Should a Christian celebrate Halloween?

I dont see a problem with celebrating it as long as its not a religious occasion. If i recall correctly, Easter, Christmas, and many other religious occasions all started off as pagan holidays but were Christianized of the centuries.

Uncertaindrummer said:

Santa was started by the Coca Cola company a little over a century ago. Not by pagans.

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That's not right and i can send you the facts, its pagan thing.

Searcher of Light said:

I dont see a problem with celebrating it as long as its not a religious occasion. If i recall correctly, Easter, Christmas, and many other religious occasions all started off as pagan holidays but were Christianized of the centuries.

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So you are telling me as long as you change few things here and there you can do it. If thats right I sorry for you.

I have no problem with Halloween at all. In fact, my church does a "Trunk or Treat" in the parking lot every year to provide the kids with a safe place to trick or treat. It's a lot of fun (although the weather is usually freezing that night).

nutshell said:

I have no problem with Halloween at all. In fact, my church does a "Trunk or Treat" in the parking lot every year to provide the kids with a safe place to trick or treat. It's a lot of fun (although the weather is usually freezing that night).

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lol, Halloween is always a blasted hot night where I live...

nutshell said:

I have no problem with Halloween at all. In fact, my church does a "Trunk or Treat" in the parking lot every year to provide the kids with a safe place to trick or treat. It's a lot of fun (although the weather is usually freezing that night).

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that the shame, that even the chruch get involve in Pagan things. See thats the difference.

I see no problem with the church getting involved in pagan things. It's never been entirely original in the first place. But there's a separation between church and halloween - the church doesn't pretend that halloween is, in any way, a religious holiday. They're just doing this as community service.

Sorry i was unclear, flysky. What I meant was many holidays that are thought of as Christian now used to be pagan.Halloween is still thought to be pagan related. Celebrating Christmas or easter for instance is the same as celebrating the pagan traditions. Many of elements of both pagan and christian celebrations are the same. Ultimately, we dont have any precedent in the Bible(especially in the NT) other than the sabbath and passover, of any religious holiday observance. Therefore, holiday observance is best left on a secular level.