this is for the Jehovas wittnesses?

Question

'I learned something the other day. I learned that Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate Halloween. I guess they don't like strangers going up to their door and annoying them.' -- Bruce Clark

Answer 1

I go into their Kingdom Halls on Sundays and start demonstrating and selling Rainbow Vacuum Cleaners. I gives me a sense of proportion.

Answer 2

The Jehovah's Witness objection to Halloween is that it glorifies Satan, paganism, and occultism. True Christians should work to AVOID such things, rather than embrace them.

Why are Jehovah's Witnesses mocked and insulted by so many today? Interestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:

(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.

(Luke 6:22) Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.

(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.

(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.


It seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.

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Answer 3

No, it's because Halloween is a pagan holiday. It has to do with celebrations of the dead and that's something we don't do. Just by looking at the decorations you can tell it originated with Satan. If you do some research on Halloween itself I don't think you would celebrate it either.

Answer 4

Actually, ALL who call themselves Christians should avoid such demonistic celebrations as Halloween. But that Continues to be one of the more popular holidays in "Christendom."

Jesus Christ said: “The truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) Falsehood cannot make one free. But because of the desire for social approval, the desire to please the crowd, people accept many doctrines without testing them for truthfulness. Because it is easier to go along with the crowd than to explain to the crowd why one cannot go along with it, many persons will believe whatever the crowd believes; but popularity has never proved a reliable means for judging the quality of a belief. As one writer has put it: “The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”

Jesus never accepted a doctrine or belief because the crowd did; Jesus did not found a please-the-crowd religion. The Christian should please God.

Answer 5

the celebration of Halloween is a pagan satanic Holiday for one and if one celebrates it they are following the traditions set by men Jesus taught us not to follow or to worship men but to give glory to Jehovah god.how can you find it amusing to dress up as a factious character and celebrate their death. before you go ridiculing someones beliefs maybe you need to take a look into the origins of your own.

Answer 6

ha ha

it is actually al about not making any day a celebration except that of the lord, Sunday.

This includes birthdays, christmas, even flag day...

Answer 7

First of all, Education SHOWS us how to think; Propaganda TELLS you what to think. When Jesus and his disciples went from house to house and city to city preaching & spreading the goodnews of the kingdom, did it bother people as well?
(Luke 8:1) "he [Jesus] went journeying from city to city and from village to village, preaching and declaring the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him"
(Luke 4:43) But he said to them [disciples]: “Also to other cities I must declare the good news of the kingdom of God, because for this I was sent forth.”
(Matthew 9:35) "And Jesus set out on a tour of all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and curing every sort of disease and every sort of infirmity."

Similarly, Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses preach from house to house?

Jesus foretold for our day this work: “This good [news of the kingdom] will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to ALL the nations; and then the end will come.” He also instructed his followers: “Go . . . and make disciples of people of ALL the nations.”—Matt. 24:14; 28:19.

When Jesus sent out his early disciples, he directed them to go to the homes of the people. (Matt. 10:7, 11-13) The apostle Paul said regarding his ministry: “I did not hold back from telling you any of the things that were profitable nor from teaching you publicly and from HOUSE to HOUSE.”—Acts 20:20, 21; see also Acts 5:42.
The message that the Witnesses proclaim involves the lives of people; they want to be careful to miss no one. (Zeph. 2:2, 3) Their calls are motivated by love—first for God, also for their neighbor.

From State Church to Pluralism (1971), by F. H. Littell, says: “However incredible and literal-minded the J[ehovah’s] W[itnesses]’s peculiar doctrine of the Kingdom may seem, we should not forget that in biblical religion the advent of the Kingdom is a moment of dramatic penetration and reversal of the normal course of human expectation.”—P. 212.

A conference of religious leaders in Spain noted this: “Perhaps [the churches] are excessively neglectful about that which precisely constitutes the greatest preoccupation of the Witnesses—the home visit, which comes within the apostolic methodology of the primitive church. While the churches, on not a few occasions, limit themselves to constructing their temples, ringing their bells to attract the people and to preaching inside their places of worship, [the Witnesses] follow the apostolic tactic of going from house to house and of taking advantage of every occasion to witness.”—El Catolicismo, Bogotá, Colombia, September 14, 1975, p. 14.

Why are Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted and spoken against?

Jesus said: “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.” (John 15:18, 19; see also 1 Peter 4:3, 4.) The Bible shows that the whole world lies under Satan’s control; he is the principal instigator of the persecution.—1 John 5:19; Rev. 12:17.
Jesus also told his disciples: “You will be objects of hatred by all people on account of my name.” (Mark 13:13) The word “name” here means what Jesus officially is, the Messianic King. Persecution comes because Jehovah’s Witnesses put his commands ahead of those of any earthly ruler.

“The principal victims of religious persecution in the United States in the twentieth century were the Jehovah’s Witnesses,” says the book The Court and the Constitution, by Archibald Cox (1987).

“Jehovah’s Witnesses . . . have been harassed and persecuted by governments the world over,” states Tony Hodges. “In Nazi Germany they were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. During the Second World War, the [Watch Tower] Society was banned in Australia and Canada. . . . Now [in the 1970’s] the Jehovah’s Witnesses are being hounded in Africa.”—Jehovah’s Witnesses in Africa, 1985 Edition.

A recent book on Christianity made this observation: “The withdrawal of Jehovah’s Witnesses from political, military and social involvement has been interpreted by their enemies as misanthropy, and has been the chief cause of the outrageous persecution which has often been inflicted upon them.”—American Christianity, An Historical Interpretation.

Now abit of History about "Holloween" a holiday in memory of the “spirits of the dead”?
The Encyclopedia Americana says: “Elements of the customs connected with Halloween can be traced to a Druid ceremony in pre-Christian times. The Celts had festivals for two major gods—a sun god and a god of the dead (called Samhain), whose festival was held on November 1, the beginning of the Celtic New Year. The festival of the dead was gradually incorporated into Christian ritual.”—(1977), Vol. 13, p. 725.

Answer 8

And kids only ask for candies... imagine if they were trying to change J.W.'s religion! Ha, ha, ha!~

Answer 9

I guess if the shoe fits...

Answer 10

that's funny but there are obvious differences