Birthdays

[hupo]

I heard lately that there are those who see birthday celebrations as a major sin.

Is this true? Is it backed by scripture?

I googled the topic and found that the only (?) two birthdays in the Bible were used for beheading people...

Does anyone have anything on this?

[EricH]

As far as I know, the Bible places no value judgements on birthdays

[Beta]

They can not be very meaningful to God or he would have given us Jesus' birthday to celebrate.

[Iryssa]

I think anyone who believe that celebrating someone's birthday is a sin has WAY too much time on their hands and needs to use it to start reading up on grace a little more.

[Vickilynn]

I heard lately that there are those who see birthday celebrations as a major sin.

Is this true? Is it backed by scripture?

I googled the topic and found that the only (?) two birthdays in the Bible were used for beheading people...

Does anyone have anything on this?

Shalom Hupo,

Men love to add to Scripture and make doctrines based on opinions.

There is nothing in the Bible that states or even hints that celebrating someone's birthday (ours or even Yehsua's) is any sort of problem and certainly not a "sin."

So, no, it's not anything Scriptural and not anything to worry about.

Birthdays are joyous celebrations and we should give thanks to G-d for the person who was born and especially Yeshua!

BTW, I recently had my 50th birthday and had a WONDERFUL celebration, praise the L-rd! During my cancer treatment, there were times that the drs thought I would die, so to celebrate another birthday is a wonderful blessing and I'm gonna celebrate and give thanks!

And for each of my children and my husband, their birthdays are precious times to reflect on the gifts that they are from G-d!

[hupo]

I heard lately that there are those who see birthday celebrations as a major sin.

Is this true? Is it backed by scripture?

I googled the topic and found that the only (?) two birthdays in the Bible were used for beheading people...

Does anyone have anything on this?

Shalom Hupo,

Men love to add to Scripture and make doctrines based on opinions.

There is nothing in the Bible that states or even hints that celebrating someone's birthday (ours or even Yehsua's) is any sort of problem and certainly not a "sin."

So, no, it's not anything Scriptural and not anything to worry about.

Birthdays are joyous celebrations and we should give thanks to G-d for the person who was born and especially Yeshua!

BTW, I recently had my 50th birthday and had a WONDERFUL celebration, praise the L-rd! During my cancer treatment, there were times that the drs thought I would die, so to celebrate another birthday is a wonderful blessing and I'm gonna celebrate and give thanks!

And for each of my children and my husband, their birthdays are precious times to reflect on the gifts that they are from G-d!

Thanks Vickilynn,

It sure clears up things.

Yes, you had so much reason to celebrate your birthday.

There is actually no reason not to use birthdays to glorify God too.... I mean, we have birthdays, thanks to God don't we?

Thank you all for responding to this topic

Blessings

[Beta]

The bible does not say celebrating birthdays is a sin but it says

The day of death is better than the day of one's birth , Eccl.7 v 1.

How come man does exactly the opposite by celebrating birth and lamenting death ?

[Guest Biblicist]

Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays.

This information comes from the official site of the Jehovah's Witnesses. I won't put a link there.

4. Birthdays: The only two birthday celebrations spoken of in the Bible were held by persons who did not worship Jehovah. (Genesis 40:20-22; Mark 6:21, 22, 24-27) The early Christians did not celebrate birthdays. The custom of celebrating birthdays comes from ancient false religions. True Christians give gifts and have good times together at other times during the year.

[Guest shiloh357]

The bible does not say celebrating birthdays is a sin but it says

The day of death is better than the day of one's birth , Eccl.7 v 1.

How come man does exactly the opposite by celebrating birth and lamenting death ?

I think you need to remember that Solomon wrote that in a state of senility and probably depression. That verse is not making a doctrinal statement.

[bethshemaiah]

The bible does not say celebrating birthdays is a sin but it says

The day of death is better than the day of one's birth , Eccl.7 v 1.

How come man does exactly the opposite by celebrating birth and lamenting death ?

I think you need to remember that Solomon wrote that in a state of senility and probably depression. That verse is not making a doctrinal statement.

agreed Shiloh... the context of that passage is clearly not a statement that we should not celebrate someone's birth.... children are a gift from God and worth celebrating about. But to go overboard with it is like anything else. Personally, I don't like being that much "in the limelight" and consider these celebrations embarrassing as an adult. For children, it is great and very fun.... except for the balloons they made me sit on and pop at this one birthday party.... I did not like that at all.

I didn't like clowns either they were scary....

Bethany