Christmas, cutting
and decorating trees, etc. is a man-made tradition (heathen)
God does not approve of it
Jeremiah 10:1-11:
1. Hear ye the word which the LORD
speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2. Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen,
and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen
are dismayed at them.
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.
7. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee
doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of
the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like
unto thee.
8. But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is
a doctrine of vanities.
9. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and
gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands
of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are
all the work of cunning men.
10. But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and
an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble,
and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11. Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made
the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the
earth, and from under these heavens.
(KJV)
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