Do Christmas trees have Christian or secular "Roots"

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tabcom said:
Constantine implemented the Christ mass into the Roman church in the 4th century A.D. He desired to conciliate the heathen by amalgamating Christianity with the pagan festival called the Saturnalia (feast of Saturn, the sun god). The priests of the sun god offered their children upon their altars. It was said by the pagans that their messiah (Hercules, Adonis. Tammuz, etc.) was incorporated in their sacrifices. The sun god of Babylon was Baal. the same idolatry that polluted Israel when Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal (King of Sidon), married Ahab, King of northern Israel (I Kings 16:31-33). Historians tell us that Ethbaal was a priest of the Astarte, the tree goddess of Babylon (female deity to Baal).
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What are your sources for this?
 
water said:
My friend, you are trying too hard on yourself. 🙂
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Thank you . . . that is the best compliment I have ever received on this forum.

Luke13:23
Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them,
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"**Strive **to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.

The English word Strive, in the original greek text means to agonize.
 
tabcom said:
Thank you . . . that is the best compliment I have ever received on this forum.

Luke13:23
Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them,
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"**Strive **to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.

The English word Strive, in the original greek text means to agonize.
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Yes, I believe so. How exactly should one strive to enter the gate?
 
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