[Hieronymus]

But rest is correct about the Bible on “Christmas” Trees

---

You are banking an awful lot on a very narrow reading of English words capturing precisely the original Hebrew—or perhaps you hold that the translation that you favour is more inspired than the original.

I’m fairly sure that my tree was cut down with a chainsaw, it is not fastened with nails, it moves all too much, and there is no silver or gold—but even if you can discount these things, and by some chance Jeremiah was dealing with Christmas trees, the passage does not close “get rid of them”but
“be not afreaid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”

Merry Chirstmas!!!

[RedMonqey]

You are banking an awful lot on a very narrow reading of English words capturing precisely the original Hebrew—

That could be said about every word in the Bible through ALL it's translations.

But don't worry.

All I said I agree it is in the Bible.

Not that one is going to Eternal Damnation because one puts up a tree out of custom, an evergreen that has lost all its original nordic-pagean meaning.

Maybe if you are are offering sacrefices to a long forgoted nordic deity.(any Thor, Frieda worshipers here?)

If you accept the Jesus as your Lord and Savior, I don't believe you're be held wanting on the Day of Judgement if you hang a little mistletoe(another pagaen custom) on a certain day(date) of the year(which is also pagaen in origins)

This is for the the purist who say "if it ain't in the Bible, Jesus wouldn't approve."crowd

(Don't get me started on the Sunday vs. the Saturday Sabbath)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Truly, you get the point. It was a pagan practice intended to facilitate the invocation of made-up pagan gods that somehow would be associated with the mounted and decorated tree. The Hebrew prophet was telling the Jewish people not to either place their hope in, or be worried about, any supposed power that pagans could invoke with their silly god-tree. The modern Christmas tree, as used by Christians, is put in place as a decoration in honor of a God that no Christian should have any argument with, and is afforded no spiritual power. It might be unwise to have a Christmas tree around if one were going to be visited by such a pagan, lest he get the wrong idea. But who’s going to stumble into worshiping a Christmas tree today?

Superficial similarities do not amount to equality. The road that claims such equality is the road to every sort of superstition.