In today's post I'm going to cover some reasons why I don't celebrate the anniversary of my birth or anyone's else for that matter. First we will cover what we can find out about this subject from scripture then I will go over a few more points before concluding.
Are Birthday's mentioned in the Bible?
As a matter of fact they are, however not in a positive light. The only people we find in scripture that celebrate their birthday is the Pharaoh of Egypt and Herod (Gen 40:20-22, Mar 6:21 -27). Neither of these men were portrayed in the bible as godly or God fearing. Additionally it turns out that on both these birthdays someone was killed.
In the book of Job we find out that his son's held feast; each one on "his day". Furthermore we learn that when they did this Job made sacrifices for them because he thought that they may have cursed God in their hearts(Job 1:4 -5). Job's children died on what seems to be when they were celebrating their elder brothers birthday (Job 1:18-19). Then after all these things Job curses "his day" which by the context turns out to be his birthday (Job 3:1-12).
According to scripture the day of one's death is better than the day of ones birth (Ecc 7:1). The bible also warns us to Beware because their will be those who will try and spoil us through the tradition of men (Col 2:8).
What else can be Wrong with Celebrating Birthdays?
Now lets go over the birthday cake, what could be wrong with eating cake on your birthday? It turns out that most likely the origin of eating cake on your birthday was meant to ensure through sorcery that you wouldn't be hungry or poor during the coming year. It is believed that eating foods with words such as "happy birthday" or "good luck" will magically cause these very things to happen.
The last thing that I will be covering about this topic on today's post is the facade of caring for people when you really don't. This can be demonstrated by a) sending someone a card on their birthday when you don't see or even think about them the rest of the year. b) Siblings to who treat you like dirt the rest of the year but act all nice to you on your birthday. c) Parents/Aunts/Uncles etc who don't spend time with their kids/Nephew/Nieces except on their birthdays.
This ties in with Expectations and Obligations. Children and even grownups are taught to expect special treatment, gifts, a cake, a party, etc and if they don't receive these things from you then you are on their naughty list; in other words they are mad at you. A relationship shouldn't be based on whether or not someone gets you stuff, it should be based on love. There are plenty of fair weather friends out there, the true ones stick around even when you don't have money to get them stuff (Pro 19:6-7).
Then on the other hand people feel obligated to get someone something on their birthday, when something is given out of obligation it isn't done because of love. Example : you reluctantly pay that speeding ticket, you do it because you have to, not because you want to. The proper way to show love is to spend time with someone, help them when their in need, or give someone something just because you want to (2 Cor 9:7).
So in conclusion we find out that Birthdays don't come from Christian traditions but rather pagan ones, and that people don't give gifts on birthdays out of Charity or love but rather because they feel as those they have too.
For a More detailed Article on the Subject please visit the link below, which also happens to be a reference for some of the material on this post.
http://www.creationliberty.com/articles/birthday.php
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