Posted on 10/29/2019 10:33:27 AM PDT by Antoninus
Fine, but not true. Halloween is a pagan celebration of death and demons.
You could not possibly have read the article in 30 seconds. LOL.
I thought Trick or Treat was derived from the practice of selling indulgences.
The article makes no claims declaring what Haloween is. Your first sentence is logically disconnected to the 2nd.
“lives of the early martyrs”
Like the one that died from choking on a razor blade that someone put in their candy bar.
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Well, people may get irritated with me, but I have no problem seeing these as somewhat related holidays. I am not a scholar, but in my limited cultural understanding it seems very incorrect to equate ancient Celtic pagan religions with devil worship. If the old Celtic holiday was more of a harvest festival (which makes sense, I assume every ancient culture has them) which has now become associated with All Saints Day, that’s OK by me.
I have known religious Jewish people who would not let their children participate in Halloween because they felt it was a Christian holiday. And of course, that is entirely up to them what their children do or don’t do, every parent certainly has the right to make that decision. My daughter was in daycare with the Salvation Army, and at one point they were not going to do a halloween thing because the commander (whatever his title was) felt it was pagan. There was a bit of an outcry about that and a compromise was reached that the kids could wear costumes, but no devils, or other supernatural beings. I forget if angels were permitted or not.
I’m a fairly religious person, but I like halloween, I think it is our oldest holiday, it’s important in our WESTERN culture, and I support it’s celebration.
And yes, make it transgressive, it’s one of those holidays. Wear a sombrero, esp. if you’re not Mexican, dress as a ganster, esp. if you’re very law abiding. I have to laugh at the Leftists who’ve spent decades of time and gallons of ink exhorting us all to be edgy, yet who are now triggered if someone gets dressed up for a fall festival.
I don’t want to live in a world ruled by puritans whether of the old or new variety.
How is someone supposed to explain to you how humor works?
The catholic doctrine of there being a superclass of believers who are elevated to “saints” runs contrary to the entire new testament. All believers are referred to saints in the epistles of Paul, regardless of their level of spiritual maturity. Like many other doctrines of that church, it would never have become dogma if the laity were educated on the teachings of the new testament and had not been kept in the dark for centuries.
I used to pray for saints and ask for them to pray for me when I was a catholic. My grandmother had bundles of tracts of prayers to recite to many different saints. All of this was wrong and utterly unbiblical. The bible teaches us to pray to God the father through Jesus His son, who is the only mediator between God and man. He is the only priest in the new covenant era (since there is no more need to offer sacrifices for sins) and the sacrifice He offered was offered once for all and cannot be repeated. He alone makes intercession for us. No other intermediaries are allowed.
Hebrews 9:11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ[b] had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
The book of Hebrews contrasts the old system of repeated sacrifice with the perfect sacrifice of Christ. His sacrifice was offered once (that means the mass is not a valid sacrifice, but rather implies that Jesus sacrifice on the cross was not enough to deal with our sins forever). After this one time perfect sacrifice was offered, Jesus sat down at the right side of God. His work is done. As He said himself “It is finished”. He has perfected for how long? All time! If you have trusted in Christ alone for salvation and admitted your works are of no merit and you need God’s free grace to save you, then God will save you and sanctify you. You can have full and lasting assurance of eternal life.
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