Will YOU allow your Children to Participate?

[Eccl12v13]

If you were not here to change minds, you wouldn't be posting these threads.

Well now.....here is where you are wrong. I understand that not everyone, if any, will accept or even listen to what I post. Have been doing it for a few years now on lots of different forums. But is it up to me to change minds? Did everyone accept what the prophets and the disciples told them? No! And what did God tell them if they did not?

Mark 6

[11] And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

So again....you do not have to read, reply nor accept anything that I post. You DO have a choice you know. Or can you just not control yourself to the point where ya just gotta say something!

Either way....it's not my job to open eyes and minds! That's God job!

2 Thes.2

[11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

My job is to quote scripture!

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[cherylu]

Hi everyone.

This topic has certainly been one that has been debated among Christians for years now. At least it has been where I live.

There is something on my mind here that I don't think any one has touched on in this conversation. Or I have missed it if they have.

I keep reading information that talks about how this holiday is still one that is celebrated in the neo pagan world and among those that are witches as one of their main feasts/celebrations of the year. If what I am reading is correct, it is still believed by many that during this time the veil between the spiritual world and the physical world is thin and it is easy to pass between the two. The way it is celebrated by these groups is certainly occultic and is certainly not harmless fun.

It appears that these folks are still looking at Halloween in the way the historians that claim it goes back to occultic origins speak of.

So it seems to me that even if you don't believe that the Scriptures that have been quoted apply to this holiday, there is still a very real present time evil that is very much a part of this holiday.

I don't know if that makes any differerence to any one in what they believe about any of this. But I would think that it is something that really needs to be considered.

If I had young children today, I don't believe I would want them participating in Halloween celebrations. To them it may be just fun and games, but to others it involves very serious occultic practice.

[Eccl12v13]

Your job is to rightly divide the Word. When you try and apply scripture with absolutely no shelf-life regarding holidays, verses which are, in fact, a condemnation of something specific, i.e. Molech and child sacrifice, and try to apply them to Halloween, you are not rightly dividing the Word.

Why do you continue to quote just one verse? Does not God address 'other' abominations that nations practiced; such as activites against the occult, witchcraft, wizards, enchanters and necromancers that DO have aspects of Halloween in them?

My reason for listing these practices was to let some that may not be aware of it that anything dealing with such, God's considers an abomination and evil.

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[~Shalhevet~]

I'm going to stay out of this one this year.

[other one]

I'm going to stay out of this one this year.

You are already in, might as well join the party. In fact, while we are here, give me a Twix or I am going to push your outhouse over.

Ooooouuuuuuu.... I'm old enough to have participated in that..... LoL Maybe not for a twix, but carmal apple for sure....

[stacey c]

I enjoy Halloween........

With 8 kids and my husband, the older kids and hubby take th little ones trick or treating mommy gets a break!!!!

They don't realize mommy gets the real treat, peace and quiet for a few hours!!! :laugh:

[~Shalhevet~]

I'm going to stay out of this one this year.

You are already in, might as well join the party. In fact, while we are here, give me a Twix or I am going to push your outhouse over.

Ooooouuuuuuu.... I'm old enough to have participated in that..... LoL Maybe not for a twix, but carmal apple for sure....

[Guest]

I'm going to stay out of this one this year.

You are already in, might as well join the party. In fact, while we are here, give me a Twix or I am going to push your outhouse over.

Ooooouuuuuuu.... I'm old enough to have participated in that..... LoL Maybe not for a twix, but carmal apple for sure....

Ohh . . . memories . . .

You can still do that today -- it just has to be a PortaJohn instead of a regular outhouse.

[other one]

All kidding aside, I still think it is a good time of year to make sure that your kids understand that witchcraft is not a game, and that demons really do exist and we really don't want anything to do with them. Supposedly the nephilim were canabalistic and drank blood so not even vampires are really something to play at for there are disturbed people who really do take that seriously.

I'd not get them involved with the dark side of the spiritual world, but they do need to know that it exists and should be avoided.. We had a hundred or so kids come by our house tonight, and I did give them some good candy. It seemed that the Snickers were the hit tonight. One small boy that looked about six or seven looked up at me and said thanks a million..... I really like snickers....... I couldn't help it, I just had to give him a bunch and the smile I got in return was priceless.

I think next year I'll make up a business card and give away full sized snickers and an invitation to Sunday School.

[Openly Curious]

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God tells us to separate ourselves from the customs of the world. What fellowship should you have with things "ONCE" associated with idols and with darkness?

Something that used to be doesn't make it true for today. A day in and of itself is "not" evil however there are evil sins or wickedness being committed within everyday. This being the case do we seperate ourselves all 365 days a year and not participate and stay in our homes staying out of sight as much as possible.

I "Once" was lost in sin but "Now" I'm not cause Jesus took me in

I "Once" was an idolator but "Now" I serve the one true and living God

I "Once" was blind but {u]"Now" I see

Should we have fellowship with one another within the body of Christ because we all "ONCE" was bound in sin held as slaves in the kingdom of darkness because our sins kept us from serving God in the kingdom of light.

You can't have fellowship with things that "Once" use to be associated with idols and darkness and from my understanding this is what you are saying. But again a day in and of itself is not or cannot be evil. Everyday single day is holy to the child of God as we can worship the Lord in all of the 365 days within the year.

How far do you take all of the customs of the world to be? are we to disregard the days around Easter time where we recognize the resurrection of Christ despite the easter bunny. Do we disregard Thanksgiving where we come together and give thanks for the blessings of the Lord on the bounty from the harvest for that year? Are we to disregard Christmas day and stay away from everyone who recognizes the birth of Christ and who give thanks all because someone comes along and says it used to be or it's origin use to be pagan. To a child of God every day all 365 days in a year are holydays.

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Romans 14:5-6(a) One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. [uLet every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.

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