When I think of all the “lost souls” in our culture who have been seduced by the latest vampire fad I am not surprised. They are easily deceived because they do not have the Holy Spirit to lead and guide them into all Truth. However, when I look at Christians who are participating in this unholy occult movement, warning bells go off in my head! This vampire “craze” has become an extreme obsession for many young girls who are seduced by the romance in these books and movies. Is this innocent fictitious entertainment for Christians or is it an insidious dark influence that has captured the hearts and minds of young impressionable girls?
I have only seen the first show and have never even looked at the book. When I watched the show I really had no clue what is was about. All movies that twist evil to be good bother me and this one did. I don’t enjoy watching evil for entertainment. Evil is real and it really does happen, so why would I want to watch it?
I am excited to hear the show and will share with others.
Thanks for your service to the MOST HIGH GOD.
Deborah, I know you are going to provide some great insight and I’m very interested in listening in to the show. Thank you for powerful gift you share of knowledge & discernment!
I am so glad you are speaking out on this … i have friends who are reading the series and it just makes me sick – we are being led to the slaughter by the enemy and he is laughing the entire way. We have to wake up and guard our hearts from his seductions.
Deborah,
I know this is going to sound weird coming from a man, but I am writing a lesson about the Twilight Frenzy that will be part of a Student Bible Study that will be taught to over 50 thousand students around the world. I’s would be very interested in getting a transcript of the radio shows from this week’s broadcasts.
I have seen the movies, and I am not impressed with Bella. If you remove all the “supernatural” elements from this movie, you are left with a young troubled girl whose mother would rather travel the country with her boyfriend/husband (still not sure which) than provide a home for her daughter. She gets shipped off to her father, who has no idea how to interact with her. No parent would want their daughter to be Bella! She is controlled by a self-destructive MAN (remember he is supposed to be 120-something years old). Edward is NOT a teenaged boy. He is has way more life experience than Bella has, and he is just as unhappy with his life, possiblly more. It really bothered me in the last movie when she started doing dangerous things to “connect” with Edward. Who honestly wants their daughter to behave like that?! She shut her life down when he left, stopped living, and refused to let anyone else in. What does Bella really say to our daughters, neices, and other young women in our lives? I have sons who saw the movies simply because their girl friends were so crazy about it they wanted to see what the hype was all about. I have been very upfront with my sons saying that “Bella” is not the type of woman you want in your life. THANK YOU so much for addressing this.
Deborah,
Thank you so much for speaking out against this series. Besides the relationship between Bella and Edward being disturbing, the prohibition in the Bible against drinking blood should be a warning for Christian parents and teens not to entertain themselves with this series or promote it to others. Sadly, we have lost discernment and are easily led away by evil disguising its self as good because we have not prioritized study of God’s word. Thank you for exposing it for what it is, just another lie.
Deborah,
I thank God for your voice being heard on this disturbing topic of what I believe is relationship addiction. I can spot it because I’ve grown past it after years of recovery and won’t go near the books or movies. Keep speaking out for all of us!
I just listened to Debra speak on crosstalk with Brandon. I empathize with the woman who called about her daughter who looks at her mother with such hate after exposing herself to the Twilight Books. The mother had faithfully trained her child in the Word of God prior to this supposed “harmless” entertainment the child snuck into her life. As a parent I feel so bombarded, there are snares for them around every single corner. If it isn’t Twilight, it’s Harry Potter, it’s X-box games, it’s popular music, it’s popular culture, it’s rebellion on almost every TV show. My son saved his money for an I Pod. I never dreamed I’ld have to worry about porn popups on the thing. We are first generation Christians, we’re homeschooling them and giving God’s Word priority in our home, but we have made mistakes along the way. I know it is my responsibility to protect them but sometimes they don’t want to be protected and I’m the freak. Often they feel like the freaks because their friends get to to indulge in these forms of entertainment, but they don’t. My cousin, who in her past and obviously again in the present, has immersed herself in following her spirit guides and “white” witchcraft. I think her fascination started when she was in her teens watching Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She recently blasted me when I corrected her in love about an e-mail she sent me to get a windfall of money if we trust God as it says in 1Kings 8:23 and pass the e-mail on to 8 people. That verse has nothing to do with money, it is about Solomon dedicating the Temple. Her e-mail rants back were so filled with evil and cursing on me and our children that I was trembling. I feel utterly discouraged in trying to warn or speak to anyone about the prevalent seductive influences of the occult in our world today. I know who I am in Christ and she has no power over me, but there is such a spirit of rebellion in my home that I feel utterly defeated. If I try to talk to my family or friends about how I feel they think I’m overreacting and weird. My mother is mad at me because I’m always pushing my faith on other people and the Bible says I’m not supposed to judge others anyway she will say. Does anyone have any suggestions of encouragement from similar experience, another website to check out? The prince of the power of the air just seems as times to be sucking the very air from my lungs.
Just heard you speak at the Proven Way conference. Ironically, my friend and I were talking about you at dinner because we had seen your article in the Okc paper. Not a coincidence! Thanks for speaking out on this. I love what you said tonight about the reason women are seduced by theses movies: We have a legitimate need for love but are filling it in an illegitimate way.
As a former love junkie myself who used men like a drug, my heart hurts for a generation of women who see romance inaccurately defined by Hollywood.