Christians and Halloween

[GandalfTheWhite]

 

[Angela53510]

Your claim is false

The only biblical instruction that is given to believers, on remembrance of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Not The Birth (Christmas)

Not The Resurrection (Easter)

But The (Death)

1 Corinthians 11:24-26KJV
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

I think something is wrong with your record player, it keeps skipping back to the same place. Or the record is scratched! If we didn't listen the first time, what makes you think repeating it over and over will change our opinions?

I do agree communion is important, we celebrate it once a month at our church. But God can use Christian holidays to reach the lost. I was always very convicted at Christmas, hearing the story of Jesus birth. It took me a while, but God saved me. I'm glad I had a yearly reminder of the incarnation! The memory of God was never forgotten, because of Christmas!

 

[Blik]

Hello @GandalfTheWhite, for what it’s worth, I believe the point that the GotQuestions.org article/video holds as most important is the fact that Jesus WAS born, and that the day He was born on is inconsequential (which is good, since no one truly knows what day it was anyway).

His birth is certainly worth celebrating (whichever day of the year it actually falls on), though I believe it’s nice to have a day* to point to, particularly for those who do not know Him!

*(His birth, as the article points out, is actually worth celebrating EVERY day, and I agree and also believe that it is, collectively anyway, by those of us who truly know Him)

~Deut
p.s. - I look forward to watching the video you posted for us. Thanks!

Have you ever thought about that the Lord asks us to celebrate all that relates to our salvation except for the physical birth of Christ? We are to celebrate His crucifixion, that He was the first fruits: the first to be a human person saved. Before that atonement was in sleep. There is Pentecost and all the celebrations of the new earth in the last days, but the idea of celebrating His birth as a man is all man made.

 

[Truth7t7]

I see interesting I am going to have to do some studies for a deeper understanding on Christmas, and yeah easter is in fact very pagan indeed especially with the fertility thing they even worshipped a greek Goddess of fertility and the rituals they did in her name were very sexual and honstly just disgusting

Easter's god of fertility, Astarte

Wikipedia: Astarte was connected with fertility, sexuality, and war. Her symbols were the lion, the horse, the sphinx, the dove, and a star within a circle indicating the planet Venus. Pictorial representations often show her naked. She has been known as the deified morning and/or evening star.[2] The deity takes on many names and forms among different cultures, and according to Canaanite mythology, is one and the same as the Assyro-Babylonian goddess Ištar, taken from the third millennium BC Sumerian goddess Inanna, the first and primordial goddess of the planet Venus. Inanna was also known by the Aramaic people as the god Attar, whose myth was construed in a different manner by the people of Greece to align with their own cultural myths and legends, when the Canaanite merchants took the First papyrus from Byblos (the Phoenician city of Gebal) to Greece sometime before the 8th century by a Phoenician called Cadmus the first King of Thebes.[citation

 

[mustaphadrink]

I’ve found that replying with insulting, smug, sarcastic and or rude posts isn’t really productive or helping make it any better? No? Agreed? It just gives the haters more ammo when they claim “we fight amongst ourselves”

Then why do you do it?

 

[Angela53510]

As for Hallowe'en, it is the high feast of Satan. We never let our kids participate, although they had various costumes over the years. They would write plays and act them out, or just play with the costumes on.

Now that I am wiser, and my husband is not so legalistic, I see the fun for kids. Our grandkids go out. I think the key is to wear fun costumes, not ones that are occultic, like witches and ghosts etc.

 

[notuptome]

As for Hallowe'en, it is the high feast of Satan. We never let our kids participate, although they had various costumes over the years. They would write plays and act them out, or just play with the costumes on.

Now that I am wiser, and my husband is not so legalistic, I see the fun for kids. Our grandkids go out. I think the key is to wear fun costumes, not ones that are occultic, like witches and ghosts etc.

Wiser or just lowering the flag? Is Halloween any less evil today than when you had kids at home? Is Gods expectation of holiness and purity any less today than it was when your children were at home? If you do not teach them who will?

For the cause of Christ
Rpger

 

[Lanolin]

what if you dressed as the Holy Ghost, would anybody even see you.
I just assumed that those children not dressed up were holy ghosts and didnt need to look scary.

 

[tourist]

At work during Halloween an associate passed out little candy bars from a plastic pumpkin. That was the extent of my trick or treating. I scored 3 of them, a Hershey bar, a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and a Kit Kat. It gave me a much needed energy boost.

 

[Lanolin]

I didnt have any. we just gave out fruit bursts and lollipops.
the food colouring and sugar in them would do nothing for me, and if you were truly starving it wouldnt help much.

For someone whos starving is better to give out loaves and fishes. If we had a holiday celebrating that it would be cool. You dress up as disciples and go round asking for miracles.