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GreenStormCloud

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3. Nope. Not in the Bible at all.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Fri Nov 1, 2013, 01:23 PM

Nov 2013

Halloween is an English language corruption of "All Hallow's Eve". Hallow as in the sense of "hallowed ground". Today, for Catholics is All Saint's Day. It is a day to respectfully remember the honored dead. In tradition, it is the day that Noah's flood began, but that is tradition only, no reference in Scripture. All Hallow's Eve was believed to be an evening when Satan showed his disrespect for the honored dead.

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Nope. Not in the Bible at all. GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #3