Are there any Bible based video games that are good?
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I am sorry, this is a sort of rain on your parade post, but I am absolutely addicted to TV games, Sudoku, Hearts, Mahjohn, and I don't think it is a good idea at all. I explored what makes it so addictive. I found that it produces the same kind of chemicals in your body that drugs create, except it isn't introduced from something ingested. It is truly addictive and there are now doctors who specialize in helping people with this addiction.
My Great grandson started with shoot em up games at about eight. They take the place of sports, relationships except others who play the same game, and all normal growing up. His folks have tried everything to cure him and nothing has worked. Games have grown from killing games to now that he is 14, it is pornography they found. They have spent thousands of dollars trying to help him.
Their family is very church oriented, but outside of his feeling self righteous on top of all this, his exposure to God principles isn't helping. He is very intelligent and very handsome. So addiction can happen.
My Great grandson started with shoot em up games at about eight. They take the place of sports, relationships except others who play the same game, and all normal growing up. His folks have tried everything to cure him and nothing has worked. Games have grown from killing games to now that he is 14, it is pornography they found. They have spent thousands of dollars trying to help him.
Their family is very church oriented, but outside of his feeling self righteous on top of all this, his exposure to God principles isn't helping. He is very intelligent and very handsome. So addiction can happen.
I think the most ambitious christian game made is Heaven, google it. I havent played it as such but I cant imagine itd be any good. Im subscribed to the Christian Game Developers Conference but its frustrating because I wish some would lay down their companies and work together, they have an enormous industry to infiltrate and compete with.
Its difficult growing up in a religious family having God shoved down your throat before you even know who you are as a person. You have to love yourself before you love God I don't think its the video games to blame it sounds more like a rebellious stage. The way you make it sound is that its a disease when he's just being a normal modern day teenager. I think you should focus on the pornography more. I got addicted when I was 10 and it still hasn't fully let up but then again I have OCD im sure he'll be fine when he finds someone he loves he'll more then likely grow out of pornography if not sooner.
As for the video game addiction I don't think its harmful unless he's confusing video games with reality or something. Other then that he sounds like any other 14 year old ive ever heard of. This is just my opinion of course I found God at a young age but I didn't really embrace it until much more recently. Im sure its the same for him let him find out who he is and im sure God will find a way to him
As for the video game addiction I don't think its harmful unless he's confusing video games with reality or something. Other then that he sounds like any other 14 year old ive ever heard of. This is just my opinion of course I found God at a young age but I didn't really embrace it until much more recently. Im sure its the same for him let him find out who he is and im sure God will find a way to him
It shouldn't be to hard to make a fun game thats christian based in fact Ive had one in mind for quite some time. But since im probably not smart enough to make video games I figure I'd just make it into a novel instead. Yeah the gaming industry is huge now so many game companies going in and out of business each day
It is so nice of you to be concerned with my great grandson. But, no, he hasn't had God shoved down his throat. He has his own room and bath, each of the kids do, and they are carefully listened to. If they want something, they have only to ask. Fact, he shoves his sort of legalistic religion down our throat! Except for his addiction. You are right, he doesn't love himself as he poses superiority, but it isn't because he hasn't been dearly loved and cared for the best anyone knows how. Both his folks graduated from college with highest honors, his mother quit work to just take care of the three kids. Her job was as consultant to CEOes of offices of a large corporation. He had a nanny. And it has been damaging from the beginning. Other boys play ball and run and laugh, he sits looking at a TV screen. If this is what makes normal teen life now, our world is in serious trouble.
ah I see yeah I suppose things are always a bit more complicated then they seem and yes the current gen has definitely grown up different with I phones and Internet and such. Every Gen seems to have its own pro's and con's I grew up in the 90's I didnt get into the internet until I finished High school though mostly due to my Porn addiction my family kept me off of it for most of my young life which I see now was for the best. Its difficult to get someone to believe especially with this gen being so opinionated. With the internet at there fingertips and all the worlds knowledge they tend to think they know everything, if they have a problem they just google it, instead of reaching to God which I can't judge I've had that problem now and then too It just feel's like God isn't listening at times, but in reality where the ones not listening. but it sounds like im preaching now and im in no position to Im fairly young and I don't know much. I truly hope you make progress with it a supportive family makes all the difference so im sure he'll find God one day until then he'll be in my prayers. 
i am of the 'atari' and 'NES' generation - the first of the home video game consoles. i grew up in the last days of hanging out at the arcade and the first days of home PC's. the first phones i used were rotary dial, and now a great proportion of Americans have video game consoles in their pockets or in a hip holster and in arms reach at all times.
i'd rather walk in the woods and climb trees, or ride a BMX bicycle for 15-20 miles a day. i didn't want to be hypnotized by technology myself any more than i ever wanted my son to be. i've enjoyed and appreciated games, been thankful for them, really, and also regretted wasting so much time with them. there are worse things a person could be doing that gaming can keep them from, and better things that gaming keeps people from too. i'm not at all ignorant of drug addiction, what it is, what it's like, what it does, and how it ends - and RedTent, you're right, gaming is unquestionably in the same category.
i won't condemn games absolutely. i still believe everything has a time and a season. the internet, too, is a drug.
i was proud of my thoughts on technology's intrusion into healthy lives. but God gave me a son with physical disability, surely in part to humble me. he can't go biking for miles. he can't go walking for miles. he can't play sports, and his peers reject him. a lot of his life (he's a teenager now) has been given over to playing video games, or to the internet. not all of it. a lot more than as a father i would have wanted. i've had to accept that virtual realities have a place, and seen how they've allowed an awkward boy with a lot of limitations interact socially with people and feel accomplishment. it wasn't easy for me to understand as he's grown up; i played all sorts of sports and was always out with a lot of friends as a kid - i wanted him to get up off the couch and go get involved with things! i had to be that father that found the limits of his child, and to learn to forgive myself for pushing him harder than he could go.
i also grew up hating golf, but thanks to my grandfather, who was in too poor health to get out on the course, i learned to love playing it as a video game.
i'm not trying to say video games are good only for the old and the feeble, who can't go out and do things physically - just some thoughts.
i'd rather walk in the woods and climb trees, or ride a BMX bicycle for 15-20 miles a day. i didn't want to be hypnotized by technology myself any more than i ever wanted my son to be. i've enjoyed and appreciated games, been thankful for them, really, and also regretted wasting so much time with them. there are worse things a person could be doing that gaming can keep them from, and better things that gaming keeps people from too. i'm not at all ignorant of drug addiction, what it is, what it's like, what it does, and how it ends - and RedTent, you're right, gaming is unquestionably in the same category.
i won't condemn games absolutely. i still believe everything has a time and a season. the internet, too, is a drug.
i was proud of my thoughts on technology's intrusion into healthy lives. but God gave me a son with physical disability, surely in part to humble me. he can't go biking for miles. he can't go walking for miles. he can't play sports, and his peers reject him. a lot of his life (he's a teenager now) has been given over to playing video games, or to the internet. not all of it. a lot more than as a father i would have wanted. i've had to accept that virtual realities have a place, and seen how they've allowed an awkward boy with a lot of limitations interact socially with people and feel accomplishment. it wasn't easy for me to understand as he's grown up; i played all sorts of sports and was always out with a lot of friends as a kid - i wanted him to get up off the couch and go get involved with things! i had to be that father that found the limits of his child, and to learn to forgive myself for pushing him harder than he could go.
i also grew up hating golf, but thanks to my grandfather, who was in too poor health to get out on the course, i learned to love playing it as a video game.
i'm not trying to say video games are good only for the old and the feeble, who can't go out and do things physically - just some thoughts.
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nope,that's why i quit gaming
tried many times to play again,but not able too..Holy Spirit doesn't allow
The present gaming industry is satanic and full of cult practices....
Its healthy to try quitting it..
just take it as an advice....
tried many times to play again,but not able too..Holy Spirit doesn't allow
The present gaming industry is satanic and full of cult practices....
Its healthy to try quitting it..
just take it as an advice....
You sort of have to be in a cult first. : P
Whenever you apply the word "cult" so liberally to any organisation you feel is unholy, then you undermine the definition of the word to the point where it loses almost all meaning.
KKK, Westboro Baptist Church, Followers of Charles Manson, those are cults.
When you include corporations such as EA into the 'cult' group, you sort of make the word 'cult' non-threatening.
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ah I see yeah I suppose things are always a bit more complicated then they seem and yes the current gen has definitely grown up different with I phones and Internet and such. Every Gen seems to have its own pro's and con's I grew up in the 90's I didnt get into the internet until I finished High school though mostly due to my Porn addiction my family kept me off of it for most of my young life which I see now was for the best. Its difficult to get someone to believe especially with this gen being so opinionated. With the internet at there fingertips and all the worlds knowledge they tend to think they know everything, if they have a problem they just google it, instead of reaching to God which I can't judge I've had that problem now and then too It just feel's like God isn't listening at times, but in reality where the ones not listening. but it sounds like im preaching now and im in no position to Im fairly young and I don't know much. I truly hope you make progress with it a supportive family makes all the difference so im sure he'll find God one day until then he'll be in my prayers.