{"id":35823,"date":"2025-05-11T13:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=35823"},"modified":"2026-11-05T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:45:01","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-new-years-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/jehovahs-witnesses-new-years-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30a8\u30db\u30d0\u306e\u8a3c\u4eba\u306f\u65b0\u5e74\u3092\u795d\u3044\u307e\u3059\u304b\uff1f\u3044\u3044\u3048\u30012\u3064\u306e\u7406\u7531\u304c\u3042\u308a\u307e\u3059"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>No. Jehovah&#039;s Witnesses, who see themselves as Christians, do not celebrate New Year&#039;s Eve or New Year&#039;s Day. Their publications give two reasons. They point out that the Romans dedicated the first of January to Janus, one of their gods, and that in many places the night is kept with heavy drinking and wild parties, which the Bible warns against. When Witnesses write about New Year&#039;s Eve, they turn again and again to a few lines of Paul&#039;s letter to\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. Witnesses keep no New Year&#039;s Eve or Day: they point out that 1 January was dedicated to the god Janus, and see its revelry as against Romans 13:13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[531],"class_list":["post-35823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-understanding-jehovahs-witnesses"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hf620-img_00447.webp?fit=900%2C663&ssl=1","mfb_acf":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled","jetpack_featured_media_url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113898,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35823\/revisions\/113898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35823"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=35823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}