Exaclty! If someone is celebrating the original intent of Halloween, then they are not choosing the way of God. If it's just kids going from door to door for candy and dressing up like their favorite superhero, I don't think it's a problem. Likewise Easter. If one is participating in the original pagan celebration, that's bad ... if they're celebrating the day the Lord rose from they dead, that's good.
God will not be mocked al...Your intent does not matter to Satan..He is thrilled that you put your kids out there to celebrate HIS day
Would you just look at the "moral" lessons of Halloween?
Dress up ..be something you are not...then beg (threaten people ) to get your physical desires met..
"Trick or treat money or eats"....blackmail
Then look at the costumes...who do the children want to look like? Sexualized barbie? monsters? ahhhhh and the ever popular witches..
This is not a PAGAN day ..it is a witchcraft day....
The god of this world is worshiped and celebrated..lights are hung to welcome him..
I think many adults remember they "good time" they had on that day and they want their kids to have "nice memories" of the "fall" holiday too
God says this to you now al
Jos 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
The hardest thing I ever did after I became a Christian was to remove this stuff from our lives and home.But who ever said obedience was easy?
I don't agree with that. A day is being celebrated that stands for something that God is against. How an individual celebrates it doesn't matter. The fact that it's being celebrated is enough. Celebrating or observing it in any way only strengthens and promulagates it.