Christmas Day and trees
Why do we celebrate Yeshua's birthday on Christmas? He was not born on December 25th. It seems like the "church" put it on that day which shares pagan worship of false gods. I don't believe in this. Has the "church" changed who the real Jesus was and is? Yeshua did not come to start His own religion but to teach and follow God's word. Sometimes I think we go against what He actually was and is. Seems like false teaching and adding to the Bible has been done by these so-called leaders. Jeremiah 10:2 "Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. Sounds like a Christmas tree? I want to follow the real God. The real Yeshua. I'm confused and scared I'm believing in the wrong way.
We do not know the date of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. The Bible does not list that date. There are no historical records for that momentous event. Numerous ideas have been proposed for the origin of December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth. Those ideas range from early Christians’ belief that Jesus was born on that day to the establishment of a Christian holiday that would counter a heathen festival. The date of Jesus’ birth is not known.
What we do know is the reason Jesus became man. Standing before Pontius Pilate, Jesus said, “The reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth.” The truth of the Bible is that all people are sinners in need of a Savior, and Jesus is that Savior. Galatians 4:4-5 states: “But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.” We can praise God on December 25 and every day of the year for sending a Savior, his Son.
The verses from Jeremiah 10 that you cited are not descriptions of Christmas trees. In the verse immediately following the verses you listed, Jeremiah explains what that tree was all about: “Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak” (Jeremiah 10:5). Jeremiah was describing the manufacturing of an idol, not a Christmas tree. People were making those idols in Jeremiah’s day—600 years before Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Christians today who use Christmas trees in their celebration of Christmas are worshiping Jesus not a tree.
By believing in the Triune God and Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are following the real God (John 5:24). You can rest assured that your faith is not misplaced (1 Peter 2:6). God’s blessings to you.