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Dear Lionstrong, I have considered this line of questioning, and can't think of any reason to obstinately deny the earth revolving on it's axis. I know that Bible says the Sun and moon stopped, but from the point of view of the writers of the Bible, and most readers for a good part of history, this is how it appeared. To try to explain to laymen 2 or 3,000 years ago about the solar system, planetary motion, etc. would be difficult. In any case, for the sun to be circling the earth would require it to travel at a velocity faster than the speed of light (approximately 314,000,000,000 miles per second). When God 'stopped' the sun, it would wreak havoc on more than the Amorites. I am no astronomer, but that would totally blow away anthing we know of physics. God can negate physics at any time He so chooses, but it seems that he only chooses to do so in certain miraculous situations, such as the one above. (Stopping the revolution of the earth, a path through the Red Sea, and many others) Not every day, all day long, as in making a supra-light-speed sun circle us. If we claim that all physical knowledge is suspect, we live in a fantasy world, with no rules or order (Harry Potter?). I believe that our God is a God of order.
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I would like to know the verses that could be used to demonstrate that tattoos,witchery,occult is something to stay away from./ I need to encourage someone to see the severity of harry potter and pretending that it is okay.
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I would like to know the verses that could be used to demonstrate that tattoos,witchery,occult is something to stay away from./ I need to encourage someone to see the severity of harry potter and pretending that it is okay.
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Greetings Marlene and welcome to the forum! I would direct you to Deut. 18:9-13 - Warnings against unholy practices. "NO ONE shall be found AMONG you .... who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits or who seeks oracles from the dead. For who ever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord"
There is a lot of information out that you could use in reference to Harry Potter. I recommend you go to the following site: www.gospelcom.net/menconi/index.html Al Menconi has a lot of documentation that you could use.
As for tatoos see Lev. 19:28 - "You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon your body".
If I can help you some more let me know! prayon |
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My husband and I have had a recent disagreement on the "Harry Potter" books. I believe that Satan has been on the rampage, softening the line between good and evil, making it seem "harmless" and "child's play" and he believe's there's nothing wrong with our 6 year old daughter reading them. He says that she knows that witchcraft is not real, and that's all that matters. We are both Christians, and have recently become members of a church, and are relatively new to this all (about 3-4 years). Anyone have an answer?
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My husband and I have had a recent disagreement on the "Harry Potter" books. I believe that Satan has been on the rampage, softening the line between good and evil, making it seem "harmless" and "child's play" and he believe's there's nothing wrong with our 6 year old daughter reading them. He says that she knows that witchcraft is not real, and that's all that matters. We are both Christians, and have recently become members of a church, and are relatively new to this all (about 3-4 years). Anyone have an answer?
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Lizzie
First Witchcraft is real, very real and getting involved in it can lead to tragic results!
John Hagee just had a guest speaker on talking about this very subject. She had written a book on the subject (sorry I did not catch the name, I was channel surfing). In any case she made a real strong case for the danger in Harry Potter. She mentioned that even the name Potter has occult meanings. You may want to get the book and read about the dangers yourself. I'm sure the Hagee web site will have info.
My advice is stay away from anything that has to do with sorcery or witchcraft, do not give Satan entrance.
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Different Perspective..........................
Greetings Lizzie!
With all due respect to my friend Ed, I have a slightly different perspective.
Fictional books create fantasy worlds for fun. I have been an avid reader since I was about 5 years old (yes, I started early). I love to read Sci-Fi and fantasy books. The theology of these kinds of books runs the gamut from fairly reasonable to absurd. However, I never read these books to deveolop my view of God or the world. They were simply entertainment.
Thus, my view is that there is a difference between practicing withcraft and reading books that include withcraft. I don't beieve in vampires, but I love to read about them. I don't believe in aliens, but they are fun to read about.
So, I don't getting concerned about things like Harry Potter. I view it as harmless entertainment. My son, who is 11, loves the series. However, he is fully aware that it is just fiction. In fact, we even talk about the differences between fiction and the Bible.
Having said this though, I do believe that it is up to each parent to make that sort of decision for themselves. I would never say that you had to let your daughter read Harry Potter. It is just my opinion that she wouldn't become a witch simply because she read about one! ;-)
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Tim
I really wish you had heard this woman speak, now I wish I had listened more. She was clear and articulate and was able to back up everything she said with fact. The woman that wrote Harry Potter had apparently admitted this is based on real witchcraft and her purpose was to give children a "new world view" of spiritually. That alone worries me. The author on TV then explained how the curses and incantations are authentic with some words changed.
She raised the biggest question to my mind. What happens if a child goes to bed a night angry and begins to speak a curse he learned from Harry Potter on the person. In effect he could be construed to praying and asking for the power of darkness to intervene.
They had a child behavior specialist on the program also and he agreed that there was real danger in this. He explained that many cases of children that are hard to handle the beginning of the problems can be traced back to such behavior.
I too like Sci fi but this is far more than your run of the mill entertainment. This book, by the authors own admission, was written with a purpose and that I don’t believe is okay.
I think this is far more dangerous than we would give it credit and this involves something God warned us to stay clear of.
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Greetings Ed!
I don't doubt that many such books are written with a purpose! My point is simply that I read fiction as fiction. I just don't believe that fiction can influence someone to change the way they live or view the world (with the possible exception of very young children). Take Star Wars for instance! He had a very definite agenda spiritually!
I am not as old as some on the forum, but I remember the debates that have raged over the years about movies, books, halloween, Christimas, and music.
To clarify, I would have no problem with any parent who didn't want their children to read Harry Potter. I just don't believe that fiction will cause someone to become a witch, committ a murder, or rebel against God. If they do such things, the problem lies within themselves, not a book.
If my children believed Harry Potter was real, I'm sure I would take a different approach! :-)
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If one is looking for nonsense, fantasy, falsehood and blasphemy, he need not read the Harry Potter books. Just go to the website StubyBibleForum.com. Not all, but way too many, postings at this forum rival Harry Potter when it comes to fantasy, falsehood, etc.
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Hi EdB,
I saw the same program. I caught probably less than you, but I agree with what you are saying here. I believe the lady was sincere and born again, and not just a fanatical witch hunter. She was saying Harry Potter, tho fiction, is based on real witchcraft practiced by real witches. Parents and teachers like Harry Potter because it gets kids to read. The witches don't care about that, but are only concerned that their craft is presented accurately. The lady on the show said some witches were upset because the book had witches riding brooms with the straw end of the broom behind them, as most people think is correct, but in their actual ceremonies they “ride” around on brooms with the straw end in the front. Otherwise, most of the ceremonies, spells, etc, were "po-witchely" correct. I, personally, don’t know a lot about Harry Potter, but from what I have seen, It seems to be something satan would want to promote, because it portrays real witchcraft, sorcery, and spells as an innocent passion of a little boy. Just the way I see it now. I will research further.
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Hi, Tim;
I think your approach is very balanced - both in the way you deal with Harry Potter and your refusal to try to impose your approach on other parents.
When kids grow up and go out on their own, they're going to decide for themselves what they believe and where to place their faith. I've read that the majority of kids who grow up in Christian homes go through a period of questioning or outright rejection when they find themselves with the freedom to make up their own minds. I think a child who has learned how to deal with Harry Potter (or R. L. Stine or Stephen King or, for that matter, Edgar Allan Poe) will grow into an adult better able to deal with Wicca, or New Age neo-paganism, or Tibetan Buddhism.
Just my .02 dollars' worth.
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Tim, the perspective from which I view the power of imaginative literature (fiction) to influence one's thinking regardless of his age differs somewhat from yours, I'm afraid. I began to learn to read and enjoy simple stories and rhymes at the age of six or so and have continued to read for what approaches sixty years. Literature and English were my major fields of study in school. I therefore feel at least mildly qualified to opine about books and writers. Fiction, simply because it is fiction and understood by the reader to be fiction, is not diminished in its ability to influence, and sometimes to influence profoundly, the mind of the reader. In the hands of a skilled author, fiction can, in fact, do a much better job of bending the reader's mind to a certain point of view than other kinds of factual or documentary material can. A highly sensitive writer can, by the art and craft of fiction, rivet the reader's attention so raptly in the story line and capture his sympathy for the characters so completely that the reader's mind is made receptive to virtually any message the writer wishes to convey. Imaginative literature is filled with examples wherein the author had a message to deliver that went far beyond the mere entertainment aspect of his novel or play. Examples are not hard to find, but for the sake of brevity, I'll cite just a few. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", while mere fiction, had a profound influence on the way America viewed slavery. Dickens' beloved novels, while being enormously readable and entertaining, do, many of them, lash out harshly at the social ills prevalent in the England of his time; and they helped to effect, in some measure, sweeping national reforms. Melville's "Moby Dick" is far more than a fish story. A young boy may well form his initial ideas of good and evil from "Treasure Island" or "Tom Sawyer." When I think of imaginative works with a message -- a popular term we toss about is "hidden agenda" -- my mind is flooded with names and titles. Faulkner, Goethe, Sarte. Ibsen, Swift, Rabelais. There is indeed an impressive number of fictional works (imaginative literature is the better term) that have served to form and shape the thinking of Western civilization and that have done much to mold our own worldview, whether we realize it or not...... Accordingly, I could not urge Christian parents enough to be keenly aware of, and supervise the kinds of, literature their children are exposed to. It is during these formative years, when the child's mind is so malleable, his appetite for new ideas so voracious, and his ability to exercise discernment between what kinds of reading are good for him and what kinds are not is so limited that the guidance and counsel of a Christian parent is so crucial. There are many, far better, substitues for the popular, but from a Christian perspective, unwholesome and undesirable, Harry Potter series. The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S.Lewis comes immediately to mind as offering an equal if not even better fare of adventure and fun to the young reader without the possibly adverse side effects. --Hank |
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Greetings Ed!
With my kids, yeah! With someone's kids, no!
By the way, have you read any of the Harry Potter books. My son has several of them, so I read the ones he has. They are actually pretty mild.
But, as I pointed out to Steve, I would never try to make this decision for other parents. I just get concerned that every "new" thing that comes along, some expert comes out and says that this will warp our kids. :-)
But, I'm not making any money off of the series, so I let the author defend her own work from now on! ;-)
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Greetings Hank!
You definitely put together a list of great literature!
Do you think that these books caused the social changes you refered to, or did they simply reflect the mood of society at the time?
I ask, because personally, I don't know of any writer who has had that kind of impact of me! And I read alot! I have been known to read 5 to 7 books a week for pleasure, not counting the studying that I do. I have been doing this since I was about six years old.
I was tested when I started kindergarten and I was already reading at about an 8th grade level. Because of this, I was the only kid in my town who was given an adult library card. The first book I remember checking out was Isaac Asimov's, "Caves of Steel." I have been hooked on Sci-Fi ever since.
I love fantasy series as well. Robert Jordan has an ongoing work called the Wheel of Time that is excellent. The reason I bring these works up is that most of these contain things that don't fit with the Christian worldview. But, I never wanted to go out and summon a demon because some fictional character did it.
Having said all of this, I have no problem with parents setting limits for their children. Personally, I would rather my kids read something like Harry Potter so that we can sit down and talk about the things that are not Biblical.
I have actually read some of the Potter series. It is a fantasy series, so it does contain magic and monsters. However, it really never goes into any detail about how or why magic works. There are good guys and bad guys. There are some basic morals. I really never saw anything that was objectionable to me.
Well, I've got to get to bed for a couple of hours so I can get up for church. I hate working nights! :-)
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Good morning EdB!
OK this is what I found out. The lady's name is Caryl Matrisciana. She was on John Hagee’s show with Robert S. McGee, the author of "The Search for Significance" on 10-7-1. A Windows Media or Mp3 audio of the entire program is available at jhm.org under the audio archives link. It’s free if you click “listen now” or 2.50 to download. She also has a video out, that McGee host, discussing HP and witchcraft called "Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged". Her web site is therealpotter.com It has a sample of the video and a review is available at christiananswers.net I’m not trying to be a witch hunter here, folks, as this is a bible study forum. I’m just trying to provide the source for some scattered info Ed and I have already threw out there so whoever desires can evaluate for themselves.
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I like your last point... I have been in children's ministry for over 15 yrs now and have learned that each child is different. So, where your 11 yr old son may not be swayed by harry potter... a 6 yr old might. It is very important for parents to know their child and the type of things that the enemy will tempt them with. THIS IS THE KEY! Harry Potter will pull certain children into witchcraft. Lastly, I beleive what you put in comes out. So if you are going to read fiction make sure you know alittle about the author because what they beleive will come out in their books. Same as Music - Which IS A WHOLE OTHER CAN OF WORMS...I think we should do our best to put the best in front of our children and then be there to comunicate with them when they have ?'s about what they see and hear. IS HARRY POTTER THE BEST WE HAVE TO OFFER IN FICTION? If it is then we need some chirstian writers to GET BUSY!!!!! |
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Hello Lizzie L,
On the subject of Harry Potter, do his books pass the Philippians 4:8 "test"?
Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."
If Harry Potter passes this "test" in your case, does it also do so for your daughter?
I have personally never read the Harry Potter books, but I've heard much about them. I, however, can sympathize with what you are going through right now, because I have enjoyed fantasy/science fiction novels from my youth, being brought up on H.G. Well's novels, Star Wars and Star Trek and Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.. I used to read many books about science fiction and I remain involved in it still and enjoy it as a "good diversion." :-)
For instance, I like reading "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien. I have found his books to be wholesome and worth my time as excellent literature and pure fantasy that was written by a Christian man to his son. Tolkien's books are totally acceptable in my opinion, and I would recommend them to any Christian who wanted to be entertained with a good story. The Chronicles of Narnia are also excellent, and I finally read all seven of those books in college. I would recommend those highly as well, along with the Laura Ingles Wilder books and "Little House on the Prairie".. All of these forms of entertainment have a "wholesome" commodity to them, and are spoken of "good repute", which is one of the qualifications in Philippians 4:8...
However, I will warn you! There is a form of fantasy/science fiction that in my opinion should be "abstained from"...
I was living in Indiana, just two years after moving away from the great state of Kentucky, and I was a freshman in High School. I was exposed to the board game Dungeons 'n Dragons (The ampersand will not work). Even fellow Christian young men in my church said that "there was nothing wrong with Dungeons 'n Dragons! Even so-and-so plays it.. Its like a 'higher form of chess'.." So I was exposed to it and quickly became engrossed in it, killing monsters and demons that were in the game. My friends immediately saw how quickly I progressed in the game and they made me their "campaign leader" because of my abilities to make friends quickly and to "think on the spot." So they called me a "Dungeon Master", which is a title that I held until I was a Senior in High School. It was no coincidence that my high school years were probably the darkest time in my life that I have experienced.
However, as I spiritually progressed and learned to "give my all" to Jesus Christ, I put all of those Dungeons 'n Dragons books together and burned them, every last one of them. Jesus Christ totally reshaped my life at that time. Dungeons 'n Dragons (the game, the books, the computer games) does NOT pass the Philippians 4:8 test, and it encourages killing, sorcery, hedonism, witchcraft, and more killing. I know just about everything that there is to know about that game, and I can honestly say that it is indeed 'Evil.' There is also something "alluring" about that game, something that I can best describe as "an addiction." But this "addiction" was not from God, and it quickly went away when I freely and wholeheartedly committed myself to Scripture and to the Holy Spirit.
Please be careful, Lizzie L. Does Harry Potter also have this same "addictive" quality? If it does, then I would suggest that you and your daughter should not consider it as "harmless".. Is Harry Potter indeed "wholesome" in nature?
Satan is so subtle and we should always be "on watch", even with those things that society views as "harmless".. Keep watch, and defeat Satan before he ever has the chance to present himself by abstaining from all that may in the slightest resemble witchcraft!
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PART ONE: Throughout history Satan has consistently enticed mankind into his dark, supernatural realm. Although sometimes subtly occultism such as witchcraft is undoubtedly infiltrating and often capturing the masses today.
The occult is actually the very crux of the rebellion that the vast majority of today's entertainment world is peddling today. We recognize that the enemy love's to sidetrack not only us but the church in general. He often uses well meaning people to accomplish this purpose. Our children find their entertainment inundated with the occult practices, extreme violence and heroes such as the fictional boy-wizard Harry Potter.
M. K. Rowlings is the author of the Harry Potter series. She has signed a contract to write 7 books in he series and has warned us that each one will become progressively darker. She has also intimated that some of the scenes in the books were taken from real life experiences she has had. In books 2 and 3 were a disembodied voice repeatedly hissing "kill"; a monstrous, flesh eating spiders; children being attacked and paralyzed and an apparently dead cant hung upside down by its tail. (I wonder how many children have already tried to do that to cats?) In book 4 the evil character cuts up Harry's arm to extract blood in order to bring the most evil character back to life. (This is an occult practice done to supposedly pass mystic power from one person to another during some occult rituals). It is also interesting to note that Harry Potter has an odd birthmark on his forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt. The lightning bolt has long been a symbol of power in the occult and Satanism. You can now buy an assortment of items such as capes. magic hats, wands, and fake tattoos, each one designed to emulate Harry Potter. The items are called the starter kit for future witches and warlocks. In a Harry Potter birthday kit you can enroll your child in Hogwart Wizard School, battle a Basilisk (a legendary 14th century reptile with fatal breath and glance), practice Quidditch (a game invented for the series that utilizes levitation by another name, and take a class on magic potions! He's a charmer, that Harry Potter. He even has modern day witches enchanted too. A 39 year old computer programmer from Canada, who has been a practicing witch for more than 25 years, (that would of made him 14 when he started), stated " For once the witches aren't ugly old hags, for once they're the protagonists rather than the villians".
Most people are unfortunetly ignorant of where the road really leads. Our casual acceptance of the philosophies all around us can short circuit nearly every part of our Christian walk and can certainly derail our ability to stave off spiritual attacks. We have become increasingly tolerant of witchcraft and other occult practices in our society. Show such as "Bewitched" and "Sabrina the teenage Witch" taught us to do more than just tolerate witchcraft. They promoted and encouraged it. Above all, it worked subtly on our senses teaching us to accept it as the norm. Just as a person who is poisoned a little bit at a time doesn't die after the first dose, in the end after enough "doses" our ability to recognize the evil began to shut down and we were doomed. By the time we realized what was really happening we had become too weak to climb out and soon became the delicacy on the Devil's dinner plate. By giving ungodly entertainment our time, mind, money, or emotion, even though we are not involved physically, is the same as if we were actually participating. In Romans 1:32 Paul states this: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them. The Full Life Study Bible explains it like this: "Being entertained by watching other people sin and engage in ungodly actions, even while you yourself abstain, brings you under the same divine condemnation as those engaging in such evil practices...Those who use the immoral actions of others for entertainment and enjoyment are directly contributing to public opinion favorable to immorality and therefore to the corruption and eternal damnation of an indefinite number of other people." It is also spiritually damaging to allow these influences a place in our lives and homes. Entire households are weakened and can lose their spiritual battles because of the actions, attitudes, and even physical possessions of one member (see 1 Sam 15).
PLEASE SEE PART 2
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Most Christian parents would not accept false doctrine or a lower moral code from someone else's teaching, but we will more readily accept it when it is packaged as entertainment. Through even just the sheer time we spend with ungodly entertainment, whether it be books or the media, don't we enter into a type of partnership with what entertains us? Of course we do. When we allow images and sounds that we know are wrong into our lives, we are open game for Satan in Spiritual Warfare. It is also spiritually confusing to say on one hand that God's word is supreme and then allow our kids to possess occult playthings.
God's word demands that we stand up against and expose the many deceptions that the devil is foisting on society (Eph 5:7). Scripture demands that we have nothing to do with the deeds of darkness (Eph 5:11). Christians are not to make decisions based on what culture deems good or bad, nor are we to accept the lessor of two evils while staying clear of the 'really bad stuff'. We are deceiving ourselves if we think that we actually remain neutral to the content while being entertained by stories and scripts inundated with evil. Whenever we voluntarily invite the wrong influences, images, activities, conceptions, or thoughts to have safe harbor in our lives, we are short-circuiting God's plan or us to be "more than conquerors" (Rom 8:37).
One pastor commented that "Allowing our children to read Harry Potter books is allowing them to read nothing more than spiritual pornography". We need to instill values and character in our kids that will give then the ability to face the worldly pressure that they will face while growing up. We must be very diligent about what they are reading and watching.
(The above came from a book by David Benoit and Eric Barger called "The End Time Occult Invasion: Entertaining Spirits Unaware").
For more information on this subject or any other covered in Deut 18:9-14 I recommend the following website:
www.gospelcom.net/menconi/index.html
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To some Shakespear is just as goofy, yet many see much more in it and consider it great writting. I'm not comparing Harry Potter to Shakespear but I'm saying writting and writing styoles mean different things to diferent people.
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Excellent job of discussing the issue of Harry Potter, I commend you on a job well done. I think anybody that would read this and then visit the web site Retxar gave would rethink their position on how harmless Harry Potter and all of this is.
Thank you again for you excellent discourse!!!
EdB
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There has been much good discussion of late on the forum about books, discussion triggered by the current rage of the Harry Potter series of books for children. I believe the discussion has been not only good but fruitful as well...... Now, if I may, I'd like to bend your ear for a moment to consider with me a another thought about books that has been uppermost in my mind for several years. It was at about the time I turned 50 that it dawned on me that I was mortal. Time and what I chose to do with it suddenly became important to me, and it seemed good to examine that aspect of my life and to arrange the pecking order of my priorities. There simply wasn't time enough in the day to give full attention to everything that I needed and wanted to do, and that included the time that I had available to me for reading. Upon taking an inventory of my reading habits, I discovered that the time I was giving to reading secular literature was far greater than the time I was giving to reading the Bible. So, since I know no art that is able to invent more time, my course became clear. I had to be frugal with it. That meant that I had to make the conscious, deliberate decision to be stingy with the time I was using up in pursuit of the exquisite, but selfish, pleasure that secular books were giving me and far more generous in the use of my time in reading and studying God's word. That, my friends, was one of the very best decisions of my entire life. --Hank |
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Greetings Ed!
I never said that children should be allowed to read anything! :-)
I just said that each parent would have to decide where to draw the line.
Since there is no verse that says, "Thou shall not read Harry Potter," this issue will always remain a judgement call. I haven't tried to say that everyone has to make the same call that I have. I have simply tried to state my reasons for not thinking that Harry Potter is a big deal.
I definitely don't think that my son is going to start worshipping Satan because magic is mentioned. There is even a witch in the Chronicles of Narnia! :-)
Anyway, I appreciate your stand my friend!
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Of course, Narnia and Lord of the Rings were written by Christians with an overarching Christian worldview/theme.
One thing that has disturbed me is not only the books, but "Little Sorcerer's Kits" marketed by the publishing company as well.
One does have to discern where to draw the line, and I am pretty confident that Tim's kids, being supervised by a concerned Christian parent, will not fall into the occult.
However, I also agree with Ed that the author of this series also has an agenda beyond just telling a good story. What we as Christians must make sure that we can do is counter this, just like any other false worldview, with the true gospel of Christ Jesus. Educate yourselves on the worldview of Harry Potter, grow in your understanding of God's holy Word, and be able to articulate the truth in the face of lies. It is a God-given opportunity to present the truth of Christianity whenever things of a supernatural/spiritual nature are brought up.
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You are right we need to educate ourselves, but not in the world view but in the Christian view.
There is more to this than Harry Potter. You might like to read my posting "Part 1 and 2" further down. prayon |
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AshestoBeauty, Harry Potter is dangerous for all ages because it is just another ploy from Satan to descensitize us from knowing what is Godly and what is not. To further understand what I am gettin at please see my posting "Part 1 and 2" in this thread. prayon |
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Prayon:
A "worldview" is a way of looking at the world, not necessarily the world's way of looking at things. There exists a biblical worldview, the only accurate one there is.
Thanks for the info on Harry Potter. As I said, it is the Christian's duty to respond to the contrary claims of the supernatural/spiritual from a Biblically-informed point of view.
"We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ"
--2 Corinthians 10:5
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