Ephesians 5:10 "…10 Test and prove what pleases the Lord. 11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them."
Do you know what I find interesting?
I find it interesting that so many believers are coming against the movie "The Shack" and had done this also with the book by the same name. My astonishment is not that they did this, because I agreed with them, but my dilemma is that they didn't do the same things with "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", by C.S. Lewis.
"The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", was just as blaspehemous and full of witchcraft as "The Shack", it just manifested itself in a little different form.
In "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", Aslan, the lion that represented Christ entered into a tent with the White Witch, representing the devil, to negotiate the price for sin, as though the devil had any say in what the price for sin would be.
This sounded to me very much like a Mormon belief that Christ is the brother of Lucifer the devil.
It was God the Father Who decided the penalty for sin. The devil is a created being, he has no authority or negotiating power with Christ.
Why did the Christian community not rise up against the C.S. Lewis heresy? My guess is that C.S. Lewis is worshiped as a theologian among evangelicals. He is their golden child, who could do no wrong, therefore anyone who criticizes him is a target for verbal and emotional abuse.
Notice too that the seculars were just as enamored with "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", as they were with the Shack. When the seculars love a movie or book, no matter who the author is, we can be suspect of that production.
Another movie that was recommended and praised was "The Passion of the Christ", which was also blasphemous in it's portrayal of Mary as Christ's strength. There was so much Catholic symbolism in that movie it dripped with it, but since Evangelicals do not know or understand Catholicism they didn't see it. Right down to the Scapula that hung around the neck of the thief, which is an amulet that Catholics are given to wear to keep them out of hell and purgatory. The director of the movie "The Passion of the Christ", was and is a drunken Catholic who still believes in the Latin Mass.
C.S. Lewis was deeply connected to the Catholic church and loved Greek Mythology. He has the elements of all these things in his books.
As believers we need to come against ALL heresy that parades itself as "Christian" no matter how popular the mediums become. Satan has been very clever in mixing a little truth with a whole lot of destructive lies to deceive the unread believer and to keep the truth from non-believers.
In every case of these movies and books people say things like, "it changed my life", which of course is not true, it just gave them something to believe in that was a distorted view of God and His principles, their lives show no evidence of real change. If there was the rare one who became born again in the authentic sense of salvation, it was not because of these movies and books but in spite of them.
The Holy Spirit can use anything to make someone curious about God, but that does not mean that it is alright to recommend these works to non-believers as witnessing tools.
If any of you used these things as a witnessing tool, you must go back to those whom you deceived and ask them to forgive you while telling them the authentic gospel.
American believers are lazy, they jump on every band wagon coming round the bend to let the movies or books do their talking for them. And, perhaps they do this because they themselves love to be entertained.
Instead of knowing the gospel for themselves, knowing the Word of God for themselves, so much so that they can verbalize from their own mouth the salvation message to those around them, they shrink away embarrassed to speak it. But excited to present an heretical view of God through a movie, this way those who hear them will like them. It doesn't matter very much whether someone gets truth or authentically saved, only that the Evangelical gain some praise and new friends.
Shame on the Evangelical church, shame on the American church for using ungodly deceptive, unrighteous works of pagans to influence a lost society.
Shame, Shame, Shame!!!!!
Ephesians 5:10 "…10 Test and prove what pleases the Lord. 11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them."
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