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I think it can depend on alot on what the movie is about. Yes, seeing a violent war or horror movie can mess with your mind in a not so peaceful way, but if the movie is not necessarily meant to entertain through violence, it can be good for us in a different way. While its not exactly "thinking on good things," God isn't out to shelter us from everything bad in the world and sometimes seeing a visual representation of what is bad in the world can help us cope with it happening in real life or teach us lessons. Rambo 4 was the most violent and horrifying movie I've ever seen, but it was violent and horrible for a reason to show what is really going on in the Sudan and other places in the world, and it taught me a lesson I will never forget, even if the violence was also meant to be entertaining for some as well... I still wouldn't recommend seeing it unless you have a strong stomach and a strong psyche.
I have a much bigger problem with a film thats meant to entertain through violence and appeal to people who like seeing pretty girls or teens or whoever getting violently killed. I know many conservative Christians who like to go to horror films but freak out about erotic movies because they are paranoid (and don't understand the actual biblical definition) of lust/coveting...not that there aren't bad things about those movies too, but that one is based a natural activity meant to bring about a natural emotion and the other is not (mostly).
If you have to ask "is it a sin...." then just don't do it to be on the safe side if you feel it isn't pleasing to God. Afterall, he's the only one who knows anyway. And he knows WHY you want to do whatever you're questioning.
Just ignore the nudity, since that is the only thing traditionalists find so offensive about R-rated films in this sexually hung-up, repressed nation. Blood-strewn carnage and wholesale mass graphic slaughter are perfectly fine, but one uncovered female breast???
Well, I'm not here to judge anyone or what their doing but I have purposely stopped watching R-rated and PG-13 films 2 years ago when I began getting really close to God in my relationship and reading the Bible more. When I watched those films or tv shows, I had a REALLY bad feeling about them. I would literally try to force myself to laugh at their sexual jokes and innuendos and cursing but deep down I just had a feeling of it being wrong. When I finished watching them, I felt like I had put my soul through garbage. There was STRONG feeling of dirtiness. But I ignored those feeling and kept doing it. The last straw was when I fell asleep to these movies. When I woke up in the morning, I felt like I was plunged in garbage and darkness. My heart and my head hurt and my body was shivering. I knew then that something was seriously evil about these films. I even tested it out watching and falling asleep to Christian channels like CBN. First of all, I had the best night's sleep ever. Second, when I woke up in the morning to that channel, I felt renewed and great and wonderful. That's when I knew and decided I was done with films and tv shows of darkness.
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Actually what is considered sin is based on God's knowledge of sin. You may do something you don't believe is a sin, but if it is in the eyes of God, does that make it not a sin?
You have no way of knowing what God finds sinful,and the Bible is not a reliable source.
Stop worrying whether or not it is a sin. Just ask yourself is it beneficial. Of course most R rated movies are full of the things of the world. The lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. (I encourage everyone to define what those terms mean) So it's not so much the rating of a movie, it's what it's filled with. Is it filled with the lust of the eyes? An example might be something that inspires feelings of jealousy. Is it filled with the lust of the flesh? I imagine this is something similar to the lust of the eyes, but subltly different. Is it filled with the pride of life? If those movies are filled with those things, then it's not beneficial to watch them. Yet if you watch them, don't be condemned.
I usually wait till a movie is edited a bit before I watch it, particulary a movie that's filled with a lot of curse/swear words. Yet there are a lot of movies that no amount of editing can fully cover over the non-beneficial parts, without cutting out everything in the movie lol. All in all, don't be condemned. God has covered all our sins with Jesus' blood. Even the sins we haven't committed yet are covered as well. We just need to move forward in the finished work of Christ. When we do that, our life will reflect what has already took place inside of us.
Actually the bible says anything that is not of faith is sin. So I kind of do know what God considers as sin.
The Bible has many deferent versions. The Bible also has been undoubtably altered many times over the centuries to fit church doctrine at the time. Your Bible is not reliable. Nor is it even close to the original scripts of those who wrote them. To believe that the Bible has not been altered by man is absurd.
You know what the Christian faith believes to be sin, but don't pretend to know God's mind.
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