No, it is not the Christian way!
It is a ‘way’ contrived in the 4th century by the pharisees that created the ‘catholic’ church, and all its pagan practices.
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Serious question: where do you get your history from?
This is what Christians have believed. If someone holds to some different views, it is a new-fangled creation, on par to Unitarianism or Jehovah's Witnesses.