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« Reply #45 on: January 08, 2009, 01:22:36 AM »
Quote from: Basherbelding on January 05, 2009, 12:38:04 PM
If you like it i guess it is, if your just doing it to go on with the story then no. Also war games cannot be sin as your not murdering your killing. Yes murdering is a sin, but killing is not. And that's the same on earth murder is against the law, killing is not.

Really? So the whole "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Commandment has no relevance at all?
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« Reply #46 on: January 08, 2009, 01:25:44 AM »
Quote from: MegaJedi on January 06, 2009, 10:39:30 PM
You look foolish complaining about pixels on a screen that change color when you push a button.  That is all killing on a video game is.  No more, no less. 

I took it further back in this post. It's lines of code, its computer programming, its photographs that are being moved around a screen by computer programming. I'm pretty sure throwing pictures (gun/bullets) at other pictures (whatever your attacking) is not killing or murder.

If killing in video games is a sin. Then taking a Polaroid out of a photo album and shredding it is a sin.
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« Reply #47 on: January 08, 2009, 03:43:09 AM »
I guess they think adding subtitles to movies (more lines of code) and those videos I made (and still am making) where I let people read the words when my favorite band sings their songs. 
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« Reply #48 on: January 08, 2009, 11:54:46 AM »
Quote from: fanuvmxpx on January 08, 2009, 01:22:36 AM
Quote from: Basherbelding on January 05, 2009, 12:38:04 PM
If you like it i guess it is, if your just doing it to go on with the story then no. Also war games cannot be sin as your not murdering your killing. Yes murdering is a sin, but killing is not. And that's the same on earth murder is against the law, killing is not.

Really? So the whole "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Commandment has no relevance at all?



Hmmm, i did not think about that. I still dont think it is a sin. As i thoght murder is sin and not killing.
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« Reply #49 on: January 08, 2009, 12:05:50 PM »
Quote from: Basherbelding on January 08, 2009, 11:54:46 AM
Hmmm, i did not think about that. I still dont think it is a sin. As i thoght murder is sin and not killing.

Ah, but what you think doesn't matter brother. Only God's Truth matters.
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« Reply #50 on: January 08, 2009, 07:32:24 PM »
Quote from: MegaJedi on January 06, 2009, 10:39:30 PM
You look foolish complaining about pixels on a screen that change color when you push a button.  That is all killing on a video game is.  No more, no less. 

If I look foolish for standing up for the truth, that so be it. People said stuff like that about Jesus too. That shall not kill doesn't become void just because it's in a video game. The same message still apllies, it plants the same type of seeds into people. The wrold is filled with influences. Games, movies, TV shows that make killing look like it's cool, present that type of a message.

btw, partaking in a discussion while speaking the truth, and complaining, are 2 totaly different things. It's amazing what those who want to silence the truth will resort to. False accusations, to try and make anyone who stands for truth, look like a fool.
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« Reply #51 on: January 08, 2009, 07:43:02 PM »
If you write a fictional work, and one of the characters dies, have you committed a sin by killing that character?
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« Reply #52 on: January 08, 2009, 08:29:32 PM »
Quote from: marc on January 08, 2009, 07:43:02 PM
If you write a fictional work, and one of the characters dies, have you committed a sin by killing that character?

No because that's  a story. Fictional story writers, often write things about reality and what's going on in the world.. In reality, these things happen.
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« Reply #53 on: January 08, 2009, 08:35:21 PM »
Quote from: the J Man on January 08, 2009, 08:29:32 PM
Quote from: marc on January 08, 2009, 07:43:02 PM
If you write a fictional work, and one of the characters dies, have you committed a sin by killing that character?

No because that's  a story. Fictional story writers, often write things about reality and what's going on in the world.. In reality, these things happen.

But sometimes they also write about fantasy, which I've noticed you have some trouble differentiating.

At any rate, what you've just said should make you think that maybe you don't have all truth here.  I don't know the answer to this particular question, and I don't believe that many of those who act like they do know either.
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« Reply #54 on: January 08, 2009, 09:48:46 PM »
in games like GTA the game is also fiction.
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« Reply #55 on: January 08, 2009, 10:15:48 PM »
Quote from: the J Man on January 08, 2009, 08:29:32 PM
Quote from: marc on January 08, 2009, 07:43:02 PM
If you write a fictional work, and one of the characters dies, have you committed a sin by killing that character?

No because that's  a story. Fictional story writers, often write things about reality and what's going on in the world.. In reality, these things happen.

You pretty much can't have a video game without a story.  So...in a sense, a video game is like a story, but it's just a story that you play.  Can you get any further in a video game unless you kill this boss?  That's part of the FICTIONAL story in the video game, isn't it?
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« Reply #56 on: January 09, 2009, 02:59:06 PM »
Quote from: marc on January 08, 2009, 08:35:21 PM


But sometimes they also write about fantasy, which I've noticed you have some trouble differentiating.

Fantasy is an escapefrom reality. Fantasy is trying to make your own world. All fiction is, is using your imagination to write something. Since I just differetiated that for you, how do you claim that I have trouble differentiating fantasy from fiction?

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At any rate, what you've just said should make you think that maybe you don't have all truth here. 

Or perhaps you and many others, just don't want to accept the truth? That is why you deabte against the truth and those who speak it, so  much?
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« Reply #57 on: January 09, 2009, 03:05:25 PM »
Quote from: wolflet7 on January 08, 2009, 10:15:48 PM


You pretty much can't have a video game without a story.  So...in a sense, a video game is like a story, but it's just a story that you play.  Can you get any further in a video game unless you kill this boss?  That's part of the FICTIONAL story in the video game, isn't it?

It's not the story that's evil, it's what some of these games promote. The Word of God says thou shall not kill, it also says to have no fellowship witht he unfrutiful works of darkness, but rather reprove them(Ephesians5:11),  to abhor what is evil and cleave to what is good(Romans12:9), it  to be holy as the Lord is holy(1st Peter1:16).  Jesus told us to shine our light before men(Matthew5:16). How in the world can you shine light in a dark world when you are partaking in things that are of this world? Video games that promote killing, witchcraft, occultism, are wicked in the sight of God. They go against His will. They are instruments of the devil that he uses to reach the masses.
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« Reply #58 on: January 09, 2009, 03:55:32 PM »
Quote from: the J Man on January 09, 2009, 03:05:25 PM
Quote from: wolflet7 on January 08, 2009, 10:15:48 PM


You pretty much can't have a video game without a story.  So...in a sense, a video game is like a story, but it's just a story that you play.  Can you get any further in a video game unless you kill this boss?  That's part of the FICTIONAL story in the video game, isn't it?

It's not the story that's evil, it's what some of these games promote. The Word of God says thou shall not kill, it also says to have no fellowship witht he unfrutiful works of darkness, but rather reprove them(Ephesians5:11),  to abhor what is evil and cleave to what is good(Romans12:9), it  to be holy as the Lord is holy(1st Peter1:16).  Jesus told us to shine our light before men(Matthew5:16). How in the world can you shine light in a dark world when you are partaking in things that are of this world? Video games that promote killing, witchcraft, occultism, are wicked in the sight of God. They go against His will. They are instruments of the devil that he uses to reach the masses.


And yet earlier you admited that killing someone in a book is not a sin....Double standard much?
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« Reply #59 on: January 09, 2009, 05:00:45 PM »
Quote from: MegaJedi on January 09, 2009, 03:55:32 PM
And yet earlier you admited that killing someone in a book is not a sin....Double standard much?

I just checked and I have over 1,000 kills now in my favorite game
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