What are the origins of Halloween? Why do we celebrate with Trick-or-treating, wearing masks, and building bonfires? Is there something serious about witches, ghosts, and monsters? Should Christians celebrate Halloween? We have prepared a short fact sheet about Halloween and its customs. Consider this information, and decide for yourself whether this is a godly holiday that Christ’s followers should observe.
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“… of whom the world was not worthy” (Hebrews 11:38).
Preface: Today, I call on all of us to remember. Yesterday was a sad day in this country. Charlie Kirk, devout Christian, devoted husband and father, activist for truth and decency, was savagely slain in Utah. We all know about this tragic event. When I heard, I will confess that I wept. I have listened to his broadcasts and watched his videos for years. He was a bold witness for Christ and a skilled defender of truth. He will be sorely missed by the church and in this nation. To honor this departed man of God, I offer a piece I wrote many years ago about another martyr for the faith, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. But after reading about Bonhoeffer, please note my final thoughts about Charlie Kirk and September 11.
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Modalism is a common false concept of the nature of God. Essentially, in an attempt to maintain the oneness of God, the Trinity is denied. Modalism asserts that there is one divine Person who makes himself known in three different ways, i.e., three forms or modes. Thus, each form or manifestation of God is one way in which he reveals himself. It is said that the one God revealed himself as the Father in the Old Testament, as Jesus in the Incarnation, and now as the Holy Spirit in the present. Thus, Modalism says that there is only one Being, one Person, made known in three different ways. But this is not a biblical understanding of the Godhead. In Scripture, we are presented with one God who eternally exists as three divine Persons, each fully God, each one distinct from the others, yet one God. This is the Trinity.
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Summary of Beliefs
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There is a theory currently held by some conservative biblical scholars and many evangelical Christians known as the gap theory. The theory posits a gap of time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Essentially, the theory proposes that Genesis 1:1 presents the original creation of the universe. There then followed a lengthy period of thousands, or even millions of years. It is believed that the initial cosmos was then destroyed and thrown into chaos. Genesis 1:2 presents the beginning of a re-creation and reconstruction process. Proponents of the theory assert that the words “the earth was without form and void” should be rendered “became without form and void.” Often the argument is offered that God would not create something formless and void, i.e., chaotic.
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TRUTH BUILDERS MINISTRIES 