Baptism And Egyptism

In every religion, there are always some customs that has been passed on over time that gradually become known as religious traditions. These traditions may differ greatly due to different origins. While unique in their own way these various traditions are, one particular religion took the lead in making its traditions became universal among the modern society. Christianity (including Catholicism), with the domination in the western culture over the centuries, its influence can be reflected in many of the rituals that still remain relevant today. Their popularity has extended and integrated into other cultures as well. But as time progresses, certain traditions, however well intended, have become materialized and formalistic. With their original

With the immersion into water represents the death of Jesus for the sins of mankind, and the rise from water emphasizes the resurrection and conquest of Jesus over sin and death. However, baptism is not a rite that one has to engage to in order to obtain salvation, for the New Testament clearly states that salvation is given by God's grace when a person by faith believes (Ephesians 2:8-9). Yet over the time, as Catholic Church came to power, the ideology of baptism, from a portrayal of salvation, gradually transformed to a ceremonial necessity/tradition in order to get into heaven. Which yielded the usage of “christen”, where baptism is performed on infants, hoping by validly initiating the otherwise clueless child as a Christian, the child would then be consider as saved. Whereas the need of baptism is supposed to follow the belief in Jesus Christ, not the other way around. By forcing on someone a belief before he can begin to comprehend and choose for himself, the gesture that originated for the sake of “goodwill” (more likely convenience) can only be a perplexity of true

The significance of this particular holiday is intended to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, and to represent a spirit of “peace on earth and goodwill toward man”. Although the entire world celebrates it as a Christian holiday, the origin of Christmas is far from what it is promoted today. The day of December 25th was actually celebrated years before the birth of Jesus, as the original birthday of Mithra, a Roman god of the sun during the season of Saturnalia Festival. It was not until Pope Julius who switched it into the official birthday of Jesus Christ that the people of Europe had been celebrating a totally irrelevant, pagan holiday. As Christmas popularizes over the centuries, mythical figures such as Santa Claus are created, to sugarcoat the unfailing need of fulfilling the endless desires of voracious consumers. Therefore bore the chance for vulturous opportunists who seek to make fortunes out of them to turn Christmas into a bunch of baloney created by the tinsel industry. Thus the festival that was already constrainedly established became known as yet another excuse for people to