Avatar, Pagan Advertisement?
It’s surprising the things you’ll find on YouTube, and I mean that in a good way. (**Spoiler if you haven’t seen Avatar**)
I came across an excerpt from one of Mark Driscoll’s sermons (his most recent series on Luke) in which he gives a brief analysis of the ‘wildly popular’ movie Avatar. This is Driscoll at his most candid: Avatar is “the most demonic, Satanic film I’ve ever seen. How any Christian could watch that without seeing the overt demonism is beyond me”. Ouch. I have to say, though, that I agree with him. I ended up seeing Avatar a few weeks after release (the only time I could get tickets), and the one thing that really bothered me about the movie was the amount of religious animism. I wonder how many (Christians) will completely miss the world view being presented–that everything is interconnected, divine, and that the … (Read more)
Hail Mary, Full of Grace.. Was The Lord With Thee?
Let’s get straight to the point. If the virgin birth did not happen, then, as Mark Driscoll rightly observes:
If the virgin birth of Jesus is untrue, then the story of Jesus changes greatly; we would have a sexually promiscuous young woman lying about God’s miraculous hand in the birth of her son, raising that son to declare he was God, and then joining his religion. But if Mary is nothing more than a sinful con artist then neither she nor her son Jesus should be trusted. Because both the clear teachings of Scripture about the beginning of Jesus’ earthly life and the character of his mother are at stake, we must contend for the virgin birth of Jesus Christ1.
As I said in my previous post, I’ve been hearing quite a lot of people downplay or even reject the virgin birth as a fanciful bit mythologizing 2… (Read more)
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