[Faith-talk] a PS about the Harry Potter phenomenon

[Poppa Bear]

I'm with you all the way Miss Debby. You know people used to come down on
Charles Spurgeon, a great preacher because he smoked cigars, he once said
that the only problem with him smoking cigars was the fact that he couldn't
smoke two at a time. Here is the thing, people want to make things in their
selves sinful, but as Paul points out in the Bible that sin is often in
correspondence to our conscience. It was sinful for some to eat meat that
came from the pagan temples, because they felt convicted in their hearts and
it wasn't because they were braking a commandment. If I am out eating with
other Christians at a restaurant I will ask ahead of time if I order a beer
if it would offend, or be a problem for anyone I am dining with. I don't
want to make another brother stumble because of my liberty in Christ.
Speaking of old souls on the other thread, maybe we are Kindred Spirits
Debby because you and I often  land on the same side of the coin. That
reminds me, one day this year my little 8 year old daughter came home from
school and said, "You know dad, you're my brother." She then started
laughing and told me how she had learned that we are all sisters and
brothers in Christ, she got such a kick out of that. But of Corse  I
digress, time to go back to the cave until I smell another picnic basket.

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Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] a PS about the Harry Potter phenomenon

Okay, I recognize that certain things are sinful, and that's not just in
Christianity, but stuff like murder.  But here's a prime example of
something that not all Christians see as sinful.  I occasionally have a
glass of wine with a meal, a beer on a hot day, or for a special occasion,
maybe I'll have a mixed drink, like a rum and Coke, (although I prefer
Pepsi).  Lol.  Now, probably you, Timothy would see that as sin.  But I'm
guessing that some other Christians on this list, would not.  So therefore I
understand Brandon's question.  By whose rules is something sinful? There
are books that I have started to read that I have stopped reading, because
something within me said, Don't read that book.  It could be the Holy
Spirit, or my conscience.  But whatever, I stop reading the book.  And for
me to continue to read that book would be sin.  But that doesn't mean that
it would be sin for someone else to read it.  A specific example: it would
be totally sinful for ME, and I am only saying me, to read a book on Satan
written by a satanist.  But there are Christians who read those books and
study them and they do it with a clear conscience because they are studying
that particular subject so as to be able to articulate more clearly why
something may be wrong, from a Christian perspective.  I hope I'm making
sense here.  And perhaps before I get myself too entangled, I'll go 
lurk again.    Blessings,    Debby and Neena

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