Our Duty To Eschew Pagan Worship, Idolatry And Tell The Good News Of Jesus Christ

If there is a God who cre­at­ed the Universe and all that’s in it, regard­less of what we per­ceive him to be, and if he is omnipo­tent, then we must con­clude he knows our hearts and what we are about to do before we do the things we do.

Daniel 4:35 “All the inhab­i­tants of the earth are account­ed as noth­ing, But He does accord­ing to His will in the host of heav­en And among the inhab­i­tants of the earth; And no one can ward off His hand Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?

The Church has a duty and a respon­si­bil­i­ty to be set apart from the world, in the world but not of the world.
What that means is that the body of Christ, all of us who have accept­ed his yoke should have lives reflec­tive of Jesus Christ. Our lives will nev­er be per­fect but as chil­dren of the high­est God, we must strive to walk as Jesus Christ did.

Galatians 5:16 – 17 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not car­ry out the desire of the flesh.
The urge to have appeal in today’s world has influ­enced parts of the body of Christ Jesus to make deci­sions which are anti­thet­i­cal to what Jesus and the scrip­tures com­mand­ed us to do.
The need to be hip, not out­dat­ed, rel­e­vant, has brought things into our places of wor­ship and into our lives which ought not to be there.
We have no author­i­ty to change the unchang­ing word of God to please any­one. We were not com­mand­ed to change or water down God’s word in order to have more appeal to prospec­tive converts.
The writ­ten Word of God reveals His will and its eter­nal truth. Even though writ­ten by sin-cor­rupt­ed man, it was authored by the Holy Spirit (2 Pet. 1:20, 21). Thus attempts to find dif­fer­ences between God’s will and His writ­ten Word are foolish.

Not through books which seeks to explain the Bible, not through adopt­ing things and fads, not through the process of san­i­tiz­ing pagan cus­toms and then pre­tend­ing they are not the very same customs.
God knows our hearts, the Holy Spirit is in our hearts, it is that lit­tle voice which nudges us to do the right thing.
So there is real­ly no san­i­tiz­ing things we know are sin­ful and then pre­tend­ing that we are doing them or cel­e­brat­ing cus­toms we know we should­n’t be celebrating.

Halloween’s ori­gins date back to the ancient Celtic fes­ti­val of Samhain (pro­nounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and north­ern France, cel­e­brat­ed their new year on November 1. In addi­tion to caus­ing trou­ble and dam­ag­ing crops, Celts thought that the pres­ence of the oth­er­world­ly spir­its made it eas­i­er for the Druids or Celtic priests, to make pre­dic­tions about the future. 
To com­mem­o­rate the event, Druids built huge sacred bon­fires, where the peo­ple gath­ered to burn crops and ani­mals as sac­ri­fices to the Celtic deities. During the cel­e­bra­tion, the Celts wore cos­tumes, typ­i­cal­ly con­sist­ing of ani­mal heads and skins, and attempt­ed to tell each other’s for­tunes. http://​www​.his​to​ry​.com/​t​o​p​i​c​s​/​h​a​l​l​o​w​e​e​n​/​h​i​s​t​o​r​y​-​o​f​-​h​a​l​l​o​w​een

1 John 2:15

Don’t love the world or any­thing in the world. If any­one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
If you know in your heart that some­thing is wrong and not of God no amount of wash­ing it, san­i­tiz­ing it and repack­ag­ing it will make it Godly.
We have a duty to eschew pagan cus­toms, not cleanse them then pre­tend they are harm­less, or that we only engage in them because we want to make the chil­dren happy.
We have a duty to do the exact oppo­site which is to train up our chil­dren in the way they should go so that when they are old they may not depart from it.
Proverbs 22: 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.