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Our Faith Family Stance about Halloween

We believe every family has the right to choose to make decisions for their household, but we would want to share our stance on the event and the reasons why we as a faith community will not even recognize the day as a holiday. One major reason: “Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, himself, declared that by dressing up, either by wearing a costume or coloring oneself in celebration of Halloween, signifies that you allow Satan to own you. He further said that when you adopt the pagan practices, you subconsciously dedicate yourself to the devil. He took joy in Christians who take part in the tradition saying, ‘I am glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.’” (Welcome to Halloween from Meer Website) Please pick up “7 Reasons Why We Don’t Recognize It” at the Guest Services Table if you are interested in knowing more about our Faith Community Stance on Halloween. 

Halloween is just around the corner, and now is a good opportunity to discuss the TRUTH about Halloween and answer the question, “Should Christians celebrate Halloween?” But first, let’s look at what really is Halloween. 

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WHAT IS HALLOWEEN? 

Halloween is a holiday that is celebrated on the 31st of October each year. The origin of Halloween comes from the Celts (people from Western Europe) who held an annual festival called Samhain. During this festival, which was held at the end of Summer, there were sacrifices made to their false gods. It was a Druid (Celtic priests involved in witchcraft) tradition. They believed that there were boundaries between the dead and undead, and that spirits could come into the world. These demonic beliefs are shared and practiced by the occult (people who actively believe and practice in mysticism, sorcery and magic). These people believed that Samhain (the ‘god of death’) could scatter evil spirits into the world to attack humans by playing tricks. Humans would dress up to disguise themselves and hide from these evil spirits. Druids would go to your house and put writings all over your place to get demons to mess with you. They would knock on your door and say ‘trick or treat’. The treat represented someone giving them another member of their household to sacrifice, and if you refused, they would say trick. This is where they would make you participate in certain weird games, and if you survived, they would let you go. One of the games was where they heated up water to about 200 degrees Fahrenheit and put apples into the water. Sound familiar? If you could grab one of these bobbing apples, you were free to go. Many people died or ended up dismantled from playing these wicked games.  

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HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS 

  • Masks and costumes were worn by Ancient Celts to avoid being recognized by evil spirits 

  • People in England on All Soul’s Day (2 days after Halloween) would give out pastries in exchange for prayers for dead relatives (‘trick or treat’) 

  • The color black represented the death of summer, and orange symbolizes the crops 

  • Jack O Lanterns (carving scary faces into potatoes and turnips) were made to ward off the evil spirits 

 

HOW IS IT CELEBRATED TODAY? 

Many of these paganistic traditions have become modernized, as a way to trick people into thinking that celebrating Halloween is ‘no big deal’ and is ‘fun’ for children. From dressing up, to knocking on strangers' doors and saying, ‘trick or treat’, to playing different games that originated from the time of the Celts and Druids; it was then and always will be evil.

 

“Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, himself, declared that by dressing up, either by wearing a costume or coloring oneself in celebration of Halloween, signifies that you allow Satan to own you. He further said that when you adopt the pagan practices, you subconsciously dedicate yourself to the devil. He took joy in Christians who take part in the tradition saying, “I am glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year. Welcome to Halloween” (Reference from Meer website). 

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7 Reasons Why We Don’t Recognize Halloween and REASONS WHY AS CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN 

1.DEATH HAS ALREADY BEEN DEFEATED 

Halloween is a celebration of sacrifices and death. Death has been defeated by Jesus Christ when He died on the cross for our sins and rose again 3 days later.  

“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:55-57). 

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2. EVERYTHING WE DO IS TO GLORIFY GOD 

We, as Christians, represent the body of Christ. Everything we do in our lives should glorify Him. We were created to glorify God. Halloween does NOT glorify God. It gives worship to the devil.  

1 Corinthians 10:31 – “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God”.  

1 Corinthians 12:27 – “Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular”.  

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3. WE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD 

We are the light of the world. We have the light of Christ shining inside of us for others to see. Celebrating Halloween is in opposition of what the light of Christ represents.  

“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:14-16). 

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4. CHRISTIANITY AND PAGANISM DO NOT MIX 

We don’t celebrate the dead, demons, the occult or darkness; we worship the Creator of this universe, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Christianity and paganism do NOT mix. It is not Biblical to participate in witchcraft, idolatry, and paganism, to do these evil things if they’re celebrated at a Church or to rebrand evil and make it good, or to fit in to this world. Therefore, we do not even try doing an alternative such as “Trunk and Treat!” We treat this day like any other day.  

Isaiah 5:20 – “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” 

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5. OBEYING GOD’S WORD IS MOST IMPORTANT 

The Bible tells us to not participate in these evil, demonic traditions. God condemns these things, so why do Christians celebrate them this one night in the year? The Bible says NO to witchcraft (Exodus 22:18. Deuteronomy 18:10-12), ghosts (Leviticus 19:31), vampires (Leviticus 7:26-27), idolatry (Exodus 20:3-6).  

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6. WE ARE CALLED TO STAND OUT 

We are not called to fit in as Christians, we are made to stand out. We are in this world but are not of this world. Anyone who is a friend of the world is an enemy of God. Celebrating this holiday to ‘fit in’ is a horrible excuse to celebrate evil. You cannot walk with Jesus while holding satan’s hand.  

1 John 2:15-17 – “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever”. 

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7. NOTHING ABOUT THIS HOLIDAY IS GOOD 

There is nothing about this holiday/tradition that is good. It is all evil. Regardless of people modernizing it and making it seem innocent such as children dressing up and receiving candy from their neighbors or carving into a pumpkin. But when you learn the origins of these traditions and the evil demonic beliefs that go with it, you cannot change evil into good. You cannot make something that is meant to celebrate evil, that worships death and sacrifice to false pagan gods as something that is Biblical or righteous for Christians to participate in.  

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FINAL MESSAGE 

As a Faith Community, we do not celebrate Halloween and I encourage you to do the same. Death has already been defeated by Jesus. Once you start to look at the origins/history of this holiday and where the traditions came from, you will soon realize that everything about Halloween is satanic. We are not, nor will we have any part in doing so

Faith Builders
Worship Center

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