Pastor Jim Staley digs into the origins of All Souls Day and Halloween and discusses if Christians should celebrate any part of it. Published Nov 19, 2014 Transcript of Video: https://passionfortruth.com/holidays/ Stay connected with Jim Staley and Passion For Truth Ministries at: Website https://PassionForTruth.com Facebook https://www.FB.com/PassionForTruth Facebook http://www.FB.com/JimStaleyOfficial Instagram https://www.instagram.com/PassionForT… Twitter https://twitter.com/JimStaleyPage Telegram https://t.me/PassionForTruth
all right well let’s begin tonight i
felt uh like i needed to put a pause on
the end of the age series
and uh and and hit something that’s
extremely relevant very controversial uh
within christianity today i put a post
on facebook this afternoon our post was
put on facebook this afternoon about me
doing this teaching tonight and uh
scores of comments uh and dialogue and
debate are all over the place uh
christian’s saying i think there’s
nothing wrong with keeping halloween
other one’s saying no we shouldn’t keep
it on halloween and we could do it
here’s how you need to do it and
everything in between and so there’s
definitely not a lot of clarity on the
subject just by the comments that were
placed today on facebook
so tonight i’m going to spend uh the
rest of the evening in this teaching
going through and unpacking
where halloween came from should
christians and should believers
celebrate this holiday if we should
celebrate this holiday holiday how do we
celebrate this holiday should we have an
alternative to this holiday so on and so
forth so we’re going to answer all of
those questions and more and in pft
fashion we’re going to dig back into
real history pull out facts we’re not
going to pull out opinions we’re not
going to pull out uh church run facts
of rewriting history we’re going to go
all the way back
thousands of years and we’re going to
discover where the roots of halloween
came from are you ready
all right let’s dig in
today it is the second most popular
holiday next to christmas can you
believe that and you should believe that
because when you walk into the stores
in august
there are halloween
uh costumes and paraphernalia is
starting to be put up in walmarts and in
grocery stores and so on and so forth
they’re rearranging aisles to make room
for all of that stuff that people buy
it is the second most popular holiday
over 15
billion dollars
will be spent
around holidays excuse me around
halloween
15 billion dollars is going to be spent
this year on halloween get this over 400
million of that is going to be spent on
pets
getting costumes
that’s how ridiculous it is today people
are now
getting costumes for their pets you
can’t you can’t leave uh
the pet out of the equation so 400
million will be spent on pet costumes
alone listen more and more christians
are engaging in halloween and being
encouraged to do so by their pastors
bishops priests elders and even some of
the most prominent christian leaders in
america
recently an article was was given by one
of the most popular christian actors in
america today interviewed in the
huffington post
as of this week coming out and saying
that christians should have the largest
block parties on
the planet in america on halloween
here’s what he had to say
this comes directly from the christian
post one of the largest christian
newspapers online quote early on
christians would dress up in costumes as
the devil ghosts goblins and witches
precisely to make the poor the point
that those things were defeated and
overthrown by the resurrected jesus
christ
you should have the biggest party on
your block he told cp christian post
halloween gives you the opportunity to
show how christians celebrate the day
that death was defeated and you can give
them gospel tracts and tell the story of
how every ghost goblin which in demon
was trounced the day that jesus rose
from the grave clearly no christians
ought to be glorifying death because
death was defeated and that
that was the point of all hallows eve
now at a cursory view
this might even inspire some of you it
looks good it sounds good it sounds
spiritual but what i want to do as a
historian is i want to go back and i
want to unpack these historical
statements that he just made and make
sure
that they’re accurate
because when you say that early on
christians would dress up in costumes
well how early are you talking
how early are you talking about in the
70s
or 70 a.d there’s a big difference
and so there is a there is a connotation
that comes from this there’s an aroma
that comes from these quotes that make
you feel like he’s talking about early
christians when i say early christians i
am clearly talking about first century
christians most christians when they
read this would automatically put that
mindset in so there is in a way a very
deceiving even though i believe it’s
completely unintentional by the one who
made this statement but there is a
deceiving