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2021-07-022021-06-04

Luke … I am your father!

Growing up, some of my favourite sci-fi movies consisted of the original Star Wars trilogy. Wow! Such action, such drama! One of my favourite scenes is at the end of “The Empire Strikes Back,” when Darth Vader proclaims to Luke Skywalker: “I am your father!”

This movie franchise has it all including a well-developed religious plotline. As many know, Star Wars preaches a mysterious dark side versus its counterpart light side. It seems to borrow heavily from Christianity and ancient Judaism while mixing in some political Nazism.

A Chosen One

The part that resonates with me is the prophecy of the Chosen One:

“A Chosen One shall come, born of no father, and through him will ultimate balance in the Force be restored.”

―A Jedi prophecy

2021-06-182021-06-04

The table and the tower

Today’s blog post examines two very symbolic objects with one very important lesson. It is time to take your place at the table and the tower.

The table

In a kitchen, there stands a breakfast table in a comfortable house on a bright and peaceful day. A man sits at this table staring out the window into a finely mowed backyard. On the table’s opposite end sits a woman staring into her coffee as she slowly stirs it around and around.

The day may be bright and peaceful, the backyard may be finely trimmed, the coffee may be of pleasant aroma, but the atmosphere is anything but cheery. You see, this man and this woman have not had a heart-to-heart talk in years.

Over the course of their marriage, they learned to exist in cohabitation without effective communication. Many would refer to it as “going through the motions”. It is a marriage without strength and direction. Two lives voluntarily put on autopilot; a relationship hardly worth mentioning. In time, without communication, this marriage will dissolve either through eternal complacency or through separation and divorce.

2021-05-282021-05-06

Is God killing with kindness?

Confusing sentence

I always thought Noah’s Flood was a negative thing, but I find that I was wrong, and that God was in reality, “killing with kindness”. I discovered this truth when I happened upon 1 Peter 3:20, where the Bible makes a very confusing statement, “God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”

Did you get that last bit in the verse? The bit where it says, “eight souls were saved by water.” Because it is speaking about Noah of the Old Testament, the eight souls are referring to Noah, his wife, three sons, and three daughters-in-law.

Many are familiar with the biblical account of Noah, his ark, and the great flood. And that is what makes Peter’s statement so confusing. It says that Noah and his family “were saved by water”. Shouldn’t that have read, “saved by the ark?” Wasn’t it the water that threatened them and the wooden ark the device of their salvation?