A past review of another resource on Christian worldview and film
Note: This is part of my review of books for my lists of 2012 recommended Christian worldview and apologetics gift books recommendation.
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Excellent book on a Christian worldview when it comes to viewing movies, and probably the best book of its kind. It stresses that Christians must bring the Word of God to bear concerning what they are seeing. The best question that a Christian can ask in evaluating any film is what does it say about the nature of man. Does the movie promote an anthropology that is contrary to that of Scripture or does it confirm it? The author makes the point that even if what it teaches about man is contrary to what our systematic theology tells us about man, yet it still speaks truth–that man would try to supress the truth of God in righteousness. I love how he brings Romans 1 to bear…
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Thanks for the review and your postings on this subject. It is a much needed area of instruction for the people of God. Lord bless you SJ
You’re welcome Rob. May God’s people practice Godly discernment with movies
Grant Horner also endorses Mike Cosper’s BOOK (which Tm Keller wrote the forward to.). That book covers the usefulness of such gems as THE WIRE for God’s people to learn His truths from Hollywood. Plenty of others too.
We don’t need books and deep incredibly profound thought to discern that the television and movie industry is the Satanic enemy of our God. Horner falls for the same trap that the devil uses on everybody. We simply MUST watch TV and Movies. Having food, raiment, tv and movies, let us therewith be content.
There is NOTHING to be learned from God’s enemies by participating in their idolatry. There is NOTHING redemptive in their pagan stories. Attending the temple of Baal or the temple of Diana of the Ephesians in order to learn God’s truth and “engage culture” is utterly foreign to scripture and the historic reformed Church would have been aghast at the very suggestion.
It’s like this. You go to imdb.com and see if sin was committed in the production of a movie to the very best of your ability. 99.5% of the time it’s a no brainer for a functioning Christian conscience seeing the info there. If there is any question at all, you skip it. Like the Westminster divines would have. (actually they probably would never have seen a single secular movie in their entire lives had they lived in our day) What have you lost? Does anybody even ask that question? What righteousness or holiness has the church gained from the entertainment industry? What DID we do for all those centuries before there was even electricity? (The only possibly plausible answer to this is destroyed in 1st Corinthians 1)
If you decide to see something, the exact same godly biblical sensibilities that govern the rest of life will serve you just fine in the movie theater. That assumes that one is lives inthe word and ion prayer. If you take the kids to see Frozen for instance, it should ONLY be to teach them how the God hating world uses overwhelmingly powerful tools of audio visual immersion to imprint on their minds how good people can be without Jesus. Even that might not be a good idea.
MacArthur of all people, you would think would know better than this idolatry being taught at his seminary. Then again Piper, who is GREAT on movies himself, also has a guy on the desiring God site who writes articles directly contradicting Piper’s public statements 😀 LOL!! It’s hypnotic magic!!! Nothing else has this kind of deceptive power.
This is your site Jim (duh). Do feel free to disagree on any point, but as you may have gathered, these topics have been a focus of mine for a while now. I also reiterate. You’re a godly man. I don’t doubt that. However rather than seeking to find the deeper meaning in some godless pagan entertainment, I humbly challenge you to ask if there is a deeper deception and meaning in the church’s obsession with trying.