My Eternal Hero, He Willingly Shed His Own Blood for my Life! The Impostor of the Twilight Saga Does not Compare!
There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:
haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers
(Proverbs 6:16-19)
There is much ado about the movie Eclipse, from the Twilight Saga by the author Stephenie Meyer. There are many adolescent girls caught up in the romance of a 110 year-old vampire, who forever looks like a teenager, and a well-mannered one at that. That is, if you can excuse the lust for the heroine’s blood. Any normal teenage girl, presented with this difference in age, should automatically say “Ewww, pervert!” And so should her parents! But how can you say ANYTHING, when you are caught up in this too!
Let me just say, I myself, am guilty of the abominations listed above, however, by the grace of God… and the blood of my eternal Hero, Who took that penalty upon Himself. That is MY HERO… He gave His blood as a covering for us all, as opposed to Edward, who would take and sup on the life-blood of another by force! Here is what is written about that in Leviticus 17:11, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” And before that, in Leviticus 17:10, God says “I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.”
I know! I know its fiction! I hear the refrains ‘relax it is only a movie!’ ‘There’s a lot of good stuff in it.’ There are character lessons here.’ But can I pose something to you?
Not so Good
Say there is a fast-food restaurant that sells hamburgers and French fries that are every bit as tasty as your favorite. However, this restaurant only uses the highest-quality, organic ingredients to make its food. The cost is generally 20% less than any other chain for a similar meal.
Would you eat there?
Durn tootin’ you would! But, I forgot to tell you, the salt they use is laced with a little arsenic. It won’t hurt you, really! It is just a little bit, not fatal, and you won’t even taste it because the other food is so good!
Would you still be willing to spend your hard earned money to eat there and knowingly poison yourself?
Purposefully paying to attend a movie that enshrines occultism is worse, it can have eternal consequences!
Yeah, I’ve heard all the familiar Laodicean apologizers that so infest the church, spouting wishy-washy poppycock as they pontificate on pop-CULTure! (Those first four letters of that word are scary!) Jesus had an answer for that in Matthew 7:13-14. He said “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Let’s get one thing straight… if it is popular, it is probably suspect.
Again, I know it is fiction… but I seriously doubt that anyone has obsessed the same way over Jesus! Run away, Christian, run away!
Love Lessons
Let us reason about those love lessons as they compare to the biblical model set forth in 1 Corinthians 13:5-7.
“Love is patient and kind;” – But is blood lust?
“love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.” — Why presume to enter uninvited into any teenager’s room, especially without parental permission?
“It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” — As opposed to what Edward says “”I’m a killer; I’ve killed before; and I wanted to kill you.”
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”–Is this the love in the story, or is it something else?
That is Edward’s love for Bella! How dark and selfish it is compared to the standard. Yet he has a difficult time restraining himself from the deep craving for the scent of Bella’s blood! Where is the love in that?
The saga’s heroine, Bella, decides she wants to risk the possibility of losing her soul by becoming a vampire, only to be with the vampire she loves. That is a picture of love I cannot fathom, since there is no profit in that. Our souls are lost by default in Adam’s sin. The bible is clear, in Ezekiel 18:4 is written, “the soul who sins shall die.” It is only through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ and His shed blood that our souls are eternally secure as is clear in Hebrews 9:11-15. This needs to be the obsession in our homes… not the age old subtle trickery from the angel of light.
Spiritual Danger
Again, using a Biblical model set forth in Mark 8:36. Jesus, speaking clearly on very real spiritual dangers, asks, “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”
What passes for biblically literacy in the adults who bear the name of Christ is telling in our sincretic society. We try to reconcile things that do not go well together, because we do not take seriously the theological teachings of Jesus Christ and His apostles. The ones who suffer are our teenagers, when they leave home for college. They are easily swayed by professors who, by virtue of their degrees, declare themselves as arbitrators of what is real. They haughtily declare “Whatever your parents taught you is wrong!” How can a young person not capitulate when their parents are not sincere in their faith?
It is this slow, subtlety that is the enemies favorite ploy. He can mimic beauty, and often does. After all, he does have dominion, for awhile. But it is those captives who are led away unawares that really bother me. How many young people will be carried away into occultism and forever lost because of a movie like this?
How do we overcome this shame by participating?
I challenge you, “and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:10) First read 1 Corinthians 10:20-21, and then 2 Corinthians 11:12-15. Check out the author of the series, Stephenie Meyer, and the dark way the ideas for the books were delivered to her. And remember Paul’s admonition in the rest of that Ephesians 5 passage…“Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.” (Ephesians 5:11-12)
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