I have a question

[Guest LCPGUY]

How come Bible scholars, for over 1500 years, used candles to study and write by if the candles contributed to "evil" forces?

Go Bro go... you tell

[Trinity]

Mark 4

21 And he(Jesus) said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.

Jesus talks about candles i don't think its a sin...

[Guest kitkat]

"Are your candles making you sick?

You love the warm glow and calming scents of your favorite candles. But you probably won't be as enamored of the prospect that these same candles may be emitting lead particles into your home.

"The last thing people would imagine is that candles can be little lead smelters," says Sidney Wolfe, the director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group in Washington D.C.

The group examined 285 candles from twelve different stores in the D.C. area. Eighty-six had metal wicks, and laboratory tests found that nine had wicks containing high amounts of lead.

The group says burning a lead-wicked candle for three hours can cause lead levels in the air to be nine to 33 times higher than federal safety standards. Airborne lead can be inhaled or it can settle on surfaces, where it can be ingested.

Wolfe urges people to check their candles for metal wicks. You can tell by looking straight down at the wick to see if there is a metal tip in the center. Not all metal wicks contain lead, but to be on the safe side, don't burn any candles with metal wicks.

Lead poisoning may damage the central nervous system and cause abnormal development and behavior and learning problems in children."

There are more people that use computers every single day, than those that burn candles every day and if you're concerned about candles making you sick, you should probably be EVEN more concerned that your computer could be making you sick. Read the article below.

http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfull...D=41730&src=n54

[Guest lillostone]

In response to your question...I don't feel that burning candles is a sin or will bring evil into your house...I do have to say that in witchcraft they do burn candles and incense to call demonic spirits and cast spells but; in the case of us as Christians who have not practiced witchcraft, candles are not a sin.

[Nicks Girl]

People can use almost anything for "evil" The objects arent what are evil, it's how we use them. We burn candles all the time for their scent, etc, in our home. We're not using them for evil.

[georgesbluegirl]

Is using chalk a sin? Is cooking with herbs a sin? Is face-painting a sin? Are bonfires sinful? These things are all part of wiccan or pagan rituals...if we tried to say that everything that has ANY connection to pagan tradition is sinful, we'd probably be left naked in a field eating grass.

[Guest dove2]

I agree that burning candles is not sinful.

Right after I was saved a preacher's wife told me that an owl and some other kind of little knicknack was a host for evil spirits and that I should burn them. I broke them and burnt them as she suggested because I thought she knew more than I did. :oww: See anyone can say that anything is evil.

[Anonymous]

Someone already kinda answered this question.

It all boils down to why you are burning a candle, or why you do anything else, such as wear a crystal amulet....etc. !

It's the motivation or reason. Are you doing it to honor or worship another god???

To light a candle is not sinful. To light it as to illuminate a shrine of an idol.... then it is sinful/wrong!

[ayin jade]

Im a rock hound. I love the beauty of rocks. I am sitting here at the computer with a large couple of hundred pound chunk of petrfied wood next to me. I would love to have a nice crystal to wear as a necklace. But I cant. It would have no harm to me spiritually, but it would ruin my witness completely. Candles would not do so however, since there is far less association between candles and anything spiritually wrong.