{"id":8740,"date":"2015-10-24T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2021-12-22T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:49:06","slug":"trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/24\/trick-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick or Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shutterstock_264711281.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8741\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shutterstock_264711281-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_264711281\" width=\"500\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shutterstock_264711281-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shutterstock_264711281.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being this time of the year I thought I would write about Halloween, or as my wife calls it Helloween. Anyway the purpose of this blog is not to debate the nature of this holiday but to discuss how some people treat Christ as a \u201cTrick or Treater\u201d who comes knocking at our door thinking of Him like some kind of\u00a0folklore spirit that needs the sweet appeasement of our\u00a0personal peace offerings so as not to be tricked to Hell.<br \/>\nSo when greeted from behind closed doors they dress the part in their relationship to God as stating, I am a good person, I do good deeds, or I am trying to do better. They may even mention their yearly attendance of services around certain sacred events, performing the mantra\u2019s of confession and creeds with rituals performed and monies given. Their seasonal devotion may include decorative statuaries, symbols, and wall hangings.<br \/>\nYet these measly kind of sacrificial offerings are trivially characteristic of cultus religious activities as adding to the bag of different goodies in hoping to find another year of peace and prosperity, \u00a0Ephesians 2:8-9, Hebrews 10.<br \/>\nYet what God desires is\u00a0to Cross over the threshold of our homes rather than fearfully being kept at arm&#8217;s length as a costumed stranger,\u00a0Revelation 3:20.<br \/>\nTherefore God is holding out to us with the intention of receiving a personal relationship rather than \u00a0securing the benefits of a one night fest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/\">How to know God<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/18\/atheist-and-agnostic-resources\/\">Atheist and Agnostic Resources<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/category\/atheist-and-agnostic\/english-atheist-and-agnostic\/\">English Articles on Atheism and Agnosticism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/category\/seekers\/\">Seekers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo provided by:<br \/>\n\u201cFreedom Studio\/Shutterstock.com\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being this time of the year I thought I would write about Halloween, or as my wife calls it Helloween. Anyway the purpose of this blog is not to debate the nature of this holiday but to discuss how some people treat Christ as a \u201cTrick or Treater\u201d who comes knocking at our door thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-atheist-and-agnostic","category-seekers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12649,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions\/12649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}