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What the Bible Says About the Christmas Tree

But if the Bible is silent about telling us to observe Christmas, or
recording any such observance by the apostles or early true Church, it
does have something to say about the Christmas
tree!

This will come as a real surprise to many. But here it is:

Jeremiah 10:2-6: "Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the
heathen....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. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails
and with hammers, that it move not."

There is a perfect description of the Christmas tree, termed by the
Eternal as "the way of the heathen--the customs of the people." We are commanded not to learn that way or follow it! It is also viewed in this passage as idolatry. The fifth verse shows that these trees cannot speak--cannot walk--must be carried. "Be not afraid of them; for they
[the trees] cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good." They
are not gods to be feared. Some people misread this to make it say there
is no harm in having a Christmas tree, but that is not what it says.


Title: The Plain Truth About Christmas
Author: Herbert W Armstrong
Date: 1952, 1972, 1974
Type: Booklet
Type Media: PDF

https://cog-hwa.org/pub/bb/xmas.pdf
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