How Should the Christian View Thanksgiving and Christmas?
We are not told to celebrate these holidays in the Bible. Christians, however, are free to observe or not observe any day as long as it done as to God. (Romans 14:5,6) Nevertheless, this does not give us liberty to bring idolatrous practices into our worship. In this regard we might think of the day and the celebration itself as two different things. All days belong to our Heavenly Father, including the fourth Thursday of November (or any other day of Thanksgiving) as well as December 25, and all other days, regardless of what celebrations of men may occur on those days. The apostle Paul tells us that a true worshipper desiring to worship in spirit and truth should realize that an idol is nothing. At the same time, he tells us that he does not want us to be making offerings to demons by means of idols. Nevertheless, some Christians read 1 Corinthians 8 and 10 and get out of it almost the very opposite of what Paul was actually saying [“Flee from idolatry”], and somehow arrive at the co
