Via RSS feed.October 28th, 2009
Why Not Halloween?
Should Christians celebrate Halloween, or not?
Some of my faithful readers may be familiar with my involvement in witchcraft and the occult prior to God saving me, and the blood of Jesus being applied on my account. As such, the debate concerning whether or not Christians should celebrate Halloween – a festivity with roots in the Celtic pagan traditions – is close to my heart.
Though I wasn’t planning on participating whole-heartedly in the debates this year, when Lisa Metzer contacted me regarding my personal feelings on the topic as an ex-witch, I was happy to comply. She has carefully compiled my responses with that of an ex-wiccan along with her own research on the topic, and I strongly recommend that any believer questioning the appropriateness of this celebration for their holiday read it.
You can find her excellent post here.
Enjoy, and may God bless and keep you.
Dear Jennifer,
We huddled around our computer last night reading the “Why Not Halloween” posts. We were so excited. Truth is exciting. Not compromising God’s Word is exciting. Thank you for sharing with us a very unpopular subject, and standing on the side of truth. I have a coworker who is Pagan, and she says, that her friends mock us because of our belief that Christmas is Christian. Soon after I was saved my Dad sent my faith floundering because he told me that Christians just borrowed Christmas from Paganism. I told him that he was absolutely wrong! Then I looked into it, and found out that it was I who was absolutely wrong. My Dad, my pagan coworker, and many others will not give Christianity a second glance because we hold so vehemently to something that is not of God, and say that it is. Isn’t their salvation, and truth, and God’s Word, more important to us than holding onto a tradition of men that makes the Word of God of none effect?
Thanks again, you greatly encouraged us!
In Jesus,
Matt and Cassandra
I had several Wiccan friends in high school, so this was a very interesting post. We chatted a bit about with Winter and Summer Solstice and such. I don’t remember much about their thoughts on Halloween specifically.
~Luke
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