Did the early Christians observe special religious days like Easter and Christmas?
Denominational churches have many special days, but the Lords church has only one. The first day of the week is the only special religious day for Christians. On this day (Sunday) Christ was raised from the dead (Mark 16:9), the church was established (Acts 2; Leviticus 23:15,16), and early Christians worshipped (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2). But never did the early church observe Christmas, Easter, or any other special day. (The word Easter in Acts 12:4 should be translated Passover as in the revised versions. The feasts of the Jews were kept in New Testament days by the Jews, but not by Christian.) The observing of special religious days other than every first day of the week is from mans tradition and not from God. If Christmas and Easter are not in the Bible, where did they come from? The keeping of December 25 as Christmas was begun by the Catholic Church hundreds of years after the days of the New Testament church. This date was borrowed from a pagan feast which had formerly be
