Yes, he selects the each date and time with a very exclusive panel. This group includes Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
No for GOD has given us free will, we can choose not to celebrate victory's or to give honor where honor is due, to have a fastival it's just giving acknowledgment to something we have over come,
Dionysius
The seven festivals of God are listed in Leviticus ch.23. Shabbat, Pesach, Shavuoth, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkoth, Shemini Atzereth.
Muslims believe that their festivals are important because all of these festivals are religion related festivals. Accordingly, they are good occasions to ask God forgivness and mercy and good reminders to Muslims to follow the right God (and his prophet Muhammad) path.Also, these festivals are good motivations for Muslims to give more charities to the poor, to visit relatives, to forgive each other, and doing other good deeds that bring them closer to God.
nearly 15,000 people attended the festivals each yearIt began in the religious festivals that honored Dionysus, the Greek god of wine.
nearly 15,000 people attended the festivals each yearIt began in the religious festivals that honored Dionysus, the Greek god of wine.
It was a month of festivals of purification, named after the old Latin/Etruscan god Februus.
The Romans did not celebrate Pluto save in the sense as a god of wealth and a god of spring growth.
Bacchanalia refers to ancient Greek festivals for the Greco-Roman god Dionysus. He was the wind god. These festivals were wild and mystical. The term now means any form of drunken revelry.
People choose to follow God so that they can spend eternity with Him.
Dionysus, the Greek god of festivals, in the writings of Euripides can be considered the first anti-hero.
nearly 15,000 people attended the festivals each yearIt began in the religious festivals that honored Dionysus, the Greek god of wine.