When messing and honouring demons and celebrating evil is prohibited in the bible. are they holding culture over the word of God rather than holding the word of God over their culture.
2006-10-10 08:53:00 · 9 answers · asked by proscunio 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible says to be in the world, but not of it. We should refrain from participating in a holiday that welcomes evil. There is a small informative book called--The Facts on Halloween--John Ankerberg and John Weldon. It breaks Halloween down by all different views. As for the Christians who are taking part in it, I just pray that they will see that they are compromising their beliefs.
2006-10-10 09:10:06 · answer #1 · answered by heavnbound 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It probably had pagan roots, but it is also All Hallows Eve, the night before the Roman Catholic Feast Day for All Saints (commonly known as All Saints Day). Things are seldom all one thing or another. Christmas was designated to occur on the day the Romans marked the Winter Solstice so as to detract from its pagan celebration. Easter falls on the First Sunday after the First Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox for a combination of pagan and Jewish reasons. Christianity did not emerge in a vacuum, so you'll find an intermixing of holidays thoughout the Christian calendar.
And while we're on the subject, where do you think the names of the months came from: January (Janus, Roman god), March (Mars), May (Maia), June (Juno), July (Julius Caesar), August (Caesar Augustus). Hardly a panoply of Christian figures.
2006-10-10 16:02:24 · answer #2 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The true meaning of Halloween has been missing since it came to this country and that is why the holiday has been celebrated by Christians, despite it is a legitimate pagan holiday to celebrate dead souls and dead spirits and it is kind of like the Mexicans' Day of the Dead, in which they honor their dead relatives with a meal at the graveside, Halloween is kind of like a Day of the Dead for North America and many Christians think of it as a holiday like Christmas and Easter and not as a Day of the Dead.
2006-10-10 16:07:21 · answer #3 · answered by marcyfiorica 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you bother doing your research instead of spouting second-hand drivel you'd know that Halloween is actually a Christian celebration, Samhain(among others) was celebrated on that day long before Nov. 1st was declared a Holiday to attempt to subvert the celebration held by the Pagans. Interestingly enough Christmas has similar origins, but I don't hear your bunch complaining about that....
2006-10-10 16:00:32 · answer #4 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Holloween is not about 'messing and honouring demons'. Nor does it 'celebrate evil'. If you actually spent time reading anything other than your bible, you would have discovered that the holiday was originally conceived as a way of WARDING OFF evil spirits, repelling them from the society.
Now apologize and go back to your corner.
2006-10-10 15:58:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
...Beats me. We have always provided some safe alternative (like our church's Fall Festival), which the neighbor kids around the church also come to. They dress up and have fun, but it is not in homage to Satan.
...I am not going to the Fall Festival. I am watching our house and will try to be a light on Halloween - since kids are coming to the house and will accept anything, I will give out Gospel comic-type leaflets (only 10 - 15 cents a piece), along with some sort of candy.
2006-10-10 16:07:51 · answer #6 · answered by carson123 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You don't know anything about Halloween do you?
It is a pagan holiday to honor the dead, the end of harvest and to begin a new year.
2006-10-10 16:03:56 · answer #7 · answered by PaganPoetess 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate halloween for the candy and dressing up, nothing more
2006-10-10 15:56:25 · answer #8 · answered by kimber g 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Like most Christians...they are hypocrites...what's new...they only believe what they want to believe for the time in their lives that it fits...nothing more.
2006-10-10 15:58:39 · answer #9 · answered by Arthur Q 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋