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awesomdude

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Is it right to play cod as a christian with blood, gore, swearing, disabled.

Just putting it out there to see what people think.
 
honestly...that's between you and the Lord. I have an electrician lcient who uses NO internet because he feels having hte internet would be too tempting for him and lead him into pornography or other sins. For me I have no issues with bllod, gore, and things turned on...again that's me..you need to go as the Lord directs not as anyone else tells you to do.
 
Is it right to play cod as a christian with blood, gore, swearing, disabled.

Just putting it out there to see what people think.
In regards to subjects where there is no clear moral imperative in Scripture, Paul writes to the church at Corinth:

“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up. No one should seek his own good, but the good of the other person.
1 Corinthians 10:23, HCSB

Speaking from my own experience, the real temptation regarding games is not to be violent or use profanity , but rather to be selfish with my own time and choose games over personal responsibilities or using my time to help others.

Clearly, I believe there can be a place for games in a Christian's life, but, as @Hecominsoon said, the matter is ultimately one where you must be led by your conscience and by the Holy Spirit.
 
1. If part of your concern is the question "is violence sinful" both the Old and New Testament have violence called for by God at times. Violence, bereft of context is not sinful, it is the context, the why are you doing it, that matters. There is a difference between murder and killing to stop a murder.

2. What effect is COD having on you? If it is tempting you to commit sinful acts you should flee temptation.

3. Tek already beat me to it but to affirm it. Even if you can do something without personally sinning one must think of the consequences of your actions on the world. Paul talked about this with eating meat offered to idols. To put this into the context of games one might be certain they can play a game with immorality without being tempted to perform that immorality but what about others? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Part of the reason morals degrade over time is because people are apathetic and "go with the flow" supporting things they should not with their money (or in a Christian's case God's money because everything we have is His). If nothing of this world is perfect should I not simply abandon all games, movies, etc. ? Well there is another side in we are called to be in the world but not of it. If we must be in the world, and nothing in this world is perfect, we will imbibe imperfect things, there is no avoiding it, but what goes into a man's mouth does not make him `unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him `unclean. Thus the question becomes is what I am doing profitable? Are your actions making yourself and the world better, for Christ, or worse? I ask myself this in regard to everything I do (or at least I try to, I do fail a lot). I play one game that has some words I do not like and a comic which can be immoral at times. I am not, and never should be, blind to those things, we should talk about them as much as the good, but, it is comparatively tame to games that are openly trying to encourage immorality. More importantly I never would have met or made a place for Christians without playing this game. The game is a means to connect people which I could never have met otherwise. The world has become increasingly closed off with people living in an internet world. Christians need to be there just like the physical world.

So the question is, is you playing COD profitable to God?

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Speaking from my own experience, the real temptation regarding games is not to be violent or use profanity , but rather to be selfish with my own time and choose games over personal responsibilities or using my time to help others.
Ditto that too.
 
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