32 Years as a New York State Correctional Officer... Jesus is my copilot, I’m usually armed, ready and quite capable.
Did you know Halloween was created to counter All Saint's Day?
They wouldn't have wanted the righteous having a day of their own, now would they?
Aware of enough lies that I am suspicious of every truth - and the truth does not care about your feelings...INFJ Sigma
No - no it was not. "Halloween" is a neo-pagan-consumerism creation of the commercial machine. Animism: the belief that the spirits of ancestors or loved ones that had passed on, lingered or returned in the form of objects of nature, e.g. trees, animals, the wind, etc - and were sometimes then reproduced as idols, such as totem poles...this is where the practice of wearing 'costumes' first came from.
And no different than the notion that so-called 'saints' (ie; dead notable Christian faithful) are in some sort of conscious state from which they can interact w/, and on behalf of, God's living faithful.
The Bible clearly refers to 'saints' as the *living* faithful while on the other hand clearly teaching the dead have no part in this world.
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." Ecc9:5-6
And so these 'spirits' that are worshipped and/or interacted with by both pagans AND Christians (in the form of 'saints' and 'dearly departed grannies' 'looking down from heaven' 'watching over' their beloved family) are in fact demons.
