Don't know where to put this. No threads on religion that I can see.
As I said in another forum, I am reading the Bible at the moment. Decided that it's something I wanted to do at least once in my life. Turns out it's really interesting. I have always considered myself Christian but never really read the bible or anything much, thought it was all old language and boring and I couldn't understand it. Until someone gave us a wedding present of the new international version of the bible. The language is so much easier to understand than the King James Version I read at school.

Anyway, I have discovered a lot of things I didn't know already (and I'm not very far into it). It seems like a lot of the traditions we have today are not really based on the bible. Which is kind of annoying as this is what I've been doing all my life.

Christmas, Easter, etc are not found anywhere in the bible. There are actually other holy days that God told people to celebrate. Many people think that these are old and not meant to be done today. But through my research I have come to the conclusion (for myself, personally) that I should be acknowledging these holy days. Not saying I'm not going to celebrate Christmas or anything, as that's what my family does and I quite like it. Anyway, also the food laws I never knew about!! Read a lot of research about this too, lets just say no more bacon for me.

Anyway I was just wondering if there is any one else out there that has these same views?? Follows the same laws of the old testament, etc. There doesn't seem to be many people. Not wanting to offend anyone either, of course this is my own personal view of things and what I understand from the research I've done.

Any comments or anything would be much appreciated as I find this very interesting. I love hearing about our history and other religions, and what other people celebrate and believe.