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By the Blood said:
Along the lines of practical holiness, a discerning Christian will get rid of the TV.
So, by reason of logic, any professing Christian who owns a TV is not "discerning". But would not one who possesses discernment know what is profitable unto godliness and what isn't in regard to what comes over the air? TV in and of itself possesses no evil. This mentality is typically promoted by Arminian Fundamentalist Baptists, e.g., Bob Jones University et al, who like the Pharisees heap man-made laws upon the backs of others which they think are the way to godliness. Typically, such taboos are TV, dancing, card playing, drinking of alcohol and more. Using the same "logic" as the author writes in the linked article, shouldn't one also avoid owning a computer? Doubtless there is far more sinful activity, worldly philosophy, lascivious material etc., on the Internet than one could possibly find watching TV. And why not add radios, DVD/CD and cassette players to the list... and how about ....... ad nauseam? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/scratchchin.gif" alt="" />

The Lord Christ taught:

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Matthew 18:7-9 (ASV) "Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh! And if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. And if thine eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire."
Notice, the all-wise One didn't say to cast out the world and all that it contains, but if YOUR eye, or YOUR hand causes YOU to stumble (aka: sin), then you should remove it. Of course, He didn't mean to literally pluck out your eyes or amputate your hands, but rather if there is something which appeals to your flesh, you are to remove yourself from the enticement. Notice carefully, that here is not to be found in His teaching any universal condemnation of "things". Each individual is different. God didn't create man with a cookie cutter and thus each is given to certain sins which others may not be so tempted.

This is a matter of "Adiaphora" (things indifferent). And being so, it encompasses the body of Christ within which are those who are weak in the faith and those who are strong. Those who are weak have no warrant to demand of those who are strong to conform to their particular scruples. And those who are strong are to avoid ridiculing and/or tempting those who are weak in the faith. And no less important is the issue of church polity which is never to be based upon those who are weak but rather all church polity is to be grounded upon the freedom which Christ has bought for His sheep by the shedding of His blood.

See here:

True Christian Freedom, by Samuel Bolton

The Weak and the Strong, by Prof. John Murray

Liberty of Conscience, by Donald MacLeod

Freedom in Christ, by G.I. Williamson

Christian Liberty, by A.W. Pink

Lastly, the author of the website you referred to holds to spurious doctrine(s), aka: semi-Pelagianism which makes his teaching(s) rather dubious at best. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" />

In His grace,

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