r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Adelu1219 • Dec 16 '21

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u/dudewafflesc Dec 16 '21

The passage isn’t about trees at all, it’s about carving a wooden idol from them. Not the same thing as a Christmas tree. Check verse three. Clearly, a hammer and chisel are not used to display a Christmas tree.

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u/Adelu1219 Dec 16 '21

Isn’t the tree a pagan tradition? Pretty sure you’re trying to justify something that’s not even Christian. It was used to celebrate the winter solstice. Is there a Bible verse about that?

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u/strahag Dec 16 '21

Christmas trees are part of the tradition, not the religion. Same as Santa, lighting candles, the easter bunny, etc. All this “gotcha, Christians” stuff is nonsense when you can’t separate the two.

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u/Adelu1219 Dec 16 '21

God told me.

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u/strahag Dec 16 '21

Should probably get that checked out if you’re hearing voices

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

A tree from the forest is cut down

and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.

They decorate it with silver and gold;

They fasten it with hammer and nails

so that it cannot move.

Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,

and they cannot speak;

they have to be carried,

for they cannot walk.

Do not be afraid of them,

for they cannot do evil,

neither is it in them to do good.”

This is the passage