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What is the true origin of Halloween?
(Copyright) by BibleStudy.org (Farmington Hills, Michigan) What connection does the origin of Halloween have with Noah’s flood? Who, in the world, celebrates a version of the holiday? Evidence suggests that Halloween and the flood are linked by a certain fixation on the dead, death itself, and the occult. This link between the holiday and a celebration called the “day of the dead” is written about by Frank Humphrey. He wrote, “What is often overlooked, however, is that there is the remembrance of the ‘Day of the Dead’ followed by a New Year. This occurs on our (modern Roman-based) calendar at the end of […]
How is the Devil in Halloween?
(Copyright) by BibleStudy.org (Farmington, Michigan) God’s adversary Satan the devil is no joke. He is real. He hates you and your kids. He makes your life miserable in countless ways. Yet every year people make a date to pay him homage on Halloween. Although he has inspired every rape, every murder, every car bombing and every war, humans around the world make the time, in the fall of the year, to worship him. This same devil, the inspiration behind Halloween, took Jesus to a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world. He told Jesus, ‘All these things […]
Why I Don’t Celebrate Halloween
(Copyright) by Sandeep Poonen (Bangalore, India) One of my children recently came home reciting this rhyme learned while at school. “Witches, ghosts, and goblins, walking down the street Knock on every doorway, ‘Trick or treat!’” I was shocked by how my child, in all innocence, could sing so casually and trivially about such scary things. I also noticed that this song grouped ghosts and goblins which are not real, with witches. I realized that this song sought to group witches into that same silly, not-real category. Some people think of witches as women with pointed-hats and a broom, or witch doctors in a jungle. But […]
Christmas, Easter, Halloween & Other Non-Biblical Holidays
by B. L. Cocherell (Nevada) Easter, Halloween, Christmas, and the national Thanksgiving holiday in the United States are among the most commonly observed religious and secular observances which many people believe are a part of the Christian God’s worship system; however, basic research into the origin of these observances shows these observances to be unacceptable to God the Father and Jesus Christ. Anyone who wishes to worship the true God and his Son correctly should understand the seriousness of celebrating these religious and secular observances, because their origin and practice involved fertility rites, sexual licentiousness, and the worship of false gods […]