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We probably should have never gotten mixed up in that halloween mess. I liked that stuff when I was a kid scary movies, haunted houses etc., but I didn't have the mind of Christ back then. I don't trust it and my spirit repels it. A lot of these horror movies are really sick and disturbing. Its bad for the mind. I think it slowly infultrates the mind. There's also this huge interest and glorification of vampires. Just because something seems fun doesn't mean its good.
J
For Christmas we always spend time with our families and I usually remind the children of why we celebrate Christmas. When we are opening presents, I ask them why we give gifts to each other. I wait for their answers then add "We give gifts to each other because God gave us the greatest gift of all, Jesus." They all seem to enjoy it an the adults usually say nothing but nod in agreement.
One year, I even made a cake. On the cake it said "Happy Birthday Jesus". Most of the kids too small to read asked me whose birthday it was and that gave me a chance to tell them about the birth of Jesus.
So that's my take on Christmas an some ideas for you
One year, I even made a cake. On the cake it said "Happy Birthday Jesus". Most of the kids too small to read asked me whose birthday it was and that gave me a chance to tell them about the birth of Jesus.
So that's my take on Christmas an some ideas for you
have a sense of humor at Halloween, watch 1950's and 1960's B movies, they are so cheesy and so horribly done, they are great fun to watch, not the slightest bit scary, Have to watch out for those giant gila monsters and giant killer shrews, these are the kinds of movies where you can laugh yourself sick and throw popcorn at the screen
J
I dont do holloween personally because I dont like turning myself into a legal door to door begger. The like dressing up andI control the content so it is harmless.
Christ was born sometime in the spring I think. The December 25th was at one time a pagan thing and a ruler who turned to God designated it as a celebration of Christ. I dont know when the birthday thing got started but it was a celebration of his birth.
Enjoy both to the fullest the best way you can, like all thing, in the glory of Christ and you cant go wrong.
Christ was born sometime in the spring I think. The December 25th was at one time a pagan thing and a ruler who turned to God designated it as a celebration of Christ. I dont know when the birthday thing got started but it was a celebration of his birth.
Enjoy both to the fullest the best way you can, like all thing, in the glory of Christ and you cant go wrong.
dont you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God...that means that by holding hands with demonic pagan festivals like Halloween, God sees YOU as an enemy of His...and who is the biggest enemy of His that you are following...satan...it is no joke to be an enemy of God so all the advice here that it is ok to celebrate Halloween is of the world and of satan
IF your conscience is clean then your soul is not in danger.
God realizes that ungodly things surround us. Not just Holidays. If we avoided everything pagan linked we would never leave our homes.
That is why it is important to grow in your faith.
Like I said, Halloween candy is amoral, so are costumes and so on. Where your heart and mind is is the issue. I am not embracing Satan because I choose to scare 16 year old football players from my yard on October 31st with a chainsaw.
Its either that or my yard gets toilet papered
God realizes that ungodly things surround us. Not just Holidays. If we avoided everything pagan linked we would never leave our homes.
That is why it is important to grow in your faith.
Like I said, Halloween candy is amoral, so are costumes and so on. Where your heart and mind is is the issue. I am not embracing Satan because I choose to scare 16 year old football players from my yard on October 31st with a chainsaw.
Its either that or my yard gets toilet papered
I believe the idea of turning a former pagan holiday into the celebration of Christs birthday was to take away the power of the pagan holiday and turn it into something good, when you are celebrating something that should be celebrated instead of the former holiday, that former holiday loses much of what it was for, this is a good thing
C
Actually - Halloween was a day to scare away "spirits"...not worshiping anything.
Now it's a day to have fun, eat candy, and have a jolly night out!
So, what you have to ask yourself is "What does Halloween mean to me?" or "What does Christmas mean to me?" It's in the spirit of how you do things that matters!!!
Now it's a day to have fun, eat candy, and have a jolly night out!
So, what you have to ask yourself is "What does Halloween mean to me?" or "What does Christmas mean to me?" It's in the spirit of how you do things that matters!!!
Actually, the star that the three wise men saw was likely a conjunction of the planets that occurs at about the same time every 4 years. In 2014 it will be on December 21st. It was on the 25th of December in the year 33 BC, it is slightly out of sync with the Gregorian Calendar and will steadily drift earlier and earlier in the year.( the year zero AD/BC was Jesus Christ's death year, not his birth year.) I have seen the theory that Jesus Christ was born in the springtime, but this claim flies in the face of Jesus' grandfather Nicodemus' declaration that Jesus' birth fulfilled all the prophecies. Bethlehem is in the Northern Hemisphere, they have springtime the same time of year that we do in America. One of the prophecies Nicodemus knew about, was the prophecy that the Christ would be born within the darkest month of the year (This Jewish Calendar month mostly overlaps December and takes a small bite out of January), and Nicodemus was content that this had been fulfilled. So, Dec. 25th is the correct birth date, and December 21st would be an equally appropriate date to celebrate His birth. Halloween is in fact originally a pagan tradition, but look at WHEN Christians adopted it for a clue at WHY Christians adopted it. It was an embarrassing time to be a Christian, there were fanatics on horseback, wearing swords, converting pagans to Christianity at sword point, CONVERT OR DIE, and then riding through the same area during the next pagan holiday, killing any "false converts" who were celebrating. Most Christians understood that if it is a sin to convert falsely at sword point, it is the one holding the sword, who is sinning. Self-defense is not a sin! How does an unarmed congregation of true Christians, fight this atrocity being committed by armed men? Everyone celebrates during the pagan holiday! They can't get their masters' permission to kill everyone, their masters would get no taxes! So a Christian Holiday, All Saints Day, was created to spread the word, Everyone must celebrate! And the celebration, All Hallows Eve, was on the same day, mimicking the same behaviors, as the pagan holiday. Christmas already happened to be on the pagan winter holiday, coincidentally, Easter already happened to be on the spring pagan holiday, (which was not a coincidence, look closely at the story of Queen Esther,), the fanatics couldn't ride far during summer solstice, the weather was too hot for the horses, and the fanatics were a good deal less fanatical on foot. It was the harvest pagan holiday, which needed this protection from the fanatics. Halloween is no longer needed for anyone's protection, but what a great time to celebrate compassion and true faith winning out over fanaticism, we should be reaching out to Muslims to celebrate Halloween with us instead of stamping out Halloween.
I dont think an evil spirit is going to go anywhere near a church full of Christians celebrating Christs birth on Christmas eve. They hate that stuff. Remember the night on bald mountain part of fantasia? the evil spirits were running everywhere, until the march with the lights was begun, then they were driven away back into the darkness. Always reminded me of a candlelight Christmas eve service, the candles represent the light brought into the world by Christ, driving back evil
Y
It is wrong to celebrate both events, because they are both Pagan Orientated.
[h=3]Jeremiah 10[/h]“Do not learn the ways of the nations
or be terrified by signs in the heavens,
though the nations are terrified by them.
3 For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
they cut a tree out of the forest,
and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
4 They adorn it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so it will not totter.
5 Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
their idols cannot speak;
they must be carried
because they cannot walk.
Do not fear them;
they can do no harm
nor can they do any good.”
[h=3]Jeremiah 10[/h]“Do not learn the ways of the nations
or be terrified by signs in the heavens,
though the nations are terrified by them.
3 For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
they cut a tree out of the forest,
and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
4 They adorn it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so it will not totter.
5 Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
their idols cannot speak;
they must be carried
because they cannot walk.
Do not fear them;
they can do no harm
nor can they do any good.”