I agree with you on the fact that i would never let my child watch porno because i don't want them to became sex addicts. But when it comes down to fantasy like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter you got to realize that it isn't real. I believe that witchcraft and magic are not real that it is simply myth that is why i watch Harry Potter because it is a story that can never happen. That is what i'll tell my children and i teach them how to determine fact from fiction on their own. When you do have that fantasy and witchcraft are fake that is the perfect time to explain to them the evils of the Wicken (im not sure that is spelled right) religion, what they believe, and its fantasy look alike. Plus Harry Potter is the least of my worries. Im more worried about the non-fantasy fiction that is on the big screen. For example i wouldn't bring my 7 year old to see R-Rated movies like 300 or Sin City like most people do. I watched the ending of Sin City the other night on TV to see if it was any good and i was even apalled by it. The main character, i would guess about 45, feel in love with a 19 year old, brutally beat a villian to death (literally) and then shot himself because he thought he had no other choice. See thats where i draw the line. Real brutality is not on my childrens movie agenda for a long time.
Witchcraft is real. Magic is real. Sorcery is real. The Scripture says so:
2 Kings 17:16-18
16 So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molded image
and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.
Exodus 9:10-12
10 Then they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses scattered
them toward heaven. And
they caused boils that break out in sores on man and beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians. 12 But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh; and he did not heed them, just as the LORD had spoken to Moses.
Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,[
a] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,[
b] 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.
Definitions
Magic
The Jews seem early to have consulted the teraphim (q.v.) for oracular answers (Judg. 18:5, 6; Zech. 10:2). There is a remarkable illustration of this divining by teraphim in Ezek. 21:19-22. We read also of the divining cup of Joseph (Gen. 44:5). The magicians of Egypt are frequently referred to in the history of the Exodus. Magic was an inherent part of the ancient Egyptian religion, and entered largely into their daily life.
All magical arts were distinctly prohibited under penalty of death in the Mosaic law. The Jews were commanded not to learn the "abomination" of the people of the Promised Land (Lev. 19:31; Deut. 18:9-14). The history of Saul's consulting the witch of Endor (1 Sam. 28:3-20) gives no warrant for attributing supernatural power to magicians. From the first the witch is here only a bystander. The practice of magic lingered among the people till after the Captivity, when they gradually abandoned it.
It is not much referred to in the New Testament. The Magi mentioned in Matt. 2:1-12 were not magicians in the ordinary sense of the word. They belonged to a religious caste, the followers of Zoroaster, the astrologers of the East. Simon, a magician, was found by Philip at Samaria (Acts 8:9-24); and Paul and Barnabas encountered Elymas, a Jewish sorcerer, at Paphos (13:6-12). At Ephesus there was a great destruction of magical books (Acts 19:18, 19).
Witch
Occurs only in Ex. 22:18, as the rendering of _mekhashshepheh_, the feminine form of the word, meaning "enchantress" (R.V., "sorceress"), and in Deut. 18:10, as the rendering of _mekhashshepheth_, the masculine form of the word, meaning "enchanter."
Witchcraft
(1 Sam. 15:23; 2 Kings 9:22; 2 Chr. 33:6; Micah 5:12; Nahum 3:4; Gal. 5:20). In the popular sense of the word no mention is made either of witches or of witchcraft in Scripture.
The "witch of En-dor" (1 Sam. 28) was a necromancer, i.e., one who feigned to hold converse with the dead. The damsel with "a spirit of divination" (Acts 16:16) was possessed by an evil spirit, or, as the words are literally rendered, "having a spirit, a pithon." The reference is to the heathen god Apollo, who was regarded as the god of prophecy.
Sorcerer from the Latin sortiarius, one who casts lots, or one who tells the lot of others. In Dan. 2:2 it is the rendering of the Hebrew mekhashphim, i.e., mutterers, men who professed to have power with evil spirits. The practice of sorcery exposed to severest punishment (Mal. 3:5; Rev. 21:8; 22:15).
that the evil voldemort cant be able to touch him... wel I just wanna know what u think about it. :secret:
