Subject: On Harry Potter? |
Bible Note: PART TWO: 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 prayon |