And thats my point those lessons are skewed representations of how we are told to live in the scriptures, the scriptures tell us to obey our parents, harry potter tells us the opposite.
You do not need you morality dictated to you from a fictional story, from someone who does not exist.
Harry potter could care less about you , But Jesus does.
Man, I'm about to go off the deep end over here.
Harry Potter teaches us to
rebel against our parents?
READ THE BOOKS
STOP saying things about HP when you have no idea what it's about! You have no idea what is going on, the reasons for Harry's actions! He rebels not against his parents, whom he loves deeply, but against his Aunt and Uncle, who are terrible to him and I believe Harry has every right not to listen to what they tell him to do. READ THE BOOKS!
They are not
skewed representations. READ THE BOOKS
. Harry Potter teaches the value of Morality, of Loyalty, of Friendship, of Modesty, and the list goes on! ALL of which are praise-worthy virtues.
The morality lessons you are learning are deviations from Gods word, you are learning to accept teachings, that are frankly of the devil, and you are incorporating them into your own moral code. And you are doing so from a piece of fiction.
I do understand as I did so myself as I was younger., but it does not change the fact, that you know more about a fictional story, than you do about Gods word, which has the power to save your soul
They ARE NOT deviations. READ THE BOOKS. The values and moral lessons they have to teach are inspiring.
Accept teachings? What teachings am I accepting? I assume you mean the teachings of witchcraft; I then must ask how on God's green earth can you learn ANYTHING from Harry Potter? It's fake, it's not real. I have professed a multitude of times in this thread already that it hasn't swayed me towards the occult in the least, and right now I am very inclined not to believe in such things anyways. But I suppose you didn't read that, did you?
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and you are incorporating them into your own moral code"
The morals in Harry Potter are just and right, and you would know that if you would READ THE BOOKS. It;s no detriment to you, you obviously know how evil the book is, it won't sway you in the least (Ironically, in the same way it failed to sway myself).
and how much of your life is invested in the pursuit of these things?
This will likely sound weird, but I am Glad you are offended, Hopefully it will cause you to ponder the situation further. The same way that many of you believe that harry potter is harmless, if its just for fun ,and entertainment, then how is it it can bear fruit?
if it bears no fruit allegedly in the form of some of its readers becoming curious about the occult, and witchcraft, how can it by that very same notion, bear fruit for the kingdom of God?
How ca none preach the Gospel without the Gospel?
The pursuit of what things? The evil morals presented? Stop being so ignorant, READ THE BOOKS. The morals are NOT EVIL. You're offending me
has caused me to ponder further, and I have come to the same conclusion. And I have already told you how it has bore fruit for my life, it has given me an inspiring tale that I can easily relate to at points, it is a very special relationship, you could not possibly hope to understand, I grew up reading these books, each year, just waiting, discussing, speculating with others about what the next book would be like. I was terribly saddened when the last book came out, but it was bittersweet. You cannot possibly hope to understand this, but maybe you would a little if you would just read the books.
Because those men were not the author of the scriptures, God is, thats why I asked you the question in the first place, to see if You were aware of that.
Sorry, God inspired the authors of the scriptures, he didn't write them himself. By author, it is completely logical to assume you meant the individual writers. I also thought you had used the word 'authors', in the plural. It was a reading mistake on my part.
( I am glad you are able to discern that, far too many are unable) none of it, will enter heaven, zero. if that makes it boring, then What ever will you do if you Enter the kingdom of God?
I wonder this myself: Nothing in the Kingdom of God but the worship of God? Well, I suppose we haven't really been told what is in Heaven, and then God can do anything. He could make dusting interesting. But I know that it doesn't matter whatever we have in Heaven, it's described as perfect, and uninteresting isn't perfect.
or deceived.
The scriptures speak of 2 wizards in Pharaohs court who used their magic to combat the miracles of God. Do you believe that happened?
I am extremely skeptical. I mean, with a history of over 3000 years of supposed wizardry, I have no idea why I haven't seen any of it. It seems that the only book that has the occurrences in it is the Bible, and right now I don't know what to think about it, because it's unlikely and that I have known the Bible to be metaphoric at times.
and yet the knew their was a threat, and it was disregarded, in much the same way as harry potter is in this thread, with the typical "not my problem let someone else henadle it " attitude
Like I said, what could they possibly do?
I haven't seen that attitude anywhere in this thread.
Just as I assume it will take divine intervention, to cause you to lay down a book on fantasy, that does nothing for your soul, and steals away your time from reading the Word of God, which is far, far more valuable, and edifying to your spirit.
Well, thanks for not answering the question anyways.
You could say the same for ANY book that isn't about God. Millions of books do nothing for our souls, let's all just burn them?
The bible tells us that all sin is detestable by God, and shall never enter the Kingdom of heaven, it ultimately does not matter what the lost are doing, You are supposed to be a Child of God ,and we are told we will be held to greater accountably , than the lost.
Child of God? The Lost? I thought most everybody was lost? And what makes me more of God's child than anybody else? I'm not special.
Have you ever actually read any of the bible for yourself?
I hope you get the kind of zeal for God, and his kingdom, as you do for a make believe story.
You are really missing out, you have and artificial substitute for something Real.The Gospel is real, Christ is returning, all Harry potter does, is cause you to clamor for more, and to crave, and expect more magic, and occult practices.
They don't make me 'clamor and crave' for more occult practices. They make me clamor and crave for another beautifully written book that doesn't sway me to evil in the slightest. The books have done nothing but good for me.
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