{"id":90665,"date":"2021-03-11T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keriritenour.com\/grace\/harry-potter\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T22:18:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T02:18:27","slug":"harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keriritenour.com\/grace\/harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">2 Corinthians 10:5: \u201cCasting down imaginations, and every high\nthing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into\ncaptivity every thought to the obedience of Christ\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">How should Christian parents look at the Harry Potter\nphenomenon? Chances are your children or grandchildren are clamoring to read\nthese best-selling books if not begging to go see the latest movie, \u201cHarry\nPotter and the Deathly Hallows\u201d which, while not in theaters until November,\nthe trailers have begun as part of a world-wide marketing campaign. &nbsp;The Church has not taken a definitive position\nas to the appropriate nature of the series.&nbsp;\nSome cast the series as harmless fancy while others sense sinister foreboding.&nbsp;&nbsp; Should parents encourage their children to\nread, watch and join in the Harry Potter experience?&nbsp; To discover the Biblical answer, we turn to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Historical Context: Written\napproximately A.D. 55-57 by the Apostle Paul (2 Corinthians 1:1), Paul expresses\nhis relief and joy that the Corinthians had received his \u201csevere\u201d letter (now\nlost) in a positive manner. That letter addressed issues that were tearing the\nchurch apart, primarily the arrival of self-styled (false) apostles (2\nCorinthians 11:13 \u2013 the nature of which we dealt with in the \u201cFalse Christs\u201d\nlesson from Matthew 24) who were assaulting Paul\u2019s character, sowing discord\namong the believers, and teaching false doctrine. They appear to have\nquestioned his veracity (2 Corinthians 1:15-17) and his speaking ability (2\nCorinthians 10:10; 11:6). There were also some people who had not repented of\ntheir licentious behavior (2 Corinthians 12:20-21).&nbsp; While there are many, many aspects and\ninstructions within this letter, the focus upon stewardship, not only of money,\nbut of time is a key point. The Macedonians not only gave generously, but \u201cthey\ngave themselves first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God&#8217;s will\u201d (2\nCorinthians 8:5). In the same way, <strong>Paul\nemphasizes we should dedicate not only all we have to the Lord, but all that we\nare.<\/strong> God really doesn&#8217;t need our money. He is omnipotent! He wants the\nheart, one that longs to serve and please. Stewardship and giving to God is\nmore than just money. Yes, God does want us to tithe part of our income, and He\npromises to bless us when we give to Him. There is more, though, as He wants us\nto give Him our all by spending our allotted time on earth in service to Him.\nNone of this can be accomplished without disciplined, purposeful capturing of our\nthought life in obedience to Christ.&nbsp; <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Grammatical Usage: \u201cCasting down\u201d in the Greek is \u201cKathaireo\u201d an refers to, \u201cdemolish \u2013 specifically\nmental strongholds and imaginations\u201d; \u201cimaginations\u201d or \u201cLogismos\u201d means, \u201ca\nreasoning hostile to the Christian faith\u201d; \u201cknowledge\u201d or \u201cGnosis\u201d means, \u201cthe\ndeeper more perfect and enlarged knowledge of God as it pertains to righteous\nconviction and living\u201d; \u201ccaptivity\u201d is \u201cAichmalotizo\u201d meaning, \u201cto make a\nprisoner of war\u2026to subjugate\u2026to bring under control\u201d; \u201cthought\u201d is \u201cNoema\u201d and\nspecifically refers to, \u201cmental perception\u201d; \u201cobedience\u201d is \u201cHupakoe\u201d defined\nas, \u201cacknowledgement and then submission to\u201d; \u201cChrist\u201d or \u201cChristos\u201d meaning,\n\u201cthe Messiah, the Son of God\u201d as opposed to any and all others.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Literal Application: \u201cWe demolish arguments, attitudes,\nmisperceptions and every pretense that is set up against the righteous\nconvictions of God, and we bring under control every deliberation and\nconsideration to recognize Christ\u2019s conviction and submit to it.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Contextual Interpretation:\nThe implications for the follower of Christ just within this verse are far\nreaching, detailed and without compromise.&nbsp;\nEssentially four elements build upon one another which, taken together,\nwork to unseat God from the throne of our lives:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li><strong>imaginations<\/strong>&#8211;rather, &#8220;reasonings.&#8221; Some misinterpret\nthis word to be &#8220;thought&#8221; which expresses men&#8217;s own <em>purpose<\/em>\nand determination of living after <em>their\nown<\/em> pleasure. &nbsp;&nbsp;This word, however,\nis specific reference to <strong>determined\nreasoning <\/strong>with the express purpose of coming against God \u2013 who He is, His\nvery character and nature in order to dislodge Him as the focal point of our lives.&nbsp; This reasoning is calculated to work on the\nmind whether by blatant assault or insidious suggestion to unseat God;<\/li><li><strong>high thing<\/strong>&#8212; A distinct Greek\nword from that in Ephesians 3:18 (&#8220;height&#8221;), Romans 8:39 and Revelation\n21:16.&nbsp; It does not mean that which\nbelongs to God and heaven from whence we receive nothing hurtful. Here &#8220;high\nthing&#8221; is not so much &#8220;height&#8221; as <em>something made high,<\/em> and\nbelongs to those regions of air where the powers of darkness exalt themselves\nagainst Christ and those who know Christ (Ephesians 2:2; 6:12; 2 Thessalonians\n2:4);&nbsp; <\/li><li><strong>exalteth\nitself<\/strong>&#8212; Such were the <em>high towers<\/em>\nof Jewish self-righteousness, pagan philosophic speculations, and rhetorical\nsophistries, the &#8220;knowledge&#8221; so much prized by many (opposed to\n&#8220;the knowledge of God&#8221;), which endangered the Corinthian Church given\ntheir cosmopolitan setting and culture; <\/li><li><strong>against\nthe knowledge of God<\/strong>&#8211;True knowledge\nmakes men humble. Where there is exaltation of self, their knowledge of God is questionable.\nArrange the words in this manner: &#8220;Bringing every thought (that is, <em>intent\nof the mind or will<\/em>) into captivity to the obedience of Christ,&#8221; that\nis, to obey Christ. The three steps of the apostle&#8217;s spiritual warfare are: (1)\nIt demolishes what is opposed to Christ; (2) It takes captive; (3) It brings us\ninto obedience to Christ (Romans 1:5; 16:26).&nbsp;\nThe &#8220;reasonings&#8221; (<em>English Version,<\/em>\n&#8220;imaginations&#8221;) are utterly &#8220;cast down.&#8221; The &#8220;mental\nintents&#8221; (<em>English Version,<\/em> &#8220;thoughts&#8221;) are taken willing\ncaptives, surrendering voluntary in obedience of faith to Christ the Conqueror.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Scriptural Comparison:&nbsp; Advocates\nof the Potter series are quick to point out how this very well-written fantasy\nproves enjoyable and compelling reading.&nbsp;\nBecause it is written for children, it captivates the imagination of children.\nBy tapping into the poignancy of the powerlessness of children, which is a\npainful part of being young, the series is full of real-life situations,\nranging from the embarrassing to the hurtful to the scary to the satisfying \u2013\neverything that real-life kids experience.&nbsp;\nTaken as a whole, the series has gotten hundreds of thousands of children\nexcited about reading and, consequently, introduced children to the Harry\nPotter mindset.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But there&#8217;s one\nsubstantial difficulty with the Harry Potter series: it makes sorcery and\nwitchcraft acceptable if not enticing to the reader. In addition to characterizations\nof established authorities in our lives, the work is not consistent with a\nChristian worldview as sharply defined by the Word of God:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>We are called to\n&#8220;take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ\u201d according to 2\nCorinthians 10:5.&nbsp; We are to recognize <em>determined reasoning<\/em> which has as its\nbasis an anti-God presupposition, example, reference, illusion or exclusion.&nbsp; On this point of exclusion, critic Lev\nGrossman of Time Magazine (July 12, 2007) wrote, \u201cIf\nyou want to know who dies in Harry Potter, the answer is easy: God.&nbsp; <strong>Harry\nPotter lives in a world free of any religion or spirituality of any kind. He\nlives surrounded by ghosts but has no one to pray to, even if he were so\ninclined, which he isn&#8217;t. Rowling has more in common with celebrity atheists\nlike Christopher Hitchens than she has with Tolkien and Lewis.<\/strong>&nbsp; What does Harry have instead of God?\nRowling&#8217;s answer, at once glib and profound, is that Harry&#8217;s power comes from\nlove. This charming notion represents a cultural sea change. In the new\nmillennium, magic comes not from God or nature or anything grander or more\nmystical than a mere human emotion.\u201d&nbsp; <strong>In short, god is self<\/strong>.&nbsp; Yet, the Apostle John affirms in 1 John 4:8\nthat \u201cGod is love.\u201d&nbsp; In fact, as Grossman\ncorrectly stipulates, God as defined in the Bible is missing from the Harry\nPotter series (note His exclusion as a foundation of vain imaginations).&nbsp; Any misrepresentation of God is wrong, much\nless His exclusion.&nbsp; Insult to injury\ncomes with the employment of the literary vehicle of the spiritual world yet a\nspiritual world devoid of God despite John 4:24, \u201c<strong>God<\/strong> <strong>is<\/strong> a <strong>Spirit<\/strong>: and they that worship him must\nworship him in <strong>spirit<\/strong> and in truth.\u201d;<\/li><li>Regarding the\nspirit world, God gives us very strong and clear commands about witchcraft: it\nis a sin according to 1 Samuel 15:23a, \u201cFor rebellion\nis as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry&#8230;\u201d;\n<\/li><li>The occult is an\nabomination before God according to Deuteronomy 18:10-11, \u201cThere shall not be found among you any one that maketh his\nson or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an\nobserver of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. <strong><sup>11<\/sup><\/strong>Or a\ncharmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer;\u201d<\/li><li>The Old Testament\npenalty for sorcery or witchcraft was death as noted in Exodus 22:18, \u201cThou shalt not suffer a witch to live;\u201d <\/li><li>The proscription\nagainst the practice of magic is continued in the New Testament as found\nin&nbsp;&nbsp; Galatians 5:19-21, \u201cNow the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;\nAdultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, &nbsp;<strong><sup>20<\/sup><\/strong>Idolatry,\nwitchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,\n&nbsp;<strong><sup>21<\/sup><\/strong>Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such\nlike: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past,\nthat they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God;\u201d<\/li><li>There\nare several incidents of conjuring, where\nwitches and wizards wave a magic wand and instantly produce things like food\nfor a banquet. Conjuring is a counterfeit of the way God creates <em>ex nihilo<\/em>,\nout of nothing. Casting spells, such as speaking the word &#8220;Lumos!&#8221; to\nmake one&#8217;s magic wand become a light source, is a counterfeit of God&#8217;s ability\nto speak things into existence as documented in Genesis 1:3, \u201cAnd God <strong><em>said<\/em><\/strong>, Let there be light: and there\nwas light;\u201d&nbsp; <\/li><li>Bewitching cars\nto make them fly and ceilings to twinkle like the night sky is a counterfeit of\nChrist&#8217;s ability to do miracles like walking on water and feeding the 5,000\nwith five loaves and two fishes (Matthew 14:25; John 6:11);<\/li><li>Harry&#8217;s\ninvisibility cloak mimics God who is always and truly with us even though He&#8217;s\ninvisible (Deuteronomy 31:6; Hebrews 13:5);<\/li><li>As a role model, Harry is not a good kid. He lies, he\ncheats, he steals, and he\u2019s never punished for it. In fact he gets worse as the\nseries goes on.&nbsp; While his efforts are\nfor \u201cgood\u201d, Chrisitans know it is never right to do wrong to right.&nbsp; God does not operate in this manner.&nbsp; With Harry, the concepts of submission if not\nthe admonitions of the Ten Commandments are ignored (1 Peter 5:5-9);<\/li><li>Every rule-keeper within the Harry Potter series is\nportrayed in a bad light. Every authority figure is portrayed as a buffoon rationalizing\nrejection.&nbsp; Yet we are commanded to be in\nsubjection to the authorities over us (Romans 13:1-7; Hebrews 13:17; 1 Peter\n2:13-14; and Titus 3:1).&nbsp; Christians\nunderstand that rationalization is defined as the lowering of a standard;<\/li><li>Specifically, Harry identifies with most children\nregarding the emotional pain as they related to peers and superiors \u2013 including\nparents.&nbsp; Parents are portrayed as\nnon-magical Muggles.&nbsp; His school\ntormentor, Draco Malfoy, is also denigrated as a Muggle.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, Scripture is clear as to the\nrespect and honor due parents (Exodus 20:12);<\/li><li>Fantasy is a story of things that cannot happen\nwithout a spiritual cause.&nbsp; The fact of\nthe matter is we live in a world not of flesh and blood but of principalities\nand powers where the Bible affirms the spiritual origination of all there is\n(Ephesians 6:11-13).&nbsp; Positioning and\nportrayal are the essential elements with respect to a fanciful foundation and\nthe Potter series\u2019 exclusion of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob coupled\nwith actions and reactions opposed to Scriptural precept leave only one\nalternative with respect to spiritual origination as confirmed in our\nScriptural citation. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When\nChristians lodge these complaints against the Harry Potter series, one often\nhears a condescending dismissal about fantasy vs. reality.&nbsp; No mention is made of the substance of the\nconcern with witchcraft itself, which is a reasonable one.&nbsp; Case in point is the <em>Newsweek<\/em> article, \u201cThe Return of Harry Potter\u201d, July 10, 2000, p.\n58.&nbsp; Many people impatiently respond,\n&#8220;But it&#8217;s <em>fantasy!<\/em> It&#8217;s only make-believe! Nobody&#8217;s going to\nreally <em>believe<\/em> that this stuff is true!&#8221; But the author J.K.\nRowling revealed in <em>Newsweek<\/em> that she gets, &#8220;\u2026letters from\nchildren addressed to Professor Dumbledore [headmaster at Hogwarts School of\nWitchcraft and Wizardry, the books&#8217; setting], and it&#8217;s not a joke, begging to\nbe let into Hogwarts, and some of them are really sad. Because they want it to\nbe true so badly they&#8217;ve convinced themselves it&#8217;s true.&#8221;&nbsp; These are the vain imaginations of Romans\n1:21 fostered upon the most innocent.&nbsp;\nSupernatural power that doesn&#8217;t come from God is <em>all<\/em> evil.&nbsp; The lack of such a\ndistinction in the Harry Potter series opens the door to the evil one to plant\nideas which leads to considerations which leads to misdirection which leads to\nactions which results in consequences.&nbsp; Christians\nknow that witches are not just fantasy characters, but that they are real\nwhether as overt Satan worshipers or as sublime as the neo-pagan devotees of\nWicca, in the end it amounts to the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size has-medium-font-size\">Defenders\nof Harry Potter can point out that the Hogwarts witches have nothing to do with\nthe Wicca or black magic kinds of witches. They are not evil at all, nor do\nthey preach any kind of New Age nature religion. These witches are out of the\nfairy tales, with brooms and spells, except that they are good (as in the \u201cgood\nwitch\u201d in <em>Wizard of Oz<\/em>).&nbsp;\nActually, Harry is learning to be a \u201cwizard,\u201d such as Gandalf in\nTolkien\u2019s <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>, not a warlock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Still,\nat a time when witchcraft is becoming a major presence in our youth culture\nwith books about how to be a witch targeted at teenagers, Christians are right\nto disapprove.&nbsp; In fairy tales, witches\nare typically \u201cwicked,\u201d reinforcing the clear lines between evil and good, that\nis, the forces of darkness and the forces of light. Anything that blurs those\nlines is cause for concern as it sets up the very danger of imaginations as\ndefined in our text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Some people have likened\nthe Harry Potter books to C.S. Lewis&#8217; <em>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em>. While\nthey are both fantasy literature, one is designed to create a thirst for Jesus\nand for heaven, and the other a thirst for power and manipulation as clearly\ndocumented in the <em>Newsweek <\/em>article.\nC.S. Lewis writes from a strong Christian worldview; J.K. Rowling writes from a\nnaturalistic worldview that includes magic as a fact of life but excludes God.\nAnd by making witchcraft and wizardry so appealing, Harry Potter proves an\nalarmingly attractive door to the occult for impressionable readers (of any\nage).&nbsp; Children have a special place in\nGod\u2019s heart and anyone who harms a child is inviting God\u2019s wrath upon him.\nJesus welcomed little children to His side and said that the kingdom of God\nbelongs to \u201csuch as these\u201d (Mark 10:14).&nbsp;\nJesus had harsh words for anyone who would cause a child to stumble,\n\u201cBut if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it\nwould be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to\nbe drowned in the depths of the sea.\u201d The Bible instructs parents to be gentle\nand loving with their children (Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21) raising them in\nthe admonition of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4).&nbsp;\nBased upon this instruction, it is right and good that parental control\nis exercised as to the type and nature of entertainment afforded children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Conclusion: Many argue that there is not a\nclear-cut answer as to whether the decision to entertain the Harry Potter\nseries in their homes and lives of their children is right or wrong because it\nis a modern-day &#8220;disputable matter.&#8221; (See 1 Cor. 8 and Romans 14.)\nSome people claim the freedom to read the books and see the movies without it\nviolating their conscience; others cannot do that.&nbsp; Is this one of those decisions left up to\nconscience?&nbsp; I do not dispute that there\nare such matters.&nbsp; However given the\nwork\u2019s basis in witchcraft, the evidence of children\u2019s reactions and the\ncommands of Scripture to avoid even the appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians\n5:22), this does not prove an issue of conscience but one of obedience\nespecially as children are ill-equipped for such a decision leaving the full\nweight and brunt of such influences clearly with a parent or guardian.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Christian\nparents are right to steer their children away from the series. Yet, if the\nPotter bug has already bitten their children, they should handle the situation\nwith care.&nbsp; Parents need to make clear\nthat Christians are not Muggles. In other words, Christianity is not a narrow,\nmaterialistic, boring worldview such as the one satirized in the Potter novels\nand advocated by today\u2019s culture. It is Christianity that has the open universe\nwith room both for the natural and the supernatural, for the ordinary and the\nmiraculous.&nbsp; It is Christianity that\nrecognizes unseen truths of goodness and beauty and that believes in a genuine\nbattle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light. The account of\nhow God became man in Jesus Christ, defeating Satan and atoning for our\nsinfulness by dying on the Cross and rising again, is the most wonderful,\nmind-blowing story of all \u2014 having the profound advantage of also being true.\nThe Bible asserts it, history confirms it, and the Holy Spirit brings us to\nbelieve it. Those who think in biblical terms have a far bigger, more\nstimulating worldview than any of their materialistic and occult competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Corinthians 10:5: \u201cCasting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ\u2026\u201d How should Christian parents look at the Harry Potter phenomenon? 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