I'm listening to a series by Tom Bradford in a podcast called "Torah Class" on the book of Ruth. Anyways, he pointed out in a side note that Jewish holidays like "Hanukkah" and "Purim" and Christian holidays like "Christmas" and "Easter"--while certainly begun with pure intentions--are man-made, not God-ordained, holidays.
That's true. Isn't that weird? Like...God has given us feasts and stuff to celebrate, but...I know at least the majority of Christians don't even know what they are. I'm not sure I do, actually.
While this doesn't make celebrating them a sin, it does elicit two thoughts:
(1) Treating our current well-known holidays as holy is probably not such a great thing to do.
(2) What happened to the holidays that God ordained?
Any thoughts?
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