[CS-FSLUG] OT: Potter, Halloween and Philipians 4:8

[Eduardo Sanchez]

David: 

I suggest you read the Pauline suggestion in 1 Thessalonians 5:21. This 
includes Potter books and films, too.

I don't want to dwell much on this thread, but I would like to suggest 
that you can get far worse material in fairy tales and ancient 
literature.

Anyway, that's just my opinion. I would hesitate a lot before putting a 
burden, or a stepping stone, on my fellow brethren.

Blessings,


Eduardo


On Friday 03 March 2006 18.55, David Colburn wrote:
> Dear fellow list members,
>
> I have to say that I am very saddened by much of
> what I have read here.
>
> The Prince of this world is quite pleased with
> the way he has succeeded in driving Christian
> influence in society underground and is particularly
> pleased with the assistance he has received from
> self-identified Christians.
>
> As I mentioned I do not have myself nor my children
> in anything rationally defined as an isolated bubble.
> I do trust that Jesus wasn't wasting His precious
> time when he insisted that Peter feed and protect
> His children.
>
> I understand that "children" referred to literal
> and rhetorical (baby believers).  The term was
> used for the same reason, vulnerability to deception.
>
> This is the same as "family" which Jesus defined as
> "Those who hear the Word and obey it".
>
> Children are children for identifiable and measurable
> reasons.  Key to that description is their lack of
> capacity to filter good from evil, especially when
> it is cleverly packaged to deceive.
>
> The best "propaganda" is that which is mostly truth
> and partially lies and Harry Potter is clearly that.
>
> We visited the public library today.  There in the
> front row of the children's books was a book titled
> "I Know I Am A Witch" about a child.
>
> The Enemy has made such profound progress that his
> emissaries in the culture no longer even have to be
> terribly subtle.
>
> When counseling and teaching youth, singles, and young
> adult leaders I remind them that we have a critical
> problem of priorities in the church.
>
> Children, youth, singles, and young adults, and too
> many of their leaders, focus on "how close to the fire
> (sin) may we dance without getting burned" rather than
> "how far toward righteousness may we mature in this
> fallen world".  The former is of Satan, the latter
> is of Christ.
>
> As the Apostle Paul warned, grace is not license.
>
> I am no legalist and, despite the misuse of his
> writings by Calvinists and legalists, neither was
> Paul.  I do, however, faithfully believe the Bible
> when it instructs us to "not cause one of these little
> ones to fall".  The consequences are dire for them
> and for us.
>
> I am done, though not undone.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> David M. Colburn, D.Min, MACo
>
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-- 
Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
http://shadow.sombragris.org
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 Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
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 The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

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