Customs of Man Vs. Customs of God

Jeremiah 10
1Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
² 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.
³ For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
⁴ They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
⁵ They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
⁶ Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

Deuteronomy 18
⁹ When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
¹⁰ There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
¹¹ Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
¹² For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
¹³ Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
¹⁴ For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
¹⁵ The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
  
I believe that these two verses are summed up in...
 Acts 5:29  "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men"

So we can weigh EVERYTHING against these things...what God has said in scripture and what God has done in Scripture.

Jesus said (John 5:19) So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

So EVERYTHING that Jesus said and did was of the FATHER. The Father does not change. 

 James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning

   Hebrews 13:8 ^" Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."

This answers any question on any subject of right or wrong. Did God do or say to do it? Did Jesus do it? Or did HE tell us not to? 

I keep the sabbath on Saturday... why?  Exodus 20 says...
⁹ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
¹⁰ But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
¹¹ For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
This shows me that it is not a man made institution but set in place by God from Creation.  So God, with His own mouth told us to do it....and Jesus kept the sabbath... that's good enough for me. I'll do my best to do it.

What about holidays like Easter?  Easter is the fertility goddess... I don't celebrate Easter. Before you get all defensive let me clarify, I DO celebrate the birth of Messiah, His death and resurrection, and such things. I just don't do so during Christmas and Easter. Most holidays were pagan rituals that were Christianized by Constantine when he supposedly converted to Christianity.  Jesus kept the feasts of the LORD...why shouldn't I if HE is our example? On the other hand Jesus did not keep Easter or Christmas or any equivalent celebrations.

Exodus 18
⁹ When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
¹⁰ There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
¹¹ Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
¹² For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
¹³ Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
¹⁴ For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
¹⁵ The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

Jeremiah 10 also tells us not to learn the way of the heathen. 

So I do not celebrate Easter and God says not to use other religious practices to worship Him. For this people tell me I am wrong? Even though Easter is straight from man.
I DO, however celebrate the death and resurrection in the Passover feast set forth by God in the Bible. Passover is ALL about Messiah's death and resurrection and sacrifice for us. For this I am told I am also wrong? Yet it's straight from the Bible. (Same with Christmas and most of the traditional holidays)


Step back, examine your activities through the Word of God and the actions of Messiah.

James1
²³ For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
²⁴ For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
²⁵ But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.


Food for thought, chew slowly over prayer and study. ;)