Mothers Day is Pagan

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Mothers Day seems like a harmless, sweet event that so many partake in but are its roots really that innocent?

As with all things we ( born again Christians ) are to test them to God's Word (1 Thessalonians 5:21) and expose evil (Ephesians 5). 

With the annual holiday of Mothers Day due next on the calendar, we thought we needed an article on this topic as we have been asked about it in the past.  Man and his fallen ways has a habit of using things not approved by God and making them mainstream/accepted over time. This ill holiday is just another example.

You may ask why would we be against this Mothers day event? Read on and you will see why but; I also want to remind you that unless you start to toss out that which the world esteems like Mothers Day, Memorial Day, Forth of July, funerals, graduations and birthdays etc etc you are conformed to the world. Romans 12 says do NOT be conformed to it. We choose to obey God not man! 

Note: You may not be aware but this holiday was not born of flowers and candy for a dear mom. No, it has a much more dubious past to say the least.  

Some facts for you about Mothers Day:

*It can be traced back to ancient Greece and Rome where it was celebrated as a day to embrace pagan goddess mother figures. 

*It is celebrated by every major culture on earth and it all centers around some type of goddess or earth worship idolatry.

*The pagan roman catholic faith uses it to lift up Mary in idolatry.

*Witches and pagan Gaia earth worshipers also embrace this holiday as a way to lift up new age Mother earth.

There is no dispute that this holiday is rooted in idolatry and false pagan ways going far back into man's history. Even if you try to look at the more recent 1908 American Mothers day holiday started by a woman named Jarvis just to remember her mother; it does not take away that it is all rooted in (paganism) all over the globe. 

Note: We are not about to say if you give your mother flowers on this day you are a pagan idol worshiper. No, but there is a greater issue at hand here. Showing your mother love is not a sin. What is sin is claiming God then NOT living according to His holy Word by avoiding that which is worldly, pagan and even evil. Often when people push back against the warnings we give about false pagan ways like Mothers day, the very same people who embrace it they are undiscerning and also doing greater spiritual apostasy by uniting to Christmas, Easter and various false religious systems of man. 
See our teaching blog for articles exposing those holidays:
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The bigger question is 'should those who claim Jesus Christ as Lord, openly embrace and partake in what is clearly rooted in pagan false ways of old Goddess worship?' 

God's Word gives us the clear answer .......

 The Old Testament command was indeed to honor parents.

Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.


But does honoring them mean we have a special holiday to lift them up? No, we see no example of that in the holy scriptures or the early NT body of Christ. It is man who does such things for sinful/vain reasons and often money making efforts. (billions of dollars are made over Mothers Day) If you love your mother you do not need a special day of the year to show it do you? Show it often and always is the real truth if you are united with her. 

In Jeremiah chapter 10 God tells His people the Israelites....

Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Note: God's true people are NOT to be about pagan ways. They are to be holy which means...... set apart for Him! 

Side note:
Jesus Himself showed who He honored as His mother and family most of all in Matthew 12. 

Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

So the idea of lifting up Mom on a certain day is not born of God.  In fact; we are not to lift up Mothers on a special day or anyone at all if we live by God's Word and ways. We are to live everyday obeying His commands lifting up Christ a alone, are we not? 

But why else should we reject this man made holiday with its pagan past? 

The bible warns about fleeing all appearance of evil in 1 Thessalonians 5:21.
If pagan holidays do not cause you to flee, you really do not understand the holiness of God very well at all!

The Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 6 talks about God's people coming out of darkness and then God will embrace them. 

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

This sounds like good advice to us; if you fear a Holy God.

Here are some more scriptures that give guidance to those who desire to keep His Word and not give in to pagan ways.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world
Titus 2:12

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Col 2:8

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
Matthew 15:3

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Ephesians 5

There are many more scriptures we could share to warn you about embracing false and pagan ways. We hope this article will get you to start testing all things including yourself to see if your truly born of God. 

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God is very specific in His Word and we are not to add or take away from its truth.

Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Deuteronomy 12

By openly celebrating holidays the fallen world has created, are we (those who serve Him) not adding to and taking away from His truth?

We are called to be HOLY in all our ways 
1 Peter 1:15 

Something you must consider before you run off and celebrate holidays clearly rooted in paganism that God abhors.

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Roman Catholic's and Their Pagan Idol's **

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Do age old traditions of society interest you and have you ever wondered just where did that practice come from? God's Word / Jesus Christ warned about following the ways and traditions of man regarding spiritual things in Mark chapter 7


Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.


So if we really claim to follow a Holy God we must take heed to His warning about traditions of men and test them, lest we fall pray to their deception.


Throughout man's history one can find many traditions that have been passed down through the ages from generation to generation. We ourselves find the study of them to be very telling especially in the religious circles of man made religion today, as we compare them to God's Word. One such tradition is the habit of saying "God bless you" when someone sneezes. While it may have origins that go much farther back in history; many believe it was roman catholic pope Gregory who reigned in 590 AD that made it mainstream. It seems the plague was killing many in Europe at that time and he made it a rule to have people walking the streets chanting in prayer and he also made it a practice to wrongly say God bless you when someone sneezed. Their reason was that they thought that was how you could get the plague at that time. Obviously saying some words doesn't protect you from the plague. There are also legends about people believing that your spirit could leave you and evil spirits could enter you when you sneezed. Amazingly this strange tradition has survived into our modern culture and people do it and say it daily; many not ever knowing its real origins are. It indeed shows how you can end up following and doing things that you have no idea what they are even based in.
Is this a wise practice and could it be very dangerous?




By now you may say "a God Bless you" at a sneeze is no big deal and that may well be true; but we have a question. Did the roman catholic faith give you many other very troubling spiritual traditions that have stayed with you that ARE against God's Word and Ways for His true people? The answer is yes and we will show you one such pagan tradition that is still practiced on many religious buildings in America today.


Pagan Egyptian Obelisks


As you may know if you have read our posts on roman Catholicism; that faith was born out of the merging of pagan Rome into various aspects of the Christian faith. It was emperor Constantine in the 4th century who legalized Christianity but then added many of the pagan ways of Rome into it and that is today the roman catholic system that millions follow in error. It is not biblical in many ways and it teaches a very dangerous theology/gospel, not of God's Word. One of the many pagan ways adopted into it was the use of what is called an obelisk. It is a very tall skinny stone monument ( just like the Washington monument ) and there are more of them in Rome than anywhere in the world today. ( See tyhe pic above of the one in St Peters square in Rome ) What is important is that in Egypt the obelisk was first used as a pagan symbol of worship to their sun god ra. (It is also noted to be a sexual symbol as well for fertility which ties into Egyptian pagan worship.) There is no doubt that this is of very pagan/occult origins and practices of long ago.


So by now your saying what does a pagan / occult symbol like a obelisk have to do with the roman catholic faith?


Are you aware that one of the biggest obelisks in the world sits smack dab in the center of St Peters square at the Vatican in Rome? ( You can look up pictures of it on the web/it is quite famous. ) Did you know this very same obelisk was taken from Egypt after they were defeated by Augustus in 30 BC. He brought the obelisks that were dedicated to the pagan Pharaohs Rameses II and Psammetichus II from Heliopolis to Rome. While this did all happened before Constantine's time, the roman catholic system adopted this pagan symbol into itself and today it still sits in the middle of their most revered place, the Vatican that the pope rules over. Did you also know that the religious hat the pope wears called a mitre is said by many to be in the shape of an obelisk and it also resembles the hat the pagan Egyptian priests once wore in the false worship of dagon, a fish god? ( the bible even mentions dagon in Judges 16:33 )
Imagine the scene will you? Hundreds of thousands of roman catholics assemble in St Peters square and wait for their leader the pope to come out on a balcony as he wears his mitre and is lifted up as the closest thing to god on earth. What is at the center of this crowd as they pray and worship; the very same Egyptian pagan obelisk once used in sun god worship!  It is quite amazing really. These pagan symbols are set right before these people for anyone to see and discern if they will. But only those seeking/born of God can see clearly.
 What does this say about the roman catholic faith to you? 
 It should tell you that they did and today do still embrace old pagan ways and symbols right into their religious system when God warns against this in His Word. (Keep reading to see those verses,) So moving on; how does this pagan obelisk affect you in your religious place in America you may ask?

Note: these pagan symbols also became steeples on evangelical places so they too have pagan ways in their very midst. They brought various pagan ways out of the false roman system like Christ-mass and the modern pastor role along with a building centered faith. 


Are you aware that the early New Testament church of the first century was by God's design a home based body and not until the 4th century when it was perverted did Rome make pagan religious buildings for so called Christian worship. Over time the traditions of various pagans were incorporated into these false buildings and even through the reformation the steeple ( a tall skinny structure on a roof ) that you may have on your own religious building ( a building is not a church by the way ) was kept and is a type of pagan obelisk that came from ra sun god worship in Egypt. (Over the years they just added a cross and some bells to it.) The fact is yes, you may have pagan symbols on your religious building handed down from the pagan Egyptians to the pagan roman catholic faith, through the reformers (like Luther/Calvin) and on to you and your denomination today! This should both surprise you and make you take notice as well! The big question is this: what does a Holy God think of such things and that we shall see from His Holy Word?


There are various examples of God telling the Israelite's to not allow or keep similar pagan symbols of those people around them. One such verse is in 2 Kings 10:26-27
 They brought the sacred stone out of the temple of Baal and burned it. They demolished the sacred stone of Baal and tore down the temple of Baal, and people have used it for a latrine to this day.

This seems to describe a similar stone monument to baal that the Israelites could not keep before them as the people of a Holy God. Do the roman catholic leaders/the pope keep such a  pagan thing before them? Indeed they do at their headquarters in rome called the vatican.

Another such verse is Deuteronomy 16:22 we find this warning:
“Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build to the Lord your God, and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the Lord your God hates.

Note: There was back then an upright pillar connected with Baal-worship, and is associated with the goddess Ashtoreth. It was the representation of the productive principal of life, and Baal being  represented as well. The image, which represents Ashtoreth, as the sole object of worship in her temple, was an upright block of stone, anointed with oil, and covered with a cloth.

If we look at the New Testament we can find instructions on how to serve God in the correct manner.
In the book of 2 Corinthians 6 says this as a warning:


For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?  What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will live with them
    and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.”

 Therefore,

“Come out from them
    and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
    and I will receive you.” 

If you think God does not really care how He is worshiped you are wrong.
See this post HERE all about false worship and how God hates profane and false worship!

His true people will hear His Word and then come out of false teaching ( roman Catholicism ) and not stay in it. We know this is not a popular message but it is love for those caught in its lies and for God's glory that we must speak the truth here as a warning.

Indeed it is true that God Almighty hates such things among His true people so ask yourself;
why do roman catholics lift up such a pagan thing today?
We would ask you could it be that they are NOT of the true Living God at all but of pagan ways?

This is just one of "many" pagan unbiblical practices of this faith system. We will continue to write about more. Please go to this post HERE  and see from their own catechism vs God's Word the truth about the false ways they teach that cannot save you or anyone.

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Jesus said we must worship in spirit and truth / John 4;24 and in love we tell you that roman catholicism is not in His truth and follows wrong spirits.


If you are in this false system today  you must study God's Word for the truth, repent and then come out of it into the glorious light and freedom of a biblical New testament life in Christ leaving  pagan man made religion behind you, no matter the cost! 

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