In Your View: Biblical truth behind pumpkins? (2024)

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In Your View: Biblical truth behind pumpkins? ›

In the Bible, the blood of Jesus washes away our sins. A pumpkin has an inside and an outside. So, God not only washes us clean from the outside from our sin and in so doing washes us clean and made new from the inside.

Its presence in scripture may not be direct, but its essence is captured in the themes of harvest and thanksgiving, resonating with passages like Psalm 85:12: “Indeed, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its produce.” This verse speaks to the heart of God's provision, of which the pumpkin is a ...

Use the activity of carving a pumpkin with your children to illustrate how Jesus forgives our sin, cleans out our hearts, puts his joy inside us and allows us to shine his light. Carve the pumpkin with your children. First, have them help you clean out the yucky pumpkin guts.

God can make us clean on the inside! The Bible teaches: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). As we carve a happy face on the pumpkin, we are reminded of the joy that God gives us.

Symbolically, pumpkins represent abundance. Some people write that pumpkins used to be symbolic of the whole world. Big and round, they have plenty of space inside to hold everything. (Very much like how Aum represents every sound in the Universe. ) And the plethora of seeds means plenty.

Pumpkins are associated with the Moon and the element of Water. They're generally considered symbols of prosperity, protection, and fertility.

Harvested in October, this nutritious and versatile orange fruit features flowers, seeds and flesh that are edible and rich in vitamins. Pumpkin is used to make soups, desserts and breads, and many Americans include pumpkin pie in their Thanksgiving meals.

When Irish immigrants brought this folklore to America, they discovered that pumpkins, abundant in the New World, were ideal for carving. Thus, the tradition of carving faces into pumpkins was born, which symbolized the souls trapped between worlds, like Stingy Jack.

Christians can carve a pumpkin for Halloween that is not scary or a jack-o'lantern but one that shares the message of Jesus, the Light of the World.

Pumpkins are full of goop and gunk when we first open them. In order to use a pumpkin, we have to clean them out. In our lives, when we accept Jesus, he cleans out the gunk we call sin and makes us into something new! Cleaning out the gunk isn't as easy as it sounds.

What does the great pumpkin symbolize? ›

The Great Pumpkin has been cited as a symbol of strong faith and foolish faith, leading to vastly different interpretations of creator Charles Schulz's own faith. As described in the book on Schulz's religious views, A Charlie Brown Religion, Schulz's views were very personal and often misinterpreted.

History of the Pumpkin

For centuries the pumpkin was consumed and used in many ways by Native Americans. They would cook the flesh of the pumpkin by roasting, baking, boiling and drying it. They also ate the seeds of the pumpkin and sometimes used them as medicine.

Gourdius was thought to have originally been a deeply unpopular mortal tyrant. Myths tell us that he had a very high opinion of himself and was something of a big-head. Upon his death he was “accidentally” embalmed with Sunny Delight, which brought about his apocolocyntosis.