(April 25, 2011 at 1:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Jeremiah 10:2-4 (New International Version, ©2011)
2 This is what the LORD says:
“Do not learn the ways of the nations
or be terrified by signs in the heavens,
though the nations are terrified by them.
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 when stealing the trimmings of pagan celebrations ( as you fuckers did when you turned the Saturnalia into "christmas" you are in violation of your supposed god's bullshit.
If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest guy on earth!
They're talking about making a graven image there anyway, with the usual pomposity of the NIV. Cut down the tree, chisel it into the shape of a "god", load it down with some many geegaws that it might fall over.