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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand. Halloween a big day to

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some and an annoyance to others,
pagan ritual to some, a time of

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candy and frivolity to others. So
it pops up, you know, every

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year round this this holiday known as
Halloween, I receive emails, calls,

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and tweets with everybody asking me about
the origins of the celebration. And then

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the secondary question is always and is
it okay for Christians to partake in it?

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And I think, first of all, it's incredibly healthy to ask questions.

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Scripture says to test all things,
you should be poking at things and

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wondering what your participation is, if
it's even something that's edifying you at all.

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However, what I want is that
that level of discernment that surpasses just

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I don't know or I don't think
so, and just pushing things away for

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the sake of pushing them away.
The appearance of that is a group of

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sometimes even inconsistent, unwavering, not
even well articulated groups of Christians that just

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spurt things out and say this is
why this is what we do, but

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not why we do it, and
that becomes confusing to non believers. Like

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many things that surrounds your life in
this world and your faith. When it

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comes to Halloween, there's some controversy. But is this controversy this particular day,

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is particular celebration? Is it in
fact necessary? Are the roots of

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Halloween found in paganism? Yep,
absolutely no doubt about it. Does this

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automatically mean that Christian that a Christian
can't partake in any part of a Halloween

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celebration? Of course not, and
I know there will continue to be disagreements.

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But what is based on fear of
an ignorance versus the reality? That's

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what's important, because the more you
do something just based on fear and ignorance,

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the less substantive your faith looks like
to others. And you may feel,

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well, I don't care what it
looks like to them, and if

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so, you should be ashamed of
yourself. It's important for those around you

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that are non believers to it for
you, when they are around you,

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to give them the best idea you
can of what you believe in, why

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you believe it, to give them
that hope or maybe understanding in a way

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that they'll want to ask questions or
investigate on their own. Most historians believe

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Halloween originated with the ancient Celtic festival
of Salin. It's also pronounced Savin or

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sam Hayne, and it means the
end of summer. During this festival,

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people would like these huge communal bonfires, and yeah, they wear costumes mostly

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comprised of animal heads and furs,
and they did this to ward off roaman

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spirits and ghosts. That's kind of
the basic element of what Halloween was in

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one sense or another. It's kind
of the roots. In the eighth century

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finally rolled around, Pope Gregory the
third designated November first as something called All

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Saints Day. This was this was
a time to honor saints and martyrs that

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had passed on. You can't look
at that as a bad thing. Essentially

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honoring those in the Christian family that
had done good and were no longer on

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this earth. Well, as often
is the case, this particular, this

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new holiday incorporated many of the traditions
of the Sun Festival. So a lot

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of the things kind of that were
already being used to sell break and swing.

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Did you know you were a pagan? And the reason why I wanted

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you to think this way is because, of course Halloween being tomorrow, it

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always around this time, starts stirring
up questions about you know, the origins

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of Halloween and should Christians participate.
Are there things that Christians should not participate

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in in life? Yeah? Sure
there are. Now Christian liberty is far

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and wide, and the individual Christian
has to use You just have to use

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your discernment to know what's going to
be beneficial, what's good, what's glorifying

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to God. All of those things
should be thought about. But to throw

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something out or to say that it
has no value when if you dressed it

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slightly different it would be fine.
That Really you're dealing with the origin of

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something that doesn't even exist anymore.
So the roots of Halloween, yes,

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are found in paganism, but that
doesn't necessarily mean because soo in was this,

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this Celtic festival was celebrated at one
point, and it morphed into All

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Saints Day, and All Saints Day
Uh, morphed in uh to the day

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before being All Hollows Eve, and
that morphed into Halloween, and that over

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the centuries and centuries and centuries,
this once religious festival just became commercial and

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secular. And at that point the
activities can be fun or entertaining. You

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as the parents, should control the
things that your kids are doing or what

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they're they're how they're dressing, or
what things they're partaking in. But that's

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every day, in every way and
everything, so the kids aren't thinking of

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it. Theologically, there are not
Satanists running around everywhere because kids grew up

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participating in Halloween. And to understand
from a child's point of view that it's

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just dress up, make believe.
Being out at night, you know,

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holding the hand of your parents and
walking around that neighborhood at night, and

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the uniqueness of the experience and not
all the previous pagan rituals is important to

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being a balanced parent and to understand
and a balanced Christian and understand how you

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interact with this world. You are
in this world for reason, and that

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reason really is to glorify God,
and you find ways to glorify God when

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you break the leaves or do the
dishes, or do your job, or

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when you celebrate the problem the God
of Christian that he has with Paganism or

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any other belief system for that matter, is not with the general practices of

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the belief necessarily, but the fact
that they worship another god altogether. This

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is the problem. This is where
God says I have a problem. Exodus

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twenty three twenty verse three, you
shall have no other gods before me.

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This is where God's concern is.
There isn't a commandment about you should not

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dress up in fun and make believe, or you shall not receive suits from

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the hand of a neighbor, or
anything like that. Oh, I'm sure

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that somebody would like to twist scripture
to find something like that, but that's

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not the case. It's really about
being having a community and experiencing that community.

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And I'll get to your calls in
just a bit. As I talk

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about the pagan roots of Halloween,
make no mistake, this is not an

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apologetic for Halloween or pagan activities.
It's a defensive reason and discernment and as

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a Christian using those tools to find
a balanced approach to the things that surround

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you in this life. You are
in this world. You are in it

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by choice of God. And there
is a lot of Christians who run from

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everything because of origins. And I'm
going to show you why that might not

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be as easy as you think.
And every year I get call and tweets

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and emails about Halloween, and yes, Halloween is rooted in paganism, but

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that doesn't automatically mean that a Christian
can't partake in it in some way or

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some fashion. So this Celtic Festival
of Sowen, later through Pope Gregory the

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Third, designated November first, it's
All Saints Day, so it's all around

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the same time. This is to
honor saints and martyrs, but a lot

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of the traditions and ideas and certain
of the practices from the Sowen Festival made

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its way into that as well.
The evening before this became known as All

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Hallows Eve that became Halloween. Now
you've got this very commercial, secular,

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non pagan, religiously anyways event.
And it's important to just realize that God's

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problem with paganism or other belief systems
is not necessarily their practices, but that

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they do those practices while worshiping another
God altogether. Exodus twenty verse three,

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you shall have no other gods before
me. Thus saith the Lord. That

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is God's words. That's the concern. God wants you to celebrate and glorify

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Him in everything you do, and
as to understand this a little better,

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just keep in mind two thousand years
ago pagan sacrificed animals, but so did

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our Jewish brothers and sisters under God's
command. The same act with different intent

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was now a pleasing aroma to God, as it says in Genesis eight to

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twenty. In twenty one, and
I'll read that, then Noah built an

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altar to the Lord, and taking
some of the clean animals and clean birds,

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he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and

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said in his heart, never again
will I curse the ground because of humans,

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even though every inclination of the human
heart is evil from childhood. And

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never again will I destroy all living
creatures as I have done. So it's

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not just the act itself, it
is the intent. It is the purpose

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of that act that matters to God. Sacrifice to idols or a false God

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not good, sacrifice to the One, true, Holy and Righteous God good

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a pleasing aroma. It's scarting something
just because Pagans or any other faith did

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it at one time or does it
now. Really isn't balanced, and it

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isn't thoughtful. It's it's like that
you know vegetarianism is bad because Hitler adhered

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to a primarily vegetarian diet. It
just seems like a weird way to go

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about life, rather than seeing things
for what they are and using them to

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glorify God. It's fallacious to think
that because something had origins here or origans

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over here, that it's good or
bad. Really, it's the application.

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You probably don't even know how many
things already in your life come from pagan

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origins. Guess what. You can
look down at your left hand there,

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if you were wearing a wedding ring, you're wearing something with origins in paganism

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and ancient magic and the concept of
the circle, as it's seen as this

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endless and timeless thing that you can
wear, and it suggests a kind of

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repetitive or unbroken time and space.
And you can see it in many pagan

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uses, such as Stonehenge and others
that predate Christianity, and even in Christianity

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itself, there are symbols and practices
that come from or were used by Pagans.

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The cross itself is a pagan symbol
and wasn't even used very very early

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on in the Christian Church. But
you don't think of things that way.

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You don't think that there is an
overlap where there's a mingling at all.

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But there is, I assure you, in your everyday life and even in

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your faith. In his eighteen seventy
eight essay on the Development of the Christian

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Doctrine, John Henry Newman, who
was originally a priest in the Church of

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England and later a cardinal in the
Roman Catholic Church, wrote these words the

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use of temples and these dedicated to
particular saints and ornamented on occasion with branches

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of trees, incense, lamps,
candles, holy days and seasons, use

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of calendars, processions, blessings on
the fields, the ring, and marriage.

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All of are all of pagan origin
and sanctified by their adoption into the

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Church. So even the cross that
adorns many churches has pagan origins. Also.

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The beloved fish symbol used by many
to identify themselves as Christians, whether

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it's on your clothing or on your
car. It was used by pagan's generations

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before Christianity. The New Age movement, Hindus, Taois, Buddhists, and

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others use this symbol of the fish
to express their own beliefs different beliefs as

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well. The symbol for Virgo,
the sixth astrological sign of the zodiac,

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if you look, has a pagan
fish in it. Because of its the

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direction of the fish, people don't
always notice that. In the Dictionary of

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Symbols, it states that Virgo is
based on the Hebreic letter mem and the

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Phoenician symbol meaning fish. So as
you can see, you'll have to run

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very far to try and distance yourself
from anything that has pagan roots or is

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associated with religions other than Christianity.
And it's not that it's not a noble

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cause to run away that says resist
the devil, and he shelfly, you

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don't need to be running everywhere in
fear. You have Christ in you,

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and if I am for you,
then we are the majority. No man

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can be against you. So running
away from these things and not understanding them

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doesn't help anyone, and sometimes makes
them sexier to younger kids and more intriguing

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than it would if you allowed them
to be the simple, secular thing that

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they are and put your own spin
on it, however you might want to.

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But how much more important is it
that the things and customs in your

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life are all dedicated to God rather
than looking for the devil under every stone.

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Celebrations like Halloween can seem on the
surface like a contradiction to Christianity.

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I get that, but really it
is more about how it's celebrated than where

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it came from. That matters.
And you see this throughout the Church.

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There were many things that even our
Jewish brothers and sisters did, even the

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early Church did that Pagans did,
but they did it to the right God.

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When churches shy away from Halloween and
opt for, you know, instead,

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a celebration of a harvest festival or
something like that, it gives children

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more of a reason to be curious
about why everyone else is celebrating something they

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are not, and maybe even seek
out more about paganism than they would otherwise,

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and not to mention celebrating the harvest
in any way, shape or form

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has pagan origins as well, so
you're sort of changing it. But not

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everything. Everything in life can be
used for good or evil. A knife

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can either kill in the hands of
a mugger or heal in the hands of

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a surgeon, and you must remember
that how you use it or partake in

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something and your intent is important,
and I know that you know it's easier

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just to cut things out. And
if that's where you feel led to,

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then God bless you. The important
thing is to serve God and to serve

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your family in a way that is
healthy and glorifying to God. And if

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you feel something in your life is
not healthy or good or glorifying to God,

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then of course cut it out.
But sometimes in removing these things haphazardly

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without understanding where they truly come from, or or the other things around you

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in your life that comes similarly,
you'll miss the bigger picture. And in

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doing so, it's like those surgeries
there where a doctor will tell you that

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it's not a necessary surgery. I
wouldn't do this because you can go in

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and mess something else. More,
why not put restrictions on it in a

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healthy way, or be interactive with
your children in a way that Halloween can

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be something dealing with fun and creativity
and those types of things and not death

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and dismemberment and glorify God. Because
remember one Corinthians ten thirty one. Above

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all of this, so whatever you
eat or drink, or whatever you do,

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do it all for the glory of
God. Luke, Welcome to the

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Jesus Christ Show. How you doing? I am well, Luke? What's

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your thoughts? Oh? I understand
your point of view about Halloween and what

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do you have been saying? But
I think if we're going to be serious

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about this, I don't think at
any level as Christians we should celebrated Okay?

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Why so? Well, just knowing
the the roots of it and the

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practices that went together with those pagan
rituals, it was really really anti Christian.

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Do you know, do you refrain
from celebrating anything? Do you celebrate

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any festivals at all? Do you
celebrate your birthday or anything like that?

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Uh? Yeah, okay, a
lot of those have pagan roots as well.

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The celebration of life and fertility all
goes back. Are you married yes?

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Do you wear a reading wedding ring? Yeah? Are you going to

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get rid of that? No?
Okay? But that that has its background

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in both paganism pre dating Christianity and
also witchcraft. So are you going to

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get rid of those symbols because of
where they came? Or are you going

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to bring them into your faith and
sanctify them, set them apart from where

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they started, just like you were
sanctified by the blood on the Christ Amen.

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I mean the the son who came
back to his father, the first

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thing father did put a ring on
his Yes, but these but but predating

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that very story. Yes, and
that's that's my point. That you have

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feasts that our Jewish and brother brothers
and sisters partook in around the same times

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as they were pagan feasts, and
the Jews did not want to appear to

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be pagan. The levitical laws,
as a matter of fact, the majority

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of them are to uh uh separate
themselves from the even the appearance of being

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pagan. Yet they did things that
Pagans did as well. So it wasn't

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about the thing that they did,
It was about how they applied them,

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right, And I understand, I
understand. But the difference between what I'm

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talking thing about and the ring or
that situation is that Jesus sanctified the latter.

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He hasn't sanctified Halloween. Oh No, there are things that are being

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sanctified every day by the use of
Christianity. Do you celebrate Christmas? Okay,

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yeah, but that's not sanctified by
God in any stretch, any way,

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shape or form. In scripture,
there's never a celebration about that,

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nor is there a celebration of Easter. Those were those were Loukeluke. No,

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that's not the day of his birth. That's about two years later.

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The purpose of all of this is
that those things that you're talking about have

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become comfortable to you because they've been
passed down to you, not because of

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their origins. There is none.
Matter of fact. The early Church didn't

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celebrate it in that sense, and
those are and those land on pagan holidays

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and were usurped it both Easter and
Christmas, and a lot that ties into

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those things, and the things that
you celebrate really tie into peg and beliefs.

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The tree in the house, the
eggs and the bunny, all of

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those things. But it's what you
do with them that matters, not from

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where they came from. You came
from a dark place, and God sanctified

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you, and through the blood on
the cross, he can sanctify the things

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you do as long as they're done
to the glory of God. Kfi Am

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sixty on demand