18thDecember
Isn’t the Christmas Tree Pagan?
Categories: Uncategorized | 2007 | by Ken Horn | 2 commentsDoesn’t Jeremiah 10:3-4 forbid the use of a Christmas tree as a pagan practice?: “For the customs of the peoples are futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers so that it will not topple” (NKJV).
On the surface, it sounds like that’s what this is saying. But one of the most common errors in Bible study is made on this passage… not reading the context. Simply reading the surrounding verses of a problem passage will usually solve the problem.
Jeremiah 10 has been taken out of context for years. It does not refer to a Christmas tree but to the making of an idol. Verse 5 says he can’t speak … that’s because he has a mouth that has been carved in wood. The Christmas tree has a much later … and valid … tradition for use by Christians in the season celebrating the birth of Christ.
Ken Horn
Thanks Ken for your enlighting comments on this subject. In some cases, it seems people do almost make an idol out of Christmas because it has become so commercialized. However, I don’t think putting up a tree and decorating it is the real problem. Thanks again for your comments.
I have a comment to your post about Jeremiah concerning the Christmas tree, and “what God has to say about it”. God said it, and we better believe it…
We cannot change the word of God! What it says in Jeremiah about the Christmas tree is just what God thinks about it, why can’t people just “believe what God says” and then Obey His word? That is not too hard to do. It is nopt being taken out of context, but it is what od says, and Iwhen I read the Bible, I believe just what it says.If we don’t then were missing the boat.
You might want to read Romans 8:8 {They that are in the flesh cannot please GOD} Do you believe what that says? It’s not taken out of context, its talking about the carnal man, and the spiritual man. Our flesh cannot please God, so then what is God saying here? …Well that we have to get into the spirit in order to please him. Thats in the Holy Ghost.
But I just wanted to show you that nothing in Gods word is taken out of context, the word of God is something we just believe when we read it or we DON’T.
Amen…