CHRISTIANS, you only have 3 days left to get rid of your XMAS TREE!

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It's seems you've confused yourself with meme and a bad reading from a non current text/translation.

Here try this one:
 Family of Israel, listen to the Lord! 2 This is what the Lord says:
“Don’t live like people from other nations.
    Don’t be afraid of special signs in the sky.[a]
The other nations are afraid of what they see in the sky.
    But you must not be afraid of them.
3 The customs of other people are worth nothing.
    Their idols are nothing but wood from the forest.
    Their idols are made by workers with their chisels.[b]
4 They make their idols beautiful with silver and gold.
    They use hammers and nails to fasten their idols down
    so that they will not fall over.
5 The idols of the other nations are like
    a scarecrow in a cucumber field.
They cannot walk.
    They cannot talk, and the people must carry them.
So don’t be afraid of their idols.
    They cannot hurt you.
And they cannot help you either.”
6 Lord, there is no one like you.
    You are great!
    Your name is great and powerful!
7 Everyone should respect you, King of all the nations.
    You deserve their respect.
There are many wise men among the nations,
    but not one of them is as wise as you.
8 All the people of the other nations are stupid and foolish.
    Their teachings come from worthless wooden statues.
9 They use silver from the city of Tarshish
    and gold from the city of Uphaz and make their statues.
Carpenters and metalworkers make the idols.
    They put blue and purple clothes on them.
    “Wise men” make these “gods.”
10 But the Lord is the only true God.
    He is the only God who is alive.

What the text describes or rather trying to get people of Israel to see is that the idols of other nations are nothing to fear, they do this by simply describing how the idols are made.

There are no prohibition on tree here. How do we know this? Because the Hebrew bible is subdivided into three main parts. Prophets, Law, and Writings. Laws are only found in the books of the law. Otherwise if God gives a command say in a book of writings or prophets then it is a one time thing, only pertaining to that time or those specific circumstances. The book of Jeremiah is Not a book of the law as the Law is only found in the Pentateuch or the first 5 books of the Hebrew bible.

Drich,

Oh, I get it!  You're a Jew instead of a Christian, as you should be if you follow the mythical Jesus, and where you're reading from the Jewish
writings instead of the Judeo-Christian bible.  I thought you were a Christian, sorry. Therefore, in this sense, you're correct. You have to 
laugh at the Christian rewrite of the Jeremiah verse in question, yes?  LOL

Sorry for distinguishing you as a Christian, whereas, if anyone knows the Old Testament, it is the Jews like yourself!


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