Halloween?

[BibleStudent100]

What should be the Christian's view of participating in this "holiday"?  Should Christians dress up in costumes?  Should we allow our children to go trick or treating? 

[other one]

Probably not.    But it really depends on how it's handled.   It can be a teaching experience.

I think it much worse what we have done to Easter and Christmas.   But that's just me thinking of the possible outcomes of things.

[AdHoc]

2 hours ago, BibleStudent100 said:

What should be the Christian's view of participating in this "holiday"?  Should Christians dress up in costumes?  Should we allow our children to go trick or treating? 

The following is a parable. A certain man traveled to Jerusalem. He decided to have a feast to honor Israelites. He paid an exorbitant sum for food and drink. But he chose Hitler's birthday as the date. Certain of Israel asked him, does it not seem paradoxical that we celebrate on the day of one our greatest persecutors birthday. The man answered; "never mind". It is Hitler's day but we will call it something else.

The following s not a parable. God delivered 2 million Israelites from the power of Egyptian tyranny with a strong arm. A few weeks later, these 2 million people commissioned a man of stature to cast a golden calf. This calf they honored with the following words;

4 ... and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. (Ex 32:4–6)

Did Israel not honor god with gold? Did not Israel gibe their precious gold to honor God? Did they not honor God by declaring that the calf represented Him? Did they not offer burnt offerings to Jehovah? Did the people not enjoy the feasting? After all, the wilderness is dreary and God would surely give some respite? God's reaction was to rear up and plan to kill 2 million people. Moses interceded, but God promised later retribution.

"Hallowed Eve"? The evening during which the spirits of dead people, who have paid for their OWN sins in purgatory, are released to go to heaven. Demons will try to stop them, so be a demon to fight demons. Dress up! One easy step to dishonor our Great God. Just be thankful that God will give short period of waiting to the Bema and not kill you right now! We are Christ's future Bride. Who is the virgin who so easily sells her virginity? 1st Corinthians 10:1-11 says that Israel and the Church walk the same path and that Israel is an example that WE SHOULD NOT FOLLOW. Their sin??? They went a whoring after idols.

[Starise]

The unknowing world does not see the significance or danger in the holiday so they celebrate it as such.

We wrestle against an invisible evil spiritual enemy who has boots on the ground cronies he works through. They hold that day as something special for their side. For that reason alone I want nothing to do with it. I don't see the day as insignificant. I see it as especially evil on many fronts.

Edited October 30, 2022 by Starise

[Ani Tefillah]

2 hours ago, AdHoc said:

The following is a parable. A certain man traveled to Jerusalem. He decided to have a feast to honor Israelites. He paid an exorbitant sum for food and drink. But he chose Hitler's birthday as the date. Certain of Israel asked him, does it not seem paradoxical that we celebrate on the day of one our greatest persecutors birthday. The man answered; "never mind". It is Hitler's day but we will call it something else.

The following s not a parable. God delivered 2 million Israelites from the power of Egyptian tyranny with a strong arm. A few weeks later, these 2 million people commissioned a man of stature to cast a golden calf. This calf they honored with the following words;

4 ... and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. (Ex 32:4–6)

Did Israel not honor god with gold? Did not Israel gibe their precious gold to honor God? Did they not honor God by declaring that the calf represented Him? Did they not offer burnt offerings to Jehovah? Did the people not enjoy the feasting? After all, the wilderness is dreary and God would surely give some respite? God's reaction was to rear up and plan to kill 2 million people. Moses interceded, but God promised later retribution.

"Hallowed Eve"? The evening during which the spirits of dead people, who have paid for their OWN sins in purgatory, are released to go to heaven. Demons will try to stop them, so be a demon to fight demons. Dress up! One easy step to dishonor our Great God. Just be thankful that God will give short period of waiting to the Bema and not kill you right now! We are Christ's future Bride. Who is the virgin who so easily sells her virginity? 1st Corinthians 10:1-11 says that Israel and the Church walk the same path and that Israel is an example that WE SHOULD NOT FOLLOW. Their sin??? They went a whoring after idols.

Amiina! Hear! Hear! 🙏🏽 

[BibleStudent100]

19 hours ago, Starise said:

We wrestle against an invisible evil spiritual enemy who has boots on the ground cronies he works through. They hold that day as something special for their side. For that reason alone I want nothing to do with it. I don't see the day as insignificant. I see it as especially evil on many fronts.

Yes, you are are reflecting what I see in his holiday:  it springs from pagan sources.  It has now turned into a celebration mainly FOR children to one in which adults totally get into outrageous and sexually inappropriate costumes worn to their offices during the day and then topped off with a licentious party in the evening.  No thank you!

[Ani Tefillah]

6 minutes ago, BibleStudent100 said:

Yes, you are are reflecting what I see in his holiday:  it springs from pagan sources.  It has now turned into a celebration mainly FOR children to one in which adults totally get into outrageous and sexually inappropriate costumes worn to their offices during the day and then topped off with a licentious party in the evening.  No thank you!

🤢😔😭

[teddyv]

15 hours ago, BibleStudent100 said:

Yes, you are are reflecting what I see in his holiday:  it springs from pagan sources.  It has now turned into a celebration mainly FOR children to one in which adults totally get into outrageous and sexually inappropriate costumes worn to their offices during the day and then topped off with a licentious party in the evening.  No thank you!

Man, where do you work? 

[Thewhitedove]

No. There is absolutely nothing about Halloween that can be redeemed. For me it is a period of spiritual darkness and depravity. If my husband wasn't a nonbeliever who thought it was just a bit of fun, my kids would have zero to do with it. Zero. As it stands, I have had to compomise. I told my husband if he wants the kids to celebrate it, I will not partake. My children had to dress up for school last week and my son went as a soccer player and my daughter went as a princess, and even that felt heavy for me to do. No Christian should partake of anything to do with Halloween. On the contrary, we should spend this time in deeper prayer and fasting, praying against the principalities. Halloween is the tine of year when Satanic Ritual Abuse is at its highest. How anyone can have a light-hearted attitude towards this period knowing the evil that will be done to innocent people, especially children, is beyond me. Halloween should be spent in solemn prayer against the forces of wickedness. No Christian should be dining at the table of demons.  

[Space_Karen]

Forces of evil in the world closely study the bible to search for levers which might be used to influence christians into turning their backs on God. On average they work harder at this than christians do. Which is how they enjoy so much success today in distancing christians from God.

Lack of knowledge on science, vaccines, politics and finance are far more dangerous to christians than candy, costumes or halloween.

If christians treated their own lack of knowledge with the same distaste as they did scary costumes the world would be a much better place.