THE GOLDEN COMPASS - Making God in our image
http://apostlepd.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/beware-of-this-movie-part-ii/
I recently read this great little blog about one person's reason for why they were going to see the movie. I may see it eventually and I personally have read the first book which is well written although the overall tone in not hopeful, and rather melancholy. The tone of the book is full of remorse and longing. Because of this I have not pursued more in the series. Anyway, I agree with the author of the above article because there are many more pervasive and insidious things passing as entertainment.
As believers in Jesus Christ and followers of the true God, we do need to understand the creation around us, that we are part of and partakers of. Man is made in the image of God but we are fallen, perverted, and twisted by our sin nature. Our worldview needs to be shaped by God himself, through the "renewing of our minds" - meditating on Scripture, spending time in God's word.
I think of the second commandment where we are admonished to not create any gods of our own. In my understanding of "The Golden Compass," Phillip Pullman has created a god of his own choosing, an impotent, helpless old god, who is eventually killed. As the Bible clearly states in Exodus 20:4 this is something God Almighty knows we are prone to do. We limit, restrict, and "box" God in by our own limited intellect and understanding. Let us pray that God will reveal to us more and more of who He is as we stay rooted in His truth.
So enjoy what God has given us, the ability to reason, to read, to think, to pray. And let us constantly fill our minds with His thoughts. I wrote a song with that specifically in mind because I know that I am "prone to wander" even if just in my thoughts and that cascades into various areas of my life. Paul himself writes that he did the things he did not want to. Let's be willing to engage the world where it is but let us be "in it" not "of it."
RENEW MY MIND by Graham Page
Oh Lord, I'm driven to distraction
Too many things vie for my attention
Oh Lord, what is this strange attraction
Only You deserve my affection
So renew my mind, Refresh my soul
Cleanse my heart, And make me whole
Restore Your fire, to my life my love, my all
Lord, renew my mind on You
This world is not my friend (x3)
http://apostlepd.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/beware-of-this-movie-part-ii/
I recently read this great little blog about one person's reason for why they were going to see the movie. I may see it eventually and I personally have read the first book which is well written although the overall tone in not hopeful, and rather melancholy. The tone of the book is full of remorse and longing. Because of this I have not pursued more in the series. Anyway, I agree with the author of the above article because there are many more pervasive and insidious things passing as entertainment.
As believers in Jesus Christ and followers of the true God, we do need to understand the creation around us, that we are part of and partakers of. Man is made in the image of God but we are fallen, perverted, and twisted by our sin nature. Our worldview needs to be shaped by God himself, through the "renewing of our minds" - meditating on Scripture, spending time in God's word.
I think of the second commandment where we are admonished to not create any gods of our own. In my understanding of "The Golden Compass," Phillip Pullman has created a god of his own choosing, an impotent, helpless old god, who is eventually killed. As the Bible clearly states in Exodus 20:4 this is something God Almighty knows we are prone to do. We limit, restrict, and "box" God in by our own limited intellect and understanding. Let us pray that God will reveal to us more and more of who He is as we stay rooted in His truth.
So enjoy what God has given us, the ability to reason, to read, to think, to pray. And let us constantly fill our minds with His thoughts. I wrote a song with that specifically in mind because I know that I am "prone to wander" even if just in my thoughts and that cascades into various areas of my life. Paul himself writes that he did the things he did not want to. Let's be willing to engage the world where it is but let us be "in it" not "of it."
RENEW MY MIND by Graham Page
Oh Lord, I'm driven to distraction
Too many things vie for my attention
Oh Lord, what is this strange attraction
Only You deserve my affection
So renew my mind, Refresh my soul
Cleanse my heart, And make me whole
Restore Your fire, to my life my love, my all
Lord, renew my mind on You
This world is not my friend (x3)
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