this is your opertunity to share the truth with others about this day
John 8:32
32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
2007-10-11 04:58:37 · 10 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Look this pagan practice up. It's evil ! It's not just a kiddie holiday. By participating In this Evil day you're taking part In It regardless of how Innocent you think It Is. How Is It that people think that by dressing up In hideous scary outfits would be child friendly or pleasing to God ? This Is how people will be deceived Into taking the mark of the beast. It has come Into our society through subtle traditions and By not being aware of satan's tactics. Arm yourselves with the word of God. These scary masks are so demonic looking just like they're from the pit of hell. God Isn't pleased with this. It's a druidic practice. Do a search.
2007-10-11 12:16:39 · answer #1 · answered by Isabella 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).
The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death due to the incredibly harsh conditions. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. The Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.
By A.D. 43, Romans had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.
By the 800s, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 as All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs.
It is widely believed today that the Pope was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
Even later, in A.D. 1000, the Church would make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels, and devils. Together, the three celebrations, the eve of All Saints', All Saints', and All Souls', were called Hallowmas.
2007-10-11 05:15:20 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I sure do!
It's the ancient festival of Samhain, the Celtic new year.
But more importantly, this pagan holiday serves a very important and healthy psychological function. It's the holiday that acknowledges the death aspect of the life cycle (all pagan holidays celebrate some aspect of the life cycle), and invites people to 'walk around in its shoes' so to speak. By dressing up as symbols of the things we fear, and by allowing ourselves to be frightened (as in haunted houses), we acknowledge and embrace our fears and therefore, gain a better understanding of them.
This brings our fear into light and removes its power to make us afraid. So you see, it helps us process the fear and change it into something manageable. The holiday also celebrates the hope of an afterlife, so it's not just about fear either. AND it is often about honoring those loved ones who have passed on.
Conquering our fears is a primal thrill and that's why people are drawn to it, even without this analysis.
Our culture has a bad habit of trying to pretend that unpleasant things like fear and death don't exist. Of course, as soon as it is said, we know that's not true. So let's celebrate!
2007-10-11 05:02:41 · answer #3 · answered by KC 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Boy, SU sure did say what I would have said.
Now, what is sad is that every year our city and our land will celebrate this Vigil to Samhain. They will decorate their homes and businesses with black cats and pumpkins. They will hang pictures of ghosts and goblins about their houses and offices. Witches and broomsticks will be seen every where you turn. Parents will send their children out into the streets of the community to go house to house begging gifts.
2007-10-11 08:17:22 · answer #4 · answered by bwlobo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and if all ppl , really knew , they would have no part in Halloween, and yes I said no part. Many churches will have a substitute, called a fall festival. NO NO NO YOu cant have a substitute for evil.
A few years ago , we began , MY HUSBAND AND I to do a study of holidays,and we found on this one thing the JW do know what they are talking about, and no we arent JW and never will be. absolutely never. BUt someone there did do a study and its accurate. YOu dont need their stuff to know it. GO to the library on on the net here and read up about how this all begin. Each symbol even has a meaning. Halloween is the day of the most high celebratetion of the devil and thats when they do the most sacrifices, still today. so we are celebrting this as there are those that are dying, ppl and animals. Read about it. Even from the bobbing of the apples, what a horrendoous thing that was. They would gather ppl from the villages and make them participate in this evil practice, NOT OF GOD. WHere there would be huge vats of boiling oil set out with apples in them. You had to bob for an apple or be killed. This is in history books even folks. But, as they put their face in, they would burned and disfugured so badly, many died of infections back then . But, if you didnt come up with an apple, you would be killed. If you did come up with an apple, you lived till the next years celebration. This is all hedonism, evil, wicked, not of GOd at all. THe trick and treat thing was awful. IF you didnt give them what they asked for , you were tortured and killed. IT wasnt always about candy and toilet papering someones house that didnt give you candy. oh no. Read about all of it and you deceide. SHould you celebrate this festival, or any of the others? God wants us to get out these truths and stop it. Easter oh man, Easter was a pagan god , a god of sex, read about it, right down to the easter eggs, being about fertility, evil. Christmas? Come on, dont get me going there.
Even the Bible has two places mentioning about these ppl cutting down the trees and decorating with silver and gold and GOd says they will be destroyed for it. So much on all of these holdaays, that will blow your mind. YOu cant mix light with darkness. they dont mix. But each person has a right to know truth and then deceide to obey God or follow the ways of the evil. Even now as halloween is done. Kids will soap up the windows or do even worse. Well, why should that person have such a mess to clean up and what if they have no money to do it, or are too sick or old to do it? This is something you want to take part in??????? I know once years ago , some kids toilet papered our house and thought it was funny, friends of my teenage sons. oh hahahahaha. didnt laugh long. I couldnt get up high enough in those trees of gutters to get that stuff, it was a mess, getting wet, and clogging the drains. Ask how happy my son was when he had to get up there and get it all cleaned up?? At first he was laughing, felt popular that kids would do this. BUt no fun when he had to clean the mess. As God says, Do unto others as you have them do unto you.
Did you see any of his too funny friends coming over to hel[ him? NOPE>
I just say dont believe me. Go on and search these things for yourself. I wont have a Christmas tree or any part of that. It wasnt even when Jesus was born. We are to celebrate His life, birth, death and resurrection every day, for therein lies our BLESSED HOPE>
Great question and what perfect timing.. I pray many will hear...and receive....
2007-10-11 09:14:32 · answer #5 · answered by full gospel shirley 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The truth is Halloween is harmless fun for people of all ages.
2007-10-11 05:03:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
It's simply a pagan Memorial Day, similiar to our current one. The "evil" was added by gossip, rumors and lies of others from other belief systems.
2007-10-11 05:02:14 · answer #7 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 9⤊ 2⤋
No, I just like the candy and pumpkins. I even have a pumpkin shower curtain. I'm cool.
2007-10-11 05:11:18 · answer #8 · answered by Flatpaw 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yay, kclight! Couldn't have said it better myself.
2007-10-11 05:07:58 · answer #9 · answered by Cheryl E 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Plainly you do not.
2007-10-11 05:02:17 · answer #10 · answered by Scott M 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋