13 Jul '07 15:36>1 edit
Do you remember the scene from the Matrix with Keanu Reeves where he is told that he could find out about what is really going on and why he feels that something is not quite right with life . He gets the choice of the blue pill or the red one , and he chooses to find out.
Christianity is a bit like that. The starting premise is that we have all had the wool pulled over our eyes and been deceived and kept in the dark about God. My experience of becoming a christian was a bit like keanu's . Everything I thought about life got turned inside out and what I thought was real turned out to be a matrix.
The parallels are quite interesting in that you realise that the enemy didn't want you to find out that you were in the dark and wants to keep you in your pod under his control. Meanwhile God wants to liberate you and wake you up but in a way you (like in the film) you are not going to relish the idea because it means losing yourself and everything you thought you knew. The enemy whispers to us "don't take that pill , it's a deception " thereby deflecting from the greater deception of the matrix itself. I also find the idea that keanu has to make a choice to find out , he has to let go.
The wierd part is going back into the matrix and trying to talk to people about it. You know that they think the matrix is real but all you see is rows of batteries asleep to who they are in christ.
By the way - before you say it - I am not "the one"
Christianity is a bit like that. The starting premise is that we have all had the wool pulled over our eyes and been deceived and kept in the dark about God. My experience of becoming a christian was a bit like keanu's . Everything I thought about life got turned inside out and what I thought was real turned out to be a matrix.
The parallels are quite interesting in that you realise that the enemy didn't want you to find out that you were in the dark and wants to keep you in your pod under his control. Meanwhile God wants to liberate you and wake you up but in a way you (like in the film) you are not going to relish the idea because it means losing yourself and everything you thought you knew. The enemy whispers to us "don't take that pill , it's a deception " thereby deflecting from the greater deception of the matrix itself. I also find the idea that keanu has to make a choice to find out , he has to let go.
The wierd part is going back into the matrix and trying to talk to people about it. You know that they think the matrix is real but all you see is rows of batteries asleep to who they are in christ.
By the way - before you say it - I am not "the one"