Message from @hyperiacob
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You guys do know the catholics are wrong for mixing cultures
They didn't mix them, they subverted. There's a difference.
They literally took a Holiday that worship the devil and then subverted it into their own culture
Oh, yeah that too. And we christians (back then the roman caths) actually trolled the mithras festival by choosing the 25th of december because they didn't exactly have a legal birth certificate of our Jesus, so they had to go based on scriptures and work their way to an approximate date. They calculated it to be during the winter solstice (25 dec to 6th jan), so the western christians had dibbs on the 25th and the eastern christians on the 6th. Just to make sure somebody wished Jesus a happy birthday.
So you're saying that simply based on it's origins, the object of worship must still be the Devil?
And if so, how does that logic work?
Halloween has many demonic symbolss
And funny enough catholics was the ones that came up as dressing up to scare the Ghost,ect off.
Look, I'm still going to celebrate halloween as a festival for the passing of Saints. I am still going to celebrate Christmas as the birthday of Christ. It is not wrong to turn a symbol from worship of evil and turn it to the worship of good, because a symbol and a date cannot be, in and of themselves, evil.
A pine tree is not evil.
Why worship the dead when they have no power?
A skull is not evil.
It is not worship.
Really...did u not see them vote? π
Yes it is. Don't you remember Jesus said let the dead bury the dead.
Same chirstmas isn't a problem
Skulls are pieces of calcium left over after we die. They do not have any sort of moral alignment.
We associate them with death for obvious reasons. We also do not like touching the dead for obvious purposes of hygiene.
That does not make them evil.
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lordβs table and of the table of demons.
I Corinthians 10:21
And Halloween has many people dressed up as demons and demonic things ect.
And do we say that Demons are good? Do we tout their moral superiority over angels?
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
Ephesians 5:11
Halloween also is a day of darkness where witchcraft is done many other disgusting things
Evil cannot lay claim to a date.
That's insanity.
nor give place to the devil.
Ephesians 4:27
You giving the devil the chance to distrack you
Demons are Evil. Now there may be some rational argument for saying "Maybe adults should not dress as demons because children may confuse that with glorifying evil." But even then, that's doing a disservice to your child, because it assumes they are stupid and cannot learn the difference.
Now, if you're actually practicing witchcraft, I do not condone that as a Christian. The rules there are very clear.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/rom.12.2.ESV
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.
I Peter 5:8β-β¬9 NKJV
You need to know that the devil is cunning
Any can use anything to make it look good but is actually bad
If you're letting evil have claim over a date, then it is exactly that. You are ceding ground to them. Why?
Abstain from every form of evil.
I Thessalonians 5:22
Halloween is a day of evil, when they come to my door can feel evil and nothing good can come from Halloween
I do not believe so. I feel mostly nothing when children dressed for fun come to my door.
If you are not glorifying God then why participate in halloween
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20
So when someone dressed as a disney princess rings your doorbell and asks for candy you can feel evil exuding from the interaction?
May sound strange but yes
Actually, you can Glorify god on Halloween.
Didn't we also have an alternative celebration to subvert halloween, like the harvest festival or reformation day. So folks won't to the witchcraft and pagany thing on the same day. I get how we did subvert evil pagan halloween with trick or treat halloween (or another more "wholesome" activity). π€·ββοΈ
How is that evil though? Sheβs just dressing up as her role model and asking for candy
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2 ESV