Better yet, where is there a Christmas tree in the bible?
2007-12-09 16:56:55 · 13 answers · asked by BudLt 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Our forefathers drank a little too much nog.
2007-12-09 17:00:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are a couple of themes running through scripture concerning trees and idol worship. There is a description in Jeremiah 10:3 that describes a "Christmas" tree and what it represents. Read it and then ask God if it is okay to mix pagan worship with your worship of the King of the universe. If you want to put Christ back into the holiday, get rid of the tree.
2014-12-23 00:26:35 · answer #2 · answered by Libby 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has nothing to do with Christ's birthday, but then again, almost any tradition will change and turn over a period of time. Especially when you're talking about 2000 years. Heck, you could start a new tradition. Maybe you could hang hubcaps and old tires from your house. Or, you could make a sardine and rhubarb stew ( it couldn't be any worse than figgie pudding). So go ahead, chop down a cherry tree on President's day, plant a couple on Arbor Day, and bring on the sardine pudding.
2007-12-09 17:08:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I was personally thinking the same thing. =D These are not the true answers, but my theories:
1.To rebel against the tree-huggers.
2.That nice piney smell.
3.So the people who cut down the trees get money.
We decorate them to show the beauty of the tree, though in America, there are so many decoration, there is no tree seen. And, some people use fake trees. =)
2007-12-09 17:04:11 · answer #4 · answered by tada 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Decorating trees for the Winter Solstice comes from the Germanic pagan religion. They worshipped trees and decorated them for festivals. When Winter Solstice was christianized, the tradition of decorating trees was adopted as well.
Cutting trees down and putting them in your house is just the wastefulness of modern society and a big fire hazard too.
PS: Jesus wasn't born on December 25th, it was just the Roman Catholic Church's way of usurping the Winter Solstice Celebration. According to the Bible, Jesus was born in a manger because his parents were participating in a Roman census taking. Romans didn't take the census in Winter and there is no record of Joseph and Mary in Bethlehem.
2007-12-09 17:03:44 · answer #5 · answered by realst1 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Of course everyone's initial reasons are because it is part of their Christmas tradition. Yes, Christmas was a Christianized of a preexisting holiday, but it is not worth any less to those who celebrate it for religious reasons just becuase it is not in the Bible.
If no other defense could be made, purchasing real Christmas trees helps support family-owned farms that take care of their land.
2007-12-09 17:04:30 · answer #6 · answered by coalsmithery 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No we're not. stay timber are easily greater suited for our ecosystem than plastic ones by way of fact the plastic ones finally finally end up in a unload someplace the place the pollutants interior the plastic are then released into the air or the floor. thank you for doing all your section to guard our ecosystem. Merry Christmas!
2016-11-15 02:54:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Christmas tree originated as a pagan symbol. It was integrated into a Christmas celebration to ease the conversion from paganism to Christianity. We throw them away because they die after we chop them down.
2007-12-09 16:59:34 · answer #8 · answered by Buying is Voting 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
It has nothing to do with christianity and I sense that you don`t like the waste of recources. Why do we cut down trees, make them to toilet paper and flush it all down the toilet?
2007-12-09 17:48:49 · answer #9 · answered by john c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To stop them from taking over the world, mostly.
2007-12-09 17:00:50 · answer #10 · answered by Kevin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋