What dose a christmas tree have to do with christmas!
2007-08-13 14:42:44 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nothing. Its something derrived from a pagan holiday that used to happen before Christ came. The church decided to make christmas on that day (dec 25th) to try and stop the people celebrating what they believed as false Gods but somehow the tree seemed to creep back into the equasion (just like santa)
2007-08-13 14:49:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
St. Boniface Story
Why do we have a decorated Christmas Tree? 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.
The first decorated tree was at Riga in Latvia, in 1510. In the early 16th century, Martin Luther is said to have decorated a small Christmas Tree with candles, to show his children how the stars twinkled through the dark night.
2007-08-13 21:50:24 · answer #2 · answered by guppy137 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The modern custom of a Christmas tree does not come from any form of paganism. There is no evidence of any pagan religion decorating a special holiday tree for their mid-winter festivals, although the Romans celebrated the winter solstice with a fest called Saturnalia in honor of Saturnus, the god of agriculture. They decorated their houses with greens and lights and exchanged gifts. Late in the Middle Ages, Germans and Scandinavians placed evergreen trees inside their homes or just outside their doors to show their hope in the forthcoming spring. The first Christmas tree was decorated by Protestant Christians in 16th-century Germany. Our modern Christmas tree evolved from these early German traditions, and the custom most likely came to the United States with Hessian troops during the American Revolution, or with German immigrants to Pennsylvania and Ohio.
2007-08-13 21:50:44 · answer #3 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely nothing, in fact, God warns about some of the Christmas "festivities"
Jer 10:2 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.
Jer 10:3 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.
Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Christmas was a pagan ritual adopted by the RCC in an attempt to woo converts.
2007-08-13 21:49:45 · answer #4 · answered by imaji 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
absolutely nothing. the only traditions that actually have something to do with the real meaning of Christmas are
1) rememberahnce of the Lord's birth
2) remembering the wisemen scene when He was 2
3) giving gifts because God gave a gift to the world
the tree, the fat man, the mistle-toe, decorations, etc have nothing to do with Christmas. most are just the results of anglo-saxons being influence by celtics.
2007-08-13 21:50:02 · answer #5 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is an evergreen tree, which symbolizes eternal life (among other things). People will try to point out that the Christmas tree is not Christian, but Pagan. But that is a misunderstanding of the fact that Christianity was itself a Pagan solar-based religion from its inception.
2007-08-13 21:47:37 · answer #6 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is an evergreen. An evergreen tree is a symbol for eternal life. It is decorated with lights to represent Christ as the Light of the World. It is decorated with candy canes. Candy canes are white with red stripes. Christ was sinless (white) and scourged (red stripes) for our redemption. It is shaped like a shepherd's staff.
The star at the top represents the star of Bethlehem. The gifts at the bottom represents the greatest gift given to mankind.
Other than that. Nothing.
Good answer, camof2009
2007-08-13 21:53:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The christmas tree was originally a pagan symbol representing rebirth and eternal life.
Christians co-opted both the holiday and symbology, pasting christian meanings on top of the pagan symbols. (Given that the shepherds were staying out with their flocks, Christ's actual birth was probably in the late spring)
2007-08-13 21:49:48 · answer #8 · answered by LX V 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nothing. Neither do presents, Santa Clause, or stockings. But these things make it so that non Christians can celebrate Christmas too!
2007-08-13 21:47:19 · answer #9 · answered by justanotherone 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely NOTHING. Christmas isnt about TREES...its about the birth of a SAVIOR.
2007-08-13 21:59:47 · answer #10 · answered by goinupru 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋