Halloween Ideas

Post by **_Mort_Coyle** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:22 pm

There is lots of power in it --- demonic power.

No more so than Mormonism or any other false religion. The demonic power is in the deception foisted upon those who follow it.

Post by **_Paidion** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:28 am

No more so than Mormonism or any other false religion. The demonic power is in the deception foisted upon those who follow it.

I have encountered many reports that modern wicca practices include the offering of human sacrifices.

I have never heard of such a report concerning Mormonism or any other "false" religion.

Post by **_TK** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:52 pm

i suspect that there are soft-core and hard-core practitioners of the wiccan craft. i agree with Paidion, however, that any version of wiccan practice is bad news.

TK

Post by **_Sean** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:10 am

It does seem strange to teach your children not to take candy from strangers. Then, we take them door to door and, you guessed it, they take candy from strangers.

It's amazing if you try and tell other Christians that you don't like participating in Halloween, they think you are the legalist!

Post by **_Jim** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:54 am

My wife and I don't celebrate halloween. I would any one in Christ want to dress up as demons, ghosts and goblins to hide from the supposed union of our world to the spiritual world, which has to do with fear. From what I understand that is how the whole costume thing got started. Also to us it just seems down right like people are honoring evil and demons which is craziness. Don't we have enough problems with the demonic realm without adding a day to honor them.

Jim

Post by **_darin-houston** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:12 am

My wife and I don't celebrate halloween. I would any one in Christ want to dress up as demons, ghosts and goblins to hide from the supposed union of our world to the spiritual world, which has to do with fear. From what I understand that is how the whole costume thing got started. Also to us it just seems down right like people are honoring evil and demons which is craziness. Don't we have enough problems with the demonic realm without adding a day to honor them.

Because we don't -- what we do is dress our kids up in cute costumes, take them around and surprise our neighbors (who, if we're being Christian we have gotten to know) by what our kids are wearing this year, sit together the night before to share our creativity and junk food in the street by carving pumpkins and sharing stories and laughs and watching our children play, etc. That sense of community is being lost -- we as Christians should do what we can to encourage it so we can be salt and light -- if we're sitting in our houses doing nothing but studying the word, that's tough to do -- we aren't to be of the world (won't be playing with Ouija boards, dressing my kids up as demons, or having mock seance with neighbor kids, etc.), but if there is a harmless way we can share in community holidays without compromising our Faith, wouldn't Christ have done the same? I think Paul would have.

Post by **_TK** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:19 am

i tend to agree, Darin.

i was in the Outer Banks in NC last week and a church we attended there (nags head church) does what they call "trunk or treat." the people in the church park their cars in the church parking lot with the trunk of their vehicle opened and they decorate the trunk of their car in some theme, and they will dress up in accordance with the theme (no demons or scary themes allowed, obviously). they invite the community to bring their children, and they pass out candy, etc. it is essentially an outreach event. i was not there to see it in person but they said it was always a big hit in the community.

TK

Post by **_Anonymous** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:56 am

Sean wrote:It does seem strange to teach your children not to take candy from strangers. Then, we take them door to door and, you guessed it, they take candy from strangers.

It's amazing if you try and tell other Christians that you don't like participating in Halloween, they think you are the legalist!

Does it bother you that they think that you are the legalist? Do you think you are a legalist? (I don't)

Post by **_Mort_Coyle** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:04 am

I have encountered many reports that modern wicca practices include the offering of human sacrifices.

Yes, I've heard such things as well. Funny thing though is that these reports can never be substantiated and the sources of the reports are usually not very reputable (such as Bob Larson or Mike Warnke). That puts such claims, IMHO, in the same category as Bigfoot and flying saucers.

Also, the teachings of Wicca do not include human sacrifice.

Post by **_Paidion** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:48 pm

Well said, Jim.

I am sure that some people take "innocently" take their kids out "trick-or-treating", thinking it's just a fun time. But they are training their children to ask people to give them stuff. Would it not be better to train them that it is better to give than to receive?

What is worse. While these parents and children are carrying out their "innocent trick-or-treating", thousands of witches (wiccans) are offering cats and other animals (some say even humans) in pagan sacrifice. Shouldn't disciples of Christ make every effort to disassociate themselves with pagan religion by refusing to recognize this unholiday (unholy day) in any way?