This is an interesting response. Thanks. I can tell you are a thinker.
Thanks.
Even though I do think... a lot... it's not my thinking, really.
It's more, God's thinking, as I getting God's mind on the matter, so tat my thoughts would be aligned with his thoughts.
So, in any event where I might be led by my treacherous heart, I would be repeating God's view in my head.
I always did this, when I saw in the scriptures that something I loved was 'questionable', I would deliberately hammer those scriptures at me, to get my mind on the right track.
I didn't find it easy ignoring my conscience.
As I mentioned in
the other thread, the scripture
Romans 2:21-24 had a serious impact on me.
I'm thinking too. Some things I think about, is when you say blood and gore violence vs what? Non-blood and gore violence? This question could be construed as akin to hard vs soft porn. Maybe not. Or maybe combat of any sort in video games and could be considered unrighteous even if fictional. I'm still trying to digest your answer.
I was going to say blood and gore and violence, but since most games come with the blood and gore, these day, I decided to combine them.
Your question is, not only an interesting one. It's a good question.
Can violence be compared to porn in this sense?
Zephaniah 1 and Revelation 19:11-21 describe violent events.
David struck down a giant that was taunting God, and he also killed a lion and a bear.
That would make God, Jesus and God's ancient people guilty of sin, if acts of violence were wrong...
in these circumstance.
The Bible does not specifically condemn violence, so does that mean it's okay to play a game where the player has to kill animals attacking him?
That's where one's conscious comes in, and using scriptural principles.
Hebrews 5:11-14 says the mature Christian "by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil."
Corey would ask...
- Does the game promote violence? For example, is violence the primary feature, or prominent in the game?
- If a violent act takes place, is it graphic? For example, if an act of violence takes place, is it an explicit and uncensored depiction, or is it more like... give me a couple days to find one.

- How might Bible principles such as Psalm 11:5; Isaiah 2:2-4; Matthew 26:52 help me decide?
- What about playing a game where the player has to kill giants or other creatures...Like the many senseless games out there.?
However, being entertained by something that is wrong, is not the same thing as reading about something that is wrong.
For example, Genesis 34:1-34 describes Shechem violating Dinah, after which Jacob's sons slaughtered all the men of the city.
We could certainly imagine what these events were like, but that's different to watching graphic sexual and violent content.
Pornography has one purpose only.
Graphic violence also has a purpose.
Both, unanimously are avoided by Christians seeking to please God.
Ephesians 5:3-5, 10-14; Colossians 3:5, 6; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 Psalm 11:5
A person may reason, 'What if a husband and wife make a sexually explicit video, for educational purposes. It's not sexual immorality. So, can a Christian watch it... perhaps a new Christian couple might be trying to learn the ins and outs of sex.'
Hmm.

Corey would think...
- Would this not be opening the doors to adultery?
- Would this couple not be inviting lust into their relationship, to either one of the mates.
- What's the Bible principle? Matthew 5:28 is one. As we can see, this involves the eyes, and how we sinful mankind is lured. 2 Samuel 11:2-4. Job said, “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? We can add... Or a married woman, because the same principle applies.
Allow me to demonstrate the difference between "thinking Corey", and "thinking Corey adjusting his thoughts to conform to a higher thinking - that is, God's thoughts" Isaiah 55:8, 9
Corey, once started to reason, that some forms of pornography could be considered 'educational', or even 'art', but this was Corey's heart at work.
The heart
is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9
However, the Bible quickly debunked the world's thinking with just one scripture - Matthew 5:28.
That, along with the others, helped me to see that viewing these things does not allow me to ""put to death" the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry." Colossians 3:5
So, Corey adjusted his thinking, to what is clearly, God's thinking.
I've been putting this into practice, for a long time, and so, I know it works,
I even have seen that one can become addicted to games, to the point where one's time is wasted, and one can immerse themselves in a world where it's possible to do anything... including what one would not do in reality.
Hence, some sick minds out there, created Grand Theft Auto, Left 4 Dead 2, Manhunt 2... and the list goes on.
...and people immerse themselves, saying, "It's not just okay. It's awesome!".