I just want to add my opinion of Ouija boards. They are DANGEROUS for kids.
A friend of mine and I started using one in grade 8, and I swear it was demonic! I think it also led me down the path to occult and the New Age. It was not the only thing that got me on that path, though. And having Christians parents and going to church might have stopped it too! But I did not have that privilege!
I think there are demonic things out there. But I do not believe that popular book series like Harry Potter, Narnia or Lord of the Rings are among them. For one thing, they are worlds that are not ours, which by definition is fantasy. They have strong moral values, and show children that evil exists but to seek after things that are right and good. As for Narnia, if anyone read the books, they would find so many Bible verses they would realize how Christian the books are. To say nothing of Aslan, who is the perfect type of Christ. Even to the fact that the younger children are able to see him, but the older children lose their ability and eventually cannot go back to Narnia and one sister thinks the whole experience was made up (Susan!) What a poignant statement of how Christ told his disciples to let the little children come to him. I pray to be like a little child and see Jesus!
"Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matt. 19:14
So I do believe in demonic forces and evil in this world. I also believe that Christ has conquered these forces, and as Christians, they cannot harm us.
"Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, [SUP]7 [/SUP]rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.[SUP]8 [/SUP]See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. [SUP]9 [/SUP]For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, [SUP]10 [/SUP]and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. [SUP]11 [/SUP]In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, [SUP]12 [/SUP]having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. [SUP]13 [/SUP]And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, [SUP]14 [/SUP]by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. [SUP]15 [/SUP]He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him to the cross." Col 2:6-15
As Christians, we should be focusing on walking with Christ, not trivial arguments about whether fiction books are a threat to our salvation, or to children for that matter. Remember that Christ has conquered sin death and every power of evil on the cross and by his resurrection.
"[SUP]31 [/SUP]What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? [SUP]32 [/SUP]He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? [SUP]33 [/SUP]Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. [SUP]34 [/SUP]Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. [SUP]35 [/SUP]Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? [SUP]36 [/SUP]As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
[SUP]37 [/SUP]No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [SUP]38 [/SUP]For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,[SUP]39 [/SUP]nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:31-39
