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There is an old saying among the Christian community WWJD... Well I know one thing for sure Jesus wouldn't be watching any TV or the Apostles either... Electricity hadn't been invented yet... We should blame Thomas Edison!... Well to be honest we should thank him or we would still be reading our Bibles with candles and kerosene lamps... Brother Glen

 

Should Christians watch TV?

NIV Romans 14:23 But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

So yes this is about eating, could it apply to TV watching?

... and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

HankD

 

How about this which precedes the last?

Romans 14:22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

HankD

 

I got rid of my cable back in 2008, but I need to know what's going on news and weather wise
in my area. Sure, I can subscribe to our local "rag" (callled a newspaper- with a liberal editor
in chief) or listen to local radio, or my police scanner which has a separate weather function.
It's weather radar that gives me a heads up, especially in Spring and Summer. We are in
tornado alley.

I now have a digital-converter box that enables me to tune in channels if I can tune them
in at all. It's up in the air (no pun intended) whether or not channels will come in. As far as
watching TV, I am very picky about what shows I watch. I do not watch mainstream news
media channels for example. Not once.

Only Fox News Sunday (after taping it) and The 700-Club weekdays (if I'm not working)
otherwise I tape it for later viewing.

I still enjoy watching reruns of Hogan's Heroes, The A-Team, McKenzie's Raiders, Peter
Gunn, 77 Sunset Strip (a late-50's/early-60's black and white private eye show in L.A.),
Adam-12, Dragnet, Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford (late-50's black and white),
all to name a few. But classic TV or not, I use discretion. I don't permit any TV when
visitor's come calling. I set up my VCR (I'm old school) to record Dr. David Jeremiah
very early Sunday mornings. I'm still in bed. I get up at around 08:00 and ready for
church at 09:30.

 

IF a christian cannot control what he watches, then should get rid of it, but if able to watch it with discernment, as there is some good among much rubbish!

 

The "take" on TH is the same as it is for anything else man has invented or will invent - it can be used for either good or for evil.

After all, we who post here are using the internet, which has more porn available than all the TV channels on earth, as well as all sorts of other evils.

For some people such as shut-ins, TV is their main source, along with radio, to hear the Gospel being preached, so let's not condemn it too quickly.

Yes, TV is like a knife - it can be used for good or for evil, same as a ball bat, motor vehicle or the Bible itself.

 

I don't listen to music stations. Haven't done so for over ten years.
I've lost track as to the latest hits, the current popular artists and I
couldn't careless!

I only listen to talk radio, i.e. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura
Ingraham. I enjoyed listening to The G. Gordon Liddy Show until he
retired three years ago. Some of the stuff Mr. Liddy talked about or
mentioned ad lib, were a bit disconcerting, but I let it slide. His attacks
against liberals and socialism and the Clinton dynasty was what I liked
most of all. Another talk radio show I enjoyed was The Jerry Doyle Show.
He had this hilarious "trademark" response to uneducated callers about
how he liked to be addressed:

"Uh, hello, Mr. Doyle, this is (insert name here)......"

"Wait, wait, _______! Do you owe me any money?"

"Uh, no, I don't think so..."

"Ok then, ______. Only those who owe me money call me Mr. Doyle.
Otherwise my friends call me Jerry. You are my friend, aren't you __________?"

 

Yep. And would benefit from getting more exercise, eating healthier, losing weight, etc. We as Christians succumb to the flesh in many ways we should not.