"Learn Not the Way of the Heathen" Can Christians really worship the true God using "Christianized" pagan holidays? The holidays observed by mainstream Christianity—Easter, Christmas, New Years, Halloween, etc.—are not commanded in the Scriptures. In fact, as is easily proven from history, those very holidays are pagan in origin. Yet, those who observe them claim to be worshiping the true God. They rationalize that He now accepts such worship. But the Scriptures do not support these assertions. God says, " I am the L ORD , I change not " (Mal. 3:6). And again, the New Testament declares: "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever" (Heb. 13:8). Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, affirms that Christians cannot worship the true God with pagan, occult rituals and holidays. He writes: "But that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to have fellowship ...