Issues concerning Harry Potter

Yes, the Bible speaks of witchcraft...and it refers to it as SIN! Can the Harry Potter books claim the same? I think not...for people, especially unsaved people, would not be so eager to read it! I don't see how reading Harry Potter would be glorifying God (as you said). I do not have to indulge myself in sin (even in fiction) in order to know that God says it is sin.

 

I don't see how reading Harry Potter would be glorifying God

I don't see how reading Cosmopolitan glorifies God. I guess soft core porn is okay in the Christian home, so long as it's marketed towards women .

Come to think of it, I don't see how wiping myself after using the restroom glorifies God. maybe I should stop doing that as well.

 

I don't know what Cosmopolitan is; I guess it's for women? I do know what the other ladies magazines are and have since cancelled my subscriptions because of the disgust found therein.

 

What would we have our children read? Harry Pooter or A Pligrim's Progress. If we call ourselves Christians should we "raise a child in the way he should go", or just let our children exercise their imagination with material that truly does not glorify the living God.

 

Thank you for somewhat reinforcing my point. It washes over. I meant the word "murder", nothing less. Evil with consequences? That's the message? Diggory was a selfless boy who helped Harry, a winsome boy with everything going for him. He was not an image of evil in any context, so the consequence to him would magnify the "evil" other innocent kids face. To say a child was killed will make headlines in local papers. To say a child is murdered will make headlines in national news. But to overtly murder a child and make the readers a witness to it, just because Diggory happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, is a shock to the conscience and senses. If it doesn't, then it washes over far too easily, and that's the problem. The frogs are boiling without even realizing it.

Are there any other children's books, or literature, where we get to see the innocent or good kids murdered? Do we condone those books? What message do we send to the kids when we put murder in front of them and call it harmless? Probably the same message that puts a stamp of approval on the violent video games with realistic, simulated violence. Perhaps we do need to stand up and draw a line in the sand and say "No more compromise on what garbage my kids feed into their minds." We can be positive influencers, indeed we must be.

David (on a new soapbox)

 

IlovetheBible, No offense taken! You said...

Sorry, I must have misunderstood what you meant by this statement.

I would rather be 'ignorant' according to the world concerning worldly things and be knowledgable according to God's Word. I do NOT believe that we have to partake of a particular SIN in order to be a 'better' witness to the LOST sinner.

We do have an 1828 Webster's Dictionary for reference . But these folks posting here are talking about reading Harry Potter for enjoyment! That's where the difference lies!

 

Hey hey HEY!!!! Don't give away the ending. Haven't read it yet.

That's like telling us that Darth Vader is Luke Skywlker's father, of that the ship sinks at the end of Titanic (oops, hope y'all have seen it!!)

 

I do NOT believe that we have to partake of a particular SIN in order to be a 'better' witness to the LOST sinner.

Then you presume that reading the book of Mormon and Koran are acts of sin. I must disagree. If the amount of one's faith may be shaken by reading the Koran, then perhaps the problem lies not with the Koran, but with the amount of one's faith.

I've read the Koran, and I'm still a devout SBC Baptist. I've read the Book of Mormon, too. And I'm still trying to understand why Christians don't take chastity before marriage as seriously as Mormons or Jews do. (eluding to the fact that the highest religious groups with people ramaining virgines until marriags is in the Jewish and Mormon communities... alas, Christians are a tad above the national average, but not much)

 

Johnv, please don't put words 'in my mouth'. That is NOT what I said and I'm sorry if you thought I implied it.

Here is the paragraph containing my statement in context. I said nothing about the book of Mormon or the Koran.

 

Ultimatley HP is about practicing witchcraft which the bible specifically makes a point of telling christians not to have anything whatsoever to do with witch craft. Because the bible says witchcraft is wrong the media present it as good.

As far as I am aware the Seventh Day Adventist church are the only church to have come out in Australia and publicly condemmed it. Some of the other denominations are using this as an opportunity to sledge them. On this I am with the Adventists. No christian should buy books or watch films about witchcraft. No matter how unpopular it makes you look in the eyes of the media. The bible says not to have anything to do with witch craft. It either Gods Word or nothing.