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Dungeon & Dragons Bible Study?

Revmitchell

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People commonly Disparage D&D without any clear evidence or knowledge about what is going on. D&D started with Chainmail, a medeival strategy game. Rules were added to allow units to evolve. This is the mechanism which allows for the RPG element.

Which games evolved from this system.

All 3-D shooters, including Call of Duty, PUBG, fortnite, etc.
Most computer strategy games and many more complicated table-top games. (Chess and checkers are exceptions.)
Sports games such as NB2K.

That being said, less video games would definitely make the lives and health of most people far better.

Next, D&D doesn’t introduce people to the occult. With Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Supernatural, Star Wars, Marvel, etc. introducing far more people to the occult and D&D is less than a drop in the bucket.

On top of that, add Easter, Christmas, U.S. monuments, and somehow it’s D&D which introduces people to the occult?

Why do people find RPG games to be evil? Rules are lifted allowing people to show their true colors. One might never know just how evil a person is until you put them into an environment where all consequences for their actions are removed. Look at the popularity of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption.

Is the D&D they are playing even resemble the D&D of the 1970s, 80s, or 90s? I doubt it. D&D has evolved into more of a board game and less of an RPG as time goes along.

Quoting scripture completely out of context won’t change anyone’s mind. Claiming sorcery or demon worship when there is none won’t change anyone’s mind.

For me, this D&D after bible study is basically the same thing as a Super Bowl Party after a church service. I don’t agree with either. But I’m not going to stoop to call those who go to a Super Bowl Party demon worshippers.

Some of you might also want to check out theaetherlight.com

As someone who was heavily invested in the game as a teen I can say that it is far more harmful than a Superbowl game. It is evil and those who play it may not become involved in a cult but it teaches and encourages the worship of God's other than the one true and living God. I could go on.
 

MartyF

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As someone who was heavily invested in the game as a teen I can say that it is far more harmful than a Superbowl game.

Football never hurt nobody.

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It is evil and those who play it may not become involved in a cult but it teaches and encourages the worship of God's other than the one true and living God.

Ok, you have "Christian" parents having their children actively participate in pagan rituals traditionally 2-3 times per year. And a twenty-sided die, which never occurred in pagan times, is causing people to worship other gods.

I could go on.

Yes. Please do. I would like to know how picking up an eight-sided-die caused you to drop to your knees and worship Satan.
 
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MartyF

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Why are you having such a difficult time accepting the fact that D&D is Satanic?

You're assuming a reality that doesn't exist.

Why didn't all the witches at Salem admit to their obvious guilt?

Did you read my first post to you on this thread?

I have been avoiding most of your posts because your posts make you seem very unstable. I was a little afraid about what you would do. And the Bold Blood-Red font didn't help much to make me feel otherwise.

I did read some of your posts on other threads, so I thought I'd take the chance.

Can you go through that post and refute anything that I wrote?

Unlikely. Part of what you wrote were personal experiences. I can't dispute what you say you experienced.

The primary claim you make and likely others is D&D is idol/demon worship. You provide no evidence for this besides your personal experience. I have never seen it and I've seen quite a bit. I'm not going to deny that there isn't some fringe group that actually uses D&D for idol and/or demon worship. That doesn't make the playing of D&D everywhere to be demon worship.

Lots were used to select sacrifices to idols before the Apostles used them to select the next apostle. Were the Apostles Demon worshippers?

You have shown nothing within the current game itself which requires demon or idol worship. You have only given personal testimony. That's not proof.

You then give a bunch of passages about idol and demon worship which are irrelevant because you haven't done anything to show D&D = demon/idol worship.

Teenage girls wailing when the condemned are about to speak just won't convince me.
 

Heretic Hunter

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You're assuming a reality that doesn't exist.

Why didn't all the witches at Salem admit to their obvious guilt?

I have been avoiding most of your posts because your posts make you seem very unstable. I was a little afraid about what you would do. And the Bold Blood-Red font didn't help much to make me feel otherwise.

I did read some of your posts on other threads, so I thought I'd take the chance.

Unlikely. Part of what you wrote were personal experiences. I can't dispute what you say you experienced.

The primary claim you make and likely others is D&D is idol/demon worship. You provide no evidence for this besides your personal experience. I have never seen it and I've seen quite a bit. I'm not going to deny that there isn't some fringe group that actually uses D&D for idol and/or demon worship. That doesn't make the playing of D&D everywhere to be demon worship.

Lots were used to select sacrifices to idols before the Apostles used them to select the next apostle. Were the Apostles Demon worshippers?

You have shown nothing within the current game itself which requires demon or idol worship. You have only given personal testimony. That's not proof.

You then give a bunch of passages about idol and demon worship which are irrelevant because you haven't done anything to show D&D = demon/idol worship.

Teenage girls wailing when the condemned are about to speak just won't convince me.
If you can't take our word for it, and heed the warning, then it's on you. I'm not offended by your personal remarks. I do however suggest that you make an effort to do an exhaustive research on the subject.

I'll share another experience, in seeing what goes on behind the scenes, I have witnessed their references of the Salem Witch Trials, in how they were displeased that their predecessors were burned. They hate Christians; they hate Christianity; they hate God.


Sometimes, seeing is believing. But until you have seen and experienced it, as you admitted, you cannot refute me. You are quick to point out that my testimony is not proof. If you were a bit more humble, and asked me, I might would have shared some proof. There is proof that is already out there. All you have to do is research it for yourself. If all you are going to do is mock, ridicule, and name call, that only tells me that you are not serious about wanting to know the facts. I have had many conversations with people that "don't care" .... people that are members of the Occult, whether they be Satanists/atheists/Witches or whatever, when I reach out to them with the Gospel in hope of seeing some be saved. I can tell you that it is heart wrenching at times, because unlike you, that have not seen what is done by them in secret, they have and do, and they "don't care" and reject the truth of Jesus Christ.

What troubles me more, and I do mean more, than the heart wrenching "don't care" attitude from them, is when a professing Believer will make similar remarks and gestures. What is "unstable" is when people reject Jesus Christ in this life, follow after the Occult of Freemasonry, or related Occult False Prophet Groups, such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists, Mormons, and such. Or when they play around with Occult games like D&D, the Ouija Board, and other similar games, because they are void of understanding what is written in The Holy Bible, not knowing that they are given over to reprobate minds, because they loved and worshipped the creation (Satan) instead of the Creator Jesus Christ.

If this doesn't stir your conscience, there is nothing more that I can say to you, except that I will say that I will pray for you.
 
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MartyF

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Any non moron who has played the game knows it's based in Satanic symbolism and role playing.
For anyone who needs help figuring out the obvious: Chick.com: Should a Christian Play Dungeons and Dragons?

Right. It's so obvious you still can't point out anything wrong with the game they are playing at the Bible Study.

And then because you can't point out anything, you just attach a website with nothing but made-up stuff. This is a properly referenced paper.

Michael A. Stackpole: The Pulling Report
 

Revmitchell

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Football never hurt nobody.

Vanderbilt Rape Case | New York Post
The FRONTLINE Interview: Dr. Bennet Omalu | League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis | FRONTLINE | PBS



Ok, you have "Christian" parents having their children actively participate in pagan rituals traditionally 2-3 times per year. And a twenty-sided die, which never occurred in pagan times, is causing people to worship other gods.



Yes. Please do. I would like to know how picking up an eight-sided-die caused you to drop to your knees and worship Satan.

I am not going to respond to his inane post other than in a general sense. He put words in my mouth. Shame on him.
 

John of Japan

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hmm . . .

Acts 1:26 NLT
[26] Then they cast lots, and Matthias was selected to become an apostle with the other eleven.
That was simply a method of voting. The lot mentioned was a pebble, black or white. "The ancients used pebbles (psêphoi) in voting, black for condemning, white (Re 2:17) in acquitting" (A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament, accessed through PowerBible software).
 

Rob_BW

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That was simply a method of voting. The lot mentioned was a pebble, black or white. "The ancients used pebbles (psêphoi) in voting, black for condemning, white (Re 2:17) in acquitting" (A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament, accessed through PowerBible software).
Any clues on the lots cast in Matthew 27:35?

Any relation to the Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος of Caesar/Rubicon fame?
 

MartyF

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That was simply a method of voting. The lot mentioned was a pebble, black or white. "The ancients used pebbles (psêphoi) in voting, black for condemning, white (Re 2:17) in acquitting" (A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament, accessed through PowerBible software).

I haven’t heard of this possibility. It will take me a while to study it further.

The Message paraphrase says the same. Although, I don’t think this is the case seeing the example in Deuteronomy 16:6-8. Aaron actually had sacred lots, so that wouldn’t work as an alternate example. Although I’m unconvinced that casting lots = casting votes, I’d rather not have an example rest on something possibly dubious. So, I’ll withdraw this particular example unless I find more stable ground.
 

John of Japan

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I haven’t heard of this possibility. It will take me a while to study it further.

The Message paraphrase says the same. Although, I don’t think this is the case seeing the example in Deuteronomy 16:6-8. Aaron actually had sacred lots, so that wouldn’t work as an alternate example. Although I’m unconvinced that casting lots = casting votes, I’d rather not have an example rest on something possibly dubious. So, I’ll withdraw this particular example unless I find more stable ground.
The Greek word for "lots" is kleros. It has a number of meanings, and does sometimes mean to cast lots in a "lucky" way, but it also can mean a method of voting, and it seems clear to A. T. Robertson (the greatest Greek scholar of the 20th century) that voting is the meaning in Acts 1. By the way, the verb in Acts 1:26 is not "cast" (ballo in other passages) but "gave" (edokan from didomi).

The core meaning is simply the little stone itself ("pebble, small stick, etc.," BAGD, p. 435). The soldiers at the foot of the cross cast lots for Christ's garments, and personally I think that was a dice game, which the Roman soldiers historically played.
 
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OnlyaSinner

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Ok, you have "Christian" parents having their children actively participate in pagan rituals traditionally 2-3 times per year. And a twenty-sided die, which never occurred in pagan times, is causing people to worship other gods.

Is this a reference to Christmas and Easter, as your post #9 might imply? It's true the world has made these holidays into commercial "paganism", but to infer that (scare quotes) Christians who celebrate these days are doing something other than praising God for the Incarnation and Resurrection is knowledge neither you nor I should try to claim.
 

MartyF

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Ok, you have "Christian" parents having their children actively participate in pagan rituals traditionally 2-3 times per year. And a twenty-sided die, which never occurred in pagan times, is causing people to worship other gods.

Is this a reference to Christmas and Easter, as your post #9 might imply? It's true the world has made these holidays into commercial "paganism", but to infer that (scare quotes) Christians who celebrate these days are doing something other than praising God for the Incarnation and Resurrection is knowledge neither you nor I should try to claim.

Hello,

I didn’t realize just how little many people may have known about this. I assumed most people knew.

Most of the traditions and rituals practice during Christmas and Easter are pagan. (The idea of the “spirit of Christmas” and many other Christmas traditions and charity come from Charles Dickens.) The evergreen tree and giving gifts to children are pagan rituals during the winter solstace. In early Christianity, the idea of celebrating the birthday of Christ was considered anathema.

Saturnalia - Wikipedia
https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas-trees

Eggs during the celebration of spring equinox for Ishtar. The egg-laying rabbit comes from pagan legend of the goddess Ostara whom the holiday is named after.

The Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter

Did I just kill Santa Claus for you? Just joking. In my opinion, the way to respond to this is not to stick your head in the sand and deny all pagan connections in these holdays. Unfortunately, this is the reaction of many Christians. I suggest a different stance.

The pagan religions have been co-opted. Although the trappings are there, no one actually puts any belief into the holday. The rituals involving orgies and the such are gone and the rituals promoting family and children have been kept. No children are converting to the pagan worship of Saturn or Ostara. I just don’t see the threat to Christianity.

Going back to D&D, I don’t see any the the obvious pagan rituals in D&D. In fact, almost all of the game is either based on Christian, Catholic, and Jewish mythos, completely made up, or based on early to mid 20th century literature which also completely made stuff up. Yes, the game is a great big hodge-podge. No one who plays the game believes any of what is happening in the game is real. Anyone who does is delusional, ignorant, or mentally ill.

I have never seen idol or satan worship in a D&D game. And the fact that some here think that a story about a knight riding a unicorn (KJVO) while slaying a cockatrice (KJVO) is satanic and evil makes me concerned about their mental health.
 
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