holy Spirit came down on the disciples on a Jewish Festival of Pentecost, (Acts 2ff). God is the first maker of IMAGE (Genesis 1:27, 2:7) Christ is the image of the unseen God (Colossian 1:15ff). GOD commanded that IMAGES be made (Exodus 25:18-22,26:1,31,Numbers 21:8-9,etc). The Church of Jesus Christ which was never in Rome at the time of Christ entered Rome, and continued the replacement. Christmas for the Sun-god feast. Writing, drawing, acting, molding, etc are powerful ways of communicating, in fact, drawing is the UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. If Yahweh is the name for the supreme Being, why is He called CHUKWU, OBASI, ELEDUMARE, ALLAH,GOD,etc these are combination of letters of Alphabets of different people, which have pagan origin in them. Idolatory is setting anything whatsoever in the place of God, and it has passed the stage of image-making, that was the primitive time, in our jet age, idolatry is all over the place: using religion to make money (here money is the original thing, but God's name is the cover), stealing from public funds (no fear of God who made the people whom the fund is to serve). going to church for the satisfaction of your need (life-partner, money, job, etc,, here, God is not the priority but the need for these earthly things which are good. God is to be served in faith that is pure, only for God. Why do people make a very large pictures of their church founders? (Idolatory), why do people kneel or wave their hands into the open air (Idolatory), the air is not God. Only faith can reach God. Therefore, any way that a people chose to reach out to the unseen God in pure conscience and faith, whether they use words, images, drama, drawing etc which are ways of communication, these should be respected. (Philipians 4:8-9). Happy Christmas! |