Jeremiah 10:2-4

[HARK!]

(CLV) Jer 10:2
Thus says Yahweh: The way of the nations, do not learn, And by the signs of the heavens, do not be dismayed, Though the nations are being dismayed by them.

(CLV) Jer 10:3
Indeed concerning the statutes of the peoples, it all is vanity, For one cuts it down, a tree from the wildwood, The work of an artificer's hands with an adz;

(CLV) Jer 10:4
With silver and with gold he makes it lovely; With nails and with hammers they fasten it, so that it cannot quaver.

New Living Translation
"Do not worship the LORD your God in the way these pagan peoples worship their gods.

Discuss...

 

[HARK!]

"Nimrod started the great organized worldly apostasy from God that has
dominated this world until now. Nimrod married his own mother, whose name
was Semiramis. After Nimrod's death, his so-called mother-wife, Semiramis,
propagated the evil doctrine of the survival of Nimrod as a spirit being. She
claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump,
which symbolized the springing forth unto new life of the dead Nimrod. On each
anniversary of his birth, she claimed, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and
leave gifts upon it. December 25th, was the birthday of Nimrod. This is the real
origin of the Christmas tree."

--The Plain Truth About Christmas by David J. Stewart

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

I completely agree with you... why are humans so stubborn as to want to push our desires upon God and think He accepts them? If He says don't, then don't... no questions or semantics needed.

When we read to do all things to the glory of God, how does the decorated holiday tree do that?

 

[HARK!]

I completely agree with you... why are humans so stubborn as to want to push our desires upon God and think He accepts them? If He says don't, then don't... no questions or semantics needed.

When we read to do all things to the glory of God, how does the decorated holiday tree do that?

(CLV) Dt 12:31
You shall not act thus toward Yahweh your Elohim, for every abhorrence which Yahweh hates they perform for their elohim, for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire for their elohim.

 

[HARK!]

 

[Lord's Servant]

"Nimrod started the great organized worldly apostasy from God that has
dominated this world until now. Nimrod married his own mother, whose name
was Semiramis. After Nimrod's death, his so-called mother-wife, Semiramis,
propagated the evil doctrine of the survival of Nimrod as a spirit being. She
claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump,
which symbolized the springing forth unto new life of the dead Nimrod. On each
anniversary of his birth, she claimed, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and
leave gifts upon it. December 25th, was the birthday of Nimrod. This is the real
origin of the Christmas tree."

--The Plain Truth About Christmas by David J. Stewart

Actually there's no evidence for Semiramis there's nothing about her in the Greek legends that describes her developing a religion

 

[HARK!]

Actually there's no evidence for Semiramis there's nothing about her in the Greek legends that describes her developing a religion

Semiramis - Wikipedia