The
Truth
A
surprising interest is born for the reading and the cinema, but what are they
provoking in the mind of the children the books and Harry Potter's movie? Will
be innocent fantasy or disappointment ?
Millions expect eager
to be able to fill his spiritual emptiness. For
three years the books Harry Potter, written by the Englishwoman Joanne
Kathleen Rowling, have invaded principally the bookshops of England and The
United States. The first three books, of a series of seven, have achieved
sales of 480 million dollars and have been translated in about 35 languages,
and now are in the cinema of the whole world.
In a spectacle of marketing without equal, they used the suspense to captivate the intrigue, children and adults waited in long rows to buy the fourth title of the series; " Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ". These turned into the book that more fast has sold in the history. Which is the topic of these books and the cinematographic movie that calls so much the attention ?
The Response is: " The witchcraft ".
Harry Potter in the first book; " Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ", he is a orphan boy 11 year old who discovers that he has power to practise the witchcraft. His parents also had been bewitching, but they were murdered by the wicked wizard Lord Voldemort. Harry lives with the Dursleys, the family who took charge of him when he remained an orphan, these treat him despotically. After the young boy find out about his magical heredity he decided to register in the school of enchantment and witchcraft Hogwarts, fact that gives beginning to the plot. Every book adds one year of life to Harry, and narrates the experiences through that this one lives while he studies in the singular school including the different conflicts tha has with his enemies. The second book titles: " Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ", in this Harry discovers what is causing that some students of the school Hogwarts return in stones. In the third title " Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban " the supposed assassin and godfather of Harry; Sirius Black, escapes of the wizards' jail and is in search of the apprentice child. The fourth book " Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" the young man falls in love and go to the Quiddith's world competition; sport similar to the football that the wizards play demolishing brooms in the air. By this part the wicked Lord Voldemort continues with his snares and plans the murder of the protagonist. " The books will be becoming increasingly sinister, the things are going to be putting Harry increasingly difficult. I feel it, if others are more frightful ", this way expressed to the London newspaper "The Times" the authoress refer to the next three books that will extract to the market. With the seventh title finish the series, in this Harry Potter will graduate of wizard.
The reasons of the rage
The called Harrymanía is captivating the interest of parents and children. What is it about? For years it is known that the children are charmed with the world of the fantasies, stories as The Magician of Oz, this way they have verified it. On the other hand, the parents seem to understand that if exercises the imagination and foments the reading, the history cannot be dangerous. In addition many mass media of renown also support the series of books. "The spectacular success of the books Harry Potter probably helps to create a new generation of hardened readers. At least they us remember that the histories well corresponded with interesting prominent figures manage to find a hearing ", there wrote the journalist Anna Quindlen in the magazine Newsweek (17/7/00). Even the Christian writer Charles Colson commented on Rowling's magic: " Harry and his friends throw charms, they read balls of crystal, and themselves turn into animals, but they do not do contact with the supernatural world ".
" If it is not a contact with the occultism then what will
be.? "
Another aspect to consider is the concept that the people have of what is witchcraft, enchantment and magic. According to the Vox Dictionary, witchcraft is the thing realized with a supernatural malignant power. The New Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible defines the enchantment as the practice that tries to influence the persons and the facts for "supernatural" or secret means. Magic is the secret science that tries to produce effects with help of supernatural beings or of secret forces of the nature, according to the Everest Dictionary . This last term the world has divided it in two branches; black magic is the one that is in use for harming other persons, white magic is the one that some of them consider to be "good", since it is said that there are in use the supernatural power of a not selfish way for the benefit of others.
Nevertheless, the Bible does not speak about a separation of white or black, it is only one term without surname and abominable for God. The practice of the magic to imitate the divine power - as what the magicians of the Pharaoh did in Exodus, and the King Manases in 2 Chronicles 33:6 - is finally prohibited in the Bible. The transformation in Simon's life the magician, repeats this lesson (see Acts 8:9-13). In a lot of time the inhabitants of Samaria remained amazed with the power of magic that Simon was using. But Philip came to share good new for these lands and both men and women they believed, between them also Simon. The real power; the one of God, extracted of the deception.
The enchantment, magic and witchcraft are acts in essence
synonymous. They have common denominators: they are
acts of subordination to
power foreign to the only God, are opposed to the Law, and are endorsed by
demons. A verse like Leviticus 19:31 cannot be clearer and forceful: " turn
neither to the medium nor to the spiritualists, do not even look for them to
be contaminated by them. I am the Lord your God ". The medium is the person
who is considered to be provided with the paranormal powers that allow him to
act of mediating in the communication with the spirits, and the spiritualism
is the doctrine according to which, after the death, the spirit pervive under
a semimaterial form, and across a medium, can communicate with the alive ones,
according to the Dictionary Vox.
What the public has passed for high is that the curiosity that produces to read histories like this what they do is to contaminate the minds. Ideas foreign to God begin to sink in into the spirit of the reader, which in this case mainly they are children 9 year old in forward. " I like because they teach me everything what relates to the magic; how I can use it to control the people and how to take revenge for my enemies ", commented Craig Nowe a 10 year old child. Likewise hundreds of adults have the erroneous idea of that the witchcraft will help to solve his problems rapidly.
What clearly is happening is that has presenting a positive image of the occultism. This was what a wizard wrote anonymous to the Christian Aliance Against Harry Potter in his page of Internet: " You look like that they do not want to see that there is nothing bad or perverse with the witchcraft. I am bewitching and certainly I am not wicked , I would never damage to anybody ". Missives like this one are those that are profaned the truth because the persons tend to think intellectually and not spiritually. If God orders us not to interfere with the secret power everything what we have to do it is to obey and point. He established his laws and they are for our own good, so that not correspond to us to question it.
The world once again is reducing seriousness to messages like: " the end justifies the means", "there are good wizards", and "the violence entertains", that appear disguised behind a child of noble heart, like is Harry Potter. Well it seems that the ignorance is one of the principal causers of this thousand- year- old evil. According to what has expressed JK Rowling in diverse interviews, we do not believe that he has the intenseness of not even adults drag not to small to the glooms. " My world of magic is a world of imagination. I think that it is a moral world ", she commented in an interview for Internet and added, " I do not believe in the class of magic that it appears in my books ".
Lamentably for naivety many people have ended in the abyss. Because of it is that the Word says: " And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free ", John 8:32. What it implies is genuinely to know the truth.
Behind the curtain
Who is Joanne Kathleen Rowling? This 35 year old young
woman aprox. was born in Yacht, England. From about 6 years old she discovered
her passion for the writing when she wrote her first story about a rabbit
called, Rabbit. From small she liked very much to study being the English
class her favorite subject. Because of it she does not explain to herselfhow
she was that Frenchman ended up by studying in the University Exeter in her
country. On having finished her career she worked as secretary, but she did
not like it because she not considered to be an organized person. What she
confessed is that was devoting himself to write histories during working
hours.
At the age of 26 she decided to leave her employment and moved to Portugal where she devoted to teach English. This work was fascinating her because was having time her to write. Harry Potter's history was born in Rowling's imagination while was finding in that country and after two novels that she never published " for bad that they were " according to her own words. In 1993 she returned to England with a daughter, Jessica, and she fills one of the suitcases with papers written to hand. She had separated of her ex-husband, a Portuguese journalist, and she decided to establish her residence in Edinburgh. She lived through difficult moments economically for what was obliged to request public assistance.
What she never imagined is everything what would happen later that a published house agreed to publish Harry Potter her first book. Today she is the woman best paid in England, in 1999 she earned 30.64 million dollars, and her books have been for 98 weeks in the list of most sold of the periodic of New York Times.
Most when we read her expressions the words that stand out are depression, anxiety, weariness, absence of peace, and alienation. With the reputation she has received the harassment of the press, defamations, and even she has been demanded by plagiarism. In an interview with the periodic The Times exclaimed - "I wanted that leave me alone with my art! ". Sadly the happiness has not touched her door. In the same interview she demonstrated: " The people want that the life is nice. It undoubtedly is true. But one of four truths of Buda is: ' the life is a suffering '. I am charmed with it ". You and I know what she needs:
To Jesus. Good would be if she were using the whole talent that indisputably has to reflect another line of thought, that is to say, to exalt the Father God.!
On the other side, I think that these are the opportunities that the Lord puts in the way of the Christian in order that he is a light. How must have to confront Harry Potter's adventures? We have to study the Word with the children, and penetrate into Christ's love. It is a responsibility of the parents topics discuss as the dread of God like that also everything what says the Bible on the detestable thing that is any type of enchantment before the God's eyes.
" There is not found in you who makes happen to his son or to his daughter for the fire, who neither prophecy, nor fortune-teller practises, not spell, neither wizard, nor magician, nor guess, neither magician, or the one who consults the dead men. Because it is an abomination with Jehova anyone that does these things, and for these abominations Jehova your God throws these nations of in front of you " Deuteronomy 18:10-12. To this continues to pray with and for our children every day. It is necessary to establish conversations with the small ones, stimulate to they express his feelings so that could know the challenges that they confront and how they face them. Both adults and boys have to understand that not everything what appears already is in the television, radio or press - in this case books - are exemplary models of moral values.
What often is considered to be "a" "healthy" entertainment, also is capable of distort the Biblical patterns of conduct. For nothing it wants to be said that the fantasy and the use of the imagination is not good, cartoons encouraged like Wise and Prudent and the Veggie Such like that demonstrates it. We cannot also take passive attitudes that yield before the situations that we know that they are not of benefit for the subsequent generations. Everything can be discussed in love, the idea is every day to try to be more like He (God). The parents have, for obligation, that everything veils the material one that is within reach of his children, this includes books, music, television programs etc. Besides if it is not good for the children either it is for the parents, give the example.
" We want to mention the launch of " Liberate Us of the evil " Cindy Jacobs's new book, which treats with topics as Harry Potter, Pokemon, Wicca, and many other topics of the occultism. "
Now in the following article you will be able to learn other lies that are in use for confusing those who have devoted themselves to read these history.
It
shares these lessons, expands the Word of God.
We
want to serve, allows to do it.
Creele a Dios Ministries 2007