Those who have read the Bible know that the God of love hates many things. And Christmas trees are on his most hated list.
Here's what he has to say about them.
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen.... For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest ... with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold. Jeremiah 10:2-4
There are a couple other verses that sound like condemnations of Christmas trees, celebrations, fires, and roast beast. But, hey, it's the Bible. Who knows what the hell it means?
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. He ... chooseth a tree ... to prepare a graven image. Isaiah 40:19-20
He heweth him down cedars ... among the trees of the forest ... yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread ... he maketh it a graven image ... he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. Isaiah 44:14-16
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You know, you're right. Would you believe it, most of the so-called Christian holidays are not of-Christ at all, but have roots in pagan semitic religions.
Christmas is celebrated on Dec 25, for instance, because of Nimrod's death, which had been celebrated by hundreds of varying cultures for centuries before Messiah. Or Lent's 40 days, for instance, is not a number pulled out of a hat: it was originally meant as 40 days of weeping for Tammuz (Nimrod's son). This weeping for Tammuz is mentioned in Ezekiel, God saying through Ezekiel he hates such idolatry. Easter is named after Ishtar/Eostre/Ashtar/Ashtoreth/Semiramis/Isis, all of which are names by different cultures for the same goddess of fertility, Nimrod's wife, Semiramis.
For these reasons, early Christian America did not celebrate these festivals. In fact, we know from state record books that Christmas was outlawed in Massachusetts for a number of years.
In the case of the Jeremiah verse, God hates people worshiping the trees (you omitted the pieces in Jeremiah 10 about the trees being used to craft wooden idols). IMO, I see only consistency there; nowhere in Scripture is worshiping idols considered a moral, ethical thing.
Cromwell outlawed it here centuries ago. Enforcement was difficult.
Christmas being on December 25th also has many roots in the Sun God Krishna (There's a tiny tiny piece of this in the DaVinci Code as well)
Essentially, the shortest day of the year is December 22nd (The sun is at the lowest point) then 3 days later December 25th it noticably begins to climb back up the sky.
They said that it was 'reborn' or 'risen again'
They also said this being was 'the light of the world' (the Sun seems obvious for this) which is a nickname of Jesus.
mmmmmmmm... there was no such thing as "Christmas trees" in the days of Isaiah or Jeremiah, so these comments have nothing to do with that particular practice... but i suppose you must know that... these comments in Isaiah and Jeremiah are pointing out the disconnect that is so much a part of human thinking about just about everything.
Yes, there may not have been Christmas trees back then, but the tradition of cutting down an evergreen and putting it inside during the winter was started thousands of years ago in Northern Europe.
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