God didn't need anything more than himself and yet he opted to create us... Why? For his glory.
Romans tells us he reveals his glorious self in creation.
Colossians tells us Christ is IN all creation.
If we keep silent than the rocks shall cry out... creation sings to the glory of God. Everything was made by him, through him, and for him, for his glory.
Once more, it's our perversion of what he's made that's bad. Creation itself is good. To depart from this you'd have to call God a liar and explain to me how what he called good wasn't really good.
That has nothing to do with your original statement whatsoever.
They traveled on ships, boats, donkeys, etc. Nowhere does God tell us to travel by car.
This is simply taking your argument and applying it to something else. Simply because God doesn't tell us to do it doesn't make it bad.
God never commanded us to put on Christmas Pageants, either, I guess those are wicked garbage as well? Grab your pitchforks, head out to the churches!
well i dont disagree with your first statement at all. i fail to see how cutting down a tree an dragging it into our house has anything to do with Gods glory through creation. like i said if we wanted to celebrate his birth. dont you think scripture put up all around your house would better represent him? not something that was invented in the 1850's(as we know it today)
now for the transportation thing. yes i see that you are taking my argument and applying it to something else. thats exactly why i did not incorporate cars into my argument. they have nothing to do with worship or representation of anything. they have a practical use. God gave us cars for a reason. he gave us trees for a reason. and i guarantee it was not to decorate them in our homes and streets. the Jewish culture never even celebrated birth anyways. they celebrated death. and thats what we should be doing. celebrating his death not his birth. yeah we should honor his birth and thank him for coming as a pure sacrifice. but i dont see half the celebration around the time of his death and resurection. it is a quite lowly holiday. unpublicized(except for the pagan side that was incorporated into it). his death and resurection should be the biggest celebration in the Christian world.
i am not saying we should not celebrate his birth at all. but that we should do it an a pure manner. and not some man made way. and since there is no way specified in the bible i think we should stick to praise music and proclaiming his word as celebration of his birth AND death. but more so at his death and resurrection. because that was much more important.