Posted on 12/25/2013 6:44:42 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Right chapter but wrong verses cited by the author. The relevent(?) verses are verses 3-6:
K.J.V.
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.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
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.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
Not talking about Christmas trees as ornaments, if you read those verses in context, it becomes very clear that God was speaking through His Prophet Jerimiah, about idolatry.
"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".
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