"Halloween: A Biblical Perspective" There has been much contention within the Church about Halloween, and whether or not Christians should partake in its activities.  Many insist it is harmless, make-believe fun for kids; others know too well the death and mayhem that is wreaked worldwide upon human and animal victims.  It is an ancient pagan celebration of death and witchcraft.  Should those who love God participate in Halloween?  Allow the Word of God to speak for itself, and then decide if it is unpleasing to God or not. “I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.  You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.  Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?”  (1 Corinthians 10: 20-22) “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil” (Proverbs 8: 13). “All those who hate Me love death”  (Proverbs 8: 36). “And you, by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things…”  (Joshua 6: 18). “You shall not permit a witch to live”  (Exodus 22:18). “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.  For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness?  And what communion has light with darkness?  And what accord has Christ with Belial (Satan)? …  “Come out from among them and be separate,” says the Lord.  “Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you”  (2 Corinthians 6: 14-15, 17). “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry” (1 Samuel 15: 23). “And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire (child sacrifice), practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger”  (2 Kings 17:17). “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.  For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you.  You shall be blameless before the Lord your God”  (Deuteronomy 18: 10-13). “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins”  (Colossians 1: 13-14). “For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.  In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.  They will give an account to Him Who is ready to judge the living and the dead”  (1 Peter 4: 3-5). “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness”  (Isaiah 5: 20). “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.  Walk as children of light, finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them”  (Ephesians 5: 8-11). “And when they say to you, ‘Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who peep and mutter,’ should not a people seek their God?  Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?”  (Isaiah 8: 19) The scriptures above are only a few of the many that reveal how God hates evil and the occult, and He will judge those who practice them.  If God so despises men paying homage to demons, why would a professing Christian even want to remotely engage in a celebration that glorifies the symbols of death and witchcraft?God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.  Christians should be imitators of their Father, and forsake the futile traditions that grieve the Holy Spirit. “Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?”  (Galatians 5:1) “Adulterers and adulteresses!  Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”  (James 4:4).