The Golden Compass: Take Two
In light of one of my recent post on Philip Pullman, I think I should clarify where I am coming from.
1. I think that we should use caution when becoming defensive, for in doing so we defend the God he promotes. He will see that Christians are mad that He is saying that he will kill God. If we look closely, God is viewed as a tyrant and unneeded, which is honestly not the God we Christians believe in.
2. As far as making kids stumble, I think that we should take the scripture reference as speaking to bringing hard times to those who have no power to keep the hard times away and things that follow that nature. If you have the power to keep someone from seeing God and do so, then your neck is in danger. And if we look deeper, we might see that someone should be drowning on account of painting a horrible of God which Philip Pullman has seen, which might be the seed of many things he is saying today.
3. I have done my research and never denied that he hates Lewis or wants to destroy Christianity. He can even sound militant at times. But I also think that Christians can be just as evil as non-Christians, but non-Christians can be just as good as Christians. Looking at my earlier posts, I think that prophecy can come from unchristian people, because prophecy's main point is to call evil out where evil exists. By asking questions, I was trying to create a mindset to question things down to their true core. People say words, but why do people say words? People say they want to kill, but why do they want to kill? I am merely trying to build understanding as to the possible nature of Pullman's dislikes.
4. Lastly, for this post, I think we should be more interested in witnessing God than defending (as if God needs defending). Sometimes simple grace can turn the tides of the craziest moments of faith.
I hope that this clarifies that I was not agreeing with Pullman or trying to paint a pretty picture. I was trying to open new routes to saving and understanding that even though he thinks he is killing YHWH, he might be doing more to push his will than kill it. Just an avenue leading out of the box. Hope I am clarified here.
1. I think that we should use caution when becoming defensive, for in doing so we defend the God he promotes. He will see that Christians are mad that He is saying that he will kill God. If we look closely, God is viewed as a tyrant and unneeded, which is honestly not the God we Christians believe in.
2. As far as making kids stumble, I think that we should take the scripture reference as speaking to bringing hard times to those who have no power to keep the hard times away and things that follow that nature. If you have the power to keep someone from seeing God and do so, then your neck is in danger. And if we look deeper, we might see that someone should be drowning on account of painting a horrible of God which Philip Pullman has seen, which might be the seed of many things he is saying today.
3. I have done my research and never denied that he hates Lewis or wants to destroy Christianity. He can even sound militant at times. But I also think that Christians can be just as evil as non-Christians, but non-Christians can be just as good as Christians. Looking at my earlier posts, I think that prophecy can come from unchristian people, because prophecy's main point is to call evil out where evil exists. By asking questions, I was trying to create a mindset to question things down to their true core. People say words, but why do people say words? People say they want to kill, but why do they want to kill? I am merely trying to build understanding as to the possible nature of Pullman's dislikes.
4. Lastly, for this post, I think we should be more interested in witnessing God than defending (as if God needs defending). Sometimes simple grace can turn the tides of the craziest moments of faith.
I hope that this clarifies that I was not agreeing with Pullman or trying to paint a pretty picture. I was trying to open new routes to saving and understanding that even though he thinks he is killing YHWH, he might be doing more to push his will than kill it. Just an avenue leading out of the box. Hope I am clarified here.
posted by Russell Purvis at
6:26 PM
2 Comments:
I agree that we should spend less time defending, and more time witnessing. Solid point...
I need to look into the Movie a lil' more though before I can talk about it...
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TaylorW, At
12/26/2007 09:25:00 PM
Much of the smoke and flames about this seem to have been wasted, as the movie apparently wasn't much good, and the 2nd and 3rd volumes almost certainly won't be filmed. They are more anti-church than the first volume.
By
Martin LaBar, At
12/27/2007 01:32:00 PM
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