Around the Christmas season, maybe you’ll hear somebody say that a Christian shouldn’t celebrate Christmas. Maybe you’ll hear it about other holidays as well, like Easter or Halloween.
For such as case, I would advise opening your Bibles to Romans chapter 14, where you will read the following passage:
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
St. Paul the Apostle. Romans 14.5-9 ESV. Underlining by me.
Paul here wasn’t talking about Christmas in particular, but about the observance of holidays in general. There’s no sin in observing a certain day on the calendar as holy. What matters is what, not when, you celebrate.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Nikaea 325 