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S. Michael Houdmann
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The Bible is the Book of Truth. Several times it exhorts us to speak truth and reject lies. According to the Bible, where does fiction fit in? Is telling a made-up story a lie? Is it sinful to crea...
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Terry Galloway
As a Christian, we want to experience sanctification as we walk with Christ. To do this, we must put Romans 12:1-2 into practice and the primary way of renewing our minds involves filling our minds with truth. That is why a Christian reads, memorizes and applies Scripture. So the problem with reading fiction can be two fold. 1) That a believer is spending more time on fiction than on the Word which has the power to tranform the believer's life which is idolatry and 2) that even "Christian fiction" can have false teaching and every book of the New Testament except for Philemon warns about the danger of false teaching. Whatever a person reads other than the Bible can have lies which the Bible warns us to not listen to (or read) lies. Personally, I read a lot of non-fiction Christian books that further educate me about the Bible, but the Bible itself says that we are to test everything against the Scriptures. But my real disappointment is in several popular "Christian fiction" books that actually use the name of Jesus Christ and re-write who He is. For instance, one book says that Jesus was not telling the truth when He was on the cross that His Father God had left Him when He said "my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?". These actual words were written at least 600 years before Christ spoke them on the cross, and that is the Gospel, that God can not tolerate sin and Jesus had to be separated from the Father as He took on the sins of the world. Also, to say that Jesus was not right about the Father leaving Him is saying that Jesus was a liar which of course is a lie since Jesus never sinned a single time! Bank tellers study the real money in order to know the counterfeit. We must be extremely biblically literate before we can tell the false teaching that is in fiction. It is the same as watching tv and hearing people say things that are anti-biblical also saying things about Jesus that are not true. Proverbs 6 gives the things that God hates, and as believers we want to be loyal to Christ to not do the things that God hates since Jesus died for sin and we don't want to grieve the Holy Spirit by disobedience.
Mark Boanerges
It is a slippery slope when we define fiction as not true... A man made understanding of what fiction is or is not. What any thought is, is a seed, a seed planted by someone or some influence.{Matthew 13:38}. That thought or series of thoughts was created by thought/influence first, and spoken or written into what it will be become from our own decisions among other influences either perverting that decision or perfecting the decision. Imagination takes a life as it's own and becomes living in the process of thought to written word or word in action. WE MUST NOT DEFINE OR LIMIT ANY OF GOD's WORD TO MERELY A FABLE OR FICTION TO TEACH SOME POINT ABOUT OUR LIVES AND OUR ANCESTORS LIVES. It is our fallibility to believe evil things of fiction or entertain it's playground. Look at what Hollywood's fiction has done to our culture {Proverbs 14:8} Hollywood fiction took a life of it's own influencing very extreme negative actions in worldwide culture breeding fiction into reality. {2 Corinthians 11:14}. Just as every word of the bible through non-fiction as well as fiction breeds influence through discernment of imagination and truth that becomes life decisions demonstrating life correctly and incorrectly... So, we may live correctly. {Proverbs 1:2}
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:14
The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception. Proverbs 14:8
To learn wisdom and moral instruction, and to discern wise counsel.
Proverbs 1:2
The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds (bad seeds) are the people (also bad thought seeds) of the evil one.
Matthew 13:38
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