T
I think everyone who condemns halloween and Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, ultimately comes to the conclusion that witches and wizards are all wicked--which is true...
Halloween is a little more difficult to justify on this logic as people sometimes actually mean to dress up as or pretend to be evil witches.
But if you look at at Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings...it is very hard to conclude he is evil...which leads to the conclusion that perhaps he is not a wizard at all? I really don't know what magic he really does in the Lord of the Rings...He has fireworks--which the hobbits think are magical...he has light, and the ability to use light to defend himself...could not any Christian be considered a 'wizard' under the same logic?
Harry Potter, as I said before, I am not too familiar with, though I watched like one or two of the movies...and in the movies, it seems like Harry Potter is fighting evil, so is he really truly a witch--knowing that witches must be evil?
Just using a scripture as Jesus says, "How can a demon cast out a demon, and if satan is dividing against himself he cannot stand for his end has come." This immediately made me think of Gandalf drawing out the demon from the king's body...which is something else he could do...is this any worse or better than Moses parting the waters with his staff? If Gandalf was evil he couldn't draw out the evil spirit...
Perhaps it is all with these terms, 'witch and wizard' that the english form of the Bible uses to describe sorcery...
It is pretty absurd to suggest Gandalf is evil; use the Lord's other explanation that you will know someone by their fruits--look at his actions and their fruits--it is not for evil that he travels/helps people...or that he wishes to get rid of the evil ring, even when offered it he refuses saying "I would use it from a desire to do good, but through me it would wield a power I could not control."
The Lord's light to Everyone
tony
Halloween is a little more difficult to justify on this logic as people sometimes actually mean to dress up as or pretend to be evil witches.
But if you look at at Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings...it is very hard to conclude he is evil...which leads to the conclusion that perhaps he is not a wizard at all? I really don't know what magic he really does in the Lord of the Rings...He has fireworks--which the hobbits think are magical...he has light, and the ability to use light to defend himself...could not any Christian be considered a 'wizard' under the same logic?
Harry Potter, as I said before, I am not too familiar with, though I watched like one or two of the movies...and in the movies, it seems like Harry Potter is fighting evil, so is he really truly a witch--knowing that witches must be evil?
Just using a scripture as Jesus says, "How can a demon cast out a demon, and if satan is dividing against himself he cannot stand for his end has come." This immediately made me think of Gandalf drawing out the demon from the king's body...which is something else he could do...is this any worse or better than Moses parting the waters with his staff? If Gandalf was evil he couldn't draw out the evil spirit...
Perhaps it is all with these terms, 'witch and wizard' that the english form of the Bible uses to describe sorcery...
It is pretty absurd to suggest Gandalf is evil; use the Lord's other explanation that you will know someone by their fruits--look at his actions and their fruits--it is not for evil that he travels/helps people...or that he wishes to get rid of the evil ring, even when offered it he refuses saying "I would use it from a desire to do good, but through me it would wield a power I could not control."
The Lord's light to Everyone
tony