Comments on: In Defense of AVATAR: Or Why Mark Driscoll Just Doesn’t Get It

By: Shea

Shea — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:17:40 +0000

Many of you don’t realize the argument Driscoll is making. In the movie Avatar the Na’vi worship not only their deity Eywa but also nature itself, That is called PANTHEISM. And that is satanic. God made nature and we are called to protect and enjoy it but not to worship and be “one” with it. It’s like a man making a birdhouse and other people saying they are “one” with the birdhouse and worshiping it thinking they are closer to the man, but in fact they are worshiping a created thing rather than the man himself, which is demonic and satanic. It’s the whole Lion King Circle of Life gig which is completely against everything the bible tells us. Where are to worship the one true God, Jesus Christ and nothing above him. And sadly the majority of people in America worship created things rather than Jesus. i.e. Money, sex, sports, jobs, cars, NATURE.

By: Phillip Higley

Phillip Higley — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:47:48 +0000

Excuse me: “He’s human and fallible.”

By: Phillip Higley

Phillip Higley — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:45:40 +0000

Wow, just read this blog after watching Avatar tonight (way after the release date 12.4.2010). Thanks for posting it. Great perspective.

That said, It’s really sad that Driscoll apologists can’t exercise some theological humility of their own (I’m thinking of the previous posts by ‘shayne’ and ‘Ike’) when making comments. I live in the Seattle area, go to an Acts 29 church, and am aware that Driscoll sometimes shoots from the hip and says outlandish stuff. The guy preaches a lot of sermons, is strong willed, and is bound to say something ridiculous here and there. He human and fallible! His comments about Avatar make this evident. Although he’s a great teacher, his apologists should keep in mind that his—and nobody else’s—theology is “bullet proof.”

Again, thanks for the blog post…

By: Ike

Ike — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:13:36 +0000

I saw Avatar…demonic, satanic, tree worshiping, anti-American. I saw the exorcist and it is demonic, but they didn’t hide behind pretty colors and “profound” talking. Everyone knew the movie was ablut satan.

By: Richard Lindsay

Richard Lindsay — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:04:27 +0000

I worry anytime somebody uses “bullet” and “theology” in the same sentence.

By: shayne

shayne — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:43:21 +0000

who cares. i know the void of the internet is “endless”, but this website is seriously a waste of said space, and i cant believe you couldnt find something better to berate this guy for. Avatar sucks, and so does your shotty attempt at discrediting the bulletproof theology of a man way smarter than you, and way more inclined to do something of value for Jesus Christ..

By: Mike O'Dea

Mike O'Dea — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:31:31 +0000

I am wondering if anyone who has thus far posted has bothered to view the entire sermon in which Mark Driscoll made the comments about Avatar. It comes from the 17th Driscoll Sermon in the book of Luke and the text is from Luke 4:31-41 which talks about Jesus healing a demon possessed man. Driscoll has begun a 3 year series on the book of Luke. To get the context plese view and listen at the following:
http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/luke/jesus-and-demons
Also, we can all learn a valuable lesson from the following clip from a Driscoll sermon from 1 Peter 3:8-17:
http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/trial/suffering-to-bless/dont-shoot-other-christians (humility required)

By: David

David — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:54:51 +0000

Here’s a sermon on Avatar that takes a much different approach from Driscoll. Rather than view Jake Sully as a “false Christ”, Albert Chu views Sully as a Christ figure. Big difference.

The Theology of AVATAR (Mar 7, 2010)
Sermon: Pastor Albert Chu
http://www.thetapestry.ca/tappodcasts/oscar_sunday_the_theology_of_avatar_mar_7_2010

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:33:56 +0000

We walk a fine line when we criticize other Christians for how the Lord speaks to them. Let us be careful not to emulate the world in this. Other believers are rightly anxious about living in a culture that in many ways wars against holiness, however it is expressed. Lets us acknowledge their anxiety, for if we are honest, we all feel it to some extent.

But you are quite right to identify the greater evil, materialism, and its motor, the capitalist system, which is far more pervasive and corrosive of Christianity that all other social evils combined. It is materialism that eats at the heart of the church of Christ. It is this evil that Christ preached against more than any other. How we are going to stand with the poor of Africa and Asia in eternity I don’t know. We have a lot to be ashamed of.

As for Avatar, I have never been so entranced by a movie since my childhood wonder at The Wizard of Oz – which incidentally is director James Cameron’s favourite movie. Like Oz, Pandora is a world of wonders, sparkling with creative beauty; a cinematic jewel, as aesthetically appealing as a painting by VanGogh. Should we not praise the God of Wonders for bestowing such creative fire is these His creatures, and appreciate the beauty they bring to this world? Or should we, like that Muslim fanatic in Amsterdam, murder their relatives, stabbing them forty times and leaving curses pinned to their dying bodies? Is this level of hatred the kind of God that we want to present to the world? Lord forgive us our excesses. If Christ is no longer the God of compassion and understanding, then we as Christian have lost our way and have nothing further to say to this world.

By: Richard Lindsay

Richard Lindsay — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:48:20 +0000

Oh wait, and did you notice the subtle dig at gay people? Romans 1:25, a prime “clobber passage”: “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.” Which is followed by the old classic: “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.”

So there you have it kids, Avatar will make you gay.