by The last couple of weeks should have given biblical food-for-thought concerning Halloween and the Christian’s involvement. Tying it together, how do we reconcile Christians celebrating Halloween in 2025? Consider this simple thought, alongside God commanding us to “abstain from all appearance of evil” (1 Thessalonians 5:22) ─ what will Halloween do to your testimony before a lost and dying world?
Every place of the year that we look, and live, and work, and play, our world has methodically turned the darkness of sin into an accepted comedy show. Without question or debate, the world we live in makes light of the darkness of sin, and Halloween is here for the sole purpose of magnifying this glorification of darkness. Neighborhoods will be decorated with tombstones, ghosts, skeletons, witches, blood, guts, horror, etc., encouraging children to find pleasure in this frightful mess. When this supposed fun is stripped away from Halloween, and we look at the very foundation of what this day is glorifying, only then will the Bible begin to answer our questions about the Christian’s involvement in celebrating this day.
Much can be said about the foundation and celebration of Halloween, but without question it is pagan at its origin for the sole purpose of paganism. You can search this out on the Internet and find enough reading materials to keep you busy for a very long time. However, I trust what I have shared from God’s Word alone will help you to be led by the Spirit and not by man or Google, but your spirit being driven by the Holy Spirit into the truth of any evil that must be abstained from. If you are a born-again believer, you rejoice that you are a child of the King of Kings, and no longer the son of Satan (Ephesians 2:1-10). Jesus conquered his darkness and our eternal death through His resurrection. Christians should not trivialize or glorify physical or spiritual death. We must celebrate Christ’s victory over it for us, every day of the year (1 Corinthians 15:55-57).
Yes, we do live in the Day of Grace, and yes we do have Christian Liberty, but we cannot forget the words of Paul to the Romans in light of the darkness surrounding Halloween. These words of Paul’s were written to us also, “What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid” (Romans 6:15).
What is sad is to see so many very good believers who defend sound doctrine through out the year, then turn to darkness and defend and excuse their turning for this one day of the year.
