Mark Rushdoony wrote this for the Chalcedon magazine in 2001, and it will serve us well today. It’s a little long, but stick with it: given the fallen world’s growing hostility to Christian faith, we want to hang on to Christmas–and reclaim it for Our Lord and for His people.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/the-christian-christmas-tree
Simply put, it’s okay for us to have a Christmas tree. Throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, the tree symbolizes the Tree of Life: and the Tree of Life is also Jesus Christ. That trees have been misused by pagans, unbelievers, and secularists does not invalidate it as a Christian symbol. It’s ours, God gave it to us, and we ought to keep it.
Interesting perspective. I had never thought of it as being related to the tree of life.
Lee could you please play Little Donkey. Thank you.
Sure, if I can find it.
The same is true of the rainbow – it is our symbol, not that of those who celebrate sexual perversion.
In my eulogy at my older brother’s funeral, I told how the oldest picture I have of him is of a small tree we are standing by. Years later that tree became huge. I used that image to say I now look forward to standing next to my brother by the tree of life spoken of in Revelation 22:1-2.
Amen to that.
Thank you for that article by Mark Rushdoony; the tree motif is pretty cool in the Bible