Christmas trees

[fluffy]

Yeah. Way to go Corny, we had a good joke on the go until you murdered it.

[cliffy1]

10,000 years of logging has turned Lebanon into a desert. There is a misconception that the bible says it is OK to destroy nature. The original phrase was and man has stewardship over the Earth, not dominion. That is an intentional mistranslation. Thousands of species have gone extinct because of that one word. What other horrors have been reeked by the thousands of other mistranslations and misinterpretations? Talk about not doing your homework. Almost 2 billion people believe blindly in a book that is nothing like the original. Blind faith will be our undoing.

[cutter7]

where was the text manipulated regarding false idols? I can show you the text and you can read for yourself. can you show me text that supports the tree?

I am well versed in your bible - that is why I find it so humourous that some posters on here try to connect a christmas tree to the text.....( you might want to start with your television if you are idol hunting - everyday of the year)

Anyway enjoy your families pagan based religious custom even if you are neither

based on the OP it sounds like your church celebrates the same custom ........

Yes it does... I don't try to defend them. and what t.v?

[grammafreddy]

Almost 2 billion people believe blindly in a book that is nothing like the original.

What is the original book?

[Olli_den]

Christmas trees are just like Christmas lights to me; I put them up because they're aesthetically pleasing.

[cliffy1]

Almost 2 billion people believe blindly in a book that is nothing like the original.

What is the original book?

Before the bible came into being there were hundreds of Christian writings, most were eliminated because of purely political reasons. But since the bible was put together there have been thousands of mistranslations and many more misinterpretations. The King James version looks very little like the Catholic version with many omissions and mistranslations. Every subsequent version looks less and less like the original Greek. The book was never meant to be taken literally. Its esoteric and metaphysical knowledge cannot be accessed except by an initiate, this is why the Church objected to it being translated into the vernacular, because it knew in the hands of the ignorant it would become a dangerous weapon. Of course, they knew that because they themselves were guilty of that.

[cutter7]

Christmas trees are just like Christmas lights to me; I put them up because they're aesthetically pleasing.

I can't argue with that! have a merry christmas Olli

[cutter7]

Almost 2 billion people believe blindly in a book that is nothing like the original.

What is the original book?

Before the bible came into being there were hundreds of Christian writings, most were eliminated because of purely political reasons. But since the bible was put together there have been thousands of mistranslations and many more misinterpretations. The King James version looks very little like the Catholic version with many omissions and mistranslations. Every subsequent version looks less and less like the original Greek. The book was never meant to be taken literally. Its esoteric and metaphysical knowledge cannot be accessed except by an initiate, this is why the Church objected to it being translated into the vernacular, because it knew in the hands of the ignorant it would become a dangerous weapon. Of course, they knew that because they themselves were guilty of that.

Sounds like you have done a lot of research cliffy.

[averagejoe]

Almost 2 billion people believe blindly in a book that is nothing like the original.

What is the original book?

Before the bible came into being there were hundreds of Christian writings, most were eliminated because of purely political reasons. But since the bible was put together there have been thousands of mistranslations and many more misinterpretations. The King James version looks very little like the Catholic version with many omissions and mistranslations. Every subsequent version looks less and less like the original Greek. The book was never meant to be taken literally. Its esoteric and metaphysical knowledge cannot be accessed except by an initiate, this is why the Church objected to it being translated into the vernacular, because it knew in the hands of the ignorant it would become a dangerous weapon. Of course, they knew that because they themselves were guilty of that.

The story of how we got the Bible in its present form actually starts thousands of years ago, as briefly outlined in our Timeline of Bible Translation History. As a background study, we recommend that you first review our discussion of the Pre-Reformation History of the Bible from 1,400 B.C. to 1,400 A.D., which covers the transmission of the scripture through the original languages of Hebrew and Greek, and the 1,000 years of the Dark & Middle Ages when the Word was trapped in only Latin. Our starting point in this discussion of Bible history, however, is the advent of the scripture in the English language with the “Morning Star of the Reformation”, John Wycliffe.

[Mr Danksworth]

What I don't get, is why people have to murder a tree (or buy a tree that has been murdered) every year. Why not plant one in a pot and use it every year. I have heard that the oxygen in the atmosphere is down 30% in the last 100 years. We need more trees out there absorbing C02 and pumping out oxygen. Close to a billion trees are murdered every year to this pagan ritual. Talk about blood rituals! That never used to happen. Something is just not right.

That's quite the soapbox you're standing on. I think I see you wearing a clapboard sign in the near future. Maybe you can go out and picket them tree 'murder' farms. Then you can move on to vegetable murder and picket some local farmers. That will show them.

Thank you for proving, yet again, that religious beliefs can lead to a separation from reality. Get some help.

[cliffy1]

That's quite the soapbox you're standing on. I think I see you wearing a clapboard sign in the near future. Maybe you can go out and picket them tree 'murder' farms. Then you can move on to vegetable murder and picket some local farmers. That will show them.

Thank you for proving, yet again, that religious beliefs can lead to a separation from reality. Get some help.

And what religion would you be thinking I belong to?

[Mr Danksworth]

Oh noes. Fooled by the law of Poe.