Can Halloween Be an Entirely Innocent Practice? -- Part Two
by Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. John Weldon
How does God, as He looks down on Halloween night, in full awareness of the events that have happened on this night historically and today, view little children, especially Christian children, dressed up as ghosts, devils, witches, and goblins? Or even dressed up as innocent characters but going out on that very night so dedicated by occultists to their own activities?
How does God view Christian parents, His own spiritual children, participating in an event that, on that very day, is so honored by occultists and the devil—the day on which so much evil has been committed historically, and is actually being committed on that very night?
The larger question this raises—that of Christians innocently participating in Halloween—is whether it involves a deliberate mockery of God on the part of the devil; i.e., to have God’s own children participate symbolically in celebrations that are tributes to Satan, pagan gods, and all kinds of evil?
Read the rest here:
http://www.ankerberg.org/Articles/practical-christianity/PC1002W2.htm
Part 1 is here:
Can Halloween Be an Entirely Innocent Practice? -- Part One
http://www.ankerberg.org/Articles/practical-christianity/PC1002W1.htm
Here are a few more things to read as well...
What is the Origin of Halloween
by Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. John Weldon
http://www.ankerberg.org/Articles/practical-christianity/PC0902W3.htm
Halloween - 1997 (Chuck Missler)
http://www.khouse.org/articles/1997/27/
Halloween and Christians
sliceoflaodicea.com
Facts About Halloween
www.davidhocking.org
3 comments:
Thank you Carla!!! After 27 years of being one of the very few members of our former local PAOC church who felt strongly about this issue,.....(at times even mocked because of the stand we took against participating in Halloween), I have to whole heartedly agree with the following statement from the first link you gave. ......"No matter what the evil, parents are forever searching for alternatives in order that their children not feel deprived of the world’s fun. When it comes to Halloween, Christians decide to substitute their own parties for the worlds. Instead of calling their festivities "Halloween parties," they call them "Harvest Festivals" and dress them in biblical costumes. But that’s what Halloween is: a harvest festival. And many children wear biblical costumes for Halloween anyway, so what’s the difference except in the compromise of their minds? You can be sure that to most children it’s still Halloween that they’re celebrating".........…. This year my wee grandchildren who are still young enough to know very little of Halloween, were invited to the same church's Harvest party. Awwww come on guys!! That type of "outreach" they can do without!!
Amen for the article & blessings to mamajoe for holding firm against this day of evil. One which the enemy cloaks by dressing up in a costume of innocent fun for the children but, like all he has to offer, most assuredly is not.
This "costume" for Halloween is really no different than what he employs for every act of disobedience against the LORD. One where he takes evil, wickedness and rebellion against the LORD and slaps on a shinny veneer to make it appear to be something fun, entertaining and harmless.
This being no different than what he does with movies and TV (as just one example) where he so subtlety gets Christians to laugh when children are disobedient to parents/elders, cry when adulterous partners break up, and to nary bat an eye when God's name is taken in vain.
This too he does with Halloween. It just looks like innocent fun but it is not for the day at its heart is a day to hallow evil, darkness and death. None of which Christians are to celebrate or glory in because we are commanded to both abstain from the unfruitful works of darkness and also to reprove them. And when we do this we will be persecuted and mocked by the world at large. And if we raise our children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, then they too will suffer reproach from the wicked.
I ask is this not what we are called to; that is to suffer for Christ's name sake? Do not most Christians in other parts of the world desist from the pagan/wicked things in their society and thus become the targets of persecution in their lands? Yet in America we want no persecution and no pain and thus too many compromise to get by with nary a scratch against their person.
This is why, as mamajoe so astutely wrote that there are "harvest" festivals. All so Christians can be just like the world so so as to avoid being made fun of. Well, if this is what one wants, that is a persecution free life for them and their children, than Christianity, that is true Biblical Christianity, is not the faith I would recommend embracing.
I agree. It saddens me so much that my husband and I know only a handful of other Christian families that are opposed to participating in Halloween related activities due to its pagan origins. We have been ridiculed by professing Christians and non-Christians alike for opposing Halloween. I suppose that should be expected. The way is narrow, and the Lord did say that "if the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." John 15:18-19
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