Movies a Christian should not watch

A born again Christian should not watch movies that promote

• Idolatry
• Sexual immorality
• Astrology, magic, occultism, sorcery, and witchcraft
• Violence
• Racial prejudice
• Gender discrimination

1. A Christian should not watch movies that promote idolatry

A Christian should not watch movies that promote idolatry because this is against the commandments of God. Exodus 20:3–4 teaches that idolatry is a sin punishable by God. This is what it says:

“You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”

There are movies that communicate the message that there are other powers besides God capable of helping humans achieve whatever it is they desire.

We also have movies in which the actors pray to statues of animals, humans, or heavenly bodies and, in the process, get ‘helped out of trouble’.

If your Christian faith is not well grounded, it is easy to get swayed into believing that you can actually pray to a statute and receive answers to your prayers.

So, stop watching such movies, for they send wrong signals to your heart, and it won’t be long before you start practicing what you see in those movies.

2. A Christian should not watch movies that promote sexual immorality

A Christian should not watch movies that promote sexual relations outside marriage, such as adultery, fornication, incest, or sex with animals. This is because the Bible prohibits all forms of sexual relations between individuals who are not husband and wife. Let us look at the scriptures that support this statement.

Leviticus 20:10–21 summarizes sexual immorality and its punishment. This is what it says:

“The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death. The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood will be upon them. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them will surely be put to death. They have committed perversion. Their blood will be upon them. If a man lies with a male as much as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They will surely be put to death. Their blood will be upon them. If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you. If a man mates with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They will surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them.

If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked thing. And they shall be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his guilt. If a man lies with a woman during her sickness and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood. Both of them will be cut off from their people.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that would uncover his next of kin. They will bear their guilt. If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.”

When you watch a movie that promotes adultery, fornication, incest, or sex with animals, you will be planting seeds in your mind about the same. When you continue watching such movies, you will actually be watering those seeds, and with time they will germinate, mature, and produce fruits. When the fruits mature, you will find yourself engaging in these practices without feeling any conviction that you are actually sinning. The end of which is death, in accordance with Romans 6:23, which says

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

3. A Christian should not watch movies that promote homosexuality

A Christian should not watch a movie that promotes homesexuality because the scriptures strongly condemn same-sex relations, right from the Old Testament all the way to the New Testament. Beginning in Genesis, we see God exclusively instituting a male-female type of union.

Genesis 1:27–28 says:

“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””

From this passage, we learn that humans were created, male and female, for the purpose of multiplication and rulership.

In Genesis 2:24–25, scripture says:

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”

This scripture teaches that a proper marriage institution should be comprised of a man (husband) and a woman (wife).

In Leviticus 18:22, we read

“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.”

Leviticus 20:13 terms homosexuality an abomination whose punishment is death. This is what it says:

“If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They will surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.”

In 1 Corinthians 6:9, we read:

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.”

Therefore, when you sit down as a Christian to watch a movie that promotes homosexuality, you are polluting your heart and mind with inappropriate content.

4. A Christian should not watch movies that promote astrology, magic, occultism, sorcery, and witchcraft

A Christian should not watch movies that promote astrology, magic, sorcery, or witchcraft because all these practices are abominations to God and are thus prohibited by the scriptures. By engaging in these practices, an individual gets entangled with the spirit world, thus alienating themselves from God.

By watching movies that promote these practices, slowly but surely, you begin to get drawn into embracing them, believing that they are harmless. Before you know it, you find yourself deeply involved and at a point of no return.

Let us consider some scriptures that teach against these practices.

In Leviticus 20:6, God warns the children of Israel against seeking the counsel of mediums and individuals with familiar spirits. This is what the scripture says:

“And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.”

The book of Deuteronomy 18:9–11 speaks against divination, witchcraft, sorcery, spiritism, and the like. It says:

“When you enter the land that the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, one who interprets omens, a sorcerer, one who casts a spell, a medium, a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.”

Isaiah 8:19 teaches against consulting the mediums, wizards, whisperers, and those who mutter. It says:

”And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,” Should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?”

Isaiah 47:12 speaks against astrology, enchantments, and sorceries. It says:

“Stand now with your enchantments and the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth—perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you will prevail. You are wearied by the multitude of your counsels; let now the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from what shall come upon you. Behold, they shall be as stubble, the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; it shall not be a coal to be warmed by, nor a fire to sit before!”

Daniel 2:27 speaks of the inadequacies of magicians, astrologers, and fortune tellers in revealing the mysteries of God. It says:

“Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king. But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.””

5. A Christian should not watch movies that promote violence

A Christian should not watch movies that glorify violence because the Bible is against such conduct. The violence enacted in some movies is sometimes extreme and may thus disturb a vulnerable heart.

The more you watch films with violent scenes, the more accustomed you become to violence. Before you know it, you may find yourself acting in a similar manner when faced with threatening situations. In short, you stop responding to threats and begin reacting to them.

Let us consider some scriptures that teach against violence 

Proverbs 22:24 warns us against making friendship with an angry and furious man. This is what it says:

“Make no friendships with an angry man, and with a furious man do not go, lest you learn his ways and set a snare for your soul.”

We find a similar scripture in Proverbs 29:22, which says

“An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.”

In Psalms 11:5, we read

“The LORD tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.”

6. A Christian should not watch movies that promote racial prejudice

A Christian should not watch movies that promote racial discrimination because the Bible teaches that all humans are equal before the eyes of God. The Bible also teaches that man is created in the image of God; that means all men, not just whites, blacks, or the colored, bear the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27).

There are films that seek to glorify one race over the other with the aim of domination.

Scriptures that teach against racial prejudice abound. We sample some of them in the following section.

Galatians 3:28 says that

“There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

1 Corinthians 12:13 echoes similar sentiments as follows:

“For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.”

Romans 2:11 also teaches against discrimination by stating as follows:

“For there is no partiality with God.”

Conclusion

This article discussed the kinds of movies a Christian should not watch from a Biblical perspective. In this regard, movies that promote idolatry, sexual immorality, the use of magic, star-reading, occultism, violence, racial prejudice, gender discrimination, sorcery, witchcraft, and the like are not fit for consumption by any serious Christian. It is therefore important to exercise caution when settling for a particular movie because, what you allow into your heart and mind ultimately shapes your character in the long run. I leave you with the words recorded in Philippians 4:8, which say:

“Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue, and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things.”

I hope the information was helpful. Thank you.

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