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Christian, do you have a television in your home?

You do? Why?

If Jesus came back tonight, do you think He would be happy to find His army staring glassy-eyed at some flesh-pleasing trash being pumped out of Hollywood into the minds of His soldiers?

Have you ever stopped to think about that thing that you stare at night after night, day after day, year after year?

Did you spend more time on your television today than you did on your knees or reading your Bible?

You did? Why?

Do you allow your children to sit hour after hour, day after day, year after year in front of a boob tube?

Why?

Would you invite Satan to come into your home, sit down in your living room, talk, tell jokes, show evil pictures for hour after hour to your wife and children? Would you invite a sex pervert into your living room to brag to your family about his or her "alternate lifestyle"? Would you let a drug-pusher come into your home and give everyone in your household a drug that would dull their mind, make you forget God, make you feel nice and happy and stupid, day after day, year after year?

Isn't that what many Christians do [by watching mindless television]? Are you one of them?

If statistics are true (and every one knows they lie), then 97% of American homes have a television in them. Have you wondered why that is so? Does your preacher ever mention it?

I wonder why not.

What does God say about it?

In the second epistle of John, verses 9-11, we read:

9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

The Word of God tells us to not invite someone into our house who abideth not in the doctrine of Christ.

Do the people on your tv screen abide in the doctrine of Christ?

Do you think that those actors and producers out in Hollywood love the Lord and abide in His doctrines? Maybe you think so. I don't. Friend, you don't have to be in Hollywood long to realize what kind of a place it is. I lived there once years ago, and I don't think it has probably changed much. It's not the kind of environment you want to bring into your living room everyday. In fact, those Hollywood people who pump out their programs into your household hate the Lord and despise His doctrines and blasphemously mock Him. Should ANYONE give ear to their programs? Millions do -- Christians among them! Why is this?

Do you think that the sponsors of television programs tell you the truth in their advertising? You don't? Then why do you sit there listening to LIES?

The Law of God tells us that we should not covet. Now what do you suppose is the purpose of ALL advertising you see on tv? Is it to encourage you to a simpler lifestyle? Is it to make you content with the things that God has blessed you with? Does it make you want to sell ALL and follow the Lord with a whole heart?

Remember the sin of Achan. He brought destruction on his entire household by coveting a goodly Babylonish garment (Joshua 7:21).

Psalm 101:3 says:
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Is your tv a "good thing"? Do you think that if the Lord Jesus were here on earth today, He would sit and watch the things you watch?

In 2 Corinthians 6:17, the Bible says:
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you...

Friend, are you being separate when you sit in front of your tv? Do you think that the shows you watch on tv are "clean" by any Biblical definition?

Walk down your street sometime at twilight. Look at the houses you see along the way. What is that glowing thing in the living room of house after house of Christian and non-Christian alike? Who are these zombies transfixed by staring into its flickering glare?

"Well, what about Christian programming?" I hear you say.

Well, what about it? Is it really Christian? Is it necessary? Is it for you?

"Well, I know someone who was saved by watching a Christian program." Well, fine. Now that they're saved, there's no reason to go on watching it, right? The Lord has better things for them to do from that point on than to sit and gape stupidly at their television set any more.

"Well, what about the news? How am I supposed to know what's going on in the world if I don't watch the 6 o'clock news?" you say.

Friend, do you really think that the 20 minutes of non-advertisement time in the 6 o'clock news is pure and objective? Are the values of CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC YOUR values? Do they honor God? It seems to me that these networks, in their news presentations, are among those who call evil good, and good, evil. They are very powerful in shaping people's attitudes, Christians and non-Christians alike. You need to be very wise to withstand them. There have been dramatic changes in people's attitudes toward sin in the past few decades. A lot of this has come from constantly breathing the poisonous atmosphere of television.

Friend, God tells us in His Book, that we should "redeem the time." I think that has a special application to this time in which we live and our television watching. Get into your King James Bible, get down on your knees in prayer, lift up your hands in Holy praise, don't waste your time and the Lord's time glued hour after hour to your tv.

...Television is like any addiction -- once you go for a few weeks without watching it, you'll soon forget all about it -- it's really the easiest of all addictions to break, which is all the more remarkable considering how many people are snared by it.

Friend, I ask you to examine your attitude toward tv watching. Go to the Lord and ask Him what you should do about it. Listen carefully to His answer, and then if He tells you to unplug it and hide it in your closet, then DO IT! If He tells you to take it out to the dumpster, then DO IT! If He tells you to warn your friends and co-workers and fellow-church members about it, then DO IT, but not until you have resolved this important issue in your own life first.

God wants us to lead pure and holy lives. "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." (I Timothy 6:11.)

And may the Lord richly bless you

A TV (with a digital streaming channel service) is just a tool or device to access the content you desire like a computer is a tool or device to access the content you desire. The content you choose is up to you. It can either be good or bad. Today, there are actually a good number of Christian films.

Here is a list of my top favorite rewatchable Christian films:
What Christian Movies Do You Find To Be The Most Rewatchable?

I also do not see the harm in watching most nature documentaries, either. But yeah, about 99.9% of secular fiction films and TV shows are really bad because they push sinful things within them. This is not a problem for many Christians because they think the sins are not really real because it is just fantasy. But one cannot change the nature of sin. No film creator can change the reality of sin.
 
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I don't watch what used to be conventional TV anyway or even a lot of the junk they have today. Mostly just movies, and as long as we're mature enough to know they won't cause us to sin, I think a bit of inexpensive entertainment is just fine with Christ.

There are stories in the bible with a lot worse content than on TV, and much of TV, is, after all, no more than a story.

Romans 1:29-32
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

We are called to do better.
 
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Romans 1:29-32
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

We are called to do better.

I think you may have a misconception of what being filled with those things means. Is that what happens to you, and if so, you may want to try a little restraint, or stay away from TV, the net, or whatever.

Some people are easily tempted, and some are not.
 
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A TV (with a digital streaming channel service) is just a tool or device to access the content you desire like a computer is a tool or device to access the content you desire. The content you choose is up to you. It can either be good or bad. Today, there are actually a good number of Christian films.

Here is a list of my top favorite rewatchable Christian films:
What Christian Movies Do You Find To Be The Most Rewatchable?

I also do not see the harm in watching most nature documentaries, either. But yeah, about 99.9% of secular fiction films and TV shows are really bad because they push sinful things within them. This is not a problem for many Christians because they think the sins are not really real because it is just fantasy. But one cannot change the nature of sin. No film creator can change the reality of sin.

This is true, we have to be very selective and careful what we view.

I also do not see the harm in watching most nature documentaries, either.

I loved watching nature documentaries also, until i kept hearing billion of years old and no mention of the Creator. I kept trying to skip over it or ignore it but i couldn't any longer. I rather be without it then to hear them not give the Lord his due. Although i have found a documentary about nature and our world by searching fpr "Jesus is creator" in the YouTube search box.
 
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I think you may have a misconception of what being filled with those things means. Is that what happens to you, and if so, you may want to try a little restraint, or stay away from TV, the net, or whatever.

Some people are easily tempted, and some are not.

If you watch people commit sins, how are you any better then them?
 
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I recently found that website too brother. I was really blessed by it! I learned about the superiority of the KJV as a complete translation on that site. I also learned some other ways Satan is sneaking into this world of his.

I realize that the website comes across as uncompromising... and it is. The views can seem a bit extreme. That said, I haven't found any teaching that's wrong. And just to give a little perspective, the site keeper has articles about family-centered entertainment, etc. They're not saying to go around chasing down people with our Bibles, etc... or anything extreme at all. They're saying to practice wisdom and discernment in a world run by a crafty old pervert.

This article has been really helpful for me in cultivating a deep inner relationship with God, specifically this quote:
All is well at home in the inner life where there is me and God and his word.

So, back to TV. I think we all work out our salvation with God. I wouldn't pull the speck out of your eye, that's for sure. I'm happily widdling away at my plank.

Part of what I personally do, not even because of being a Christian but because of having limited income, is have no TV. We have Internet. We use YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Netflix. There are no commercials (you can skip them or get an ad blocker). YOU choose the content! That's the beauty.

It takes a lot of wisdom and discernment when it comes to all media. The thing is that I don't think TV is inherently evil. Neither are cars, money, phones, or jobs. But they can all become idols. OR... Slowly, insidiously distract us from the work of the Kingdom. Now that's the enemy's style, wouldn't you say?

So let's remember what the Lord Jesus said to the church of Laodicea lest He spit US out of His blessed mouth. Revelation 3:14-22
 
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I agree with everything written

Christian, do you have a television in your home?

You do? Why?

If Jesus came back tonight, do you think He would be happy to find His army staring glassy-eyed at some flesh-pleasing trash being pumped out of Hollywood into the minds of His soldiers?

Have you ever stopped to think about that thing that you stare at night after night, day after day, year after year?

Did you spend more time on your television today than you did on your knees or reading your Bible?

You did? Why?

Do you allow your children to sit hour after hour, day after day, year after year in front of a boob tube?

Why?

Would you invite Satan to come into your home, sit down in your living room, talk, tell jokes, show evil pictures for hour after hour to your wife and children? Would you invite a sex pervert into your living room to brag to your family about his or her "alternate lifestyle"? Would you let a drug-pusher come into your home and give everyone in your household a drug that would dull their mind, make you forget God, make you feel nice and happy and stupid, day after day, year after year?

Isn't that what many Christians do [by watching mindless television]? Are you one of them?

If statistics are true (and every one knows they lie), then 97% of American homes have a television in them. Have you wondered why that is so? Does your preacher ever mention it?

I wonder why not.

What does God say about it?

In the second epistle of John, verses 9-11, we read:

9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

The Word of God tells us to not invite someone into our house who abideth not in the doctrine of Christ.

Do the people on your tv screen abide in the doctrine of Christ?

Do you think that those actors and producers out in Hollywood love the Lord and abide in His doctrines? Maybe you think so. I don't. Friend, you don't have to be in Hollywood long to realize what kind of a place it is. I lived there once years ago, and I don't think it has probably changed much. It's not the kind of environment you want to bring into your living room everyday. In fact, those Hollywood people who pump out their programs into your household hate the Lord and despise His doctrines and blasphemously mock Him. Should ANYONE give ear to their programs? Millions do -- Christians among them! Why is this?

Do you think that the sponsors of television programs tell you the truth in their advertising? You don't? Then why do you sit there listening to LIES?

The Law of God tells us that we should not covet. Now what do you suppose is the purpose of ALL advertising you see on tv? Is it to encourage you to a simpler lifestyle? Is it to make you content with the things that God has blessed you with? Does it make you want to sell ALL and follow the Lord with a whole heart?

Remember the sin of Achan. He brought destruction on his entire household by coveting a goodly Babylonish garment (Joshua 7:21).

Psalm 101:3 says:
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Is your tv a "good thing"? Do you think that if the Lord Jesus were here on earth today, He would sit and watch the things you watch?

In 2 Corinthians 6:17, the Bible says:
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you...

Friend, are you being separate when you sit in front of your tv? Do you think that the shows you watch on tv are "clean" by any Biblical definition?

Walk down your street sometime at twilight. Look at the houses you see along the way. What is that glowing thing in the living room of house after house of Christian and non-Christian alike? Who are these zombies transfixed by staring into its flickering glare?

"Well, what about Christian programming?" I hear you say.

Well, what about it? Is it really Christian? Is it necessary? Is it for you?

"Well, I know someone who was saved by watching a Christian program." Well, fine. Now that they're saved, there's no reason to go on watching it, right? The Lord has better things for them to do from that point on than to sit and gape stupidly at their television set any more.

"Well, what about the news? How am I supposed to know what's going on in the world if I don't watch the 6 o'clock news?" you say.

Friend, do you really think that the 20 minutes of non-advertisement time in the 6 o'clock news is pure and objective? Are the values of CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC YOUR values? Do they honor God? It seems to me that these networks, in their news presentations, are among those who call evil good, and good, evil. They are very powerful in shaping people's attitudes, Christians and non-Christians alike. You need to be very wise to withstand them. There have been dramatic changes in people's attitudes toward sin in the past few decades. A lot of this has come from constantly breathing the poisonous atmosphere of television.

Friend, God tells us in His Book, that we should "redeem the time." I think that has a special application to this time in which we live and our television watching. Get into your King James Bible, get down on your knees in prayer, lift up your hands in Holy praise, don't waste your time and the Lord's time glued hour after hour to your tv.

...Television is like any addiction -- once you go for a few weeks without watching it, you'll soon forget all about it -- it's really the easiest of all addictions to break, which is all the more remarkable considering how many people are snared by it.

Friend, I ask you to examine your attitude toward tv watching. Go to the Lord and ask Him what you should do about it. Listen carefully to His answer, and then if He tells you to unplug it and hide it in your closet, then DO IT! If He tells you to take it out to the dumpster, then DO IT! If He tells you to warn your friends and co-workers and fellow-church members about it, then DO IT, but not until you have resolved this important issue in your own life first.

God wants us to lead pure and holy lives. "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." (I Timothy 6:11.)

And may the Lord richly bless you


Wow!!!!!

This is reminding me of another discussion that we have going....... that give something of an alternative to TV and explain how dangerous it really can be.


The Call by Pastor Rick Joyner?
 
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If you watch people commit sins, how are you any better then them?

Because I'm not sinning?

That's just a weird question to me. OK, let's try this, If you read about people commiting sins in the bible, how are you any better then them?
 
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This is true, we have to be very selective and careful what we view.



I loved watching nature documentaries also, until i kept hearing billion of years old and no mention of the Creator. I kept trying to skip over it or ignore it but i couldn't any longer. I rather be without it then to hear them not give the Lord his due. Although i have found a documentary about nature and our world by searching fpr "Jesus is creator" in the YouTube search box.

Answers in Genesis via Pureflix is one option for biblical Science documentaries. Also, not all documentaries push the whole billions of years agenda. In either case, such a thing is just false info that one can filter out or fast forward through. But again, there are a lot of Christian movies out there that are worth catching. So burning your TV is not the only option unless it makes you to stumble or your family to stumble.
 
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I don't watch it, i love the Lord to much to fill my thoughts with anymore of the filth the world has to offer. But you my friend have a good rest of the day.

So now that you no longer watch TV, you must be a much more righteous person, with far less sin in your life, and much closer to God. Yes? How would you rate how sinful you were when you watched television compared to now that you don't watch television?

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Because I'm not sinning?

That's just a weird question to me. OK, let's try this, If you read about people commiting sins in the bible, how are you any better then them?

The overall theme of the Bible is that it condemns sin. Many times we see those who sin as being punished. Other times there are moral lessons going on by God’s people when bad guys are sinning. Watching sinful secular movies pushes sin upon you with no correction of that sin. It would be like watching inappropriate content and saying it would not effect you. The same is true if we watch secular fiction that pushes sinful worldly ideas, and particular sins. Try taking notes on how many times a person sins in the next secular movie you watch. Just watch it to record the sins that they are doing and ask yourself if this is the kind of thing you want to dwell on in your life. We are told to focus on that which is good and not evil. God’s Word is holy and so when it records bad things it is as a warning to us. Sinful movies do not later correct their own sinful agenda. Therein lies the difference.
 
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a television is simply a tool, neither good or evil. Same with the a computer. You can choose what you watch on either and much is very good and uplifting. Other things are not but that is not the machine's fault. I don't even have proper TV, I watch DVDs and Blu-Rays
 
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Careful is all I will say. I've heard the TV argument many times from Christians and it's usually extremely legalistic.

TV in and of itself is not wrong at all. If you say we have to throw TV out altogether, that means you have to throw out entertaining books, plays, types of people you might hang out with, lots of other things.

It isn't the TV itself, it's the content that can be a problem.

Even then, we must remember not to be legalistic, Christ says EVERYTHING we do should be edifying to Him.

However, edifying shouldn't be legalistic in any way shape or form. It's about your heart, there are TV shows that have some cuss words but are far more edifying than say a TV show that's perfectly clean but burns brain cells. LOL

And, edification isn't just entertainment that is made by Christians. Worldly entertainment can be just as edifying (of course I do not mean areas of entertainment that praise sinful lifestyles), because everything brings Glory to God. He created this entire world, and the world has to except His good and natural laws in some way shape or form because it's all that exists.

The best TV arguments I've found are those from Christians who have a TV addiction problem. Which is exactly where cutting off TV completely is a good thing. For example, I watch a lot of the Marvel MCU films (some I don't like Doctor Strange but most I watch) and I believe it's okay to do so because I'm not addicted to these films. I'm not going to say everything in all these movies is okay or biblical, of course not. But there is great edification when you have pure good fighting pure evil, and when these movies show human weakness.

Of course, the hardest part with entertainment is the line itself. Where do you draw the line. Movies that completely praise sinful lifestyles and desires should not be watched. However, if a movie has a great story, with edifying parts everywhere, but has say a few cuss words and one romantic scene in it. Is it a sin to watch if you block yourself from those specific scenes?

That is where the grey area is, and I suggest you pray to God regarding issues like this. There is no exactly line that we all can use in the bible. Just remember it's about your heart, if you find yourself thinking about the sinful scenes pretty often and can't get them out of your mind, then it's probably a good idea to turn that TV show off. As an example.
 
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I like YouTube because you can be very selective about what you watch ... I pay a little so I see no ads. Currently I am watching The Barchester Chronicles, a British tv series based on the classic novels of Anthony Trollop. There are a lot of wonderful music videos too - I especially enjoy the singing of the Gaithers & friends.

The news can be depressing unless you see the plan of God unfolding in the events ... much of what is happening today is prophecy coming to pass.
 
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This is one of those loaded questions where the poster often doesn't think of what this leads to. For example why are you online? The internet is full of evil God would not want you supporting the internet. By paying for it you are contributing to it. Do you own a phone? Clothes? Car? Home? So many of these things are made by abused poor people in 3rd world countries. Would God want you to support that?

Do you own a bible? Why? Would God be ok with endless amounts of trees being chopped down just to make a book? Or if you really wanted get deep, what does God think of your divorce?

My point being tv is not a sin. What is a sin is turning it into an idol. If you skip church because the night before was some movie you wanted to watch until 1am, perhaps tv has become an idol.

Now if we are talking the semantics of "What would Jesus do?", He would not be on this forum or using technology at all.

I always say for those 100% against tv, if you want to be true to Jesus, you need to move to a cave with nothing. Not even clothes or food. No tools. No tech. No tent. No bucket...etc. Because living in a cave and living off the land is the ONLY way to even be close what Jesus would approve of given you would avoid the world entirely.

However there is even one flaw with that. Salvation. How can we spread the Word if we live in a cave and don't interact with anyone?

None of this is to say we should just watch any tv "just because". We should have boundaries. No shows with the occult, nothing with a ton of swearing, nudity, gore...etc. Maybe that won't leave much but its safe(ish). I also believe the Holy Spirit will let you know if you are doing something you shouldn't. Though those who are luke warm probably don't notice what the Holy Spirit is saying because they may not truly believe in their heart and hence the voice is just a bunch of background noise.
 
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