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To: Nachum

How about the profit Jeremiah giving a perspective to a pagan practice

“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.
Jer 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. “

In history this practice was a form of false worship, according to God, through Jeremiah.


8 posted on 12/23/2012 7:15:03 PM PST by foundedonpurpose (It's time for a fundamental restoration, of our country's principles!)
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To: foundedonpurpose

And if this is actually taken as though it were a citation today against the practice of Christmas trees, it is a tired old canard based on the fallacy that some superficial degree of similarity constitutes identity. Has any even quasi-orthodox Christian you know of ever worshiped a Christmas tree? I didn’t think so. This is not the practice by which pagans actually thought the trees were gods. Although I’d wonder about cutting down trees if I did believe that, as these gods would get rather peeved at such an action if they did exist as claimed.


13 posted on 12/23/2012 7:35:40 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: foundedonpurpose
How about the “profit” Jeremiah giving a perspective to a pagan practice

It's the "prophet" Jeremiah

But rest is correct about the Bible on "Christmas" Trees

Just saying...

17 posted on 12/23/2012 8:59:26 PM PST by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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