Movies and TV

[DaughterofKing]

Must I really refrain from all tv and films that have "bad" stuff in it? Is it a grey area? What about "fatal Attraction"? it is a film about adultery and has sex in it, but it really shows how ugly and dark an affair can be, so maybe it is not a bad film to watch?

[mikado5001]

Thank you DaughterofKing!!! Thank you for starting a topic very close to my heart. I encourage you to excercise discernment. For me, baring pornography, there is NO HARM in watching a movie once. If you are smart enough to just watch, and not act on it. ie. Just because Freddy Kruger kills people. That does not mean you should too, ok? THANK G_D I have always, ALWAYS, found a redeeming quality of one form or another in the movies I have watched. Like Philipians Chapter 4 Verse 8, contained in my signature. I always try to focus on the good stuff.

I know someone who NEVER watches an 'R' rated movie. She never even watched Passion of the Christ. And she is a Christian like myself. She has my admiration on the fact she did not bow to peer-pressure. But there is far worse stuff in some of the 'PG' and 'PG-13's out there.

Personally I never saw Fatal Attraction. But your description is accurate.

I would encourage you to see a movie. Any movie, and ask G-d to send the HOLY SPIRIT to show you the positive things that you can take away from a film. I did this with the deservedly 'R' rated "SIN CITY". And I loved the movie. I also took away lessons about love, honor, faithfulness, integrity, and some other great lessons.

[Leonard]

Views vary among Christians, however in my experience we tend to become the images with which we choose to fill our minds....whether we like them, or whether we hate them.

For many years before Jimmy Swaggert took his tumble, I was fearful for him. He was hailed as a great preacher (and truly he is). But he railed a great deal against sexual immorality. So much so, that I realized--even though he hated them--he was filling his thought life with this stuff, and I knew it would come back to haunt him.

So.....questionable movies? Just be careful.

[RGR]

For years I was a great fan of the old soap Dallas being old enough to catch the later episodes and have the benefit of watching the older ones in reruns. For some reason I simply cannot watch it now; I don't know why but something within me stops me from watching it. I will watch things sometimes with mild language in them but you have to be careful; what you entertain in your mind can be a stumbling block for the enemy to use. If you're overly bothered by offensive language, you can buy a TV Guardian which hooks up between your satellite/cable and TV. It will block out most offensive words and use of God's name in vain. Even some of the cheaper VCR's at Wal-Mart (Panasonic brand is one) have TVG for tapes that you rent or record and works the same exact way except it will not block programming that is being played live and not on tape.

[AFaceInTheCrowd]

One of my favorite Christian radio stations plays a commercial about how our minds are like a camera.Our mind takes pictures of what it sees.It says for us to be careful where we point the lens Some images that we store up won't be forgotten....if we have a problem with temptations or lust we shouldn't watch certain t.v shows or movies.I don't like t.v anymore because of the filth it shows.I know some will say,"turn the station",but sometimes satan rears his ugly head..he gets you when you are flipping the channels.You find yourself "glancing"at certain forbidden things and before you know it you have watched the whole entire show.

[Gerioke]

TV rots your brain, plain and simple.

[Guest NewPilgrim]

Brain?

[Scarletprayers]

I usually watch the Food channel or National Geographic Channel, Learning Channel, Animal Planet, A & E, History Channel and Home & Garden Channel. I just hate it toward the end of the month because by then I've usually watched everything!

[jamie]

Must I really refrain from all tv and films that have "bad" stuff in it? Is it a grey area? What about "fatal Attraction"? it is a film about ery and has in it, but it really shows how ugly and dark an affair can be, so maybe it is not a bad film to watch?

Watching a movie like fatal attraction for the purpose of educating ones self about the cons of adultry is kinda like passing out condoms and hoping kids will make the 'right decision'.

The word of God already tells us what we need to know about the affects of sin, and our conscience confirms it, so we are without excuse.

[DaughterofKing]

alright never mind fatal attraction, but then there are films like office space, funny comedies that seem innocent enough but that none the less suggest a lot of bad things. i mean, am i to refrain from these films and tv shows? Last night i was watching a show about a gay kid who returns home to help his newly divorced family and his crazy mom and his adulterer dad who is having a new baby with his mistress. I mean obviously there is a lot of sin there. But it is a comedy. And it is funny. so i mean, i dont think that I will go out and become gay or anything because of watchng this show. And I think the show makes it clear that this is a crazy family. Its not like the show is saying, this is normal! I dont know...