2007-04-13 05:59:58 · 6 answers · asked by mac d 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A text without a context is a pretext to a snow job. Quote that chapter and the ten before it and after it... Then we'll talk about it.
...And subtext here: Jews don't celebrate Christmas. Why care what the Old Testament says about Christmas trees? Just stirring, aren't you?
2007-04-13 06:02:54 · answer #1 · answered by Winston Smith 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because it's a pagan tradition, but no one really cares about that, they put up trees anyway.
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
2007-04-13 13:02:29 · answer #2 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't specifically say Christmas trees, however the premise is the same. The use back then was, however, QUITE different. The trees spoken of were used as a symbol of a pagan fertility god/goddess. During this time in Jewish history, paganism had corrupted the Jewish faith to the point that nothing was held sacred. The sons of a prophet of God (who were according to custom, take over the duties of their father upon his death) actually had sex with non-Jews on the steps of the temple. A lot of the paganism that entered into Jewish life at the time involved sex. Sex among family members, sex in sacred places, sacrifices to sex gods. Fathers would sacrifice their own daughters in an effort to "appease the gods", or worse, incest. The pagans of the time held many things as symbols which many, MANY years later were incorporated into Christianity when Christianity spread into pagan strongholds. It was done in an effort to say See, we're not that different. "You have Winter Solstice we have Christmas. We'll move the date of the birth of our Savior to meet with the date of your Winter Solstice and incorporate your pagan tree symbol and celebrate together. "
2007-04-13 13:12:24 · answer #3 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It did not say Christmas tree. It says tree that were carved out into idols. Actually Catholics should be more aware of this chapter and they have a good reason for that. They will even answer you in a question form like,"Supposing you have someone you love so much and she dies, would you not keep a picture of her to remind you of that love". Of course I always reply, "Yes, I will keep a picture of her. But to put her in an altar with candles and offerings, then kneel before her and ask for help to intercede for me to God? Isn't that a form of idolatry when God says only to Him your knee shall bend and your head shall bow?
2007-04-13 13:23:45 · answer #4 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, by the standards of the Old Testament, Christianity is a heathen religion.
I think Jeremiah also had a few things to say about a death/rebirth deity worshiped by women near Bethlehem.
He called it an abomination.
2007-04-13 13:03:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because cutting down the true and adorning it with silver and gold is making an idol out of it. And its of pagan descent.
Everyone knows about that, yet its tradition and they don't want to give it up. Why get entangled in pagan traditions?
2007-04-13 13:07:54 · answer #6 · answered by superstang99_4485 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋