Reasons Not To Celebrate Onam? Series

1.Christians should not be involved with occultic practice or divination. Note God's command against divination in Deuteronomy 18. will participate in activities that could potentially open up a door for demonic activity.

2.Onam is originated in paganism. Participating in Onam gives Satan a foothold and not glorifying one true God and our Lord Jesus Christ. pagan traditions practices holidays are “Christianize d by lost Christian religious leaders. The parents or church leaders who DON'T see Onam as pagan are either carnal believers or not saved at all. The roots of this festival are found to be in demonic idolatry of pagan origin, there is nothing Christian about it or Christ honoring.

3. We are commanded to observe God’s Holy Days and to be lights to the world and to be separate from the world. Bible call us to be lights in the darkness, and to bring life and healing to those areas which are full of death and destruction. We should have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but instead, reprove them.

4. The Christians who justify Onam What does scripture says about onam or pagan practices? Christians are supposed to set the standard, not imitate the world and have a "Christian" version of every pagan Holiday.

Leviticus 19:31 REGARD NOT them that have familiar spirits, NEITHER SEEK AFTER wizards, to be DEFILED by them: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 20:6 And THE SOUL THAT TURNETH AFTER such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and DEALT WITH a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, TO PROVOKE HIM TO ANGER.

1 Samuel 15:23: For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.”

Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.”

Jeremiah 10:2 : Thus says the Lord: Do not learn the way of the nations; do not be terrified at the signs of heaven, although the nations are terrified at them.

When Christian leaders/pastors/priests/nuns encourage others to celebrate onam . Scripture says you will know by their fruits (Matthew 7:16). 2nd Timothy 4:3 perfectly describes those church who celebrates this onam in their congregation... “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.

5. Those Christians who claim there is nothing wrong with Onam and its for fun and cultural thing. These are the scriptural warning for them

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." -Ephesians 5:11

Galatians 5:19,20: "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft.

1 Corinthians 10:21 says You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.

2 Corinthians 6:17 says Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.

Galatians 4:9-11: But now, after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elemental forces to which you desire again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have worked for you in vain.

6.Those who say that they participate in onam to eat different types of food, For them God forbids in Acts 15:29 to Abstain from food offered to idols

1 Corinthians 8:4 says: Therefore, concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world and that there is no God but one.

Jeremiah 5:7: How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those who are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, then they committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

Judas was a faithful follower of Christ and yet went to Hell. Our churches have lost their authority because our preachers /Priests /churches don't abide in the Word of God anymore and have accepted pagan doctrines.