television entertainment more dangerous than guns! - Page 2

good samaritan · #11 02-23-2018, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by consapente89

Recently had a young lady in our church come to me about a Christian movie that she had watched and asked if this was something that was a good alternative to the kinds of things she used to watch. I tried to be slow to answer, remembering the process that God brought me through to purge me of these things. My answer was this "I went through the same process but I found I had to move completely away from Hollywood entertainment because the "Christian and Educational" material created an appetite that took me back to the same old smut I used to watch."

If you are watching "Christian and Educational movies" now, it won't be long before you are watching television with everyone else. Mainstream Pentecost has proven this when they started allowing "monitors" for certain limited types of content. Now the majority are watching whatever floats across their screen. "Christian content" in a Hollywood style film is Satan's bait. How many Pentecostals went to the movie theatre for the first time in their lives to see the Passion of the Christ? Even more curious...how many went back later on to see something else?

We need to get back to the Old Time Pentecost and Old Time Convictions that made this movement a power house!

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Very good post.

houston · #12 02-23-2018, 02:42 PM

So because you can’t control yourself.... no one can. Ok.

good samaritan · #13 02-23-2018, 04:41 PM

Can we moderately indulge in sin. I will watch a little sex and violance, and cut it off, right.... Even the animation they put out is full of induendo's and it is regarded as comedy.

FlamingZword · #14 02-23-2018, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by good samaritan

Can we moderately indulge in sin. I will watch a little sex and violance, and cut it off, right.... Even the animation they put out is full of induendo's and it is regarded as comedy.

Please help me, I am addicted to eating coffee cookies, therefore since I can not eat those cookies in moderation, I will ban all coffee cookies and will declare it a sin for everyone else.

OK from now on anyone who eats coffee cookies is in disobedience to me and therefore you are not a true Apostolic.

Evang.Benincasa · #15 02-24-2018, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by FlamingZword

Please help me, I am addicted to eating coffee cookies, therefore since I can not eat those cookies in moderation, I will ban all coffee cookies and will declare it a sin for everyone else.

OK from now on anyone who eats coffee cookies is in disobedience to me and therefore you are not a true Apostolic.

The government does it all the time. Parents do it all the time.

Amanah · #16 02-24-2018, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

The government does it all the time. Parents do it all the time.

Hebrews 13:17 Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

good samaritan · #17 02-24-2018, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by FlamingZword

Please help me, I am addicted to eating coffee cookies, therefore since I can not eat those cookies in moderation, I will ban all coffee cookies and will declare it a sin for everyone else.

OK from now on anyone who eats coffee cookies is in disobedience to me and therefore you are not a true Apostolic.

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1 Tim. 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Food is not a very good comparison. All food is o.k. but if not in moderation it is deemed gluttony. In regards to television espeacially hollywood films, they do not represent Christian values. Open shut case. How many movies don't have some type of induendo that uses sin as comedy or entertainment. examples: homosexuality, effeminate men, masculine women, infedelity, immodesty, violence, crude humor, irreverance to God, magic, etc... If you don't notice it in the hollywood movies is probably because you have became numb to it.

No matter what we teach our children about morality, if we find entertainment in immorality we are sending mixed signals. Even TBN can be dangerous because we allow ministry to speak into our lives who have not be proven when the scripture teaches us to know them that labour among us. People don't pay near enough attention into what they are feeding their spiritual man. I am not perfect by any stretch, but I have been dealing alot with this as of lately in my own family. Not shaming anyone just food for thought.

Evang.Benincasa · #18 02-24-2018, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Amanah

Hebrews 13:17 Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

FlamingZword · #19 02-25-2018, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by good samaritan

Food is not a very good comparison. All food is o.k. but if not in moderation it is deemed gluttony. In regards to television espeacially hollywood films, they do not represent Christian values. Open shut case. How many movies don't have some type of induendo that uses sin as comedy or entertainment. examples: homosexuality, effeminate men, masculine women, infedelity, immodesty, violence, crude humor, irreverance to God, magic, etc... If you don't notice it in the hollywood movies is probably because you have became numb to it.

No matter what we teach our children about morality, if we find entertainment in immorality we are sending mixed signals. Even TBN can be dangerous because we allow ministry to speak into our lives who have not be proven when the scripture teaches us to know them that labour among us. People don't pay near enough attention into what they are feeding their spiritual man. I am not perfect by any stretch, but I have been dealing alot with this as of lately in my own family. Not shaming anyone just food for thought.

I am quite aware that Hollywood does not represent our Christian values, so I am not a defender of Hollywood, what all the time I have fought against is the blanket prohibition for all television watching.

According to the overreach of some of those preachers, you could not even go shopping to Walmart, for that place always had TVs turned on.
According to their silly logic, just one look at TV was enough to send you to hell, without passing go, without collecting 200 pesos.

Television is simply a medium just like the radio or the computer.
There is filth in Television, in radio, in magazines, in computers.

How come those preachers never preached against the radio?
How come those preachers never prohibited people from reading all magazines or books? After all there are plenty of bad magazines and bad books.
Where are the preachers preaching against the Internet which is even worse than anything on Television?

good samaritan · #20 02-25-2018, 10:23 PM

Televison is just another medium, but unlike radio and internet it is much more limited in the options for viewing. Hollywood is pretty much all it is used for. I agree with your logic though, that people should be allowed to decide and manage the use of televison. I am sure that there are people who do have strict discipline of themselves and watch only wholesome things. I just find that it is probably 1 out of 10,000. That being said I would rather a preacher preach it a little harder than not at all.