ServantofGod
Puritan Board Junior
I hope this is the place to put this, but I've wondering for a while, is playing Dungeons and Dragons always wrong? Is there ways to play it that aren't wrong? Are all RPG's wrong? What say you?
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For me, as a former occult dabbler, that is enough to steer way clear.
I don't see how the Biblical case can be made for universally prohibitting playing D&D.Originally posted by ServantofGod
I hope this is the place to put this, but I've wondering for a while, is playing Dungeons and Dragons always wrong? Is there ways to play it that aren't wrong?
Certainly not.Are all RPG's wrong?
D&D no more teaches people whichcraft than Star Trek teaches me about interstellar relations. It teaches nothing meaningful about reality in the fact that it involves magical forces.Originally posted by C. Matthew McMahon
Things that teach you witchcraft, or those things that would tend to teach things "amoral" should be shunned as evil.
He says here we should hate that which is evil. I do not think we can categorically place D&D there. That is, obviously, the point of contest.Paul says we should abhor them.
Romans 12:9 Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
This would seem to be both an inacurate translation and an impossible command.As a matter of fact, even if it "seems" to be evil, we should avoid it -
1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
We can learn about these things even in the Bible. What we must determine is some meaningful standard for whether we are actually sinning in dealing with fictional or recorded sin.Things like Harry Potter, D&D, games like Doom, Gunsmoke, Grand Theft Auto, etc., are teaching those who play them to steal, kill, commit adultery, learn doctrines that are espoused by the devil, etc.
My understanding is that Tolkien contended quite clearly that LOTR was not prinicipally symbolic, but rather fantastic in nature.There is a difference between, for example, LOTR and Harry Potter, or things symbolic demonstrating things in reality.
I am not sure exactly what you are saying here, but I am inclined to agree.The nature of those things should always be scrutinized.
I don't see how games and movies cannot be edifying. I certainly do not see how the Christian does not have liberty to enjoy games, movies, books, beer, the internet, music, visual art, surfing, and the knocking over of dominoes.We would do well to rid our lives of these things, from games to movies.
Originally posted by ServantofGod
I hope this is the place to put this, but I've wondering for a while, is playing Dungeons and Dragons always wrong? Is there ways to play it that aren't wrong? Are all RPG's wrong? What say you?
Originally posted by srhoades
I personally take it a step further. I spent countless hours as a kid playing video games. I especially love RPG's. I have dabbled in them as an adult, mostly playing the classics, but I have found the problem of videogames twofold. One, it is a poor use of time, and two, its just a form of escapism.