Christians don't heed the Old TestamentWhere do you think the 10 Commandments come from?
Seriously, how do Christians reconcile this when it's brought up?
Given the context everyone ignores, this is clearly about making wooden idols.A specific wooden idol that represent a God that died December 23th and was reborn as his own son on December 25th.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jeremiah%2010&version=NIV
A specific wooden idol that represent a God that died December 23th and was reborn as his own son on December 25th.Christmas Creature?
Given the context everyone ignores, this is clearly about making wooden idols.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jeremiah%2010&version=NIV
Christmas Creature?Nimrod and Tammuz.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b20d66cc.jpg
Christmas trees are an old pagan tradition that Christians adopted.
Jeremiah 10
1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
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.
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.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
People quoting scripture they don't believe to try to "own" religious people
Nothing wrong with pointing out religious hypocrisy.
You probably don't even know what you're quoting. Relevant quote from the Quran:
"It is He who revealed to you the Book. Some of its verses are definitive; they are the foundation of the Book, and others are unspecific. As for those in whose hearts is deviation, they follow the unspecific part, seeking dissent, and seeking to derive an interpretation. But none knows its interpretation except God and those firmly rooted in knowledge say, We believe in it; all is from our Lord. But none recollects except those with understanding."
-3:7
That sounds like a pretty slick way of saying don't question anything.
Ironically, it's more like "don't be dishonest"
"Why are we against gay people"
"God says it's bad in the bible"
"What about all this other weird shit God is against in the bible"
"You are reading too much into it and no one knows what God meant in those parts except God"
Ideally the answer to both should be I dont know Gods position but my best guess is _____. If they admitted their uncertainty then hopefully theyd be less likely to force their views on others.I mean God's position is almost always pretty clear in the Old Testament. He has a pretty straightforward way of talking and it's usually explicitly like "I command you - ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DO thing". It's just that if everyone listened to him when he said stuff then it'd be really annoying like not shaving parts of our head and not mixing different clothing types together. That's all really a bummer. So people would rather say God must have meant something else than what he clearly said, or that those rules applied to ancient people but not us. He didn't imply that at all, but it would be very convenient that way so it is preferable.
Except the parts that let us discriminate against minorities. God was clear about those and the interpretations are not unclear and they definitely still all apply today.Usually the excuse is "because Paul said so" in one of those New Testament books named after town.
Seems like a criticism of the rich or the holy romans more than of pagansBy the time that was written, the Roman Kingdom was a minor city-state on the Italian peninsula.
By the time that was written, the Roman Kingdom was a minor city-state on the Italian peninsula.
Ironically, it's more like "don't be dishonest"
Our tree is made of plastic, a material which is not mentioned in scripture. Yahtzee, agnostics.
A specific wooden idol that represent a God that died December 23th and was reborn as his own son on December 25th.
Source that isn't one of those 19th century attempts to falsely claim that Catholicism is a continuation of the Babylonian religion?The Bible mentions Tammuz and Nimrod.
The Bible mentions Tammuz and Nimrod.I know. I'm still asking for a source that specifically links them to the tradition of Christmas trees that doesn't trace back to a debunked 19th century effort to link Catholicism to the Babylonian religion.