star wars is evil (according to christians)

When The Phantom Menace was released, the head bishop of The Church Of England endorsed the values & messages in the film, and Star Wars as a whole. But, such is the depth of the story that other faiths could find their values there, too. Yoda is very Budddist in his beliefs & teachings, for example.

Forget the fundamentalists. They go after properties like The Wizard Of Oz & Harry Potter, too.

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maybe thats why they call it a holy trilogy

I Read the King James Version the ORIGINAL KING JAMES VERSION.

Originally posted by Sesse
How can you tell? You might be currently reading the modern Bible version 8.3234 beta.

The original scriptures written between 32-100 BC. What is written in those... Thats the interesting part.

Now we are having a translation of a translations translation infront of us. Gee, I wonder how much of it is still intact.

Power and Force could be considered synonyms. Not by todays standards of course, but we are talking about semantics. Was the original word intented to mean power, or force.

Jesus was talking about HIS DIVINE POWER, not some force that everyone has, cuz if that were the case we would have people force shoking eachother now, but Jesus is God, not a jedi.

Originally posted by Sesse
How can you tell? You might be currently reading the modern Bible version 8.3234 beta.

The original scriptures written between 32-100 BC. What is written in those... Thats the interesting part.

Now we are having a translation of a translations translation infront of us. Gee, I wonder how much of it is still intact.

Power and Force could be considered synonyms. Not by todays standards of course, but we are talking about semantics. Was the original word intented to mean power, or force.

The bible had about twice the number of manuscripts as the odessy, but few people dispute the acuracy of what was translated in the odessy, why is that?

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The New Eidences that Demand a verdict by Josh McDowell.

Though there are many translations of the Bible, the fundamentals of what are written are the same. I mostly stick to the NIV version of the bible, because it is easier to read, but I do read from every translation, and they all have the exact same meaning.

Even in church sometimes, the pastor will preach from the King James and I will be reading from the New International Version, and though the exact words used are different, the meaning is the same.

Originally posted by Man of Christ
Jesus was talking about HIS DIVINE POWER, not some force that everyone has, cuz if that were the case we would have people force shoking eachother now, but Jesus is God, not a jedi.

According to christian beliefs Jesus is the the son of God, and thus has the power of God. Power and the force are not neccisaraly synonumus, The force exists in all living beings, Power, on the other hand, doesn't neccisarily.

I do admit that there are parts of the bible that dont translate 100%. For example: the word love.

In the greek language, which much of the bible was wtitten in, there are 3 words for love:
agapao: an unselfish, unconditional, sacrificial love.
phileo: a friendship kind of love.
Eros: A romantic love.

Agapao and Phileo appear in the bible several times, but Eros does not appear in the bible. Here are 2 verses in which Agape and Phileo appear.

Husbands, love (agapao) your wives, even as Christ also loved (agapao) the church, and gave himself for it; - Eph. 5:25

If any man love (phileo) not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. - I Cor. 16:22

To return to the origional translations is the best way to understand the bible, but for a fundamental understanding, it is not absolutely neccisary.

Good point. We live in a time were love=sex. 😉

Unfortunately we do.

Originally posted by coolmovies
Intresting !! 😮

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUrCF7fpViw&feature=related

It happens in the best of families.

Originally posted by The big EH
i totally thought it was a universal christian thing to be one those hardcore nerds.....apparently i was wrong, but this guy is a complete and total tool

Yea but it was a fake, so...

So?

People are in here talking as if that was an actual protest, and I just want to make sure that we all understand that it's not.

If we all do understand and I am just making a fool of myself... well that's not really an uncommon thing. 🙁

Originally posted by coolmovies
Intresting !! 😮

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUrCF7fpViw&feature=related

Religion sucks... the OT doesn't, so they should just STFU.

Errr... right....

Don't freak out, Queeq... I'm just kidding.

Originally posted by Blax_Hydralisk
This is pretty funny considering.

A) I'm Christian.

B) Half my friends are Christians

C) We all love Star Wars.

This thread fails for generalizing.

QFT.

I was going to say the same thing.

As mentioned, Lucas is a Methodist Christian, and the saga is full of tons of Spiritual references, both Christian and non.

I know a good many pastors who use Luke, Anakin, the temptation of darkside/power in sermons. 😛

The people in the video are out to lunch, and not representative of most Christians.