Beware of Veggie Tales.

The producers of these Veggie Tales movies desecrate Holy Scripture by perverting it into upbeat do-good stories completely absent the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Read that sentence again. Holy Scripture. That’s what we teach our children that the Bible is. Holy. Untouchable. Sacred. Must not be tampered with. But we are considered freaks in a world where nothing is sacred. Nothing is holy. Nothing is untouchable, particularly if there is cash to be made. These people are getting wealthy off the mistreatment of the Word of God.

I watched a Veggie Tales video years ago that had been given to one of my preschoolers. In the story the vegetables were trying to avoid the lie that was trying to come in the window. If they avoided the lie, they would be good. The false teaching in that was that lies don’t come from outside us as the video taught. They come from within us because we are sinful and corrupt, and that’s why we need a savior. But vegetables don’t need a savior. Jesus didn’t die for tomatoes and cucumbers. The foolishness in these videos serve as spiritual confusion for children who go around believing that the Ninevites were about to be destroyed by God for slapping each other with fish. In another movie, the vegetables are featured throwing grape slushies over the Walls of Jericho. And we wonder why our kids are biblically illiterate and grind holy things under their feet. They learned from their parents who taught them to do so.

How many hours of this garbage do you want your children to watch? We have the Holy Bible, preserved through the centuries by the martyrs who gave their blood for their love of God’s Word. So what do we give our children? Trash movies that distort the sacred words of Scripture into little moralistic, works righteousness tales with dancing cartoon characters.

I always find the Open Theism discussion a bit frustrating. Greg Boyd clearly says that God knows the future as a set of possibilities based on his exhaustive knowledge. He doesn’t know it as something he predetermined. Like that or not, it’s a pretty esoteric point, in my opinion.

Makes me want to ask this question: Do we give the impression that ordinary Christian growth = becoming theologically educated? Why does Christian growth = getting a college level mastery of theology? Where’s that in the Bible? Growth is about character, knowledge and love. And despite what you’ll hear from the infallible party, it doesn’t break down as 85% doctrine. The way you hear some Christians talk, we aren’t disciples; we’re students and the ideal Christian is something like the Big Brained Blog.