Why does the Church of God (7th Day) not keep Christmas and Easter?
The date of Jesus’s birth is not known. We know that it was sometime in the autumn when people within the Roman empire were commanded to return to the place of their birth for tax purposes. The Bible gives us no instructions as to the celebration of Jesus’s birth. The practice of celebrating Jesus’s birth on December 25th was established by the Roman Catholic Church to encorporate the Pagan holiday of the rebirth of the Sun god right after the winter solstace. We do not celebrate December 25th because we do not wish to be associated with the Pagan holiday of the Sun god’s rebirth. The Church of God (7th Day) keeps the Lord’s Supper as instituted by Jesus shortly before his death. The name of the holiday “Easter” comes from the celebration of the Pagan god “Ishtar” and the holiday was also instituted when the Roman Catholic Church merged the Christian and Pagan religions. We do not keep the holiday to the Pagan god “Ishtar” and instead celebrate the events surrounding Jesus’s death in t
