Would the Apostle Paul Say That Halloween and Pumpkin Carving Are Forms of Idolatry?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Episode 1079 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. How should Christians respond to Buddhist spirituality?
2. My brother had a sexual encounter with his step-daughter. She is an adult, so maybe it was an affair but maybe it was assault. What should I do?
3. What verses can I use in evangelism when I have limited time to share the gospel?
4. Is pumpkin carving a form of idolatry?
5. Are Christians obligated to report someone who is breaking the law?
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| 0:00.0 | Is participating in Halloween and pumpkin carving a form of idolatry? |
| 0:10.6 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:15.4 | Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program |
| 0:19.7 | where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:24.4 | You can call us right now with your question at 8333-3-the-core. |
| 0:28.9 | That's 1-833-843-243-2673. |
| 0:33.0 | Of course, you can also post your question on one of our social media sites, and you can always email us at |
| 0:38.1 | Questions at Core Christianity.com. |
| 0:41.5 | First up today, here's an email from one of our listeners, and they say, how should Christians |
| 0:46.2 | respond to spiritual claims made by Buddhists? |
| 0:50.5 | My daughter is now a practicing Buddhist, and I don't know how to answer her questions and how |
| 0:55.8 | Buddhism really compares with the Bible. |
| 0:59.8 | Well, I guess it depends on the specific questions that your daughter is asking. |
| 1:05.0 | When I hear people, you know, at least where I live in Southern California, talk about, |
| 1:09.1 | oh, I'm kind of interested in Buddhism. |
| 1:11.2 | There isn't really a firm commitment to Buddhism. It's just this sort of this idea that we're |
| 1:16.8 | looking for new kinds of spirituality and the sort of philosophies that Buddhism presents are |
| 1:24.0 | appealing to us, attractive to us. Now, some of the key differences have to do with the fact that Buddhism really is not about a personal God, whereas Christianity is about the worship of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, about how God has acted in history to redeem us, to forgive our sins. Buddhism does not have a theology of a personal |
| 1:48.2 | God. In fact, it's sort of agnostic, if you will. There is an understanding of suffering, |
| 1:55.0 | but not so much an understanding of sin. And so in Buddhism, you're trying to escape or get away from suffering through a series |
| 2:04.6 | of practices and teachings to follow. But it goes about it. We would say, of course, the wrong way. |
| 2:12.9 | And so I think some of those key distinctions, though, not really having a theology of sin, not really having a belief in a personal God or a focus on that, I would think |
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