What holidays do you think should be forbidden for a Christian to participate in?

[Hammster]

Here’s a testimony.


I’m a Christian who on occasion might participate in some activities on Halloween. I’ve never tried to delve into anything Satanic. It’s been good-natured fun. Games, candy, caramel apples. Good stuff.

I’ve never lost my faith or been attacked by demons. I still love Christ and worship Him. Nothing dark or sinister has happened.

Crazy, right?

 

[Celticroots]

What about a inappropriate content day? Should we celebrate that sin, too? Obviously you don’t have a problem with the display of the sin of witchcraft. What makes the sin of witchcraft different than inappropriate content? Do you think it would be wrong to display inappropriate content images as decorations

Others have replied to you regarding this ad nauseum. I am out.

 

[SeventyOne]

If Halloween didn't exist and I were to say the I was part of a parents group where occasionally our kids would dress up and meet, and people would look at how they dressed and give them candy, it might come across as perhaps a bit odd, but not much other than that.

But if I were to say my kids are dressing up on Halloween, as a soldier and as a detective, and people will be giving them candy, then all of a sudden, because that word is associated with it, people pile on baggage and assumptions, and start calling me an 'eeevil-sinner!!' simply because they've taken it upon themselves to pile on their own dislikes and make me the target of their own weakness. This isn't about Halloween or any other holiday. It's simply a way to try to control other people to manipulate them to behave a certain way more to another's liking.

 

[RaymondG]

Here’s a testimony.


I’m a Christian who on occasion might participate in some activities on Halloween. I’ve never tried to delve into anything Satanic. It’s been good-natured fun. Games, candy, caramel apples. Good stuff.

I’ve never lost my faith or been attacked by demons. I still love Christ and worship Him. Nothing dark or sinister has happened.

Crazy, right?

I dont believe you will be welcomed on the same side of heaven as Jason.

 

[Bible Highlighter]

Most do not even know that what they do is wrong now a days. The Scriptures say the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked and who can know it. A person has to give up everything so as to follow Jesus in order to see what is keeping them in bondage. For a person who is addicted to drugs or alcohol needs to admit they have a problem. But sometimes they don’t want to see that they have a problem because their sin is so enticing and necessary for them.

One of the passages I struggled with for a long while was 1 John 2:15-17. It says,

“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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It is my prayer that everyone take this text seriously and pray over it for several months.

Don’t see what you want to see.
Let God honesty speak to your heart with this passage.

 

[Hammster]

Most do not even know that what they do is wrong now a days.

Thankfully we have you.

 

[SeventyOne]

Most do not even know that what they do is wrong now a days. The Scriptures say the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked and who can know it. A person has to give up everything so as to follow Jesus in order to see what is keeping them in bondage. For a person who is addicted to drugs or alcohol needs to admit they have a problem. But sometimes they don’t want to see that they have a problem because their sin is so enticing and necessary for them.

One of the passages I struggled with for a long while was 1 John 2:15-17. It says,

“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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It is my prayer that everyone take this text seriously and pray over it for several months.

Don’t see what you want to see.
Let God honesty speak to your heart with this passage.

This is unbelievable. You spend thread after thread telling people what not to do based on your own preferences, then you try to look so above it all with this post. Participation with something in this world is not loving this world. Should everyone follow your advice and end up just spending their lives sitting in a corner of a room, I'd suspect you'd accuse them of loving that corner more than God.

 

[RisenInJesus]

So that means we can dress like inappropriate content stars, ax murderers, witches, thieves, and other sinful people and God is not going to care because we are not actually being like these sinful people in behavior? I am sorry. If you display these things as a costume upon your self (Especially on a day that glorifies dark and evil things), you are pretending to be that sinful person. We are to think on those things that are good and pure and not sinful things. You have things backwards.

I don't celebrate Halloween, but I would be very surprised if even of those Christians who do, ever dressed or let their children dress as ax murderers, inappropriate content stars, etc. It seems to me most people here that are disagreeing with you are not so much trying to defend evil, rather they are attempting to uphold their freedom in Christ which is a very important biblical truth. Really issues like this are between each person and God as ones grows in their faith and is led by the Holy Spirit. I don't believe it is biblical to tell another brother/sister what should be forbidden in their life concerning issues like this because it could go on endlessly from one thing to another. Each believer has enough to focus on in their own life and walk with the Lord without determining what others should or should not be doing, don't you think?

 

[Celticroots]

Here’s a testimony.


I’m a Christian who on occasion might participate in some activities on Halloween. I’ve never tried to delve into anything Satanic. It’s been good-natured fun. Games, candy, caramel apples. Good stuff.

I’ve never lost my faith or been attacked by demons. I still love Christ and worship Him. Nothing dark or sinister has happened.

Crazy, right?

No it’s not. Neither is liking Marvel comics.

 

[Celticroots]

This is unbelievable. You spend thread after thread telling people what not to do based on your own preferences, then you try to look so above it all with this post. Participation with something in this world is not loving this world. Should everyone follow your advice and end of just spending their lives sitting in a corner of a room, I'd suspect you'd accuse them of loving that corner more than God.

Finally someone who sees how ridiculous this is! And yeah we probably would be accused of loving the corner more than God.

 

[Root of Jesse]

So unbelievers know the BIble better than Christians?
How exactly does a Christian look like a moron for denying secular worldly pagan holiday?
Are we not told to pick up our cross, and deny ourselves and follow Jesus?
Are we to not love the things of this world?

Have you tried dialog with any of the atheists on here? They know the letter of the Bible very well.
We ARE told not to love the things of this world, but what does that mean? Does it mean we shouldn't love God's Creation?

 

[Root of Jesse]

So it's okay to dress up as Satan, and to experience the emotion of fear at a haunted house or in watching horror movies (despite Jesus saying that we are only to fear the One who can destroy both body and soul in Gehenna - Matthew 10:28), and it is okay to display witches everywhere (When the Bible condemns witchcraft)?

What do pictures of a devil or a witch have to do with actual witchcraft or devil worship?

 

[Root of Jesse]

So you are saying that people do not glorify Satan, witches, ghosts, death, fear, etc. on Halloween?

They do. We don't. Difference between they and we.

 

[Bible Highlighter]

I don't celebrate Halloween, but I would be very surprised if even of those Christians who do, ever dressed or let their children dress as ax murderers, inappropriate content stars, etc. It seems to me most people here that are disagreeing with you are not so much trying to defend evil, rather they are attempting to uphold their freedom in Christ which is a very important biblical truth. Really issues like this are between each person and God as ones grows in their faith and is led by the Holy Spirit. I don't believe it is biblical to tell another brother/sister what should be forbidden in their life concerning issues like this because it could go on endlessly from one thing to another. Each believer has enough to focus on in their own life and walk with the Lord without determining what others should or should not be doing, don't you think?

I would be surprised if they didn't dress up as ax murderers and as witches, and other sinful things. For in this very thread, they do not see a problem in dressing up this way. They think it is just fantasy that is separate from the sin itself. But what did Jesus say about fantasy? If one looks at a woman in lust (i.e. fantasy), they are in danger of hellfire (Matthew 5:28-30). So whether or not somebody does the actual sin or not, the fact that they role play these sinful beings is telling to what they are fantasizing about. Sure, they may not do it, but they think it is okay enough to appear as something sinful (Which is fantasy). It is okay because I am not actually an axe murderer but I get to pretend I am one by looking like one. See how deceptive that is? I know how it works. I used to think witchcraft was bad when I was a kid. But being programmed by things like Halloween, role playing games, and movies can influence your thinking. It sucks you in to think certain things are okay (When they are not okay).

It is not even debateable that Halloween is a day that glorifies that which is dark and evil. Just look around you during the time of October. People hang pictures of zombies in public places. They hang witches from ceilings. Even schools get in on Halloween. But, don't pray and do not bring up Jesus or the Bible or you are in trouble. But yeah, glorifying death like on a day like Halloween is okay. People today have become desentized to that which is evil and wrong and they cannot even see it.

Jesus says one's words are telling of what goes on in a person's heart. I would say that this would also include the way somebody displays themselves, as well. If they are dressed like an axe murderer or a witch, then something is wrong. For they are making light of these sins in the Bible by turning into a fantasy. A fantasy. For what purpose? To have fun they say? I have other ideas of what fun is and does not include dressing up as looking like a murderer, or a witch, or a thief, etc.

It's wrong to glorify sinful things. That is what they are doing. Displaying evil all in the name of so called fun and fantasy. But it is programming. It starts with what appears to be harmless fun, and can lead to them to blur the line between fantasy and reality whereby they may do that particular sin that reflects their fantasy person that is sinful.

 

[Bible Highlighter]

What do pictures of a devil or a witch have to do with actual witchcraft or devil worship?

When you put on the image of a witch, or devil, you are role playing to be that thing. You are pretending to be evil. God does not want us to fantasize in being like sinful people or sinful beings. For just lusting after a woman (i.e. fantasy) is cause for someone to be cast into hellfire bodily.

 

[Bible Highlighter]

They do. We don't. Difference between they and we.

But let's say you are right (even though I know you are not right) in the fact that Halloween is a Christian holiday in origin. It is not that way now. It is known for celebrating things that are dark and evil. Walk into any grocery store during October and look at the billboards on street highways. You will see zombies, death, witches, ghosts, goblins, etc. Even horror movies are big business during the month of October. You cannot do anything to change this by doing your own thing. People will simply not care or see a difference between what you are doing and what everyone else does. But in reality (Whether you see it or not), there is no difference between your version of Halloween and the world's version of Halloween. It's the same thing. But God calls us to be holy and separate.

 

[Bible Highlighter]

This is unbelievable. You spend thread after thread telling people what not to do based on your own preferences, then you try to look so above it all with this post. Participation with something in this world is not loving this world. Should everyone follow your advice and end up just spending their lives sitting in a corner of a room, I'd suspect you'd accuse them of loving that corner more than God.

It's not my preferences. The Word of God clearly condemns the idea of trying to imitate, roleplay, or make a fantasy out of sinful people or sinful beings. For we see in Matthew 5:28-30 that Jesus condemns a man fantasizing about a woman.

Also, 1 John 2:15 says love not the things in the world. What exactly is your definition of "love not the things of the world"? Do you even have a list of things in the world that you do not love? Or does this verse not even apply to you?

 

[Bible Highlighter]

Finally someone who sees how ridiculous this is! And yeah we probably would be accused of loving the corner more than God.

Sorry, I would do no such thing. I cannot read people's minds. I am also not into condemning individuals like certain Christian websites do. I seek to attack the false belief and not the person.

 

[bbbbbbb]

What about the Day of the Dead? Day of the Dead - Wikipedia

 

[Hammster]

When you put on the image of a witch, or devil, you are role playing to be that thing. You are pretending to be evil. God does not want us to fantasize in being like sinful people or sinful beings. For just lusting after a woman (i.e. fantasy) is cause for someone to be cast into hellfire bodily.

Where does acting like a Pharisee fall into that?