lets be honest halloween

[ann2]

I plan on leaving the light on for trick or treaters,am giving out wrapped suckers.Spent a lot of time today writing out stickers that says"Jesus Loves You" then a heart drawn on it.I put a sticker on each sucker.Just my little way to remind children, if they cant read i am sure they will want Mom to tell them what it says.

[apothanein kerdos]

I plan on leaving the light on for trick or treaters,am giving out wrapped suckers.Spent a lot of time today writing out stickers that says"Jesus Loves You" then a heart drawn on it.I put a sticker on each sucker.Just my little way to remind children,  if they cant read i am sure they will want Mom to tell them what it says.

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That is so awesome!

[MooseGirl]

How many of you plan to let your kids go trick or treating  or  plan to  leave light on and allow kids to knockon your door ????

Alot of Christians see nothing wrong with kids trick or treating 

so just wanted to know how you feel

In Christ

IreneM

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We will be at church so no trick or treating and no lights on.

[Sola Scriptora]

It was said:

The part that I think is getting lost are the childrens' feelings. This is a big deal. Halloween, no matter the origins, is now just a night where the whole country plays make believe and share treats with each other. I don't prefer, and probably wouldn't encourage my children to dress like the more scarier creatures, but I remember when I was young, loving that my whole family, (more than 40 people) would come over, and even the adults played dress up, we gave candy to other kids, we went around the neighborhood gettting candy, and then came home to see the neat stuff we got. At school, it was a day to be anticipated. We got to celebrate imagination and creativity. NOT ONE CHILD ever, I am guessing, thought, well now I will follow Satan. Or later in life thought, well that holiday lead to my destruction

I do not agree. If you want to get yout kids to have the right convictions about Hell-oween, give them the Chick tracts about it. We have cured many kids from it, including our own. Kids appreciate truth, and they can have powerful convictions based on truth. Chick tracts have been a great educational tool for many kids. Its great to listen to a 10-year old tell you all about the origins of Halloween, or about Masonry, or about Roman catholicism, or about what Mormans believe!

BESIDES:

Our self proclaimed church historian who can "beat" anyone in that subject should have informed us that on OCT 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses on the church doors in Wittenburg Germany, and sparked the Protestant Reformation. Oct 31 is PROTESTANT REFORMATION DAY, not halloween, and its about time we teach our kids about that epic event and the great things that have come about because of that day, rather than following the world in its pagan ways. There would probably be no America, and no freedom had Luther not done that, his actions sparked so many long term benefits to humanity. That's what our kids need to know, and they should praising God anf thanking Him for it on that day. Good preaching amen.

[apothanein kerdos]

Maybe some of us don't like to honor Luther because, as important as what he did was for modern theology and church practice, he was also an anti-semite...I'd much rather just trick or treat

[Sola Scriptora]

A more correct, scholarly and historical statement would be that he BECAME antisemetic in the sense that he didn't want Jews to have certain rights because they obstinantly rejected the gospel, and also tried to convert people back to Judaism. He was wrong in this, of course, but to say he was "antisemitic" in the comtemporary sense is inaccurate and irresponsible. You need to brush up on those dusty 20 something church histories you own.

[Sola Scriptora]

Good night super J

[apothanein kerdos]

A more correct, scholarly and historical statement would be that he BECAME antisemetic in the sense that he didn't want Jews to have certain rights because they obstinantly rejected the gospel, and also tried to convert people back to Judaism.  He was wrong in this, of course, but to say he was "antisemitic" in the comtemporary sense is inaccurate and irresponsible.  You need to brush up on those dusty 20 something church histories you own.

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Honestly, that's not what I remember reading. If I may, here are some quotes from his book, "The Jews and Their Lies":

I had made up my mind to write no more either about the Jews or against them. But since I learned that these miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them. I would not have believed that a Christian could be duped by the Jews into taking their exile and wretchedness upon himself. However, the devil is the god of the world, and wherever God's word is absent he has an easy task, not only with the weak but also with the strong. May God help us. Amen.

Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.

Moreover, they are nothing but thieves and robbers who daily eat no morsel and wear no thread of clothing which they have not stolen and pilfered from us by means of their accursed usury. Thus they live from day to day, together with wife and child, by theft and robbery, as arch

[Giaour]

Boy, for Christians, ya'll can be quite judgemental at times. Any day that one can spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and lead those to God can not be a "satanic" day. Return GOOD for evil. Turn a bad situation into a good one. Jesus loves you suckers is a wonderful idea.

[apothanein kerdos]

Boy, for Christians, ya'll can be quite judgemental at times.  Any day that one can spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and lead those to God can not be a "satanic" day.  Return GOOD for evil.  Turn a bad situation into a good one.  Jesus loves you suckers is a wonderful idea.

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I think the sooner we realize we all have faults and those we looked up to have faults (heck, paul killed Christians), the better off we'll be.