I'm wondering how many people do traditions without knowing why they do them. Decorating trees was a pagan tradition, that when alot of the pagans became Christian they still keep alot of their traditions and tied it along with their new found religion. Example....Easter eggs, and bunnies...What does that have to do with Jesus's resurrection? This also is originated through the Pagan practise of worshiping the God of Fertility "Ester", which is why bunnies and eggs symbolizes this.
In the Bible Jeremiah 10:2-4: "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." (KJV).
2006-12-23
06:24:49
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