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"What is the Day of the Dead?"

Answer: The Day of the Dead is a holiday celebrated in Mexico and by Latin Americans living in the United States and Canada. The holiday occurs in connection with the Catholic holidays that fall on November 1 and 2, All Saints Day and All Souls Day. On the Day of the Dead, more accurately called the "cult of the dead, friends and family members of those who have died gather together to pray for them and bring to their graves the deceaseds favorite foods, often including the traditional sugar skulls and the bread of death. Private altars honoring the deceased are created and homage is given to them. Origins of the holiday have been traced back thousands of years to an Aztec festival dedicated to a goddess called Mictecacihuatl.

Although many of those who celebrate the Day of the Dead call themselves Christians, there is nothing Christian about such practices. The celebration of the Day of the Dead by pagans is one thing, but for Christians to participate in or condone it is unbiblical, to say the least. We offer this answer in a spirit of gentleness and respect, praying that it may warn others and equip Christians, so that they may be able to reply to those without hope and without Christ in the world (Ephesians 2:12), when they ask us to give a reason for the hope that is within us (1 Peter 3:15).

The force that drives people to participate in this unholy event is the false idea that by means of its rituals and practices, they can commune with their dear departed relatives, who are thought to participate in these ceremonies. This is simply not true. Biblically, there is only one more day that the unrepentant dead may be certain of anticipating: the day when they will stand before God for final judgment (Revelation 20:11-15). When a soul passes into eternity, it either comes into the blessed presence of the Lord or goes on to await final judgment before being cast into eternal hell. The Bible says that "it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment (Hebrews 9:27). This simply and clearly means that when a person dies, the body disintegrates to dust, but the soul remains conscious in the state it will inhabit for eternity, either damnation in hell or eternal glory with God.

In the gospel of Luke, Jesus taught that God has established an unbridgeable chasm between those who are in heaven and those who are in torment (Luke 16:26). The Greek word translated fixed means to establish or make firm. Each soul who dies without Christ has lost all hope. The unrepentant dead face an eternity of unspeakable suffering, eternal destruction, away from the presence of the God and the glory of His power. Jesus Himself said: " And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life (Matthew 25:46). Before they die, the unrepentant enjoy the common grace which God bestows on all people, the evil and the good. They experience the smells, tastes, and sounds of life; they may fall in love and experience other joys which are part of living. But the moment they die without Christ, they are cut off from such common blessings forever. As the passage quoted above teaches, after death comes judgment. Besides the decomposition of the body that follows death (the physical body returns to its constitutive physical elements for you are dust, and to dust you shall return [Genesis 3:19]), any further worldly enterprises end, and there can be no further engagement in the things of life (Ecclesiastes 9:10). The dead have no wisdom to offer those who would consult them on the Day of the Dead, nor are they capable of hearing or responding to prayers offered to them.

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