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You can't talk about one and not the other. Avoiding a discussion about the Internet is rather hypocritical. Both can be evil. Both can lead to bad habits, attitudes ect.
You can't sit and talk about the evil influence of television when you are sitting at a computer that can lead to evil temptations worse than tv.
I don't watch porn. I don't look at it online or watch movies on tv. Yet I will on occasion get pornographic spam emails. Should I avoid the Internet completely because of this? Or should I block the email address where the spam came from? I never asked for these emails. Nor did I subscribe to it.
If you have conviction about something then by all means refrain, but that doesn't give you the authority to condemn others who do not refrain.
You can't sit and talk about the evil influence of television when you are sitting at a computer that can lead to evil temptations worse than tv.
I don't watch porn. I don't look at it online or watch movies on tv. Yet I will on occasion get pornographic spam emails. Should I avoid the Internet completely because of this? Or should I block the email address where the spam came from? I never asked for these emails. Nor did I subscribe to it.
If you have conviction about something then by all means refrain, but that doesn't give you the authority to condemn others who do not refrain.
It depends on how you look at it... T.V. entices you to covet; commercializing is what it is use for; but if you uses it just to see what going in the world and able to avoid the temptations that it provides, then it okay...I just heard that the docu-drama or whatever it is, about mermaids that were found was all a hoax. I knew that it couldn't be real because it never mention it in the scriptures, and the scientist that said that he saw a mermaid, he look like an actor from an movie that I had saw in the past. I couldn't remember what movie that it was at the time, but I had my guards up. But this has let me know how far that a person will go to deceive There are a lot of great deceivers in this world so you better be on guard what you see and or hear.
Mermaids: 'Body Found,' 'New Evidence' Fake Or Real? Shocking Videos Staged By Animal Planet? [VIDEO] - International Design Times
Mermaids: 'Body Found,' 'New Evidence' Fake Or Real? Shocking Videos Staged By Animal Planet? [VIDEO] - International Design Times
The way they had phrase it could have meant anything. but I didn't believe it but it was very convincing. I don't believe a lot of things what science says; for an example they had said that GMO food products is safe to eat, and they also had said that Aspartame ( artificial sweetner) is safe also, but it isn't.
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Owning a TV channel does not mean the same thing as randomly watching TV. The owner of a TV channel can regulate it's content, even if it is but a single program on a channel owned by others, Jesus said he came not to take us out of the world but that we should be no part of the world.
When we randomly watch junk TV programing we are being a part of the world and subject to being led by the spirit in the world.
Unfortunately in the hands of the spiritually immature a TV will be used like a gun in the hands of a child.
When we randomly watch junk TV programing we are being a part of the world and subject to being led by the spirit in the world.
Unfortunately in the hands of the spiritually immature a TV will be used like a gun in the hands of a child.
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I disagree with the comparison of television and internet. Television is and has always been a pre-programmed data stream. Someone else at the top of the information pyramid, an atheist typically, will decide what you see and what you don't.
The WWW is quite opposite, I could fill 30 hours every day watching Christian related videos on YouTube from sermons to every kind of traditional and contemporary worship music. It's like walking through a field picking up gold nuggets, instead spending hours searching for a needle in the haystack of television.
I didn't see any point so I gave my television away a few days after the 2013 Super Bowl. Those are the fruits I hope that you judge me by.
Right now looking at my computer my browser I have CC Bible study chat, Jesus Culture on YouTube, and at least 6 tabs related to various discernment topics. Everything is Christian because I decide what the data stream is, not someone from CNN or Sony Pictures. Skype is open too, everyone on my Skype list is a Christian from several continents. Nothing on television can compare with my laptop.
Spam email related to pornography is one of those things that exists if you have an email account. Should it keep you off the internet? I don't know. You'll never be in a car accident if you don't go in cars, but if you don't travel around you're not going to have the richness that human life life offers in 2013.
The WWW is quite opposite, I could fill 30 hours every day watching Christian related videos on YouTube from sermons to every kind of traditional and contemporary worship music. It's like walking through a field picking up gold nuggets, instead spending hours searching for a needle in the haystack of television.
I didn't see any point so I gave my television away a few days after the 2013 Super Bowl. Those are the fruits I hope that you judge me by.
Right now looking at my computer my browser I have CC Bible study chat, Jesus Culture on YouTube, and at least 6 tabs related to various discernment topics. Everything is Christian because I decide what the data stream is, not someone from CNN or Sony Pictures. Skype is open too, everyone on my Skype list is a Christian from several continents. Nothing on television can compare with my laptop.
Spam email related to pornography is one of those things that exists if you have an email account. Should it keep you off the internet? I don't know. You'll never be in a car accident if you don't go in cars, but if you don't travel around you're not going to have the richness that human life life offers in 2013.
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lenin's plan to destroy and take over america from the inside has been at work all along. even though we were warned it was still allowed to take place. making sure that communists got positions teaching history, birth control....the whole shebang. why we allowed it is beyond me but here it is.....full grown and birthing puppies
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Ephesians 2;1-2 SATAN IS THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR....BUT OUR GOD IS THE KING OF ALL THINGS. satan has the upper hand in media whether it is television, music, internet or any rdif chip.....the power of the air clearly includes sound which travels through airwaves on many different frequencies.....but Jesus' parting prayer didn't ask that we be taken out of the world but that we would overcome it. nothing is evil in and of itself. the perversion of it's intended purpose is what changes that. we are to be good stewards of the good gifts our God has given us....and that includes the airways
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I think it all depends on what you watch and if it interferes with your life and relationship with GOD.
I know that UPCI ministers are forbidden to have television, yet they rent movies and watch things on hulu.
The elders want to make sure that the ministers don't start filling their brains with junk, this is understandable, but the internet has junk too.
I have always had a problem with this way of thinking.
To me it is all about personal accountability and that personal accountability must come from a changed heart, not a set of rules.
I know that UPCI ministers are forbidden to have television, yet they rent movies and watch things on hulu.
The elders want to make sure that the ministers don't start filling their brains with junk, this is understandable, but the internet has junk too.
I have always had a problem with this way of thinking.
To me it is all about personal accountability and that personal accountability must come from a changed heart, not a set of rules.
You think the internet isn't as evil? What about hackers, piracy and other illegal activity online?
The point I was trying to make is both tv, and internet can be used to purposes that are sinful, but that doesn't mean that a Christian is forbidden to have either. There is evil everywhere. Not just on a screen. If a person plans on stayed away from evil and not being in contact with it then they may as well just never leave their home.
We will be exposed to things that are not Godly, and as Christians we know how to handle those situations.
FYI, just because this is a Christian site doesnt mean it is immune to evil either. I found out yesterday a man that I used to talk to in the chat rooms on occasion here was a pedophile. He has been banned thank goodness, but that is just one example of how the internet isn't safe. You don't know who you are talking to.
Yes, this is a wonderful site. I love many people here, but that doesn't make this place "safe". Sin is everywhere. We just need to learn how to guard ourselves so we are not vulnerable to it.
The point I was trying to make is both tv, and internet can be used to purposes that are sinful, but that doesn't mean that a Christian is forbidden to have either. There is evil everywhere. Not just on a screen. If a person plans on stayed away from evil and not being in contact with it then they may as well just never leave their home.
We will be exposed to things that are not Godly, and as Christians we know how to handle those situations.
FYI, just because this is a Christian site doesnt mean it is immune to evil either. I found out yesterday a man that I used to talk to in the chat rooms on occasion here was a pedophile. He has been banned thank goodness, but that is just one example of how the internet isn't safe. You don't know who you are talking to.
Yes, this is a wonderful site. I love many people here, but that doesn't make this place "safe". Sin is everywhere. We just need to learn how to guard ourselves so we are not vulnerable to it.