Will YOU allow your Children to Participate?

[OldShep]

One of the 2nd most popular seasons is upon us. My question is this: Will you allow your children, or even yourselves, to participate in MAN'S Halloween tradition?

Or how about looking at it this way; Do you think God would condone such a practice, knowing that it's origin is something God said we should not do? Do you think He would be ok with it? Or better yet....what if Jesus return happened on Halloween? Would you be ashamed or proud of what you are doing? What do you think He would say no matter WHAT you or your children were dressed up as?

Well considering that Jesus hung out with, the outcast, the lonely, the Sinners, the prostitutes, the tax collectors, the Samaritan "dogs" and women caught in adultery, plus lepers, cheats, thieves, drunkards, idolaters, and murderers.

I would not be surprised if my little 8 year old daughter^{God rest her Soul} knocked on a door and found Jesus handing out candy.

Happy Halloween Everybody

ICL Dennis

[Eccl12v13]

Well considering that Jesus hung out with, the outcast, the lonely, the Sinners, the prostitutes, the tax collectors, the Samaritan "dogs" and women caught in adultery, plus lepers, cheats, thieves, drunkards, idolaters, and murderers.

But did Jesus DO any of those things?

Do you really believe Jesus would engage in acts that He had nations killed for doing?

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[~candice~]

Which nation was killed by Him for allowing their children to collect chocolates from the local neighbourhood in dress up clothes?

[Acebopata]

Personally, I've never been real big on Halloween, but considering the state the world is in, I'd be pretty uncomfortable letting my 6-15 year-old visit strangers for candy.

Of coarse, I don't really have a child, nor a spouse for that matter, so what can I say?

[OldShep]

Well considering that Jesus hung out with, the outcast, the lonely, the Sinners, the prostitutes, the tax collectors, the Samaritan "dogs" and women caught in adultery, plus lepers, cheats, thieves, drunkards, idolaters, and murderers.

But did Jesus DO any of those things?

Do you really believe Jesus would engage in acts that He had nations killed for doing?

I did not say I believe Jesus would engage: I stated "I would not be surprised if my little 8 year old daughter^{God rest her Soul} knocked on a door and found Jesus handing out candy."

I think that sometimes a man's questions, reveal, more about the man.... then long winded pages of his beliefs.

ICL Dennis

[Eccl12v13]

Which nation was killed by Him for allowing their children to collect chocolates from the local neighbourhood in dress up clothes?

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)". The name of the festival historically kept by the Gaels and Celts in the British Isles is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English folk lore: "Certainly Samhain was a time for festive gatherings, and medieval Irish texts and later Irish, Welsh, and Scottish folklore use it as a setting for supernatural encounters...."

Halloween imagery includes themes of death, evil, the occult, or mythical monsters....

What we have today has it's origins from the above. And God did NOT like the above things that the nations did. Dealing with the occult and witchcraft is something that God destroyed nations over as we can read below....

Deut.8

[19] And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

[20] As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.

Deut.12

[28] Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.

[29] When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

[30] Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

[31] Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

Deut.18

[9] When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

[10] There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

[11] Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

[12] For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

[13] Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

Josh.23

[3] And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.

[5] And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.

[6] Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;

[7] That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

[8] But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.

[9] For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.

If God destroyed nations in the past because of their dealings with witchcraft and the occult....do you really think that by dressing these old traditions up with candy and costumes the Lord is now ok with it? A rose is yet a rose no matter what you call it!

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[~candice~]

This is the first year EVER that we've had kids knock on our door for Halloween. We had two groups come through, in costume, and each group was chaperoned by parents who forced every kid to say thanks before they left. It was great to see such manners .

[other one]

We had a gathering at church on saturday afternoon where adults dress up as people of the Bible and as the kids go down the line to get the treets, they get short bible stories. We had seven or eight hundred people show up.

We did halloween when the kids were little but nothing from the dark side...... we also had talks about what witches and demons are and not to take them lightly.

[Eccl12v13]

I don't observe Halloween, and never have, and have encouraged my children not to either,.....

And why is that if you do not mind answering?

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[Eccl12v13]

Because I think it is stupid and an incredible waste of time. You have to march up and down streets with your kids while they shill for candy. I have no patience for that. And then, when you finally get home, they fight about how much they got, what they got, one got more than the other, etc. It is not worth the trouble. It is annoying, not evil. And my reason for not observing is not anymore valid than yours.

Whoe there....take it easy! Was just wondering there champ!

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