Should i celebrate halloween

If your background includes witchcraft or a world revolving around the dark side to Halloween, I promise, I get it. I am not saying Halloween cannot be used for the unspeakable. Halloween might well be traumatizing for you, and with good reason.

I am terribly sorry for what you have experienced — but, I do challenge you to see how our God is bigger than evil and bigger than sin. Do not let fear continue to keep you captive. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love 1 John Well, do they?

The cross was not pretty. There was pain and suffering, blood, and violence. That the agony and misery and terror celebrated every year on October 31 was already lived out by Jesus and it is finished?

Should Christians really celebrate Halloween? Yes, you can because the blood of Jesus has redeemed Halloween. Her background is diverse including educational and online content development, event coordinating, international relations, and public speaking. Currently, Rebekah delights in being a homeschool mom and Life Coach. She serves as Director of PR for an international non-profit while also hosting her personal blog, RebekahDrumsta. Share this. Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?

Rebekah Drumsta Christianity. It is therefore considered a holding place for souls not quite fit for heaven, but not so bad that they go to Hell. Protestant Christians held that after death, no amount of prayers or indulgences — payments made on behalf of departed loved ones to speed up their time in Purgatory — can help a loved one in this Purgative state.

Some dressed up in Bible characters or reformers themselves and used the day as an opportunity to gather together and pray and fast. Today, many Lutheran churches celebrate Reformation Day with the traditional color of red which symbolizes the Holy Spirit and the Martyrs of the Saints.

You might be thinking. But does it mean we should celebrate Halloween or not? Well, that depends. There are many Christians today that look at Halloween as a pagan holiday during which the devil is worshipped and evil is glorified. They want nothing to do with the evil out there and will do everything in their power to shield themselves and their children from this devilish holiday. Many churches have replaced Halloween with Fall Festivals that are more family-friendly and allow a more safe environment and a fun alternative to trick-or-treating.

Some choose to celebrate Reformation Day instead because they believe Halloween is something that must be rejected as a pagan holiday.

Halloween, they say, is a fun, harmless opportunity for kids to dress up, get lots of candy and have a good time. Is there a third way that Christians could potentially respond? Can Halloween be redeemed? If we as Christians believe that Jesus came to redeem all things; to make all things new, we must answer with a resounding YES!

But how? We are sometimes quick to pass judgment or skip over the topic instead of pausing to investigate and have conversations about it. The origin of Halloween as we know it, began over years ago in England, Ireland, and Northern France. It was a Celtic celebration of the new year, called Samhain which occurred on November 1. The Celtic druids revered it as the biggest holiday of the year and emphasized that day as the time when the souls of the dead supposedly could mingle with the living.

Bonfires were a large aspect of this holiday as well. Samhain remained popular until St. Patrick and other Christian missionaries arrived in the area. As the population began to convert to Christianity the holiday began to lose its popularity. The demons had their fun with poor mortals that night, frightening, harming, and even playing all kinds of mean tricks on them.

The only way, it seemed, for scared humans to escape the persecution of the demons was to offer them things they liked, especially fancy foods and sweets. Or, in order to escape the fury of these horrible creatures, a human could disguise himself as one of them and join in their roaming. In this way, they would recognize the human as a demon or witch and the human would not be bothered that night. During the time of the Roman empire, there was the custom of eating or giving away fruit, especially apples, on Halloween.

It spread to neighboring countries; to Ireland and Scotland from Britain, and to the Slavic countries from Austria. It is probably based upon a celebration of the Roman goddess Pomona, to whom gardens and orchards were dedicated. Today costumes take the place of disguises and candy has replaced fruits and other fancy foods as children go door-to-door trick-or-treating.

The question remains, is celebrating Halloween bad or unbiblical? As a logical thinking person, consider for a moment what you are celebrating and what Halloween is all about.