Ok, I thought I would mention an untold (or unspoken) evil that takes place during halloween.

I already posted some thoughts on why I don’t think Christians should celebrate halloween.

However, I wanted to post a reason that people all across the world should not celebrate halloween.

And that is…

…the massive amounts of REFINED SUGAR that will be consumed because of the holiday.

Halloween promotes the consumption of the evil element called sugar (refined). Not only will sugar rot your teeth, it damages your body in too many ways to be listed. In addition, it will make you fat! So I ask you, as a Christian, can you in good conscience support the detriment of children’s health just to celebrate an occult holiday?

AMDG

Interesting teaching (to say the least) contrary to what some would have you believe about “the law”.

Ephesians 2:15 The Scriptures ‘98 (15) having abolished in His flesh the enmity – the Torah of the commands in dogma – so as to create in Himself one renewed man from the two, thus making peace,

Ephesians 2:15 NET. when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,

Ephesians 2:15 ESV by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,

Christ fulfilled the “law” completely and the meaning of that is much more in depth than it appears on the surface.

AMDG

I just had to comment on this because sometimes I find it hard to believe the lengths Christians will go into mediocrity.

My comment is prompted by a post at challies.com as well as many other blogs that have decided to post on the issue (it is a good time to post on it).

Just ask yourself a few questions and try to answer them honestly and scripturally. Can you see Jesus celebrating a holiday based in the occult? Can you picture the apostles giving in and partially celebrating an occult holiday just because everyone else is doing it?

I mean come on people (directed towards people making excuses to celebrate halloween), do you really believe the nonsense you are trying to feed yourselves?

I especially like comments like this one (sarcasm):

“I have seen too many Christian kids who were so sheltered from the world, that when they were inevitably thrust out into it, had a bad time.”

I can tell you my kids don’t miss halloween at all and they have never celebrated it. They aren’t going to have a “bad time” because they didn’t celebrate a pagan holiday (all hallow’s eve) either. I don’t think teaching your kids about Jesus and why not to celebrate such holidays is sheltering them at all, quite the opposite.

As far as the negative comments about Christians who turn out the light and don’t participate…I have to say I don’t really agree with those comments. The question is…does your “half” participation in the event further the Gospel and is it a witness for Christ? Putting a sign on your door with scripture (and not handing out candy or greeting people) may serve the same purpose…perhaps even to a greater extent since it shows that you are taking a stand on not celebrating the event.

In addition, I wanted to comment on one remark that Tim made.

“Perhaps the greatest fallacy Christians believe about Halloween is that by refusing to participate in the day we are somehow taking a stand against Satan.”

I honestly don’t think that this is a primary reason for not participating in halloween. I think it is more of a stand on Biblical principle and an attempt to be Christ-like, serving Him, in all that we do.

I will close with the question I already asked…would Christ and/or the apostles participate happily in an occult holiday?

P.S.
I suppose if you are going to stand at your door and preach the Gospel all night you would be doing pretty good. However, I somehow doubt that is what Christians who participate in this occult holiday are going to be doing.

AMDG

There may be a possible error in the statement of faith I posted.

I had cut and pasted, however, in writing a new post (not posted yet), I noticed it seems to be missing a statement (at least a statement that appears in some versions).

I may revise it after doing some research.

AMDG