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saw the new Harry Potter!

I am counting down the days until the 18th.

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I also JUST bought the piano transcription of the movie music with pictures. My mom's ticked b/c apparently there is one hiding around here from Santa Mommy. Ah well, I have LOTR music ANYTIME!<font color="black">

not to change the subject but did anyone else notice a bunch of minor details and directing mistakes in the fellowship movie? im excited about two towers also but fear this jackson guy dug himself abunch of plot holes.

ex: after the hobbits meet strider they goto the lookout hill/mountain thing and stuff happens, later after leaving rivendell the director cuts through several clips of the fellowship party crossing several landscapes, one of them being the lookout i mentioned. the lookout is west and they are travelling east.

sorry, ive just saw abunch of tv stuff about the movie and had to vent...

Muschick,

wow you waste no time, do ya????????

so, i'm assuming that the means that Harry Potter # 2 was good!!!!!

you liked it!!!!

was it better than # 1?

hey, are you a Harry Potter's fan, too?

well, 'til we meet.....

stay sweet...

in Love.....

GI:

I also was very irritated by the plot problems in the first movie: they deleted the Barrow Downs! And Tom Bombadil! And Glorfindel! And look what they did to Arwen!! And where did that whole Aragorn/Arwen elvish-speaking romantic scene come from? Yikes!

Sorry. Had to vent.

Susan

Susan,

Seeing as you're around these parts, could you get Luke's attention and tell him that JTW is DYING to see this conversation continue and I have been awaiting his reply. Somewhere in between people applauding the new Harry Potter movie and chatting about whatever, Luke may not have noticed my response and question.

In Christ Alone,

Mercy

I'm sorry when I seee anything that has to do w/ Harry Potter I cring. Here's why guys. Harry Potter isn't just a story of Good vs. Evil in which it is...(this is the good vs. evil of the world guys) Ex. Casting spells on people that make one mad...Getting even??? I saw the movie not wanting to. I ended up hanging out with my older sister one night and her girlfriends ended up calling her and we went to dinner and they decided at dinner to see this movie. If I would have known I wounldn't have gone. I really disliked this movie or storyline for the fact that it does nothing but have someone dwell on revenge (mainly). This is the way of the world guys. The story line of LOTR is more of good verses evil and it shows the examples of sin and what it does to people. Look at I believe it's galum (the creature overtaken by greed, 'my precccious) How sickening it is when we as believer realize what and were we are at with our walks and can look at our sinfulness as a gallum type of heart. Do you see my point?

What breaks my heart is Harry Potter is advertised alll over the place for little children (my little neice loves it! only 3 <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" /> ) Guys this is the next generation! Look what we are teaching them and not standing against? It breaks my heart to see what is being trully INGRANED into them at such a young age. HOW tragic.

Hi MercyBreeze,

Sorry, I've been very busy lately. My reply copied-and-pasted to your post was one for which I requested reply. As you can tell from it, it seemed to me (for reasons given) that you hadn't sufficiently replied to my post to you before that. As I skim, I notice that there are one or two posts to you from me on this page as well. I think there is much that you have yet to address.

God bless, and I look forward to your next post,

Luke

Makeme,

Unfortunately, I got hooked on the Smurfs and the Wizard of Oz as a child. The influence of potions, sorcery, and revenge (Gargamel) had a tremendous impact on my life as an adult.

Smile,

Mercy

Luke,

I'll attempt to cut and paste a few answers at a time as we re-establish dialogue.

"I just noticed while skimming for KingdomBuilder that you wrote a long time ago that you were unemployed. Have you found work?"

Yes I have. A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to receive a position as the Assistant Catering Manager for the university that my wife and I live at. Combined, our income gives us the opportunity to relieve all outstanding debt and to build up for the future dates in which we may not be so fortunate.

"...storing up for themselves the treasure of a good founcation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed." 1 Timothy 6:19

""With regards to dispensationalism, all I have ever encouraged is the concept that 'God reveals Himself over different [periods of time/dispensations].'" No, I recall that you also asserted that Paul and James, in their letters in the New Testament, disagreed with each other over a matter of theology and salvation. Such a view is not in any way a development of the Early Church's doctrine. For their theology had at its starting point that the New Testament does not contradict itself; James and Paul cannot disagree on theology at all in these writings. But such a view is what I have been told many times is unique to Dispensationalism."

Though you are correct that I tend to "endorse" the theories of dispensationalism for their methods of study (i.e., God revealing Himself differently over time), there are many "dispensational" believers who do NOT believe that James and Paul were in conflict. My only reason for suggesting that there was likely a conflict has nothing to do with "dispensational theology," but rather, from two very key passages of Scripture. One: Galatians 2 shows a story in which Peter is handling himself appropriately before the Gentiles until "men of James" walk in and he suddenly begins to tease the Gentiles. This "change in attitude" suggests to an outside reader that these "men of James" (or men from the Jerusalem Council) had a differing influence over the men they came into contact with. Two: James 2:24 vs. Romans 3:28. The two passages directly challenge each other, but men continue to "explain away" the obvious challenge. Knowing that James (head of the Jerusalem Council) was a "law abiding" Jew, it is not hard for an outside reader to consider that he still was adament for "keeping the law" when he wrote James 2:24. Knowing that Paul was also a Jew, but taught things contrary to the "keeping of the Law," it is clear that his words teach a lifestyle "outside of the works of the law." Just glancing at Acts 21:21, we can get a taste of why those IN JERUSALEM (James as the head) were struggling with Paul's teaching. Take note that while James was present in Acts 21:21, he was not present in Paul's defense when he walked out of the temple later that week and was seized. Personally, if I were James, and I was the "leader of the Jerusalem Council" and I was also in agreement with Paul's teaching, I would have come to his rescue. That didn't happen.

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"One thing you may not know about me is that I don't tend to like Christian bookstores." I admit to being surprised at this. Have you not been stating, over and over, that the chief consideration in determining whether the Lord of the Rings is authentically Christian is whether it was in the Christian bookstores all along? If that was not your point all this time, I don't know what was. "The original point was... Isn't it interesting how this mystical fantasy book has suddenly peaked the interest of Christians..." That cannot have been the point, just that something like this was "interesting." This thread has clearly been a debate - a respectful debate, and I credit you especially for this - and the topic under debate is not whether it is "interesting" that Christian bookstores started carrying these books."

Well, believe it or not, Luke, it has been a respectful debate because though I have an opinion as to the usage of Christian Bookstores, I do not truly have some sort of deep rooted compassion for the industry. The situation I came across last year peaked my curiosity and when I originally posted this thread, I didn't imagine that the discussion would last as long as it did. For what has come, I am thankful, but I didn't imagine that it would bring out so much thought. Indeed, I didn't even know what I thought about the issue until we started discussing it. Prior to this thread, I didn't live and breathe Christian Bookstores, nor did I have some dwelling need to reprimand them for their foolishness. Rather, I thought that it would be "interesting" to approach them or to "call them out" for their HUGE posting of LOTR. Seemed almost reasonable that I suggest they put up a bulletin board for Harry Potter as well. Personally, I had no ill-will toward them, but more curiosity as to what they would say. In their defense, you have spoken the intelligence behind what I might have asked. In respect to this debate, I am thankful to you for those responses.

More later unless you choose to respond today...

In Christ Alone,

Mercy