I don't get the whole theater going thing anyway. Why are people so offended that fundamentalists say we shouldn't go to the theater? Why do people defend it so strenuously? You just sit there and watch a moving picture, something you can do at home on the TV. If they protest about how much better the quality is at a theater, big deal! Are Christians now Epicureans? Is pleasure that big a deal to them?
When our son was at home we had a Monday evening family time when we always had a snack and played a game together. We interacted, had fun together as a family, something that doesn't happen (or at least not nearly as well) when all are watching a big screen. Families who go to the movies together instead of having quality time at home are missing out! "Quiet. I didn't hear what that Hollywood actor said."
So the vaunted "liberty in Christ" to go to a theater many brag about is nothing more that a lower level of pleasure seeking, in my mind.
I go to the theatre occasionally. I don't brag about it. I don't even think about it really. If someone else doesn't want to go, then they shouldn't. But they also shouldn't tell me that its the best Christian "standard" NOT to go.
My family went when I was young together and we played games and things together at home, too.
What I don't understand is why some Christians - and let me emphasis that I didn't know that the OP was talking about IFB's when I posted my first post and I'm not talking about IFB's now - but some Christians of all flavors claim that movie attendance is a sin.
You, yourself, just said that it was a "lower level of pleasure seeking" - causing families to "miss out on interacting as families".
That's what I don't understand. Taking a personal conviction and turning into a Christian "standard" and imposing it on others.
Convictions I understand and accept without reservation. Man-made standards used to measure one Christian against another - that, I don't understand.
And I DO know that this type of belief system is NOT peculiar to IFB's. I know from experience that it's in the SBC and the AoG and Pentecostal churches.