Christians what scriptures should I show to my children to justify celebrating Halloween ?

Question

Please only serious answers from the Bible

Answer 1

There is no justification for celebrating Halloween. Halloween is an ancient Irish pagan celebration, and Christians have no business with it.

Answer 2

the same Scriptures you would use to celebrate Christmas. I don't think there are any Scriptures to justify celebrating any holiday, except maybe Jewish ones. But you can't find any Scriptures to condemn it.

You can say this. If you don't celebrate Halloween, you shouldn't celebrate Christmas. The reason we have Christmas on Dec 25 is because a long time ago, Catholics were trying to compete with a pagan holiday that fell on that same day. So if you don't celebrate Halloween because it was originally a pagan holiday, you don't celebrate Christmas either. Christmas is a Christian holdiay, you say. Well, about all that is Christian left in it is the manger scene and maybe going to church on Christmas Eve. It has been so secularized through presents, Santa, lights, and parties, Jesus is just a blip on the screen. And you can have a Christian themed Halloween celebration. It is where your heart is. If in your heart, you are celebrating pagan traditions, that is wrong. But if you are dressing up to get candy and have fun, what is the harm in it? Kids don't understand. Growing up, all I knew was that Halloween was yet another thing "good" Christians couldn't do. I think we put too much adult thinking into kids. If you don't teach them pagan stuff, they won't grow up practicing witchcraft because you let them celebrate Halloween. Just like if they don't understand sexual or whatever entenders in a movie, it is not going to influence them to go have sex. It is ridiculous.

What might happen is that they resent the Bible and Christians instead. While you have to stand firm on certain issues, others are no big deal. Dressing up like a princess and getting candy is wrong according to the Bible? They don't understand, especially when half their church still goes, including the pastor's kids. There is a difference in that and letting them run wild or do things that are definitely not in accordance with Scripture.

Answer 3

Halloween has its origins in a pagan festival called Samhain (pronounced sow-ween). It was a harvest festival, and honored the dead. When incorporated by Catholicism, it became a festival to remember all dead saints, known and unknown ("All Hallow's Eve" and "All Hallow's Day" being Oct 31 and Nov 1 respectively). When modernized, it took on more evil undertones, especially so on Satanism (the devil is a primary costume, and the Jack o' lantern is symbolic of an Irish folk tale of a guy who tricked the devil, but was forbidden from entering either heaven and hell), witchcraft (what is Halloween without a witch? and what is Halloween without the witches familiars, the black cat and the bat?), the occult (black cats, crystal balls, tarot, ouiji boards, gypsies), murderers (Jason, Freddy Krueger, the guy from Scream), the undead (ghosts, skeletons, ghouls, zombies... consider the mockery of the undead vs what it means to be risen from the dead... consider the drastic consequences of Saul and the Witch of Endor), and many traditions have a less than wholesome-or-legal origin (trick or treating, for example, often wound up with someone's barn on fire, or manure on their doorstep... it was little more than actual extortion then, and it is now little more than extortion in the name of cuteness now).

There are no scriptures that justify Halloween. Halloween has become all about that which is dark and evil. Yet the Bible says, "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light" - Eph 5:8 and a couple verses later, "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." - v.11

If something seeks justification, instead of being promoted, then there is something fundamentally wrong with it to begin with.

Answer 4

Halloween originated as a pagan holiday. Witches and such would dress up in masks and have a ceremony to demons (their false gods or ghosts). IT then evolved to where people would dress up, go to houses, and call "trick or treat". If they didt get what they wanted (im thinking it was not candy back then) then they would 'trick' them, or play a nasty prank. Now the kids just have fun dressing up and getting candy. The Bible does not justify Halloween. the Bible says 'to abstain from all APPEARANCE of evil'. If you cant tell for sure that is is good, then dont do it. I have never celebrated Holloween and I am none the worse for it.

Answer 5

As a follower and believer of the LORD Jesus Christ I do not celebrate Halloween. There are no Scriptures from the Holy Bible justifying celebrating Halloween.

Answer 6

1 Cor 8:4-8

*** So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that "there is no idol in the world," and that "there is no God but one." Indeed, even though there are so-called gods in heaven and on earth (there are, to be sure, many "gods" and many "lords"), yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things are and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and through whom we exist.

But not all have this knowledge. There are some who have been so used to idolatry up until now that, when they eat meat sacrificed to idols, their conscience, which is weak, is defiled. Now food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, nor are we better off if we do. ***

Although obviously this is not about Halloween, Paul is counseling us against fearful superstition - the sort of thinking that goes into, "Oh gee, some kid dressed like a demon for Halloween, so we better not do that."

Halloween has no ongoing religious meaning, and is little more than an excuse to collect candy. It should neither be important to us, nor something for us to be fearful of. It has no relationship to our faith life - none at all. It is an activity of the secular world which is mildly enjoyable for the kids. Nothing more... and nothing less. We need not fear it, since it is no more threatening to us than eating food, as Paul says above, sacrificed to some non-existent god.

Answer 7

Witches celebrate Samhain, not Halloween. It's the start of the New Year for us (like Chinese New Year), and it is a time to commune with and remember our ancestors. The modern candy-and-costumes celebration is a very, very, very distant relative of ancient Samhain celebrations. I'm showing these links to show you that you're not going to be celebrating like a Witch...and how Witches actually celebrate.

Answer 8

I see that everyone is focused on "If we have fun it is OK" and It is not a religious holiday anymore??
Tell that one to the witches that celebrate it..
There are really very little standards in today's so called churches and no one wants to talk about holiness or what God requires of us. I guess fulfilling the prophecy.
2Ths 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

Answer 9

How about one that says not to?

1Co 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

This example shows that mixing true worship with false and pagan worship is not acceptable.

Since Halloween is in fact a religious celebration, it is best to stay away from it and it pagan roots.

Answer 10

I don't think you wil be able to use the bible to justify celebrating Halloween, but maybe the below link will help in some way.

Answer 11

Halloween is a detestable pagan holiday that Christians do well to condemn and they should have no part in it. Many who answered you feel it is ok for children to dress up and "beg" for candy. Where did the dressing up in costumes come from?
Dressing up on Halloween:
The ancient Celtic people would dress up in costumes on October 31st to confuse and ward off the evil spirits.
Does God approve of adults or children dressing up as his enemy, Satan the devil? What do you think? People dress up as ghosts, demons, and devils. Would Jesus or the first century Christians have dressed up as those things? The answer is no and true Christians today shouldn't either.