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Many claim that the Christmas tree is pagan and should not be used by Christians. The claim is usually made that the Christmas tree is mentioned in Jeremiah 10:1-5 and that God condemns its use. Is this true? What does the historical evidence show?Follow Dr. Costa on
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Articles with 'Pagan' (5)
Videos on "Pagan" (110)
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In 200 years, Christianity lost Jesus' Jewish teachings; adopting Greek and Roman Paganism - Yahweh Ministry
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Pagan Gods In The Bible (Polytheist 'Confusion') - Andrea Salbego 1/3
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Pagan Gods In The Bible (Polytheist 'Confusion') - Andrea Salbego 2/3
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Pagan Gods In The Bible (Polytheist 'Confusion') - Andrea Salbego 3/3
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Pagan Origins of Jesus and Christian Trinity
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Trinity is from Paganism; not found in New Testament - Yahweh Ministry
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Pagan Origins of Christmas Exposed - Yahweh Ministry
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Pagan Origins of New Years Day Exposed - Yahweh Ministry
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Pagan Origins of Easter Exposed - Yahweh Ministry
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Mithras: Pagan Origins of Christianity - Robert Beckford
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Resurrection was common amongst many Pagan Gods: Osiris, Horus, Dionysus etc. - Richard Carrier
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Constantine's Pagan Influence on Christianity - Greg Boyd
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Constantine, Mithras and Paganism of the Church Exposed - Simcha Jacobovici
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Paganism in Today's Christian Church - Jim Staley
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Pagan Origins of Easter and Christmas - Jim Staley
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In 321 AD, Emperor Constantine, a confirmed pagan Sun Worshipper changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday
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Halloween: Pagan or Christian? | ReligionForBreakfast
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Constantine worshipped Sol Invictus, the pagan Sun God. Christians today worship the same invincible Sun God - Richard Rives
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Julius Caesar, Romans and Pagan Worship - Ryan Reeves
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Christianity adopted Graeco-Roman Pagan Gods: Mithras and Apollonius - Peleh Ben Avraham
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Pagan Origins of The Cross (Crux)
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Archaeology proves the Israelites worshipped pagan Gods and Goddesses - William Dever
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Pagan Origins of Judaism: Evidence for Israelite Gods, El, Asherah, Adonai, Baal, Elohim and Yahweh
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In Matthew 2:1, the three Kings (Magi) from the East followed a Star to baby Jesus were Pagans? - Tovia Singer
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Mithraism, like other Ancient Near East pagan religions believed in Dying & Rising Gods - NT Wright
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The Bible is not Scripture. Jesus is modelled on Dying & Rising pagan Gods like Osiris, Adonis and Addis - Gary Habermas vs Tim Callahan
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Did the author of Mark copy pagan Homer's Odyssey?
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Christmas on 25 December was a Pagan festival. Early Christians never knew Jesus' exact birth date - BeyondTV
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Origin of the Christmas Tree - Is it Pagan?
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Christmas and Pagan Influences - Robert Breaker
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Easter and Pagan Influences - Robert Breaker
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Christianity and its Pagan Origins - David Brett & John Fisher
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Easter Worship is Pagan Worship - David Brett
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Secret Societies - History of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope, Jesuits, Freemasonry, Idolatory and Paganism - Amazing Discoveries - Walter Veith
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Jesus evolved from Mithras, the Roman pagan God - Fishers Evidence
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Did You Know Christmas is Pagan? - Yahweh Ministry
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Mythical Jesus, Catholics and Engineering of Dates, Events, Gospels and Epistles (Clement & Barnabas) affirming pre-existant pagan Christ cults - Mike Lawrence (NotoriUK)
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Apostle Paul, Paganism and New Testament - Luke Timothy Johnson
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Was Christianity influenced by Graeco-Roman Paganism? - Luke Timothy Johnson
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Paganism, Christianity and Today's Christians - Luke Timothy Johnson
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Tertullian (240 AD), first used 'Trinity' to mean 3 distinct persons, influenced by Pagan Greek Philiosophy
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Academics acknowledge Pagan Influences on Christianity | Hamza Yusuf
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Christian origins in pagan Sun worship
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Christmas, 25th December was Ancient Pagan festival. Church absorbed it into Christian theology - Doug Michael
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The Christian Church adopted the 'Sun God' Mithras and pagan festivals from Mithraism - Doug Michael
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In 601 AD, Pope Gregory I adopted Pagan customs and festivals into Christian Church - Doug Michael
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In 325 AD, Council of Nicaea created Jesus and Christianity by unifying pagan Gods and beliefs - Doug Michael
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Arguing Bishops at Council of Nicaea voted Pagan rituals into Christianity i.e. Trinity - Doug Michael
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Early Christianity developed as a Jewish version of various pagan, mystery faiths - David Fitzgerald
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Emperor Constantine was a Pagan who praised Sol Invictus throughout his life - David Fitzgerald
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Christian Gospels are Symbolic Fiction; mythical narratives mined from Jewish texts and Pagan myths. Gospels are not history - Richard Carrier
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93% of Romans were polytheist pagans with many Gods. Christians had a 'more powerful' God - Bart Ehrman
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In the ancient world, Jews and pagans believed in many divine beings and Gods - Bart Ehrman
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Paul preached to majority, gentiles, pagans and idolators, who had no interest in Judaism or a Jewish Jesus - Bart Ehrman
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Apostle Paul established Churches, and converted Gentiles, Polytheists and Pagans to Christianity - Bart Ehrman
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Pagans gave up their Gods, and turned to the one Christian, all-powerful, Jealous God - Bart Ehrman
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Apostle Paul taught new Christians, ex-pagans, did not have to convert to Judaism - Bart Ehrman
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Gospels are anonymous, 'romantic', religious propaganda texts, not Historical realities - Charles Hedrick
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In 391 AD, Roman Emperor Theodosius outlawed Paganism and destroyed the Library of Alexandria
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Pagan Origins of Christmas - Abdullah Hakim Quick
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Origins of Christmas, Bible & Pagan Gods
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Christianity stole from Black, Egyptian Pagans - John G Jackson
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Easter: A Christian festival or Pagan? - DM Murdock
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In Jeremiah 10:3, the Christmas Tree is symbolic of the Christian Trinity, not Paganism - Tony Costa
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Christmas, December 25th is under the control of the Devil Satan and Pagan Culture
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Jesus Christ: A pagan Sun God turned into a Jewish Man - Caesar Messiah
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Jesus is too similar to Mythical Pagan Gods: Mithras, Osiris and Heracles. It's no coincidence - Steve Shives
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Trinity is 'veiled' Tri-theism (Three Gods). Combining of Jewish Monotheism with Pagan Polytheism
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The Jesus Story is more Pagan-God, than Historical Truth - Timothy Freke (MythVision) 1/2
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The Jesus Story is more Pagan-God, than Historical Truth - Timothy Freke (MythVision) 2/2
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Eusebius, an early Church Father loyal to Philo of Alexandria, who added the 'God From God' pagan idea to the Nicene Creed in 325 AD - approvedofGod
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Jesus, the 'Begotten God' of the Eternal Father. This is Paganism - approvedofGod
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God is One. He moves by Spirit. He creates through Spoken Word (Trinity is from Pagan philosophy) - approvedofGod
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Pre-Islam Pagan Arabs made idols of Hubal (Moon god), Lat, Uzza, and Manat, but never Allah - Yasir Qadhi
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Yeshua, Yesous, Iesous, Jesus are not derived from Zeus, the Greek pagan God - Michael Heiser
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Many Christian rituals have origins in Pagan customs - Zachary Bauer
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The Black Stone and Safa-Marwa 'most likely' originate from pre-Islam, pagan Arab rituals - Abu Layth
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Political Correctness went Global using Edward Bernays 'Propaganda' techniques - Alan Watt
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Public Mind Control using Edward Bernays propaganda theories
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Edward Bernays: Organizing People using Propaganda and Technology. People ready for common action
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Emperor Constantine merged Pagan and Christian values to define Christianity - Kegan Chandler
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Homoousios ('same substance') first appeared in Poimandres, a 1st century Egyptian Pagan text - Kegan Chandler
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At Council of Nicaea, Constantine quoted Plato, a Pagan philosopher to justify Homoousios ('same substance') - Kegan Chandler
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Lucius Lactantius, advisor to Constantine, harmonized Christianity with Paganism - Kegan Chandler
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Gnostic 'secret knowledge' of God features in Pagan, Christian & Spiritual teachings - Kegan Chandler
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Hermeticism, a pagan form of Gnosticism, believed God is within us all - Kegan Chandler
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Poemandres (Heremetic, Pagan text, c. 50 AD) bears striking textual similarities to John's Gospel - Kegan Chandler
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Evidence that John's Gospel used Poemandres (Hermetic, Pagan, c. 50 AD) as a Source - Kegan Chandler
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John's Gospel parallels Gnostic-Pagan-Hermetic ideas (dualism, oneness/son of God, trinity, Father etc.) to promote his Jewish-Christianity - Kegan Chandler
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Pagan Rome invented Jesus based on ancient Celestial and Astrotheology - Robert Sullivan IV
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Pagan Dying & Rising Gods parallel the Jesus' story - Robert Price 1/2
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Pagan Dying & Rising Gods parallel the Jesus' story - Robert Price 2/2
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In 70 AD, Rome destroyed the Jerusalem Church, establishing 'Pagan' Trinitarian Christianity - Hamza Saudi
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Virgin Births were common in pagan, Graeco-Roman Mythology. Jesus the God-Man was no different! - Tovia Singer
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COVID Vaccines lack medical scrutiny, forced on us like Russian Government propaganda - Tanya Klymenk
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Pagan Origins of Christianity
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Is the Christmas Tree Pagan? - Tony Costa
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Christianity, a collection of Pre-Christian Pagan Beliefs - David Madison / MythVision
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Pantheon, Roman Temple to the Gods and Idols of pagan Rome
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Ancient Gods and Paganism in Pre-Islam Arabia | Gabriel Reynolds | Ahmad Al-Jallad
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Ancient Pagan Myths Behind Biblical Stories | MythVision
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Hajj at Kabah is a Pagan Ritual? | Al Hakam
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Christianity is a Pagan Mystery Religion | Tovia Singer
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Apostle Paul preached of Jesus The God to Pagans | Paula Fredriksen | History Valley
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Palestinian Children tortured and sacrificed for a Zionist Pagan War Cult | Jason Jones | John-Henry Westen
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Evolution of The Allah God from Pre-Islam Pagan Arab Gods | Ahmad Al-Jallad
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Muslim Leaders promote Pagan Earth Worship and The Great Reset | Leo Hohmann | aminutetomidnite
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Did Christianity borrow from Pagan Myths? | Inspiring Philosophy vs MythVision
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