Gal 4:10 You pay special attention to certain days, months, seasons, and years.
Gal 4:11 I am worried about you! Can it be that all my work for you has been for nothing?
Gal 4:12 I beg you, my friends, be like me. After all, I am like you. You have not done me any wrong.
Mat 15:6 And [thus] ye make void the word of God, for the sake of your tradition.
Paul is speaking of those "traditions" put in place to BURDEN people. This is not talking about a simple celebration. If that were the case, then Jesus would have never celebrated in the wedding at Cana.
Job 1:4 And his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said: 'It may be that my sons have sinned, and blasphemed God in their hearts.' Thus did Job continually.
Job 3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 3:2 And Job spake, and said,
Job 3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Yes, and while Job was inspired to say all of that, don't you remember?
Job 38
1 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?
scripture, scripture, scripture...
Job 42
1 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of thine can be restrained.
3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood NOT, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew NOT.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:
6 Wherefore I abhor myself , And repent in dust and ashes.
Mat 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
That has nothing to do with celebrating a birthday or any other holiday. This has to do with not being honest with God about who and what you are. It's about pretending you're pristine, when in reality you're full of ... dead men's bones. ;)
Mar 7:8 Having, dismissed, the commandment, of God, ye, hold fast, the tradition, of men.
Mar 7:9 And he was saying to them—Well, do ye set aside the commandment of God, that, your own tradition, ye may observe;
Again, this is speaking of those LAWS that the pharisees and scribes put in place to BURDEN people and keep them tied in knots, this is not speaking of a birthday celebration.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
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Col 2:8 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.
Gal 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Col 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Again, this is speaking of those who chose to turn their backs on Christ and trample His blood by observing the LAWS (ordinances are LAWS! something they [felt they] MUST obey to be right with God) that the pharisees and scribes put in place to BURDEN people and keep them tied in knots, this is not speaking of a birthday celebration.
Ecc 7:1 Better a name, than precious ointment,—and the day of death, than the day of one’s birth.
Ecc 7:2 Better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of banqueting, for, that, is the end of all men,—and, the living, should take it to his heart.
This is speaking of a person's reputation and of their birth and death. This is not talking about not celebrating birthdays. And having looked at that more closely, I find that prophetically comforting actually, seeing how I am terrified of dying.
Saying one thing is better than another doesn't mean it'd be UNLAWFUL to attend a banquet or be BORN. LOL ! I mean, I've heard people joke : "Well, pardon me for living." But it's a joke party people. It's sarcasm at its finest.
I REST this case.
Peace. :)