Are Christmas Trees Sinful? | Ask Me Anything w/ Jeff Durbin Highlight
1 view
This is a highlight of our All-Access show Ask Me Anything. AMA is a LIVE show where you can ask Jeff anything. To check out all episodes go to https://apologiastudios.com/shows/ask-me-anything/ . We go live every 3rd Monday of the Month at 1PM Arizona Time. #apologetics
Be sure to like, share, and comment on this video.
You can get more at http://apologiastudios.com :
You can partner with us by signing up for All Access. When you do you make everything we do possible and you also get exclusive content like Collision, The Aftershow, Ask Me Anything w/ Jeff Durbin and The Academy, etc. You can also sign up for a free account to receive access to Bahnsen U. We are re-mastering all the audio and video from the Greg L. Bahnsen PH.D catalogue of resources. This is a seminary education at the highest level for free.
#ApologiaStudios
Follow us on social media here:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ApologiaStudios/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apologiastudios/?hl=en
Check out our online store here:
https://shop.apologiastudios.com/
- 00:00
- Nicole says, on a very different note, I have people who are incredibly faithful followers of Jesus who are also saying it is a sin to have a
- 00:06
- Christmas tree. There's so many bogus claims made online about Christmas trees and Christmas presents and Christmas.
- 00:13
- It is just an endless stream of just falsehoods. People even taking Bible verses in Jeremiah out of context about trees and like, that's
- 00:23
- Christmas trees. It's like, no, it's not. It's not even about that, not in any way, shape or form.
- 00:28
- The Christmas tree tradition comes later and it comes as part of a Christian tradition where Christians were using these things to express the glory of Jesus Christ and eternal life and the light of the world.
- 00:40
- I would say this, look, if we want to keep unity with each other, when someone tries to come after me for celebrating Christmas and Christmas trees,
- 00:47
- I'm saying, I'm celebrating the incarnation. It is about the glory of God. It's about the gospel. This tree and these lights and these presents have got nothing to do with paganism, none whatsoever.
- 00:56
- It's about the glory of Jesus. And that's why we're celebrating. And no, Christmas was not originally a pagan holiday that turned into a
- 01:06
- Christian holiday. There's very, very, very, very good evidence and argumentation that Jesus was actually born during the time that we celebrate
- 01:14
- Christmas. And so I think it is an accurate time of year to be celebrating the incarnation and the birth of Jesus.
- 01:21
- And I'd say go all the way. And if somebody wants to fight with you over it, say, you know what? I love you. You know, the Lord loves you. I'm going to celebrate
- 01:27
- Jesus and have the most crazy, amazing Christmas tree to glorify God. You don't have to.