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Dawn of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Yes, Dawn of the Dead also demonstrates the bible. Question: Does Satan have the power to raise the dead? No. So, how do the dead have the power to rise from the dead and eat and kill people? Only God can raise the dead. OK, so the movie actually combines two things – the evil of murder, cannibalism, and mindless mania with the power of the Good God to raise the dead. That is why the living dead seem to have such power – the movie has combined two opposite things, giving evil a power it does not have. It glorifies God in a backhanded way. But giving evil and death the power that only God has, the movie gave to Satan a power only God has. Fear is the normal response to the power of God exercised in an awesome way. Combine that legitimate fear with the fear of murderous monsters, and you mix hell and heaven. This is not a legitimate theme for inspiring understanding of the gospel; however, even this movie cannot deny the awesome unrelenting power of resurrection, even when it is perversely applied.
In Dawn of the Dead, there is a scene in which the attacking, murderous dead are doused with gasoline and lit. A more fitting view of hell has rarely been portrayed. The love of the family above that which is righteous is portrayed in the black man who hid from the others the fact that she was infected. She becomes a walking dead, tied to the bed, has her baby, who then becomes walking dead. The father defends his wife and infected baby from an uninfected person, thus becoming a murderer because he loved his family more than what is good. The family made into an idol and placed before God becomes the family from hell.
Interstellar
Interstellar
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“Interstellar” came out in 2014. It’s about time and family, but it contains a theological explanation of covenant family and dominion also. Long before seeing it and while sitting in a doctor’s waiting room, I picked up a magazine and noticed an article about the movie. It explained that the makers went to an actual theoretical physicist to learn how to represent a black hole and a worm hole in the movie’s special effects. The scientist allegedly took the equations governing the theoretical operations of these phenomena and matched it with special effects software for a video representation. But when they actually saw the image the equations created, they had made an entirely new scientific discovery as to the operation of the phenomena. Perhaps the first time that a scientific discovery occurred within the special effects process in the making of a movie. Continue reading “Interstellar”