I Find It Funny Jeremiah 10:3-5 Gets Misinterpreted as Christmas Trees

I always find it funny when people take verses out of context. Worse, what if these verses were taken straight out of context from the King James Version? Some of you may find me "extreme" because I'm a King James Only-ist. Sorry but I still think pastors should stop using the NIV, NASV, ESV, etc. because they're corrupt. I still want to talk one on one with pastors who also use other versions and convince them why they should use the KJV only. Now let's talk about the issue of Christmas trees and why Jeremiah 10:3-5 can't be Christmas trees.

Let's talk about the context of Jeremiah 10:3-5:

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. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

At first, it looks like a Christmas tree. People can argue that the fir trees were brought into the houses by pagans. The problem of saying "pagans do it" is basing it on guilt by association arguments. The reason why I even don't recommend reading Alexander Hislop's "The Two Babylons" because it's a very faulty refutation of Roman Catholicism. Refuting Roman Catholicism should be done using the Bible as a parameter to prove the practice is wrong like showing the Roman Catholic that Peter couldn't be the first Pope based on verses with the proper interpretation or showing them Mary only told people to do what Jesus tells them (John 2:5).

But let's take a look at the context of Jeremiah 10. We read in Jeremiah 10:14 says:

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Plus, here's a bit of history from History.com about the Christmas tree which if we say Jeremiah 10:3-5 talked about Christmas trees, it should be a chronological error:

Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it in the 16th century when devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce. It is a widely held belief that Martin Luther, the 16th-century Protestant reformer, first added lighted candles to a tree. Walking toward his home one winter evening, composing a sermon, he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling amidst evergreens. To recapture the scene for his family, he erected a tree in the main room and wired its branches with lighted candles.

Although it's a secular site (and there's always bound to be an error in any historical book), I could agree with this tone. I may not be able to confirm that Martin Luther first lighted candles to a tree but there's one thing I'm certain: Jeremiah 10:3-5 is definitely not about Christmas trees. The passage in context shows the foolishness of making graven images. Even the passage I just quoted also mentioned about speaking and walking. A Christmas tree is never given a mouth and a pair of feet. If it has any feet they don't even look like human feet compared to the feet of an idol to make you mock it can't walk. The idea it must be carried relates to idolatrous processions not to transporting Christmas trees.

It's already expected to see a Christmas tree getting transported. Nobody worships these trees. The problem is with those graven images that are used for worship. The processions just have to carry these idols that look like men, beasts or depicting the pagan gods and goddesses because they can't walk those who participated during the ceremony. When I saw a Buddha idol bathed I really can't help but laugh that their god needed bathing. When I saw a statue of Mary fall down I couldn't help but laugh because the idol couldn't even walk. That's the whole point of Jeremiah 10:3-5 that these idols are a work of vanity and they're lifeless.