Posted on 10/25/2008 7:00:34 AM PDT by DouglasKC
To most secular people it sounds strange to refer to Satan as a real, active being. As you point out, he has succeeded in convincing people that he's not real. That at worst he's some cartoonish person with a red costume and pitchfork. So if you don't believe in the reality of Satan, there's not much reason to turn to Christ for protection.
“What should you believe if you’re a professing Christian? “
That it is just harmless fun. Our youth group is trick-or-treating for canned food for the Interfaith Food Pantry
“be turned aside to fables “
Fables about the dangers of Halloween?
It’s not so much a rejection of the word of God as it is a rejection of religious amway dealers.
Imagine how the covens and Satan feel when we ridicule their power by sending kids out in funny costumes to get candy.
How would Satan feel if you used Halloween to invite kids to church? What if you handed out invitations with the candy? Would he be pleased?
Or Satan be more pleased if you hid in your house and hoped it would go away?
Ebeneezer Scrooge....not just for Christmas anymore.
My only regret as a werewolf is that Halloween doesn’t take place under a full moon this year. I was really hankering for a snack.
Maybe they’re in on the joke too?
I think you should my your own business..
What was the average annual income of the *coven* you were in?
Do you have any scriptural examples of this?
The Devil hates happiness, and here we have brought happiness to millions through this celebration. The Devil also hates to be laughed at, and in Halloween we laugh at him and all of his dark devices.
Does the bible indicate that the way to deal with Satan is to laugh at and mock him?
I don’t see this as having anything to do with what one believes as a Christian. Even if one were non-Christian, it’s very appropriate for parents to ojectively examine whether immersing their children in ghoulish, “blood scenes, and icons of death and mayhem is appropriate.
Last week I went to pick up some balloons at the local party store. Since it is close to Halloween, of course the entire store was decked out in gross stuff, with tapes of screams etc. blaring.
I noticed a couple of things. The worst was that several cars pulled up and out jumped some young couples with toddlers. The closer they got to the store, the more their children started resisting, then outright crying, then dragging their feet. I heard one mom yelling at her 4 or 5 year old daughter, “Don’t be such a baby, there’s nothing to be afraid of.”
Well, no. I don’t see any reason to expose a child at that age to something they do not have the ability to understand and, more importantly, don’t WANT to be exposed to.
Same thing with parents exposing their children to scary movies.
What is the point of that? Why drag a child, crying and shaking in fear, through a gauntlet of blaring, gross, stylized “Death, Destruction and Mayhem”? WHY?
I simply don’t see how anyone finds such subjects entertaining or fun. That said, do what you want when you are old enough to not worry about monsters under the bed. In the meantime, I think it’s quite sick to expose-—never mind force kids to expose themselves to-—what to them are frightening images of death and pain that have no redeeming (fun or entertaining) value to them at all.
If you were being attacked by a bear would mocking and laughing at the bear be a wise defensive move? Satan is more real and more dangerous than a bear.
How would Satan feel if you used Halloween to invite kids to church? What if you handed out invitations with the candy? Would he be pleased?
I think so. He'll use any device he can to get people to accept his ways and practices:
2Co 11:14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
Or Satan be more pleased if you hid in your house and hoped it would go away?
Satan hates when we do this:
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Eph 6:13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Frankly, children sometimes react with the same horror to puppies.
Should we legitimize that fear, too?
Ever read these Scriptures?
Matthew 18:18; "I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Good points. Halloween has really ceased to be a "kids only" event. It's now embraced by adults and in many cases they've taken their own particular immature ideas and halloweenized them.
Yes. It’s Satan’s greatest accomplishment, fooling people into believing he’s not there.
Some joke.
Giving people the truth is my business.
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