biblical warning vs gentile Christmas Trees

Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move.
Jeremiah 10:2-4 (ESV)

HT James F. McGrath, who gets us looking at “what is problematic about prooftexting – whether carried out by the Bible’s authors or by modern apologists.”

HT J. M. Green, who wants to revisit the ESV “virgin” in Matthew (not necessarily the “young woman” in Willis Barnstone’s Restored New Testament).

The points made are worth exploring.