The mocking of Jesus Christ by the game industry.

[Sandra ✧✞°•]

Lately I am seeing an increase of games that add references to Jesus Christ in their storyline, or even claim to represent Christianity and Jesus Christ, with the game "I am Jesus Christ", being the latest example.

The mocking of Christianity and Jesus Christ is nothing new. But the way it is being done has changed and is now even more deceptive. A few weeks ago I was playing a game that had some blasphemous references to Jesus Christ in the story line. The game appeared to be an "innocent" story-rich, point & click, visual novel game. In the middle of the story line the female main character suddenly expressed her dislike for Jesus Christ. She said that the male dominated Jesus stuff that she grew up with, made her sick. Later on it showed a scene of a church with inside the church building a display of Jesus hanging on the cross. As the scene zoomed in on Jesus his face, blood began to drip down from His crown of thorns. While the blood was dripping down the scene suddenly changed to a girl sitting on the toilet having her first period, as blood was dripping down from her. They compared the blood Jesus shed on the cross for our sins to a woman's first period. Woe unto them...

Of course they do not tell you beforehand that these topics are included in their games. You'll only find out while you're playing it, deliberately done so. Nowadays there are many games that not only mock Christianity or Jesus Christ, but also subtly push an agenda onto people, specially unto kids. Games that add Occultic or alphabet references and symbols to their game, often done in "innocent games" such as walking simulator or hidden object games, which are mostly marketed to be family friendly. Christian parents need to pay close attention to what their children are playing. Games such as these do not come with a warning tag so that you can filter them out. Know what your children are playing and talk with them about it.

Another one of my concerns has to do with a game that is currently still in development. The game is called "I am Jesus Christ". In this game the player gets to take on the role of Jesus Christ and experience events seen through his eyes. To be clear: If a game wants to educate about Biblical events and is being completely Biblical sound and points people to God's Holy Word, for His Word is our final Authority, I see no problem. What I do have a problem with is that the game "I am Jesus Christ" lets the sinner for who Jesus Christ died, take on the role of Jesus Christ. This to me is just blasphemy. I can not see it any other way. It's a mockery. From some of the videos and screenshots I have seen, the game makes Jesus look more like a wizard who performs magic, than that it portrays Him Biblically accurate as the one and only Savior, the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Remember what Jesus Christ Himself said about the signs of the end of the age: “Many will come in my name saying "I am Christ!" and will deceive many.” Now most people will probably say: "It's just a game." but when we come to repentance and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and have grasped what it truly means that He suffered and died for our sins on the cross and rose again on the third day to reconcile us to a Holy God, we become born again, born of the Spirit and we transfer Kingdoms. We now no longer walk in the patterns of this world. In our new life in Christ we are to discern what is pleasing to God in everything we do (Ephesians 5:10).

Every Christian should ask themselves: Is a game like this giving glory to God or glory to the self? Is it in line with Scripture and what God tells us through His Word, or is it playing in the agenda of the evil one? Is it honoring God, or mocking Him? Will it lead people to the Biblical Jesus Christ, the only Christ who saves, or could it become a stumbling block and lead people to a false version of Christ?

It is tempting to want to have a visual representation of Christ. Besides from what Isaiah tells us about His appearance (and Revelation giving a glimpse of what is to come), we do not know what Jesus physically looked like during His time on earth, so we will always end up seeing someones own interpertation, a graven image made by the hands of man. The way God chose to reveal Himself is through His Word and Scripture tells us that we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18). The just shall life by Faith not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). Faith comes from hearing and hearing through the Word of God (Romans 10:17). That is how God ordained it.

I used to look forward to this game BEFORE God graciously saved me. Since I got saved, the Holy Spirit been tugging at my heart to stay far away from this game. Whatever you determine, let the Holy Spirit be your guide, and be Holy in all your conduct (1 Peter 1:15).

[Kopydy]

Interesting thing. People who try to make fun of Jesus are signing up for very bad things. We need to pray for them to finally realize that in this way they are harming themselves and their future in this world. God is not vengeful, but just. He forgives, but I also order improvement. I think that people who create such content should finally realize that the most harm they do is to themselves.

[Oganesson.z118 👑]

Thank you for your post OP.

In terms of boycotting such games, usually waiting until their are sufficient reviews to make an informed decision is helpful, but I realise that increasingly it is as you say - as we approach the end of the age more and more forms of media appear to contain 'casual' sin thrown into the mix even if the main storyline seems solid enough - it's the 'low level' (If there is such a thing) remarks and approval of sin that is becoming harder and harder to avoid.

You also challenge me as to my own game choices, which I realise are far from perfect. I have been trying of late to move away from games that, perhaps sinfully, I have really enjoyed (Such as Re4) towards other games that are more peaceful such as Snowrunner, Subnautica and Farming Simulator... I guess a lot of it comes down to what is it beneficial to fill our minds with?

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy- think on these things" Philippians 4:8

[† ßâd•£üç]< Îñç™]

Wow... This is very depressing to hear, but not surprised. I've moved away from VN's a few years ago when they started appealing to the carnal and/or alphabet crowd. In fact, I have set up my settings so their tags never show up when I browse through the Steam Store. (Sadly, I have occasionally had to disable them a couple of times so I could snag items from the Point Shop that I wanted because the settings seems to affect that too... but, c'est la vie...)

Say, have you done any homework on this developer? I am curious if they're releasing other games with the sad B.S. you mentioned about the one game you referenced.

[󠀡󠀡]

Yeah, I noticed a common reoccuring theme in video games and movies as well, even if they do not directly mention Christianity or Christ, you can still notice certain references to Christianity or biblical figures. You can clearly make out that the writer took some inspiration from the bible for their own plot, character development and even asthetics. It's not always meant as an attack against Christianity, sometimes they just lack the creativity to come up with something original of their own much like an AI in that sense. So they snatch something from the bible and create their own spin-off from it.

Kinda like how they wrote the main villain for Dragon age inquisition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdOqLIDJa6s

A villain who assaults the heavens, comes in his own name and wants to become a god, who is supported by an archdemon, a corrupted dragon and dragons happen to be the gods of the dragon age universe. It's like they took a huge chuck out of plot from revelation and put a whole fantasy spin on it.

I could mention other examples as well, baldurs gate, game of thrones, diablo, veilguards, ark survival evolved etc, they have many hidden references to the bible, Christianity, pagan mythology and the occult. A narrative designer has to consume a lot of media and books if he or she wants to create a successful relatable narrative. And the bible happens to have the oldest books in history. I mean J. R. R. Tolkien who is seen as the author of high fantasy was supposedly a devout Christian or Catholic. And yeah sometimes as you said yourself, they use their stories, their creations to attack the Christianity, sometimes knowingly and sometimes out of ignorance. Most of these people are not really Christians so they will almost inadvertently lean more towards a universalist form of "truth" than Christianity. I say a universalist form of "truth" as in Gnosticism, Theosophy, Hermeticism, Brahmanism, Manichaeism, Orphicism , the same stupid ideas recycled under different names and aesthetics over and over again.

[Gray Matter Guerrilla]

Yeah, the industry is antagonistic towards Christianity at best... most are, sadly.

I'm not sure I can name one video game - that is not indie or niche - that is blatantly supportive of God/Jesus or the Bible.
I can name MANY games that mock or outright demonize the Faith though, especially AAA games.

It's always surprising, to me at least, when someone doesn't see the obvious and even knee-jerk reacts against the hostility by claiming it's not happening or it's "not as bad" as some argue. Ugh... lol

[Kopydy]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

Yeah, I noticed a common reoccuring theme in video games and movies as well, even if they do not directly mention Christianity or Christ, you can still notice certain references to Christianity or biblical figures. You can clearly make out that the writer took some inspiration from the bible for their own plot, character development and even asthetics. It's not always meant as an attack against Christianity, sometimes they just lack the creativity to come up with something original of their own much like an AI in that sense. So they snatch something from the bible and create their own spin-off from it.

Kinda like how they wrote the main villain for Dragon age inquisition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdOqLIDJa6s

A villain who assaults the heavens, comes in his own name and wants to become a god, who is supported by an archdemon, a corrupted dragon and dragons happen to be the gods of the dragon age universe. It's like they took a huge chuck out of plot from revelation and put a whole fantasy spin on it.

I could mention other examples as well, baldurs gate, game of thrones, diablo, veilguards, ark survival evolved etc, they have many hidden references to the bible, Christianity, pagan mythology and the occult. A narrative designer has to consume a lot of media and books if he or she wants to create a successful relatable narrative. And the bible happens to have the oldest books in history. I mean J. R. R. Tolkien who is seen as the author of high fantasy was supposedly a devout Christian or Catholic. And yeah sometimes as you said yourself, they use their stories, their creations to attack the Christianity, sometimes knowingly and sometimes out of ignorance. Most of these people are not really Christians so they will almost inadvertently lean more towards a universalist form of "truth" than Christianity. I say a universalist form of "truth" as in Gnosticism, Theosophy, Hermeticism, Brahmanism, Manichaeism, Orphicism , the same stupid ideas recycled under different names and aesthetic over and over again.

I literally don't know the meaning of any of these movements you mentioned, e.g. Gnosticism etc. Should I be happy about it or not xD

[󠀡󠀡]

Originally posted by Kopydy:

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

Yeah, I noticed a common reoccuring theme in video games and movies as well, even if they do not directly mention Christianity or Christ, you can still notice certain references to Christianity or biblical figures. You can clearly make out that the writer took some inspiration from the bible for their own plot, character development and even asthetics. It's not always meant as an attack against Christianity, sometimes they just lack the creativity to come up with something original of their own much like an AI in that sense. So they snatch something from the bible and create their own spin-off from it.

Kinda like how they wrote the main villain for Dragon age inquisition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdOqLIDJa6s

A villain who assaults the heavens, comes in his own name and wants to become a god, who is supported by an archdemon, a corrupted dragon and dragons happen to be the gods of the dragon age universe. It's like they took a huge chuck out of plot from revelation and put a whole fantasy spin on it.

I could mention other examples as well, baldurs gate, game of thrones, diablo, veilguards, ark survival evolved etc, they have many hidden references to the bible, Christianity, pagan mythology and the occult. A narrative designer has to consume a lot of media and books if he or she wants to create a successful relatable narrative. And the bible happens to have the oldest books in history. I mean J. R. R. Tolkien who is seen as the author of high fantasy was supposedly a devout Christian or Catholic. And yeah sometimes as you said yourself, they use their stories, their creations to attack the Christianity, sometimes knowingly and sometimes out of ignorance. Most of these people are not really Christians so they will almost inadvertently lean more towards a universalist form of "truth" than Christianity. I say a universalist form of "truth" as in Gnosticism, Theosophy, Hermeticism, Brahmanism, Manichaeism, Orphicism , the same stupid ideas recycled under different names and aesthetic over and over again.

I literally don't know the meaning of any of these movements you mentioned, e.g. Gnosticism etc. Should I be happy about it or not xD

If you are interested in learning about gnosticism for the sake of identifying and rebuking it, you might want to read "Against heresy" by Irenaeus. Though it's not an easy read.

https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm

[Mr_C_]

Originally posted by Kopydy:

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

I say a universalist form of "truth" as in Gnosticism, Theosophy, Hermeticism, Brahmanism, Manichaeism, Orphicism , the same stupid ideas recycled under different names and aesthetic over and over again.

I literally don't know the meaning of any of these movements you mentioned, e.g. Gnosticism etc. Should I be happy about it or not xD

While researching Orphism--which I had never heard of--I ran across this site:

https://religion.fandom.com/

While I'm not especially endorsing this site, since I haven't thoroughly vetted it, it does have a basic definition for the ideology and may be worth looking into.

[Kopydy]

Well, basically one such ideology that I associate with meaning is Marxism. You're right @blank name, basically all these ideologies differ only in name, but in fact they are the same, i.e. false science leading people to false light and then to tragedy in human life. Following these ideologies ends in a void in our lives that only God the Father can fill. But thank you for the links, it's always good to have general knowledge on such topics. You can only fight an enemy if you know his way of thinking.

[󠀡󠀡]

It all boils down to the idea that you are god or rather a fragment of god, broken into millions of pieces stuck in a material prison that goes through an endless cycle of death and rebirth. And your goal is to break out of that prison and become whole again, to become god. Everything around you is basically an illusion and everything has a dualistic nature to it, evil simply exists because there has to be an opposite of good, it simply exists for you to understand what good means. And also that sin doesn't matter. What matters is obtaining wisdom, knowledge, gnosis, sophia, to break yourself free from the illusion, the material prison. In Gnosticism, Lucifer is pretty much the hero, they believe that Lucifer and Satan are two different figures or rather that the Abrahamic God is Satan aka the demiurge. The bible is largely interpreted allegorically, that the text doesn't say what it says but hides a greater hidden meaning. That all the biblical figures are just metaphors for something like stars, planets or whatever they come up with in the moment, it's subjective to them. The idea is that if we are god then we can reshape the world into what ever vision we desire, we just have to realize that we are god and remove all the obstacles, particularly Jews and Christians. Everyone has to be of the same mind.

[󠀡󠀡]

Originally posted by Kopydy:

Well, basically one such ideology that I associate with meaning is Marxism. You're right @blank name, basically all these ideologies differ only in name, but in fact they are the same, i.e. false science leading people to false light and then to tragedy in human life. Following these ideologies ends in a void in our lives that only God the Father can fill. But thank you for the links, it's always good to have general knowledge on such topics. You can only fight an enemy if you know his way of thinking.

Yes, I would argue that marxism is also rooted in Gnosticism, but I have a hard time explaining why, I would have to do more research on it.

If you want to learn more about how marxism is rooted in gnosticism, you might want to read Science, Politics and Gnosticism by eric voegelin.

[Theophilus]

Agreed @Sandra ✧✞°• .

It is at the very least reckless and irresponsible to make a game, or even a movie, directly portraying our Lord Jesus Christ, even if the developers are supposedly Christian, which in the case you have mentioned I highly doubt they are. Because in that type of game the developers are almost forced to portray a graven image, of which God frowns upon.

A good question to ask is: What would a proper Bible-focused game look like? Or can one exist at all? The best and safest option would probably be a history based, interactive/educational game.

Perhaps a game could center on the life of a less important person in The Bible, like a soldier in David's army when he was fighting the philistines, or one of Jesus' 70 disciples navigating around a Roman-occupied Jerusalem. One idea that just popped into my head is a survival game with John having to survive on the island Patmos. But I guess sticking with OT scenarios is probably more appropriate and likely since there is more flexibility with what kind of stories one could tell without contradicting the truth of The Holy Bible.

In any case, videogames are just videogames, and unfortunately in this day and age people are not going to find the real Jesus Christ in a videogame the same way as when you read The Bible. Of course, if a videogame brings people to the real Biblical Jesus Christ at all, then God be praised!

[Sandra ✧✞°•]

With a lot of hidden object games you can guess it will have Occult references in them by just looking at the layout of the game, the screenshots. In most hidden object games you play the "good guy" but it always comes down to that you have to perform some ritual, cast spells and magic to stop the "evil guys" and their spells. Hidden object games are loved by children and they learn at young age already about witchcraft practices through such games.

When I got saved I removed all these obvious games from my library and began to buy innocent appearing hidden object games. They have not even a hint that there will be something like that in them, but even in these games they just have to push an agenda. Last week four different games in a row gave me: the all seeing eye, the eye of horus, the hamsa hand, the pentagram. Often it are not even items you have to find but they just place it on the scenes to "playfully" introduce children to these symbols, programming them to associate them with something "fun".

I am not overreacting when I say that every single game I play seems to do this. I checked to see if it was one and the same developer or publisher, but no. It is happening no matter who the developer or publisher is. That made me wonder, who runs the game industry and gives instructions to include these things in these games that are marketed to be family friendly?

A few months ago I played an "innocent" adventure game called Summer in Mara, where you have to help people build up their island. Well, the 666 was places sublty on the walls on multiple locations, one location showed pigs in the sea that appeared to be drowning while it had nothing to do with the story line, it was just randomly placed there, which is an obvious reference to Mark 5:13. And one of the NPC's tells you to ask spirits for guidance and to trust spirits. On top of all that if you wanted to progress you had to make offerings in the fire before the gods of the island.

Another game I played last month is called Cloudy Valley, innocent looking walking simulator game. Not even 10 minutes in and I got introduced to a female NPC who tells that SHE is worried about HER WIFE because she is having her period and not feeling well. Why add that to a family friendly game? Again, no indication beforehand that these topics are in the game. You'll only find out by playing.

About the "I am Jesus Christ" game, I've asked the developer twice if he wants to reconsider publishing the game the way it is now and I told him the same thing as what I wrote in this topic, but I got zero response. I also saw that known media outlets have been raving about the game, so I guess that explains a lot.

Christian parents, any parent actually, please know what your childeren are playing and talk with them about it. These things are no longer just done through movies, cartoons and music. It is now also done through games. And you need to be aware of this.

And for game developers and their publishers who create and allow these kind of things, I will end with a quote from Jesus Christ:

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6

[Theophilus]

Originally posted by Sandra ✧✞°•:

With a lot of hidden object games you can guess it will have Occult references in them by just looking at the layout of the game, the screenshots. In most hidden object games you play the "good guy" but it always comes down to that you have to perform some ritual, cast spells and magic to stop the "evil guys" and their spells. Hidden object games are loved by children and they learn at young age already about witchcraft practices through such games.

When I got saved I removed all these obvious games from my library and began to buy innocent appearing hidden object games. They have not even a hint that there will be something like that in them, but even in these games they just have to push an agenda. Last week four different games in a row gave me: the all seeing eye, the eye of horus, the hamsa hand, the pentagram. Often it are not even items you have to find but they just place it on the scenes to "playfully" introduce children to these symbols, programming them to associate them with something "fun".

The game series "The Room" comes to mind here. Hidden object/puzzle game, tons of occult and ritual stuff in it, very evil. Now it makes me sad because I really enjoyed that game when I was a child (it's easily around 10 years old by now.)

Originally posted by Sandra ✧✞°•:

Christian parents, any parent actually, please know what your childeren are playing and talk with them about it. These things are no longer just done through movies, cartoons and music. It is now also done through games. And you need to be aware of this.

And for game developers and their publishers who create and allow these kind of things, I will end with a quote from Jesus Christ:

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6

Amen!! Lord Jesus give the parents wisdom to protect their children from this stuff!

[† ßâd•£üç]< Îñç™]

Originally posted by Sandra ✧✞°•:

With a lot of hidden object games you can guess it will have Occult references in them by just looking at the layout of the game, the screenshots. In most hidden object games you play the "good guy" but it always comes down to that you have to perform some ritual, cast spells and magic to stop the "evil guys" and their spells. Hidden object games are loved by children and they learn at young age already about witchcraft practices through such games.

When I got saved I removed all these obvious games from my library and began to buy innocent appearing hidden object games. They have not even a hint that there will be something like that in them, but even in these games they just have to push an agenda. Last week four different games in a row gave me: the all seeing eye, the eye of horus, the hamsa hand, the pentagram. Often it are not even items you have to find but they just place it on the scenes to "playfully" introduce children to these symbols, programming them to associate them with something "fun".

I am not overreacting when I say that every single game I play seems to do this. I checked to see if it was one and the same developer or publisher, but no. It is happening no matter who the developer or publisher is. That made me wonder, who runs the game industry and gives instructions to include these things in these games that are marketed to be family friendly?

A few months ago I played an "innocent" adventure game called Summer in Mara, where you have to help people build up their island. Well, the 666 was places sublty on the walls on multiple locations, one location showed pigs in the sea that appeared to be drowning while it had nothing to do with the story line, it was just randomly placed there, which is an obvious reference to Mark 5:13. And one of the NPC's tells you to ask spirits for guidance and to trust spirits. On top of all that if you wanted to progress you had to make offerings in the fire before the gods of the island.

Another game I played last months is called Cloudy Valley, innocent looking walking simulator game. Not even 10 minutes in and I got introduced to a female NPC who tells that SHE is worried about HER WIFE because she is having her period and not feeling well. Why add that to a family friendly game? Again, no indication beforehand that these topics are in the game. You'll only find out by playing.

About the "I am Jesus Christ" game, I've asked the developer twice if he wants to reconsider publishing the game the way it is now and I told him the same thing as what I wrote in this topic, but I got zero response. I also saw that known media outlets have been raving about the game, so I guess that explains a lot.

Christian parents, any parent actually, please know what your childeren are playing and talk with them about it. These things are no longer just done through movies, cartoons and music. It is now also done through games. And you need to be aware of this.

And for game developers and their publishers who create and allow these kind of things, I will end with a quote from Jesus Christ:

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6

Thanks for sharing the titles to the games you talked about in your OP and put them on ignore should they ever show up in the game queue.

It is difficult finding games nowadays that doesn't have something in it that conditions children with this crap.

Temtem, an innocent-looking Pokémon clone, is another one that not only caters to the alphabet crowd by having same sex partners and pronouns, but also has a Halloween-inspired seasonal battle pass[temtem.wiki.gg] with character customization and housing rewards that is loaded with blatant satanic and witchcraft symbolism. There's even a character title that says, "It's not a phase!" Needless to say, I did not claim more than half of the rewards in that battle pass in silent protest.

Don't get me wrong... I still play it, sorta, because the dailies and weeklies are enjoyable even after having completed the storyline campaign. Sure, miss out on entire plot points doing this, but I'd rather be in the habit of skipping over the text when content like that is present so I don't have to consume its message.

<sigh...> I just can't wrap my head around why the push of sex or sexual orientation be put into video games for--whether gay, straight or bi--when it's not even part of the story, except to make a quick buck. No wonder teens and young adults are addicted to porn and confused about who they are as human beings.

Sadly, I remember when Steam used to be respectable. In recent years, they've become like a territorial operator wanting a huge chunk of the pie in exchange for some developers to peddle their hardcore sleaze into the market and be okay with it. I can only pray that others, like GOG and Epic, would rather keep their self dignity and avoid doing the same.