Bobby wants to go trick or treating dressed as Satan, and Emily wants to dress as a witch. Is it alright to take them to a Fall Festival at the Baptist Church dressed like that?
2007-10-29 08:34:17 · 10 answers · asked by 2 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Only if you are prepared to be cast out as sinners.
2007-10-29 08:38:28 · answer #1 · answered by Mojo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Fall festival that we are having at our Church is hopefully going to attract the unsaved children and parents in our community. So of course I am expecting a lot of diversity. My youngest son is dressing up as Spider Man, without the mask because he thinks it's lame. So basically he is going as Peter Parker...And my eldest just wants to wear a Black T-Shirt with the glow in the dark pumpkin eye's. But than again we are having bounce castles, putting green's and carnival games and the kids will probably end up in shorts before the activities are over.
2007-10-29 15:43:36 · answer #2 · answered by fire_side_2003 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That has less to do with the origin of Halloween and more to do with what's appropriate. If the church in question steers away from such costumes, you should do the same since you're going to be at their building. If you came to our church's festival, you'd feel right at home in the dark costumes. If you're not sure, "fall festival" is usually a dead giveaway. (Excuse the pun) That term is usually used by those who do not condone the "evil" aspects of Halloween.
2007-10-29 15:46:21 · answer #3 · answered by starfishltd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What underlies holidays in memory of the “spirits of the dead”?
The 1910 edition of The Encyclopædia Britannica states: “All Souls’ Day . . . the day set apart in the Roman Catholic Church for the commemoration of the faithful departed. The celebration is based on the doctrine that the souls of the faithful which at death have not been cleansed from venial sins, or have not atoned for past transgressions, cannot attain the Beatific Vision, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the sacrifice of the mass. . . . Certain popular beliefs connected with All Souls’ Day are of pagan origin and immemorial antiquity. Thus the dead are believed by the peasantry of many Catholic countries to return to their former homes on All Souls’ night and partake of the food of the living.”—Vol. I, p. 709.
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.
The book The Worship of the Dead points to this origin: “The mythologies of all the ancient nations are interwoven with the events of the Deluge . . . The force of this argument is illustrated by the fact of the observance of a great festival of the dead in commemoration of the event, not only by nations more or less in communication with each other, but by others widely separated, both by the ocean and by centuries of time. This festival is, moreover, held by all on or about the very day on which, according to the Mosaic account, the Deluge took place, viz., the seventeenth day of the second month—the month nearly corresponding with our November.” (London, 1904, Colonel J. Garnier, p. 4) Thus these celebrations actually began with an honoring of people whom God had destroyed because of their badness in Noah’s day.—Gen. 6:5-7; 7:11.
Such holidays honoring “spirits of the dead” as if they were alive in another realm are contrary to the Bible’s description of death as a state of complete unconsciousness.—Eccl. 9:5, 10; Ps. 146:4.
Regarding the origin of belief in immortality of the human soul, see pages 101, 102, under the main heading “Death,” and pages 379, 380, under “Soul.”
2007-10-29 15:37:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why not. Fall Festivals are just another spin of pagan harvest festivals of the past.
2007-10-29 15:38:43 · answer #5 · answered by Keltasia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes you should. do not instill religion in your children,you should want them to be happy and love them as a parent,whatever they choose to participate in :)
2007-10-29 15:41:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tell them it's a "Halloween party!"
2007-10-29 16:02:37 · answer #7 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No but it would be funny to watch
2007-10-29 15:39:12 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
2007-10-29 15:38:19 · answer #9 · answered by HDGranny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO
2007-10-29 15:37:05 · answer #10 · answered by rikirailrd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋