this is from jeremiah 10: verses 1,2,3 its interesting,could the custom of the tree with popular customs have pagan roots? im no authority gods word is so don't listen to me...but here it is:
10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
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.
10:3 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.
10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
here is the definition of the word heathen...its intresting as they aren't gods people!
hea·then [hee-thuhn] Show IPA
noun, plural hea·thens, hea·then.
1.
an unconverted individual of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible; a person who is neither a Jew, Christian, nor Muslim; pagan.
2.
an irreligious, uncultured, or uncivilized person.
adjective
3.
of or pertaining to heathens; pagan.
4.
irreligious, uncultured, or uncivilized.