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Originally Posted by Praxeas
NO verse in the bible directly or indirectly addresses celebrating the birth of the savior..
The verse some thing refers to a Christmas tree really does not.
It's talking about taking a Tree and carving it into the image of false god and then plating them with gold or silver.
Thanksgiving IS commercial. People buy decorations, and lots of food.
Why can't Christmas be a day or a time to be with your family and be thankful for the birth of the savior?
In fact many American's celebrate thanksgiving without any thought of thanking God
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False wooden gods were never fastened with nails.
Jeremiah 10:2 "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them."
Jeremiah 10:3 "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."
Jeremiah 10:4 "
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."
Jeremiah 10:5 "
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good."
Nothing in these verses even hit that this tree was 'carved' into a god. It is a tree cut out of the forest.
Decked with silver and gold in its branches.
FASTENED with hammers and nails THAT IT MOVE NOT. Totems and carved gods were never hammered with nails to stop them from 'moving' e.g. falling over.
It is compared to the palm tree in that it is UP-RIGHT.
Isaiah 66:17 "They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind
one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD."
It is a religious event.
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No one said that Thanks Giving has not been commercialized or that it wasn't observed by persons who don't give thanks. That doesn't change what it was intended for or places it on an even par with the Christ-mass as a pagan observance that God forbids.
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