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Originally Posted by LauraBeth
I don't know where in the Bible it says anything about bringing trees inside, but I do know that cutting trees was severely frowned upon in Biblical times. Trees were (are) so scarce in the Holy Land. A severe insult to someone was to call him a 'tree feller'.
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A popular version of the history of the Christmas tree is that it started with the great protestant reformer Martin Luther in Germany in the 1500s. The evergreen tree is a symbol for eternal life. It also comes from even older pagan traditions of evergreens and holly.