Harry Potter bad?

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
T

Tintin

Guest
#61
#61
Can you turn people into a frog, make them still as a statue, ride a broomstick, wave a want and shout a poorly-phrased Latin 'spell'? That's not real witchcraft, my friends. That's fairytale/fantasy magic. Party tricks, not the divination, summoning and talking with demons etc. magic that the Bible forbids. You are the one's who aren't willing to see the perspective of others. Do you believe all fiction is evil because it makes use of the imagination? Let's be consistent, shall we?

Before judging a book series, know something about it. Otherwise, you'll come off looking like a fool.
 
L

lost1972

Banned
#62
Sep 13, 2012
619
1
0
#62
If you keep following the money trail back from harry potter,and many of the network shows promoting witchcraft vampires etc, you will find wiccan groups, their target is to recruit young girls into witchcraft, the shows have an agenda, they are not fun like they are promoted
 
RickShafer

RickShafer

Banned
#63
Sep 8, 2012
4,367
59
0
#63
Tintin said:
Can you turn people into a frog, make them still as a statue, ride a broomstick, wave a want and shout a poorly-phrased Latin 'spell'? That's not real witchcraft, my friends. That's fairytale/fantasy magic. Party tricks, not the divination, summoning and talking with demons etc. magic that the Bible forbids. You are the one's who aren't willing to see the perspective of others. Do you believe all fiction is evil because it makes use of the imagination? Let's be consistent, shall we?

O.K., Let's.
All the things you mentioned are very real types of witchcraft.
Much as the cross 't' is a symbol of the atonement.
Now again, if I write drivel about adultery and fornication, (though it is not REALLY committing fornication).
Because words are mere ideals and symbols, and NOT the act, is it harmless?
Am I justified according to God's Words?

Before judging a book series, know something about it. Otherwise, you'll come off looking like a fool.
I only use logic. You love this series about witchcraft.
Who's the fool according to God?
Click to expand...
 
reawakeningmemories

reawakeningmemories

Banned
#64
Mar 7, 2013
50
0
0
#64
No. It's fiction. Like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. It's fake and just fun to watch and read.
 
S

SunnyDucks

Guest
#65
#65
What about C.S. Lewis' Narnia books? For those so adamantly against Harry Potter, how do you feel about books about Narnia? These books have an intended Christian message but they deal with magic, mythical creatures, good vs. evil, and other themes that are similar to Harry Potter. Are these books evil (or rather against God's will) as well?

To unbelievers, these books are pure fiction. I think the books/movies themselves aren't nearly as important as the condition of our hearts when we read/watch them. If fiction was strictly evil i don't think God would have blessed us with beautiful imaginations. Fiction, when the heart is in the right place, can be used to teach, warn, and yes entertain.
 
tribesman

tribesman

Senior Member
#67
Oct 13, 2011
4,621
281
83
#67
SunnyDucks said:
What about C.S. Lewis' Narnia books? For those so adamantly against Harry Potter, how do you feel about books about Narnia? These books have an intended Christian message but they deal with magic, mythical creatures, good vs. evil, and other themes that are similar to Harry Potter. Are these books evil (or rather against God's will) as well?
Click to expand...
I feel the same for C.S. Lewis books as well. The story of C.S. Lewis bizarre beliefs is quite shocking for someone who has not been informed about same. Isn't it funny how mormons love C.S. Lewis books. Hardly a coincidence.
 
RickShafer

RickShafer

Banned
#68
Sep 8, 2012
4,367
59
0
#68
  • Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
  • Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
  • 1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
  • 2 Kings 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
  • 2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
  • Micah 5:12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
  • Nahum 3:4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
  • Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
 
reawakeningmemories

reawakeningmemories

Banned
#69
Mar 7, 2013
50
0
0
#69
You can't compare pornography to Harry Potter. It's child fiction, a story of heroism and the whole moral of the story is to love. The villain is someone who can't love others and the hero only makes it through because of the love of his parents and friends.
 
RickShafer

RickShafer

Banned
#70
Sep 8, 2012
4,367
59
0
#70
I just can't fathom how people can be so easily led.
Almost like a lamb to slaughter.
Porn has it's beginning from the mouth of hell; and it's end in the lake of fire.
Witchcraft has it's beginning from the mouth of hell; and it's end in the lake of fire.

ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE.
 
S

SunnyDucks

Guest
#71
#71
Well like all written words, humans will find a way to twist it to fit their own means, including the bible.
 
T

Tintin

Guest
#72
#72
Your analogies are embarrassing. Also, those involved in real world occult practices are embarrassed that people think of them as being similar to the witches and wizards in Harry Potter.

Tribesman, isn't it funny that Mormons love the Bible? That reasoning is invalid.

Rick, I'm not denying that witchcraft is bad, it's unholy but HP is not witchcraft!
 
tribesman

tribesman

Senior Member
#73
Oct 13, 2011
4,621
281
83
#73
RickShafer said:
I just can't fathom how people can be so easily led.
Almost like a lamb to slaughter.
Porn has it's beginning from the mouth of hell; and it's end in the lake of fire.
Witchcraft has it's beginning from the mouth of hell; and it's end in the lake of fire.

ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE.
Click to expand...
We'll soon hear excuses, verbatim or indirectly, disguised in the form of "christian freedom", "all things are lawful for me" and the like. People who think liking stuff like this is innocent and not affecting them in any way.
 
reawakeningmemories

reawakeningmemories

Banned
#74
Mar 7, 2013
50
0
0
#74
If I was out trying to summon a demon after reading Harry Potter, I'd be more apt to agree with your VERY false statement, Rick. I, instead, read all 7 books, watched all 8 movies and then proceeded to go about my life normally. The only thing that changed was my respect for JK Rowling and her ability to go from dirt poor to extremely rich (and a LARGE philanthropist) in the course of a few years, all by being a creative and inspired woman. Who happens to be a liberal mainline Protestant like myself.
 
tribesman

tribesman

Senior Member
#75
Oct 13, 2011
4,621
281
83
#75
Tintin said:
...isn't it funny that Mormons love the Bible?...
Click to expand...
They love their slaughter-interpretation of it (they'd go with JS's own "version" if they only dared to). Among the many christian authors to be found, C.S. Lewis stands out as one of their favorites. Speaks volumes.
 
RickShafer

RickShafer

Banned
#76
Sep 8, 2012
4,367
59
0
#76
reawakeningmemories said:
You can't compare pornography to Harry Potter. It's child fiction, a story of heroism and the whole moral of the story is to love. The villain is someone who can't love others and the hero only makes it through because of the love of his parents and friends.
Click to expand...
Here we go with the false gospel.
The liberal theological doctrine of "social redemption".
If you just have the love of you parents,.....that is enough.
If you just get some help from your friends,....that is enough.
If you just help others, you will become like Jesus to them.

Well, do you know what the pharisees bought with the silver they paid to have Jesus(the actual Savior murdered)?
A tract of ground for beggars to be buried.
(Your good works won't save you son.)
 
T

Tintin

Guest
#78
#78
The Mormon Bible is the same as ours, they just put more stock in their Book of Mormon. Also, something can be popular with an audience who doesn't share the beliefs of the author. Also, C.S. Lewis' beliefs and Mormon beliefs have nothing in common with each other.
 
J

jonrambo

Guest
#79
#79
harry potter glorifies satanism dont watch it. i am throwing out my star wars collection when i get home. i love star wars. but i love god more. every actor on star wars is a satanist
 
RickShafer

RickShafer

Banned
#80
Sep 8, 2012
4,367
59
0
#80
tribesman said:
It probably takes liberalism and mainlineism to like HP. I am not surprised.
Click to expand...
You are right. The broad road leads to destruction.
As Jesus said - "unless a man is born again, he shall in no wise see-(i.e: taste, feel,be in); the kingdom of heaven.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.