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Can Christians really worship the true God using "Christianized" pagan holidays?

"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 ...

" Living Among the Heathen "

" Living Among the Heathen " "...my name shall be great among the heathen."-Mal. 1:11. "Why do the heathen rage?"Ps. 2:1. ... that I might preach him among the heathen."-Gal. 1:16. "Learn not the way of the heathen."-Jer. 10:2. We send missionaries to the heathen. Often. the word heathen appears in the Bible-at least 147 times! The dictionary definition of the heathen is: A person who does not believe in the God of the Bible. Not a Christian, Jew or Moslem. People who are heathen, irreligious and unenlightened. That dictionary says people who do not believe in the God of the Bible are heathen! Some missionaries, shocked when they return to America and see how our beloved land has degenerated, say those "heathen" lands should be sending missionaries to the United States. Bibles can be passed out in Russian schools now but not in our schools. When a Brinks truck overturned in Miami, a half-million dollars in coins ...