christmas trees are a part of a pegan tradition so is it a sin to have one?
2006-12-11 05:31:00 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't think its a sin, but it sure is hypocritical.
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2006-12-11 05:32:31 · answer #1 · answered by Whatever 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
No, if you're an ecologist it's a tough question, a fake tree saves trees from being cut down but buying a real tree encourages tree farms to be planted....
As far as the moral issues, if you believe in the "pagan" meanings of the tree (and struggling to denounce your pagan believes) and having a tree causes you to go back to you old ways... then not a good idea. If you're just worried that you might be unintentionally wrong, don't worry about it and spend more time trying to improve the existance of those around you.
2006-12-11 13:39:10 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the 7th century a monk from Crediton, Devonshire, went to Germany to teach the Word of God. He did many good works there, and spent much time in Thuringia, an area which was to become the cradle of the Christmas Decoration Industry.
Legend has it that he used the triangular shape of the Fir Tree to describe the Holy Trinity of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The converted people began to revere the Fir tree as God's Tree, as they had previously revered the Oak. By the 12th century it was being hung, upside-down, from ceilings at Christmastime in Central Europe, as a symbol of Christianity.
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So, no.
2006-12-11 13:34:03 · answer #3 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses love and respect and honor Christ. They do NOT celebrate so-called "Christmas" because "Christmas" does NOT celebrate Christ; "Christmas" celebrates the pagan Saturnalia. Jesus was not even born in December. Nearly all so-called Christmas customs dishonor Christ.
(Jeremiah 10:2-5) This is what Jehovah has said: "Do not learn the way of the nations at all... 3 For the customs of the peoples are just an exhalation, because it is a mere tree out of the forest that one has cut down, the work of the hands of the craftsman with the billhook. 4 With silver and with gold one makes it pretty. With nails and with hammers they fasten them down, that none may reel. ...the doing of any good is not with them."
http://watchtower.org/e/19981215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20001215/
http://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/19981215/
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm
By contrast, it's tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".
(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”
(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”
Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.
How would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.
(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_08.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20011115/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
2006-12-11 13:37:49 · answer #4 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As long as you are not WORSHIPPING the TRUE God- or paying homage to any pagan and non-existent gods by it!
My heart is convinced that Christmas is not a true Christian holiday. Thai it is a Pagan holiday to their gods.
In my heart I don't acknowledge this holiday as one or the other- but rather to pay homage to my fellow man and spread love and goodwill to others less fortunate.
2006-12-11 13:33:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christians were forced to live accordint to the Pagan tradition, cause its rumoured that Christianity was forbidden and it just kinda grew on us. I don't think its a sin.
2006-12-11 13:36:09 · answer #6 · answered by Ashali 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Didn't their god invent the fir tree. I guess it wouldn't be.
It would be a sin to celebrate Yule though.
2006-12-11 13:32:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2006-12-11 13:32:18 · answer #8 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Only if it's a silver/aluminum one from the '50's or '60's...
2006-12-11 13:33:49 · answer #9 · answered by seamac56 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
since it's a stolen holiday.. yes.
the xtians should make up their own holidays and stop stealing from the pagans all the time.
2006-12-11 13:33:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋