Did you know that Christmas and Valentines Day are pagan holidays? If you don't, I'll explain.

My Mommy did some research on this subject. She said that in Jeremiah 10:2-4 that the pagan chops down a tree and puts it in his house.Sound familiar, uh?

Plus, what does Santa Claus, toys, and a flying sled and reindeer have to do with Jesus' birth? Besides, we should be celebrating what God did for us every day.

Now Valentines Day, this holiday used to be a Roman festival called Lupercalia on February 15. It was about love. Cupid (You have probualy seen a picture of Cupid) was the supposed ''god of love'' and it was thought that Cupid had arrows that he shot at people, and made them fall in love.A Pope named Gelasius decided that February 14 would be Saint Valentines Day.(Named after a man named Valentine.Their were really two men named Valentine,but I won't get in to that)For many years on this day Christians remember the saints. But sadly, today, we see candy, pink and red cards, and hearts. I think that God would not want me to celebrate these holidays.We did a little something for Christmas that I will not do when I grow up.   

Now I want to talk about the title of my blog, "In the beginning...  Genesis 1:1".  I watch Ken Ham ministry videos, and he says this, many Christians are adding millions of years to the Bible, and I want to point out two reasons this can't be so.

The first reason is what the word day means in Genesis 1.  See, in the original Hebrew grammar of the Bible, the word for day in Genesis 1 (and the rest of the Bible) is yom, and when yom is used with the words, evening, morning, and number in the Bible it means an ordinary day, and every time it is used in Genesis 1 it is with these words. And because God made everything over 6 days and rested for one, we get our 7 day week.  

The second reason is this, in the late 1700s the idea of millions of years began to become common. Now the idea of evolution didn't come from dating methods, no, it came from the belief that the rock layers were laid down over millions of years. But, as soon as you've got that, you've got pain, killing, thistles,thorns, death, and extinction, before sin.  Do you think that God would say that everything is very good and the world's full of thorns?

Because of our sin of disobeying God we no longer have a right to live with Him again in heaven.  But because Jesus came He solved that problem. But the only way you can enter heaven through Him is saying you're sorry for your sins & start living for Him.

So please read this blog entry straight through, and thank God for His mercy. Thank You!