Guest debate-confusion Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 isnt liking harry potter a sin? because it has to deal with witchcraft and magic??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest serrae Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Harry Potter is well written and entertaining. However it does promote witchcraft and black magic etc. I think if you bear this in mind it is not a sin to read and enjoy. Anymore than reading Grimm's fairy tales or even 'Noddy'with the goblins etc. Lets be sensible. Personally I have read Harry Potter but do find the dabbling with the occult which is celebrated in it offensive.After reading the first book I felt I could not be bothered with the subsequent series for this reason. Pray about it and then follow your own conscience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Durnan Posted June 12, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 121 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,782 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 49 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/14/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted June 12, 2005 But why be wishy-washy about Harry Potter and wizardry? Hasn't the Lord God already spoken to wizardry, sorcery, necromancy & such like in Deuteronomy 18? Seems He has. Satan can be quite a spinner, yes? http://arthurdurnan.freeyellow.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Samaritan Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Isn't Harry Potter a white magician - like Moses? The books are the usual story of good v evil - or am I talking rot again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyAngeL Posted June 12, 2005 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 23 Topic Count: 155 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7,464 Content Per Day: 1.02 Reputation: 8,810 Days Won: 57 Joined: 03/30/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/12/1952 Share Posted June 12, 2005 But why be wishy-washy about Harry Potter and wizardry? Hasn't the Lord God already spoken to wizardry, sorcery, necromancy & such like in Deuteronomy 18? Seems He has. Satan can be quite a spinner, yes? http://arthurdurnan.freeyellow.com <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Amen..This is how people get involved in things they shouldn't. Satan makes it look innocent enough but sin is insidious. Harry Potter should be avoided at all costs, I don't care how well written and entertaining it is. Christians do not need to be dabbling in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bro Davidâ„¢ Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 But why be wishy-washy about Harry Potter and wizardry? Hasn't the Lord God already spoken to wizardry, sorcery, necromancy & such like in Deuteronomy 18? Seems He has. Satan can be quite a spinner, yes? http://arthurdurnan.freeyellow.com <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Amen..This is how people get involved in things they shouldn't. Satan makes it look innocent enough but sin is insidious. Harry Potter should be avoided at all costs, I don't care how well written and entertaining it is. Christians do not need to be dabbling in this. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Amen ! Well said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bread_of_Life Posted June 12, 2005 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 22 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 872 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/17/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/24/1981 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Magic is real. No really it is. And the spells in Harry Potter are real too. I swear. Guys, if it gets to the point when the kids know it's fiction, but the adults don't, you have to start questioning the effectiveness of our education system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarletprayers Posted June 12, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 135 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7,537 Content Per Day: 1.09 Reputation: 157 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/06/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/29/1956 Share Posted June 12, 2005 I'm going to have to agree with ScientificAtheist on this one. Its pretend, its not meant to be taken as real and I've never met anyone child, or adult who thought it was, well until I came here. Are all of you going to tell me you never pretended to be a cowboy or and astronaut when you were growing up? Never played Tarzan or fought a dragon? Same thing folks, its getting children to READ and almost unbelievable feat in this day of illerate graduating classes. Worry about drugs in school, gang violence, peer pressure to have sex or drink, these things are real and what should be priorities on every "grown-ups" mind, not pretend characters from a book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithfulFollower Posted June 12, 2005 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 22 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 349 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/18/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1984 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Isn't Harry Potter a white magician - like Moses? The books are the usual story of good v evil - or am I talking rot again? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Samaritan, Moses was not a magician. Moses was a servant of God. The miracles of which he was able to perform were those of God. Although, it is true that the Harry Potter series does take on the usual plot of the battle between good and evil. At the same time, it is in its own way encouraging witchcraft. All in all, it depends on how a person would choose to look at it. May God Bless You Danielle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bread_of_Life Posted June 13, 2005 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 22 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 872 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/17/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/24/1981 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Worry about drugs in school, gang violence, peer pressure to have sex or drink Exactly, there are so many real issues we ought to worry about for our children - without devoting our time to issues that even our children know are make-believe. I like Kahlan have never met a child who believes Harry Potter to be anything else than fiction and fantasy - and before coming here I've never met an adult who thought that Harry Potter is anything else but a good moral fable for children about growing up, power and responsibility. The author doesn't believe in the magic in there, the kids don't, and the parents don't - so lets focus on real problems, like drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, ill-health etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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