The Puritans, drawing on the early church father's, so thoroughly condemned the theatre that it would be hard imagining them allowing much tv watching at all. They would know most tv watching today is spiritual suicide
You can survey the million sermons on sermonaudio and determine where American Christianity is at by what the pastors do not preach on. For example The two places in the gospels where Jesus rebukes the jewish leaders for not enforcing God's Word to
If we had even a slight knowledge of the historic church teaching on theatre we would probably return to the prohibitions against attending all movies and thus most tv. Partaking in any sin by voluntarily watching it is condemned by scriptures. But who cares about that today?
I graduated from Bethel with a master's in Christian ministry one year before Jim in 1990. I started my masters program at Notre Dame but left because they only teach evolution everywhere at ND. Bethel college definitely took the right position. Jim is wrong and I have written him that he is wrong. One question solves most of this debate. What did Jesus and the apostles believe about the story of Adam and Eve: real or myth?
Ted Cruz dad runs Benny Hinn's wife's ministry Purifying Fire. Benny is from Jaffa, Israel. Ted's wife is a manager or vice-president with Goldman Sachs. The neo con and Christian zionist connections seem strong
“ finally ” It is very hard to find a sermon on I timothy 6: 1,2 i.e. that slaves are required by the command of Christ to count their masters worthy of all honor so that they be not guilty of the sin of blasphemy. This was the issue that separated the baptists, methodists and presbyterians prior to the civil war. Shocking that almost all preachers avoid the main thing that is destroying the church today. Robert Lewis Dabney saw this Judaism as the main enemy within the church. If we fail to honor our parents (kings, slavemasters etc.) we will live a short life and things will not go well with us. The churches failure to uphold God ordained authority like slavemasters and kings and husbands etc. is perhaps the fundamental reason our culture is sliding toward Gomorrah.
In my understanding of scripture and the early church fathers I can not imagine that Christ's church can nocondemn most sports today. Ironically most preachers approve most sports today. The communists supposedly said back in the 20's that they would destroy America through sports and sex. In the book of Maccabees we see the synagogue being displaced by the gymnasium. Today is similar.
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