When Christians Justify and Promote Lies About God

Before you say, "It's just fiction" consider how powerfully a book can deceive people about God's Character.

If a fictional book or movie portrays a real person, that person can sue for libel if his character behaves in ways that misrepresents him. In fact, people can win libel suits if a fictional character closely resembles them, even if the character doesn’t bear their name.

Saying something is “just fiction” doesn’t cut it with the law because there’s great power in the written word, whether fictional or true. The written word can damage, deceive, mislead, and endanger.

If my husband were misrepresented in a fictional book, you can bet I’d be there to defend his honor.  And there’s only one person more important to me than my husband – my Lord. 

That's why it saddens me to hear so many Christians justifying and excusing errors about God in popular entertainment with the excuse “It's just fiction” or, in the case of The Chosen, “It's not Scripture.” 

But it gets even worse because these excuses are almost always followed by the claim that it's drawing enormous numbers of people to God. 

What a perfect example of accepting “another Jesus” or “another gospel” as referred to in 2 Corinthians 11:3-4. Since it's not Scripture or only fiction, Christians think it's wonderful to share a distorted gospel with millions of people. 

God says those who change His Word are interested in unhealthy controversies and sometimes are doing it simply to make money (1 Timothy 6:3-5). 

Our goal as Christians is to promote things that carefully and accurately share God's character and His Word. As Jeremiah explained, “What has straw to do with grain?” (Jeremiah 23:28-32).   

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The acceptance of biblical inaccuracy is a growing problem in the church, a problem that leads to further deception and an ever-weakening faith. For other insights on this devotion, see Slightly Skewed and An Authority We Can Trust.


Before you say, "It's just fiction" consider how powerfully a book or movie can deceive people about God's Character.

Before you say, "It's just fiction" consider how powerfully a book or movie can deceive people about God's Character.



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5 comments:

  1. ConnieMarch 15, 2017 at 8:59 PM

    Thank you for this!

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  2. Rosie R.March 16, 2017 at 9:13 AM

    Thank you for all the posts you have written on The Shack! Thank you for standing up for our Lord God and defending His blessed, gracious and Almighty Name! Any sensible and reasonable person can see the legal argument you put forth in this post and all your other posts are so well backed up by the Word of our God Himself! God bless you as you continue to serve Him! Rosemarie Reiss

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  3. Rosie R.March 16, 2017 at 9:30 AM

    Thank you so much for this and all your other posts on The Shack! Any reasonable and logical person can clearly see the point you are making here! I can't see how you would be getting so much kick-back from Christians relating to your other posts. Especially since you back up everything you say with the Word of our Great and loving God Himself!
    Keep up the good work you have been called to do by our God, the one and only Creator, Sustainor and Redeemer of our Souls!

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  4. UnknownMay 26, 2020 at 2:02 PM

    thank you for all of this. my eyes are opened. i read this book as a child and haven’t read it in a while. i think that you are brave and courageous for stating the truth.

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