Those of you who are Christians, would you read Harry Potter after reading Deut. 18:10-14?

Question

Before answering this question, please state if you are a Christian, Muslim, Jew, or from any other faith, and please read the verse also.

Deut. 18:10-14
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritists or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and because of these detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the Lord you God.

Answer 1

Andrew, I am a Christian. NO! I have never read a single one as the scriptures tell us to stay away from such and I do!

As Christians, we are NOT to delve in such things. There are reasons for this warning and so, I adhere to the teachings.

Answer 2

Deut can be taken as explaining rituals as vandalic, and gospel as unnecesary effort. However valid this argument, it is not the same to see into future with arrogance and enabling doubts on a child´s growth. We must trust our conscious, not our senses. Be good, not acknowledgeable. Acts of tyrany are not funny, and certainly do not help the trained mind into society´s acceptancy. Leave the guild in the guilder´s hand it says clearly.
Harry Potter sure does no harm to religion or oracles, your concerns are noted, yet fail to provide more fire to the cauldron, I might add.

Answer 3

I am a Christian...


and LOL! Course I would read Harry Potter... .as you try and argue with that scripture... Reading a Harry Potter book or watching one of the movies doesnt constitute divination, sorcery, interpretation of omens, I'm not engaging in withcraft, casting spells.. I am not a medium or spiritist by reading the books and I am not "consulting" anything.

So, how exactly do you figure that scripture has any meaning about WHO reads Harry Potter????


Get a grip Mon

Answer 4

I'm a Christian and there is a lot of talking about so many things in the Bible, that may be used or not, cause these are different times...&co. i believe the Bible and i know it's perfectly applied in everyhting. but you know, i don't read Harry Potter, i didn't watch the movies. why would i? it's spending your time in something that by far is not nourishing you in any matter, but is also showing in all its content an opposite image to what my belief proclaims and stands for... it's like what americans like to say "what would Jesus do?"... even if by any chance He would choose to watch a movie, i'm definitely sure it won't be "harry potter". now, that would really make no sense, huh?

Answer 5

I wouldn't read Harry Potter before reading Deut:10-14!

Answer 6

The Bible also says:

When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)

and:

"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)

as well as:

"They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)


So the Bible also codones slavery and beating your slaves, killing homosexuals and killing non-believers. So do you follow those commands too?

Answer 7

People of any religion are just as free to read Harry potter as they are the bible. If one were to take that passage literally it refers to direct associations with these kinds of people rather than characters one would encounter in a book. Clearly a line between reality and fantasy has to be drawn. But then one would have difficulty differentiating between the two if he or she were to subscribe to such ideologies. I thought the days of book burnings and witchhunts were over.

Answer 8

I guess Harry would not be popular with God, if God reads that is.

Or maybe these were rules made up by some man and they are not orders from God anyway, in which event Harry is on safer ground.

Harry Potter apparently celebrates Christmas and Easter. I guess he is willing to give God a go.

Answer 9

Listen if you're going to quote the JEWISH Scripture, please quote from the Tanakh:

Deut. 18:10-14

"There shall not be found AMONG YOU any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer. For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the Lord; and because of these abominations the Lord thy God is driving them out from before three. Thou shalt be whole-hearted with the Lord thy God. For these nations, that thou art to dispossess, hearken unto soothsayers, and unto diviners; *but as for thee*, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do." (emphasis mine)



Just who was this "you" in "among you" and who was it in "but as for thee"?

The "children of Israel".

NOT everyone in the world, the specific people that "God" made a covenant with.

*** So unless you're an orthodox Jew, shut up.***

Now, do I also have to explain the "pass through the fire" bit, too?



I am so sick of people who have reading comprehension problems ignoring the simple fact that all the "Thou shalt" and "Thou shalt not" laws ONLY applied to "the children of Israel".


It's right there in the Tanakh.

It's not in code.


(Almost as sick as I am of people who think that any of that would apply to a fantasy book or fantasy movie.)

Answer 10

You must be joking, right? Deut. 18: 10-14 is talking about stuipd humans turning to worship Satan. And yes they do the same thing today. Harry Pothead is about the worship of Satan. I am Jesus Name!

Answer 11

I am a Christian, and by reading Harry Potter I am not enaging in witchcraft or any other activities that the passage mentions. I am simply reading a fictional work meant to amuse. Now, it is true I could be spending my time doing nobler things, but I do not think that it's a sin to read Harry Potter.