The Dangers in Fiction
This Universe runs under
certain laws—set up and upheld by the Creator. Basically there are two
laws that summarize the Creator's government:
1- Every created being
owes all it has and is to the Creator- so it stands to reason that the
Created one owes respect and perfect obedience to the ONE who Created.
We know this law as: "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment."
Mark 12:30
2- Every morally responsible created being must respect and treat as
himself every other morally responsible being. Why? Because all created
beings belong to God and as such must be respected as being equal with
ourselves. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
OK- so what is a 'morally
responsible creature'? Well- it is those whom God has given the gift of
a reasoning mind and FREE Choice. Stars and trees and rocks obey God's
will, but they have no choice. But to have beings who truly loved Him,
the Creator had to take the chance and give them free choice. No one can
really love you unless they also are free not to love you.
Now we all know about the
'law of gravity'- If I step off the roof I will get an awful smack when
I hit the ground. Now I can write a book where people can step off roofs
and just sail away and never get hurt. That would be fiction. You would
know it is fiction because you know all about the law of gravity.
However there are many
other universal laws that we are not always so aware of. And I can write
a book and have many of these laws broken in the book and maybe you
won't know any better- that such things can't happen that way for real.
Especially if you are a child- you won't know that it can't be
true.
A good example are stories
that have heroes that drink alcohol, and live like human tomcats- and
still in the story they are strong and clever! In real life they would
be sick, stupid slobs! So things that won't work and can't work can be
put forth as things that are OK and our minds get confused on what is
real and what is not.
"WELL, IT'S MY
BUSINESS WHAT I DO, YOU SAID GOD GIVES ME THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE!"
This is true; we each have the right to choose, in fact we each HAVE to
choose who we will serve! HOWEVER—and this is what so many miss— we
don't get to CHOOSE the consequences!! God has laid down the consequences
- no power can change them!
Serve God and live; VS
serve Self and Satan and die. That is it in a nutshell!
There have been many
theories that have caused great misery in this world because they were
first put out as a fictional story and it sounded so good that people
began to put it into practice - and it didn't really work because it was
not in harmony with the laws of the universe. Here is a yardstick we are
given to tell the true from the false:
"To the law and to the testimony:
if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no
light in them." Isaiah 8:20
What does this mean?
Simply that if something is NOT in agreement with the Bible and the 10
Commandments—there is no TRUTH in it! There is no GOOD in it! Remember
the glass of good, nutritious orange juice—with the drop of cyanide
in it? If a thing is not ENTIRELY right with God's standards—it is not
GOOD! In order to be GOOD a thing must be TRUE! Here is Rule 2:
"Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue,
and if there be any praise, think on these things." Philippians 4:8
REMEMBER SALVATION IS A
BATTLE FOR THE MIND!
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