All I Want For Christmas Is My Jesus Doll

Pinoy, it is just a toy. Of course you being primative Baptist, I understand your concern....

You would be against puppets also in youth ministry. We used to be involved in a youth puppet team... we had a Jesus puppet.

How many dolls will be laying in mangers this Christmas during Christmas plays?

This is just a doll that speaks scriptures and sings jesus loves me... How can this be wrong? We would be placing them into the hands of children that may have never heard about Jesus. It may get their curiosity up.

I simply disagree that this is a bad thing.
I tell you what... they can send our church the 4000 dolls, and we will see that they get into the hands of needy children.

And maybe witness to the parents at the same time.

If no one else wants to, I will.

 

==I don't really consider myself primitive but I don't like the doll idea. It is a mockery of God Himself, it is reducing God to an action figure. We, as Christians, should have more fear of God, more respect for God, and more love for our Savior than to make His image into a play doll for children.

Does this doll offend me? Not really. I just don't think it is a good idea.

==That is really grasping for straws. The best way to get the Gospel to adults is by forming relationships and telling them about Christ, or preching the Gospel in a church service (etc). I doubt many adults are going to follow Jesus because of a recorded voice in a doll. Children will not either. The only children who are really going to get a hold of this doll (if it is ever marketed) are Christians children (children of popular, feel-good, post-modern evangelical parents). What does it teach them? That God can be reduced to a play toy, to something they can control. That is a dangerous lesson.

Besides all of this such "talking" dolls can cause alot of problems. I am reminded of story my uncle would tell years ago (man that sounds old). His daughter had one of those talking bears (Teddy Rupskin, sp?). They kept the doll in the toy room down stairs. Well one night when his wife and children were out of town, and he was home alone, that doll almost got its head blown off. He was walking from the kitchen, down the hall, into the den. --(some history) The house is old (it belonged to my grandmother) and is very spooky. In fact one of the farm workers (back when it was a farm house, late 60s early 70s) claimed to have seen the ghost of my great-grandmother walking down the stairs. Of course everyone thought the woman was crazy, and she probably was from what I have heard (she died before I was born), but still knowing that story would keep me out of that hallway at night. The hall is sort of long, it turns half-way, the stairs open up right after the turn, and there are several rooms that open up on that hall. It is generally dark because there is only like two lights in the whole hall. Needless to say you will not see me walking that hall at night. I don't think I would even be in that house at night by myself. O, I don't believe in ghosts but that is one creepy place. (end history)-- Anyway he was walking past the stairs and the toy room and all of the sudden a voice rang out "Hello There!" (or something like that). He said he dropped everything and ran for the gun. Well, lucky for the doll, he figured out what it was before he did some real damage. So I don't think talking dolls are a good idea. I think it would be really bad for someone to, in a moment of fear, do something harmful to a "Jesus doll". Can you only imagine?

Meaningless story? Maybe, but I hope it lightens the mood a bit and I think it shows one reason I am generally against talking dolls.

By the way I agree with your assesment of Mark 16.

 

Us Primitives have to stick together. I agree with Brother Pinoy.

I do not like the idea of reducing Jesus to an action figure.

A parent who lives their life for Christ is a better witness to a child than any talking Jesus doll.

I can thank my mother for raising me with the strong morals that I have and for teaching me the things of God so that I could see the truth after I was born-again.

I would guess that most of us could say the same about some older person in our lives, parent or not.

 

It offends me and your points are valid points. I find the idea disgusting. It just goes to show people can justify anything, even what amounts to blasphemy. BTW, I'm Southern Baptist.

 

Dolls can be possessed by the devil, can't they? Ever see Talky Tina on The Twilight Zone ? :laugh:

 

I am going to do something that rarely gets done on BB...
I am going to retract this quote.
I am not thinking straight because I am worried about my son, and really don't want to worry about dolls right now...
(for those of you that don't know about my son, click here http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?t=35078 )
He had 43 seizures today, so as you can see, I am not in the right frame of mind to debate... so just forget I added anything to this thread...

Oh, and please pray for my son.

 

Toys for Tots reverses policy, accepts donated Jesus dolls