[Nifster]

I’m curious...do you put up a Christmas tree? Do you dye Easter eggs? Do you carve pumpkins? There are lots of celebrations that are cultural that violate all of your admonishions. Do you go to the movies, drink spirits, eat she’ll fish, work at all on the Sabbath?

I could go on

[reasonisfaith]

God made it simple. Two commandments.

Part of that is avoiding what’s known as legalism, an example of which would be rigidly avoiding normal life to the extent that it puts a dark cloud over everything.

Jesus spoke against the practice of being so rigid that we miss the point of everything. A very important concept to reflect on and widely applicable:

6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

2 Corinthians 3:6

[reasonisfaith]

I do all of those things, except I don’t carve pumpkins any more because I don’t celebrate Halloween and it’s too much of a hassle anyway.