Popular Post Jostler Posted September 4, 2019 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 25 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,679 Content Per Day: 1.39 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 16 Joined: 01/19/2019 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) The Harry Potter series is far from harmless. Those who claim there is no connection to real witchcraft do not realize what those stories were designed to do to the minds and imaginations of our children. I think if more understood the roles of imagination, symbolism, incantation and potions in real witchcraft they might not be quite so cavalier and accepting. Quote Deu 18:9-12 ¶ “When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to IMITATE the detestable things of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you. IMO it's not ok...not at all. Edited September 4, 2019 by Jostler 2 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted September 4, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.81 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted September 4, 2019 Still no one has answered my question. What is Harry Potter. Harry Potter, fictional character, a boy wizard created by British author J.K. Rowling. His coming-of-age exploits were the subject of seven ... Ok so Harry Potter is a wizard. What is a wizard? A boy witch. What does the Bible say about witchcraft? Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted September 4, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.81 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted September 4, 2019 8 hours ago, Deborah_ said: I read all the books as they came out and loved them. The 'witchcraft' in them is nothing like real witchcraft; it's pure fantasy. It's like a parallel universe, where the problems that we have can be looked at from a different angle, which can be quite enlightening. Good and evil are clearly defined, and the many different forms that evil can take are dramatised. And what leads to the happy ending is not some dark or even 'light' magic, but the good old-fashioned virtues of love, courage, loyalty and teamwork - and even faith! I've seen some of the films, and they aren't as good - darker and less thoughtful. Film directors these days do seem to enjoy their special effects so much, the storyline often suffers. When it comes to the other spin-offs, I have nothing to do with them. It's the witchcraft side that gets commercialised (no surprises there), and there are no redeeming features to it. Life is full of choices. God does give us free will. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heybro Posted September 4, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 19 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,360 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 2,139 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) In my own opinion MM, "what is Harry Potter?" My thoughts are nothing more than satans' attempt to swing people away from any thoughts about christianity. Keep them seduced to the "dark side" intrigued by what they see and read. It's made the author J.H.Rawlings a multi millionaire, something she really doesn't care about either. "Just keep people being deceived, that's his mindset." Just saying, God bless. Edited September 5, 2019 by Heybro spelling?gender mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah_ Posted September 4, 2019 Group: Senior Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 790 Content Per Day: 0.25 Reputation: 878 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/07/2015 Status: Offline Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) It's interesting that the English are more positive about the Harry Potter stories than the Americans. Even more interesting that when it comes to Halloween (also with occult associations) it tends to be the other way round. Is there a subtle culture difference here? And bearing in mind that J K Rowling is English, are we likely to understand her better on this side of the Atlantic? Edited September 4, 2019 by Deborah_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauJangles Posted September 4, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 44 Topic Count: 229 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 10,900 Content Per Day: 2.93 Reputation: 12,145 Days Won: 68 Joined: 02/13/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1954 Share Posted September 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Deborah_ said: It's interesting that the English are more positive about the Harry Potter stories than the Americans. Perhaps a little patriotism is the reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauJangles Posted September 4, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 44 Topic Count: 229 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 10,900 Content Per Day: 2.93 Reputation: 12,145 Days Won: 68 Joined: 02/13/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1954 Share Posted September 4, 2019 15 minutes ago, maryjayne said: I wonder what they make of the Narnia series? Too easy. C.S. Lewis was a Christian. So, all his books are highly respected, and on a global scale. Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry_iain Posted September 4, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 39 Topic Count: 34 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 24,647 Content Per Day: 5.76 Reputation: 20,353 Days Won: 160 Joined: 08/05/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/30/1985 Share Posted September 4, 2019 I used to be set against Harry Potter because of what I was told about it, but once I watched and read it for myself I changed my mind. To me it's pure fantasy of a similar kind as Lord of the Rings and Narnia and some fairy tales. It really is a personal choice. To be honest, I think it is well written but not not as good as its popularity implies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauJangles Posted September 4, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 44 Topic Count: 229 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 10,900 Content Per Day: 2.93 Reputation: 12,145 Days Won: 68 Joined: 02/13/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1954 Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, maryjayne said: It is a fantasy setting to appeal to readers. There are no satanic rites or anything like that. Yes, they appeal to readers, and especially for young readers with good comprehension skills. The only problem I see, is the youth of today are so extremely impressionable. That also makes them more vulnerable as well. So, things that involve witchcraft of any sort, can and do lead towards a negative aspect. Too easy to fall prey into the clutches of the occult. Sorry, no-go on Potter. Edited September 4, 2019 by BeauJangles 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Frances Posted September 4, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 38 Topic Count: 365 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 8,700 Content Per Day: 3.92 Reputation: 10,045 Days Won: 64 Joined: 03/27/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted September 4, 2019 3 hours ago, BeauJangles said: Too easy. C.S. Lewis was a Christian. So, all his books are highly respected, and on a global scale. Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis I think Harry Potter is not good. Especially as it tries to show some witches and the like as good. That is truly a lie and bad for children. I struggle with this about C.S. Lewis as I so very much like most of his other books. I think he at least shows witches as evil. yet I have seen the movies. I am an adult and not a child so there is a difference and I am a christian so not influenced in the same way as an unbeliever or a child would be. This is very bad for children it is not good. Withcraft is evil why put a happy face on it and call it ok? If I could go back in time I would not watch the movies because the Lord says it's evil. Leviticus 19:31 New International Version (NIV) 31 “‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. But tthe magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt. 15 eOutside are fthe dogs gand sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. Rev. 22:15 ********************************* But the man who has doubts (misgivings, an uneasy conscience) about eating, and then eats [perhaps because of you], stands condemned [before God], because he is not true to his convictions and he does not act from faith. For whatever does not originate and proceed from faith is sin [whatever is done without a conviction of its approval by God is sinful]. Romans 14:23. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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