A Christian Perspective of Halloween Easter Christmas
By Allegra McBirney
Halloween: for FUN or for REAL?
Once again Halloween is approaching -- an event which annually tries and challenges many of Christian heart, including my own.
And as I view God's admonitions, and loving commands, to me as a believer -- including His clear statement, "WHATSOEVER you do, do ALL to the GLORY OF GOD" -- frankly, I find it a celebration which I cannot justify in my own Christian life.
How can I celebrate Halloween -- with its witches and devils and fortune-telling -- "to the GLORY OF GOD?"
Also, the Lord says, "What fellowship has light with darkness?" And as a born-again believer -- with the LIGHT OF THE WORLD HIMSELF living in my heart! -- How can I enjoy, or even go along with, a celebration which runs so center to His Person?
Halloween is filled with darkness and paganism, saturated with the influence of Satan. I know that some will charge that I'm taking it too seriously -- that Halloween is actually "just a little time for fun for the kids" Is it REALLY?
I love fun and I love kids -- and my husband and I have six children of our own, and are in Christian work with a wide ministry among boys and girls. And, actually, the fact that I love kids so much -- and love GOD so much -- is why I can't love Halloween. I fear that to do with anything which relates to Satan -- witches, evil spirits, fortune-telling -- even in the context of Halloween play, is hurting GOD and is hurting CHILDREN, spiritually, too.
I keep thinking of the Lord's warning to believers in the Book of Deuteronomy: "There shall not be found among you any one that uses divination (fortune-telling of any kind).