From: herbertwarmstrong@cog-web-svc.com   
      
   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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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)