Are Good Friday, Easter,Christmas actually HOLY days of Christianity or just Pagan festivals adapted by Roman Catholic Church ?

Question

According to the SEVENTH DAY Adventist Church (Protestants) , the Roman Emperor of the early First Century, unable to suppress the spread of Christianity all over the Europe, converted to the Christian faith and re-named the then Roman Empire as the Holy Roman Empire .Thus began the Roman Catholic Church with the Pope as the Chief Priest. instead of the Roman Emperor.In order to attract the Celtics and other native people to this Church -ianity, they adapted the Harvest Festival, etc. The mother of Christ was considered as their Mother
Goddess (then prevalent belief).

Jesus Christ had vehemently objected to the religious hypocrisy of the Jewish Pharisees. who found fault when he cured the blind and lepers on a Sabbath day. He asked them "When a lamb fell into a deep pit, on a Sabbath, will anyone refuse to save the little lamb ? " None of them could provide an answer. Christ told his disciples that the only ritual they had to perform, to remember Him was to break Bread (His body) and drink some wine (His Blood). All other ritualistic performances are adapted from the Pagans who inhabited the Mainland ,Scotland and Britain,France, etc.

Answer 1

Yeah, the Seventh Day Adventists never were very good at history. If you want to know about Constantine's influence on Christianity, read a book by a qualified historian. I recommend "The Longer History of Byzantium" by John Julius Norwich, an Oxford-educated historian who specializes in the Byzantine Empire. For example, the celebration of Easter by the Christians is explicitly documented by the early 2nd century AD, almost 200 years before Constantine. How do the SDA explain that? And the celebration of Christmas by the Christians is explicitly documented by the middle of the 3rd century, roughly 100 years before Constantine. How do the SDA explain that?



The short answer: no. None of the days you just mentioned were appropriated pagan holidays, despite widespread misconceptions about the subject. Easter was always associated with the Jewish Passover. Christmas evolved from the celebration of Theophany (the baptism of Jesus), eventually becoming its own holiday in the 3rd century. December 25th was selected as the date of Christmas because it happened to be exactly 9 months from the Feast of the Annunciation (which is also explicitly documented in the early 2nd century).

Answer 2

Good Friday and Easter were celebrated long before the RCC came into existence. There are no pagan festivals around that time. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus and while it occurs near the winter solstice it is NOT in and of itself a pagan festival. Converts to the early church were either Jewish or Gentile and Gentile meant they came from polytheistic religions. Obviously, some of the practices of these converts would occur in a changed form in the new religion, it is how religions happen, they just don't appear from 'whole cloth'.

Answer 3

That is a distortion & rewriting of history.

Good Friday is based on the Jewish Passover.

Easter is 3 days afterwards, the Ressurection.

The Passover coincides with Pagan Spring.

Christmas replaced Pagan Saturnalia.

This was done to suppress paganism.

Answer 4

The SDA is very good at making pagan associations with Christian celebrations in an attempt to "poison the well" regarding those celebrations.



Jesus said people were to judge righteous judgment, and not to judge according to appearance, which is unrighteous judgment. Their accusation therefore is unrighteous judgment. Christians celebrate "Easter" in relation to Christ's resurrection, and not some pagan fertility goddess.



It is interesting to note though that their practice of chopping the law up into categories of moral versus ceremonial was something the Catholic church did. That law was a covenant law, where every point of law had to be complied with or one was guilty of breaking the "whole" law.

Answer 5

IF you have a correct translation of the Bible, you would see that there was a special three day Sabbath that the Jewish rabbis that wanted Jesus dead before. It was Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This is why the "Good Friday is called so. Thus Jesus had his Last supper and was arrested on Tuesday. Taken to the Roman ruler and killed on Wednesday!

Jesus real birthday was in September. But Jesus was born, so we are celebrating it on a day.

Answer 6

Good Friday, Easter, Christmas and the like are days that we who believe in God make holy, by our use of them to glorify God and share the fruits of the Holy Spirit.



Let us consider and respect Paul's instruction in Romans 14: "One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind." Let's not judge our brethren or incite divisive disputes over matters of dietary or holiday ritual.

Answer 7

If the SDA say that, they have history pretty confused. The Holy Roman Empire began in 800 AD. The first Pope was the apostle, Peter. Easter eggs actually began with the disciple Mary Magdalene. She took a basket of hard boiled eggs to the tomb with her when she went to prepare Jesus' body. She took the eggs for her lunch. They turned different colors. When she went to tell Emperor Tiberius about the resurrection of Christ, she took a hard boiled egg with her. He told her that Jesus had no more risen than the egg in her hand was red. It turned a bright red. That is the origin of colored eggs for Easter.



https://www.catholiccompany.com/blog/mary-magdalene-first-easter-egg

Answer 8

It was Mithra who died on Good friday and rose from the dead to ascend to his father in heaven (the sun) on EASTer SUNday as the sun rose in the east. Then entire Jesus story is based on the life of Mithra, though the teachings themselves were different. Mithra even had a feast in his honor before he was martyred. He was also born 12/25 in a virgin birth and he traveled around healing and perfoming miracles for three years before he was killed



Jesus, on the othr hand, didn't die on the cross. He wasn't even killed as the oldest Bibles say.

Answer 9

Good Friday is the crucification of Christ. Christmas is the Nativity of Christ. Pascha is the Resurrection of Christ or the True Passover.



The word "Easter" is actually a word rooted in the name either of an alleged Teutonic goddess (Eostre) or, more probably, from the name "Eostur" meaning the "season of rising" and indicating springtime.



It is only used in the English language.



It came into use because the month of April was known in Anglo-Saxon countries as easter-monadh, and Eastur became an old Germanic word meaning springtime.



Other languages have different names for Easter -- "Pascha/Πάσχα" (Latin and Greek), "Pasqua" (Italian), "Pascua" (Spanish), "Paschen" (Dutch), "Pasg" (Welsh), etc. -- all of which derives from the Hebrew word פסח ("Pesach") meaning "Passover."



The point is that the claim that "Easter is a pagan holiday" because of the word "Easter" is ridiculous. The English word for it might have pagan origins deriving from Eostre and/or the word for springtime, but the Solemnity is rooted in the Old Testament Pesach which was fulfilled at the Crucifixion which gave us the fruits of the Resurrection.



In addition, all the names for the days of the week are "pagan" in origin, too. Sunday is named for the Sun; Monday for the Moon; Tuesday for god Tiu, Wednesday for Woden, Thursday for Thor, Friday for Freya, and Saturday for Saturn, so anyone who balks at celebrating "Easter" because of its "pagan origins" had better not refer to the days of the week by their English names.

Answer 10

Is there any objection to sharing in celebrations that may have unchristian roots as long as it is not done for religious reasons?



Eph. 5:10, 11: “Keep on making sure of what is acceptable to the Lord; and quit sharing with them in the unfruitful works that belong to the darkness, but, rather, even be reproving them.”

2 Cor. 6:14-18: “What fellowship do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what sharing does light have with darkness? Further, what harmony is there between Christ and Be′lial? Or what portion does a faithful person have with an unbeliever? And what agreement does God’s temple have with idols? . . . ‘“Therefore get out from among them, and separate yourselves,” says Jehovah, “and quit touching the unclean thing”’; ‘“and I will take you in, . . . and you will be sons and daughters to me,” says Jehovah the Almighty.’” (Genuine love for Jehovah and a strong desire to be pleasing to him will help a person to break free from unchristian practices that may have had emotional appeal. A person who really knows and loves Jehovah does not feel that by shunning practices that honor false gods or that promote falsehood he is in any way deprived of happiness. Genuine love causes him to rejoice, not over unrighteousness, but with the truth. See 1 Corinthians 13:6.)

Compare Exodus 32:4-10. Notice that the Israelites adopted an Egyptian religious practice but gave it a new name, “a festival to Jehovah.” But Jehovah severely punished them for this. Today we see only 20th-century practices associated with holidays. Some may appear harmless. But Jehovah observed firsthand the pagan religious practices from which these originated. Should not his view be what matters to us?

Illustration: Suppose a crowd come to a gentleman’s home saying they are there to celebrate his birthday. He does not favor the celebration of birthdays. He does not like to see people overeat or get drunk or engage in loose conduct. But some of them do all those things, and they bring presents for everyone there except him! On top of all that, they pick the birthday of one of the man’s enemies as the date for the celebration. How would the man feel? Would you want to be a party to it? This is exactly what is being done by Christmas celebrations.

Answer 11

**By standard definition**, all of those days are holy days of Christianity. Don't take my word for it. Look each of those terms up in any English dictionary. I feel sure that any English dictionary will explicitly state that each of those days is a Christian religious holiday or holy day.

Answer 12

Now its all about money. I think they had good intentions but the truth was lost in translation and understanding. The only important part of Christianity for me is receiving the Holy Eucharist.

Answer 13

pagan festivals that christianity borrowed. Christ wasn't crucified on friday or resurrected on sunday morning. it goes against everything that the bible teaches in so many ways. see comment for link.

Answer 14

nope. Seventh day adventists are the biggest anti catholics I've ever seen. In fact they believe Jesus is Michael so they are not christian. They follow a false prophetess name ellen g white. Catholics and mainstream protestants are christian. SDAs and JWs are pseudo cult groups.

Answer 15

They are Christian holidays as kept in the Christian sense, but are pagan in origin. You can't really call Christian observance of them pagan.