Think Carefully before seeing this dangerous (yes, dangerous) movie

I do get your point, but seriously, there are far serious threats than this completely stupid film. Some supposedly Christian churches themselves have people brainwashed and in complete fear of God and all non Christians! That is more dangerous than a film such as this, which most people with half a brain can distingush as throwaway entertainment, NOT to be taken seriously or literallly, unlike some extremist Christian preachers.

I do consider myself a Christian by the way, but I don't like that forceful, fearmongering and dangerous style of preaching you have going on in the USA. That's just wrong.

>>"Lastly, that the demons had such an upperhand over the saints (e.g. could restrain them at will) is a totally false representation of reality"


LOL
Oh my... just... WOW.

"totally false representation of reality".....
I cant stop laughing....

"reality"....
please stop me before I burst my gut.

I can't beleieve you and people like you can actually make it through life.

>>" I implore you to get very grounded in scripture so that your thinking is not severely poisoned."

TOO LATE

Caugh! Caugh! Excuse me?

It depends on your perspective and perceptions my friend. I happen to be a Neopagan of some quarter century past and what ye may seek to cite caution of be nay intimidation to me.

I would remind you that there is a very real manifestation of the entities pertaining to darkness and the collective conscious of Judaic variant doctrines give rise to many forms of demonic existance, then are very poorly equipped to deal with the fall out.

Creating something then burying ones head in the sand because of the power of such demonic manifestation in corpus to this plane is too much to deal with nor bear witnes to, does more harm and no good at all. 'Tis more often they of my creed and similar who are left to actually bring stability between the realms and of light and darkness yet those who often create evil shun pagans and Neopagans as heretics. 'Tis a strange existance!

I prefer horror fiction that has a fundemental basis of truth as one needs to know the darkness to defeat the darkness.

The truths within fiction are most often a real point of reference to the manifestations of our reality, indeed!

It's not dangerous to me, it would be nice if you had added a prelude to your statement rather than assuming that everyone reading it would be Christian.

I'm not and I don't like it when people assume that I am.

To imdb-15682,

I am not a highly religious person so I will not attempt to discuss scripture but I do beleive that this is a movie for entertainment only and anyone with faith will take it as such.

To all those who feel the need to bash,

Let this person alone. I'm sure not everthing you post is insightful or agreeable to everyone so there is no reason for degrading comments. If you think I'm preaching, no, I'm just saying grow up and let people say their piece. They have as much right to voice an opinion as anyone. Even if you think its 'whatever', unless you can have a reasonable conversation, leave them alone.

Regarding...

>Healing and raising the dead are, according to the commands to us in the Bible, supposed to be normal for the Christian church at large. The fact that the churches involved in the movie were so taken by them, and as well that they were totally attributed to an evil personage, is a sad but true
>commentary of the state of the church

The above is a bizarre statement. The kinds of "healings" in this movie are almost never seen in the real world. It is completely appropriate for a Christian to be surprised by spontaneous healings. As for raising the dead, it is ridiculous to suggest that this should be regarded as an everyday occurance, unworthy of a strong reaction. Your comments are way off base here. Furthermore, the people reacting to these healings don't know if the guy is evil or not when the healings begin.

>The 2nd reason is that, for those Christians that are NOT aware of their authority in Christ (see Luke 9, 10, Matt 10, James 5 for examples), this movie has a high potential for making them think that
>anything of this nature must be of the devil.

This is just one story. There's no reason to think that this will poison people's minds in the way that you suggest. To explain more would give away plot points, so I will refrain from continuing.

>There weren't any examples of Christians correctly operating in these areas to bring any balance.

That is simply incorrect. The character portrayed by Randy Travis did this.

>That the very holy gifts that have been given us through the holy presence and ministry of the Holy Spirit were only represented as attributed to demonic activity is very close to blaspheming Him and His
>ministry.

That's the most bizarre statement you made. It's completely off base. You haven't backed your statement up in any way, so I won't go into further details (again, I don't want to give away plot info here), but you seem to be jumping to one false conclusion after another.

>Lastly, that the demons had such an upperhand over the saints (e.g. could restrain them at will) is a totally false representation of reality (again see the Luke references) and could bring extreme fear on
>the unlearned/immature in the truth.

The demons did not have control over any saints. There are no saints in the movie. Your argument is bizarre. It's like you didn't even watch the film.

>Don't get me wrong, considering author Frank P.'s heart (we've read his original thrillers and his Dr. Cooper series, various articles as well as heard numerous interviews with him over the last 18 years) I'm sure these serious consequences were not his intention - indeed there are issues here he may not be
>aware of.

Frank is aware of the film and loves it. I think you've misinterpreted the whole movie and I can't imagine more spurious statements.
--Jeff--

Jeffrey Lee Hollis

It's only a film.

You want to see a truly dangerous and disturbing movie? Check out "Jesus Camp"!

Yipes! Park your brain at the door.