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Originally Posted by Sam
Ah, the old "Jeremiah tree" of Jeremiah chapter 10.
I used to belong to an organization called The Church of Jesus Christ Pentecostal Faith. Our Presiding Bishop was against lots of stuff. Some of the preachers used Jeremiah chapter 10 to preach against Christmas trees.
One family in which the Dad and at least one son were preachers lived in SE Kentucky. Folks down there did not go to a lot and buy a tree. They went out into the woods and cut one. One year some of the family members decided they wanted a Christmas tree that year and went out and cut one and brought it home. Their Dad was agin' it. He told them they were heatherns (that's how some say it in Kentucky). One son who was a preacher clearly showed his father how Jeremiah chapter 10 did not apply to them. He pointed out verse 3 where it says, "...one cutteth a tree out of the forest..." He said, "See, Daddy, it says here that ONE cutteth a tree out of the forest. We didn't have just one person go get that tree. There were several of us."
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Sam, So very funny. Loved the story. I told the
Jeremiah 10 story to my MIL. She read where it says the tree has no power and cannot speak. She said, "well if it has no power, then I am putting it up." Never did change about Christmas, but she did at least get baptized and receive the HG before she died.
I know Jeremiah does not speak to a Christmas tree, there was no such thing as Christmas in Jeremiahs time. Just to the practice of cutting and decorating a tree as heathen.
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