If it is a sin to celebrate Halloween, then shouldn't it be a sin also then?

Question

To Celebrate Christmas, and all the others that were started by Pagan beliefs? I am in no way putting them down, I am just asking because I saw somebody on here earlier say that as Christians they should stay far away from halloween.

Answer 1

Do you have a day off to celebrate the President?
Where here we have a day off to celebratethe Queens B'day but different days in some States..
But as we don't know exactly when Christ was born, would you like to celebrate His birth at some time each year as most people do for themselves and others?
After all He made us and whether pople want to believe it or deny the facts, we WERE born and one day we WILL die!
I rather celebrate Jesus than give satan a moment of my time!
Do you believe?

Answer 2

While Celtics had the eve of All Saints day far back in history, the Christians celebrated their own All Saints day in the Spring. In the 800s Catholic Pope Gregory moved the date to closesly coincide (Cathlics celebrate it on the Eve of November 1) with the Pagan ritual. There is no official reason for this found, but it is highly suspected that he was trying to integrate Pagans into Christianity by merging holidays to give the Pagan one's Christian meaning.

The English PRotestant or Reformation Movement in the 1400s started to do away with or deemphisize All Saints Day in England.

This is probably the orgin of the aspect of SIN for that date, but it's a minority view held by only a small faction of Protestants.

The original point of the Protestant movement was return the religion to the original, earlier practises before various Popes changed rules, such as not allow married priests, paying to get out of sins and moving dates around or creating new holy dates.

The original Protestants were actually more conservative or Orthodoxy than they are today. They wanted a return to the orignial, much like the Greek and Russian Orthodox who refused to change their rules and broke away from the Romans.

Today, however, the Protestants stand for continue and liberal reform, hence many of them view Halloween as simply a tradition that has no great harm.

Some segements, the more conservative ones, don't hold with this and consider it wrong and unholy to participate.

That Catholics still celebrate, but on November 1st and they don't seem to have a great probably with pumpkins and displays and letting their children out in costumes on Oct 31.

With what we know scientifically about sugar and kids, maybe it is wrong and sinful to let them collect candy which raises aderenline content, increases insulin which decalcifies bones and teeth making kids prone to cavities in the mouth and broken bones from falls.

Science, nutritionalists,health experts along with some of their Atheist and Agnositic counterparts are shunning the candy aspect of the tradition. Thus they are joining to a degree with Conservative Chritians in stating this event does wrong and harm.

Funny, the various strange bedfellows around this tradition!

Answer 3

It's not a sin to celebrate Halloween.

However, Christmas and Halloween were not started by Pagan beliefs. Christmas was started as a celebration of Christ's birth. It was set on December 25th to roughly coincide with the pagan holiday of Yule celebrated at that same time. It allowed recent converts to easily switch over. The same is true for Halloween - it's All Hallow's Eve, which was moved from a different time of year to 10/31, with All Saints Day being moved to 11/1, to coincide with the Samhain holiday. That doesn't make All Hallow's Eve a pagan celebration - it's a Chrsitian celebration that coincides with a pagan holiday.

And dressing up in costumes and going to hayrides and haunted houses is not sinful. It's just a fun thing people do.

Answer 4

If Christmas is all about celebrating christ and the "light" that is Jesus, then actually start celebrating it that way, I say. No christmas tree- the bible forbids it as a pagan practice. Spend the entire day in church, no parties, no alcohol, no conspicuous overspending on presents- Jesus didn't say be greedy and gather stuff to yourself on my birthday.

No feasting, none of that - just prayer.

Same with Easter- none of the trappings, only prayer.

Now, are you happy with that, dear Christians? No? There are soooo many sins associated with those holidays.

Until you are ready to forego your sinning on the holidays you approve of, then stop condemning the other holidays as evil - because they aren't celebrating evil at all - it's time to learn your history, time to realize most holidays are fully secularized and commercialized, and realize that if you insist practice change for one, then practice needs to change for all.

I highly doubt any of you are willing to do that.

PS- Halloween started as a CHURCH holiday, adapted from earlier practices, JUST like all the rest of the religious based holidays. Wake up.

Answer 5

Yes it is......Originally envisioned as a way to ease converts' transition from heathen worship to Christianity, the holiday's observance in more recent years has been driven by economic forces. Encyclopaedia Britannica observes that the traditional Christian holidays have "undergone a process of striking desacralization and—especially Christmas—commercialization. The Christological foundation of Christmas was replaced by the myth of Santa Claus" (15th edition, Macropaedia, Vol. IV, p. 499, "Christianity").

Even with its failings, Christmas remains an entrenched tradition. Although some recognize the intrinsic paganism of the holiday, they believe they are free to establish their own days of worship. Others cling to the naïve and "biblically insupportable" belief that paganism's most popular celebrations have been won over by Christianity and therefore are acceptable to God.

Human reasoning aside, we need to consider God's opinion about such celebrations. We need to look into God's Word to see how He views mixing pagan practices and customs with worship of Him.

Answer 6

Every day is a day to celebrate GOD. " For this is a day that the LORD has made".

I know the truth about Halloween, and I refuse to partake in it.

I do celebrate the birth of Christ Jesus, but not on Christmas only, we celebrate His birth on Thanksgiving and ANY time we choose to.

Without His birth none of His Testimony would have taken place and the gift of eternal life would not be possible.

We do not encourage our children to go up to strangers nor their homes any time of the year to beg for candy.

We do not encourage our children to worship " Satan's Claws. Or some egg laying rabbit.

I believe that we as parent should teach our children in truth, to speak the truth and to walk in truth, so that they will not die in a lie, but be risen in the Glory of GOD.

Answer 7

Bologna, As long as you put God first in these holidays there is no sin in having fun with them. Don't get all caught up on what different people say about halloween (or any other holiday for example) being a pagan holiday. It's a holiday that anyone can enjoy. As long as you don't start worshipping something else other than God then you will be fine. People need to relax and have fun, all for the glory of God. This goes for any national holiday. Have fun and make Jesus smile. Christians are not stuffy do gooders. We like to have fun also.

Answer 8

This might be a first but your right.

Christmas is the pagan celebration of Tammuz the sun god.

His mother Astarte (Or Ishtar , see Easter) Got pregnant on the day we celebrate Easter (why you think they use eggs and bunnies, both fertile) and about 9 months from that day is DEC 25th.

Pagans believed because the days were getting shorter that the sun god was dying. They put a yule log in the fireplace and in the morning it was replaced (like dad does for Santa's presents) in the morning with an evergreen tree.

Bashing Xmas is pulling down a Christians idol and causes lots of grief. But if you want to be a christian act like one and stop being like the world.

Why do you think they have Santa during what you celebrate as Jesus birthday (he was not born he is God everlasting to everlasting) Jesus exited Mary about Sept 15th. Study your bible its there. When Jesus returns he will have a white beard and hair wearing a red suit bringing rewards to the faithful and punishing the unbelievers.

If you want a good book go to jamesknox.comand get the lost cause series. Great chapter on Santa. Or get his message the day of the advent. will prove from scripture Jesus came to this world (not born my God has no beginning or ending) approx Sept 15th.

Standing for the truth for Jesus sake.

Jeremiah Chap 10:1-6 it says learn not the "way" of the heathen. Either join them and anger God or seperate yourself and please him.

Answer 9

I think most Christians realize the Jesus was not born on Dec. 25...clues from the bible indicate it was probably sometime in early to mid Sept. since it would be too cold for the Shepard's to be with their flocks in Dec.....since the exact date is not pinpointed in the bible it is no mistake of God...just like the exact physical appearance of Jesus is never in the bible...why??....its my humble opinion that God didn't want us focusing on A date or His appearance but on His words and actions....God knows man...knows what would divert us...knows our vanity...and knows that in order to keep us focused He had to exclude things like physical appearance or specific dates. When we celebrate Christmas we are celebrating the birth of our Lord...not the "date"....when we celebrate Easter we are celebrating the conquest of death by His Resurrection....not Easter....if you are into His Word, you need not fear ANYTHING....so celebrate...He knows your heart and knows what you are celebrating....

Answer 10

YES! YES! YES! Christmas, Halloween, and Easter are all pagan holidays.

The Encyclopedia Americana informs us: “The reason for establishing December 25 as Christmas is somewhat obscure, but it is usually held that the day was chosen to correspond to pagan festivals that took place around the time of the winter solstice, when the days begin to lengthen, to celebrate the ‘rebirth of the sun.’ . . . The Roman Saturnalia (a festival dedicated to Saturn, the god of agriculture, and to the renewed power of the sun), also took place at this time, and some Christmas customs are thought to be rooted in this ancient pagan celebration.”—(1977), Vol. 6, p. 666.

The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us: “A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. . . . The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.”—(1913), Vol. V, p. 227.

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.

It is your choice whether you wish to participate in pagan holidays or not. God will not force you to do anything you don't want to do. There is overwhelming evidence as to the pagan origin of Christendom’s holidays. There is, in addition, clear-cut evidence that the early Christians shunned such pagan practices, and that the Bible warns against Christians’ taking up these customs. So, in honesty now, will you follow the lead of the early Christians, or will you turn your back on God in favor of the chief of the demons, Satan the Devil. The choice is yours.