When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me

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What does this mean to you? Should grown ups not play video games?
 
To me, it means that at some point our faith has to become adult, and our own. Our parents can do all they can, but, eventually, it needs to become personal.
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Should grown ups not play video games?
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Should grownups not play monopoly, or rugby, or pingpong?
 
Those things aren’t really meant primarily for children

And rugby is a sport. Ping pong too
 
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And video games are for children based upon what…?

And look up e-sports sometime.
 
Read the passage in context. It’s speaking about growing in faith, and how when Christ comes we will see clearly. It’s connected to the passage about faith, hope, and love, and the importance of love in a Christian context over the “childish” desire for the best spiritual gifts.
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At this point, video games aren’t either.
 
This passage is talking about growing in faith. Anyone who spends time reading the Bible will realize that it will reveal itself based on where you are in your walk with Christ. If you are just beginning your journey, laying down the foundations of your faith, you are considered a babe in Christ. You will be fed milk, because milk is what a babe needs for nourishment. If a baby is fed a steak it will not be healthy for the baby. Hence, a brand new Christian should not start out their walk of faith trying to take in Revelations. That is more advanced food, food for those who have grown in their understandings of the Bible and are preparing to go out and make Disciples, the final stage of faith growing. When a new Christian goes out with only their little understanding and tries to make converts, this is where problems occur. More harm than good is made. God will meet us where we are in our walk. His desire is for us is to grow in our walk, however it is our choice. If we chose to remain babes on milk, then He will not feed us steak. It is up to us to consume the milk we need to grow to solid foods and then one day enjoy that steak of grand understanding and go out to make disciples. The book Divine Design for Discipleship really helped me understand the true meaning of this passage. As for your thoughts on video games, when Holy Spirit is invited into a persons heart, Holy Spirit will work to transform that person, by tearing out the old and replacing it with the new. Romans 12:2 God will remove anything consuming a person through conviction. But a persons heart must be receptive to Holy Spirit in order to want to change. This job belongs to Holy Spirit alone because Holy Spirit can convict without causing damage to the persons self. We have to allow Holy Spirit the opportunity to work in a person in the way only He can and trust that He will.
 
Video games can (but do not always) adversely affect familial and romantic relationships just as anything else that makes you not seem present to people you live with and love.
 
For me, the passage resonates strongly due to the lack of maturity in a good friend of mine. He is six months older than I (we are both fifty-five), and emotionally he has never really progressed past an adolescent stage of development. He is totally self-absorbed, lives only for pleasures, both carnal and gustatory, and seems not to realise what loyalty, true friendship or fidelity entail. As a result, he is alcoholic, suffers from anxiety, and sees a psychotherapist weekly. His thoughtless hedonism and advanced state of selfishness are the childish things he should have put away when he became a man, so that his psyche could develop toward a proper level of maturity and gravity. Instead, his indulgence of the infantile side of his nature has resulted in multiple personal problems that impede his professional and personal lives to an all but insuperable extent. I realise this is not exactly the thrust of the passage in its Scriptural context, but that is how it resonates for me personally.
 
I am on CAF more than on any video game but I do play a lot of RPGs and when the main storyline is done there isn’t much left to do…
 
I’ve heard some people say there’s a difference between childish and childlike.

There is childlike behavior that is perfectly acceptable for adults. (I’ve been known to say I occasionally like kids shows, because if I wanted realistic I’d read the news.) It can of course be an issue if indulged in excessively or in the wrong circumstance. But adults enjoying things meant for children is no failure of them to be adults.

Childish behavior is generally behavior that is not ideal even in children, but is accepted as something that they need to mature out of. A toddler throwing a tantrum is still acting up, but it’s much more understandable in a toddler than a grown adult.
 
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