This is where the name Halloween comes from.
In the Dark Ages, when Rome was in great power,
she tried at first to stop pagan festivals.
But she couldn't, and so tried to turn them into something Christian.
November was the month when papalism especially prayed for the dead in purgatory. Traditionally at Halloween, papist families purchased an envelope from the priest.
Inside they wrote the name of a dead relative, and it was put on the altar so that the relative would not be forgotten in November's prayers for the dead.
Thus the papist All Hallows' Eve was mixed with the pagan festival of the dead.
Thousands of years later it is evident that Halloween still represents wickedness.
If we want to lessen its influence, we must find godly alternatives,
not replace it with something else that is unbiblical.
Purgatory is a false doctrine.
Once a person dies, they have no more chances.
We cannot pray them into heaven.
We die and then there is judgment.
In the Dark Ages, when Rome was in great power,
she tried at first to stop pagan festivals.
But she couldn't, and so tried to turn them into something Christian.
November was the month when papalism especially prayed for the dead in purgatory. Traditionally at Halloween, papist families purchased an envelope from the priest.
Inside they wrote the name of a dead relative, and it was put on the altar so that the relative would not be forgotten in November's prayers for the dead.
Thus the papist All Hallows' Eve was mixed with the pagan festival of the dead.
Thousands of years later it is evident that Halloween still represents wickedness.
If we want to lessen its influence, we must find godly alternatives,
not replace it with something else that is unbiblical.
Purgatory is a false doctrine.
Once a person dies, they have no more chances.
We cannot pray them into heaven.
We die and then there is judgment.
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