This Christian pastor tackles the age-old question in The Washington Times, and it seems he gives a positive answer.
So there you go. Christians can participate in this pagan holiday because Jesus will protect them from the demons roaming around, but only if they dress as biblical characters.
Quote:Should Christians participate in Halloween?
In the later part of the 1800s, America officially embraced Halloween (“All-Hallows Eve”) as a communal celebration of costumes, candy-giving, scary tales, the spiritual realm, the dead, and witchcraft. Similarly, other Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter have pagan roots escalating and prevailing in our current cultural festivities.
I have heard former participants of the occult warn Christians not to let their children trick-or-treat because wicked people pray curses over the candy! So what? This should not drive us into a place of fear and disengagement but rather into a closer relationship with Jesus. Indeed, those whose faith is simply intellectual and ritualistic are certainly vulnerable to those curses. But if we have an intimate relationship with Jesus through His Spirit, then absolutely nothing can harm us in the spiritual realm. Their curses are useless against the presence of God.
Costuming for Halloween as creatures aligning with death, the occult, and evil is foolish, but a Christian is sanctioned to participate as an agent of life in the midst of the darkness. That is why we are here! We can dress as biblical characters and share stories of how the light of Christ comes into our dark world to give life to all who believe in Him. We can be witnesses to the truth despite the immense chaos that surrounds us. And we can participate like Jesus did (in His same character) and thereby be ambassadors of His hope, reconciliation, and restoration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/202...halloween/
So there you go. Christians can participate in this pagan holiday because Jesus will protect them from the demons roaming around, but only if they dress as biblical characters.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
