Are Christmas Trees Pagan?

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Did you know Christmas trees are forbidden in the Bible? Jeremiah 10, 3 -4 says,

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For the customs of the people are vanity. A tree is cut down and worked by the hands of a craftsman.

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They decorate it with silver and gold. What could that be but a Christmas tree? Well, verse 5 says it's describing an idol.

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And Christmas trees symbolize that we don't worship idols. The story goes that in the 8th century a man named

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Boniface went throughout Germania sharing the gospel, a very dangerous mission. He came upon a group of heathens who sacrificed babies to Thor under the thunder oak.

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Grieved by such barbarism, Boniface chopped down the tree and put an end to human sacrifice.

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The people were amazed Thor did not strike him down. Upon the stump, Boniface declared that Jesus Christ is

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God and their pagan gods did not exist. He pointed to a small fir tree that pointed up to heaven, its leaves evergreen like the everlasting life we have in Christ.

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No longer worship the false gods in the wild wood, he said, but worship the true God at home with family.

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That was the meaning of the first Christmas tree. So again, a Christmas tree is not pagan, it's a reminder that we used to be pagan.

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Besides, there's no difference between having a Christmas tree and any other kind of plant. Whether you have a

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Christmas tree or not, let your testimony be that of 1 Thessalonians 1 9 -10, how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and the true

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God and to wait for his Son from heaven whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come, when we understand the text.