How Does The Harry Potter Craze Fit Into The Last Days?

July 27, 2007

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainme...gallery?index=4

Look at photos #4, #6 and #14. And notice all the children dresses as witches.

...and people call me nuts

July 27, 2007

There is no such thing as witchcraft! Devil worshippers, yes. But those who think they have 'transcended the astral plane' or flown about on a broom, or that they can cast spells are two bricks shy of a full load. This IS 2007; this sounds like about 400 years ago. Weren't any witches then either, folks. The Harry Potter books are fiction......not a good topic, for sure, but still fiction. I don't believe these books are manuals for learning witchcraft. "Magic" doesn't exist. Some people see witches and goblins behind every bush and stump.

Well if you believe this way ...then you can't think too much of the WOG...and what it says about witches and witchcraft! ... that's cool by me...so why hang out on a Christian Discussion Board?...just asking

I'm here because I'm a Christian, thank you very much, but not one who's suffering from paranoia. I don't need your approval to be here, btw. Do NOT presume to judge me or my faith; in doing so you are totally out of line, st whatever.

No need to get in a snit...I said I was Just asking...So why does one... who doesn't mind the promulgation of witchcraft... then call themselves Christian?...Seeing that the WOG says we are to hate witchcraft? ...Don't bust a vessel... this is a discussion board...BTW: Which one of my words "judged" you? I must of skipped that one

July 27, 2007

So am I to assume StElswhere, that you don't approve of the Harry Potter books? Please, don't hide your feelings about it, come right out and tell us!

I'd say, they are not warm-n-fuzzy, nor would/could they be copared to a Thomas Kinkade painting.

And in answer to your first question. . . They do not fit into the last days any more than any other movie or book does. People's hearts will be the deciding factor in the last days and instead of worrying about all of America we should learn to concentrate on ourselves and our families. Missions begins in the home and back yard. The end times will happen when and in the manner that is suited to God and not man. We can not stop or forstall it, any more than we can hurry it along. Nor can we change the judgement that will be awarded to all who do not follow God.

I would love to know how many people here trick or treated as little kids. I did. Didn't change a thing about me. Except for enhancing my love for candy!

July 27, 2007

As my teens (non-HP'ers) were watching all the hype on the news about it, I told them to read this chapter of the Bible to understand how God feels about these things within a nation:

Isaiah 47

1 "Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate. 2 Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams. 3 Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one." 4 Our Redeemer--the Lord Almighty is his name-- is the Holy One of Israel. 5 "Sit in silence, go into darkness, Daughter of the Babylonians; no more will you be called queen of kingdoms. 6 I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.

7 You said, 'I will continue forever-- the eternal queen!' But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen. 8 "Now then, listen, you wanton creature, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.' 9 Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells. 10 You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me.' 11 Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you. 12 "Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror. 13 All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. 14 Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. Here are no coals to warm anyone; here is no fire to sit by. 15 That is all they can do for you-- these you have labored with and trafficked with since childhood. Each of them goes on in his error; there is not one that can save you.

In His Truth,

Suzanne

i disagree. tsth sorry

Patricia, You disagree with the Bible?

Scarletprayers · July 27, 2007

There is no such thing as witchcraft! Devil worshippers, yes. But those who think they have 'transcended the astral plane' or flown about on a broom, or that they can cast spells are two bricks shy of a full load. This IS 2007; this sounds like about 400 years ago. Weren't any witches then either, folks. The Harry Potter books are fiction......not a good topic, for sure, but still fiction. I don't believe these books are manuals for learning witchcraft. "Magic" doesn't exist. Some people see witches and goblins behind every bush and stump.

Well if you believe this way ...then you can't think too much of the WOG...and what it says about witches and witchcraft! ... that's cool by me...so why hang out on a Christian Discussion Board?...just asking

I'm here because I'm a Christian, thank you very much, but not one who's suffering from paranoia. I don't need your approval to be here, btw. Do NOT presume to judge me or my faith; in doing so you are totally out of line, st whatever.

No need to get in a snit...I said I was Just asking...So why does one... who doesn't mind the promulgation of witchcraft... then call themselves Christian?...Seeing that the WOG says we are to hate witchcraft? ...Don't bust a vessel... this is a discussion board...BTW: Which one of my words "judged" you? I must of skipped that one

Why does one who baits and insults people call themselves a Christian???? There didn't want to get left out on the emote festival.

July 27, 2007

There is no such thing as witchcraft! Devil worshippers, yes. But those who think they have 'transcended the astral plane' or flown about on a broom, or that they can cast spells are two bricks shy of a full load. This IS 2007; this sounds like about 400 years ago. Weren't any witches then either, folks. The Harry Potter books are fiction......not a good topic, for sure, but still fiction. I don't believe these books are manuals for learning witchcraft. "Magic" doesn't exist. Some people see witches and goblins behind every bush and stump.

Well if you believe this way ...then you can't think too much of the WOG...and what it says about witches and witchcraft! ... that's cool by me...so why hang out on a Christian Discussion Board?...just asking

I'm here because I'm a Christian, thank you very much, but not one who's suffering from paranoia. I don't need your approval to be here, btw. Do NOT presume to judge me or my faith; in doing so you are totally out of line, st whatever.

No need to get in a snit...I said I was Just asking...So why does one... who doesn't mind the promulgation of witchcraft... then call themselves Christian?...Seeing that the WOG says we are to hate witchcraft? ...Don't bust a vessel... this is a discussion board...BTW: Which one of my words "judged" you? I must of skipped that one

Why does one who baits and insults people call themselves a Christian???? There didn't want to get left out on the emote festival.

Quite right Scarlet.

St.Elswhere. your posts were very judgemental toward glory2000. You can not judge her Christianity simply by what you assume she does or does not read or promote. I think you should apologize.

The kind of magic seen on television and movies does not exist. People can not freeze time, astroal project, move things with their minds, get flash backs or flash forwards by touching an object/person, make things levitate, levitate themselves, disapear or become invisible. One can not change one's self into another life form, or back from one, nor can one change their appearance simply by wanting it [that takes a team of people!]. Oh, yeah and car's don't fly unless you are the Dukes of Hazard. Did I leave anything out?

Just curious, did you choose your name, StElswhere from the 1982 pop hit tv show of the same name?

Marnie · July 27, 2007

Harry Potter. A fictional character. In a fictional world. Can't Christians get in a tizzy about real issues and leave make believe where it belongs? Honestly, thing things we get wound up about!

July 27, 2007

Listen: As a man thinketh so is he...you instill in your children ...if you have any...all the satanic witchcraft you want to...when you sow to the wind ...you will reap the whirlwind... You read to words of someone who knows first hand...and you still say it is fictitious...the story maybe...but not the reality and power of the occult.

Therefore you believe a witch can influence anyone he or she wishes from out of sight. I'm asking you to think, do you think a witch hidden from you can cast a magic spell that will influence everything he or she wishes for you to do without you ever knowing?

You just don't get it...it is not about fearing what a witch can do...they have no power against a child of the True and Living God... it is about staying away from what the LORD say to stay away from... if He wanted us to cavort with people who delve into "crafts" ... He wouldn't have been so adamant against it:

2Ch 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

It's about not provoking God

Emily~Anne · July 27, 2007

St.Elsewhere, I pm'ed you about misunderstandings, and I noticed you always sign with a ---> I am wondering if this is basically your signature? That's ok, except in a debate, and especially when you are questioning someone's Christianity, it comes across as very non chalant and 'cool' in a very rude way.

July 27, 2007

St.Elsewhere, I pm'ed you about misunderstandings, and I noticed you always sign with a ---> I am wondering if this is basically your signature? That's ok, except in a debate, and especially when you are questioning someone's Christianity, it comes across as very non chalant and 'cool' in a very rude way.

Now I'm criticized for and EMOTICON ... well it's just who I am...Deal with it.... Boy this is taking intolerance to a whole 'nother level... Now there is PC for emoticons