christmas trees?? what do they have to do with the birth of jesus?
2007-10-28 03:28:39 · 6 answers · asked by Johan 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Evergreen trees sybolize the everlasting life that we have as a result of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Evergreen trees also are a sign of life in the dead of winter.
Pangel is also correct in that the evergreen tree was originally a Germanic Pagan symbol. Just one other pagan symbol that was adopted by Christianity and given a Christian meaning.
2007-10-28 03:35:22 · answer #1 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pangel is correct, to a point. She doth forget that, as Jesus Christ sanctified the world by His Coming, Death and Resurrection, so His Body, the Church, continually sanctifies the world and it's festivals, practices and even the calendar.
Some trace the custom tho the Old Testament: 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).
One Christmas tradition was that St. Boniface (675? - 755; a.k.a. Winfred) cut down a deciduous tree in the presence of some newly-baptized Christians. The tree was an oak -- once sacred to the former Pagans. It miraculously split into four pieces, revealing an evergreen tree growing from the center of the oak stump. This symbolized the death of Paganism and the establishment of Christianity.
2007-10-28 10:36:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nothing, it was a Pagan custom. When people became Christian they kept their culture. The tree is an evergreen it symbolizes ever lasting life. So does Jesus.
2007-10-28 10:35:29 · answer #3 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. Christmas traditions are based off Yule traditions, and Yule traditions involve evergreens.
Most doubt that Jesus was actually born on the winter solstice. But the date shouldn't really matter to those who believe in him, I guess.
2007-10-28 14:37:31 · answer #4 · answered by xx. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. But then, nothing is Christian about Christmas except the title. Everything else was stolen from the pagans, including celebrating the birth of a "crucified savior - born of a virgin (Mithra). It should be called Krismas.
2007-10-28 10:39:15 · answer #5 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nothing
they are a Germanic Pagan symbol
2007-10-28 10:31:51 · answer #6 · answered by ☮ Pangel ☮ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋