Do not learn the ways of the nations
Seems like that would apply to adopting pagan practices in our worship at any time, not just during the time of Jeremiah.
3 For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
they cut a tree out of the forest,
and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
4 They adorn it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so it will not totter.
So yes, they cut down an evergreen tree, put it into a stand in the house and adorned it with silver and gold just like we do, but it is completely different. What they did was condemned by Jeremiah but that doesn't mean that God would condemn us. OK.
5 Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
their idols cannot speak;
they must be carried
because they cannot walk.
Do not fear them;
they can do no harm
nor can they do any good.”
So Jeremiah says this tree decked in silver and gold was an idol but your Christmas tree decked in silver and gold isn't?
Do not fear them they can do no harm nor can they do any good. Yes, they sell this pathetic story that worshipping their little pagan practices will somehow give you the Christmas spirit. Really, I find the spirit at this time of year to be horrible.
8 They are all senseless and foolish;
they are taught by worthless wooden idols.
9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish
and gold from Uphaz.
What the craftsman and goldsmith have made
is then dressed in blue and purple—
all made by skilled workers.
Craftsmen? Like the ones who make all these ornaments that people hang on their trees. Don't worry, the Israelites were judged very seriously for adopting the pagan practices of the nations but this is just one more verse you can erase from your Bible. Yes Paul said the things which happened to them were done as an example for our sakes, but you have decided that this example does not apply to you.
11 “Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.’”
This Christmas tree has nothing to do with the incarnation of God into man.
14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.
The images he makes are a fraud;
they have no breath in them.
15 They are worthless, the objects of mockery;
when their judgment comes, they will perish.
Yes, the things people put on that tree are not just idols but objects of mockery. Santa is a mockery of God, the reindeer and sleigh is a mockery of the rapture.
Seems like that would apply to adopting pagan practices in our worship at any time, not just during the time of Jeremiah.
3 For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
they cut a tree out of the forest,
and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
4 They adorn it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so it will not totter.
So yes, they cut down an evergreen tree, put it into a stand in the house and adorned it with silver and gold just like we do, but it is completely different. What they did was condemned by Jeremiah but that doesn't mean that God would condemn us. OK.
5 Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
their idols cannot speak;
they must be carried
because they cannot walk.
Do not fear them;
they can do no harm
nor can they do any good.”
So Jeremiah says this tree decked in silver and gold was an idol but your Christmas tree decked in silver and gold isn't?
Do not fear them they can do no harm nor can they do any good. Yes, they sell this pathetic story that worshipping their little pagan practices will somehow give you the Christmas spirit. Really, I find the spirit at this time of year to be horrible.
8 They are all senseless and foolish;
they are taught by worthless wooden idols.
9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish
and gold from Uphaz.
What the craftsman and goldsmith have made
is then dressed in blue and purple—
all made by skilled workers.
Craftsmen? Like the ones who make all these ornaments that people hang on their trees. Don't worry, the Israelites were judged very seriously for adopting the pagan practices of the nations but this is just one more verse you can erase from your Bible. Yes Paul said the things which happened to them were done as an example for our sakes, but you have decided that this example does not apply to you.
11 “Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.’”
This Christmas tree has nothing to do with the incarnation of God into man.
14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.
The images he makes are a fraud;
they have no breath in them.
15 They are worthless, the objects of mockery;
when their judgment comes, they will perish.
Yes, the things people put on that tree are not just idols but objects of mockery. Santa is a mockery of God, the reindeer and sleigh is a mockery of the rapture.
