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6. Covert Bible Movies
Traces of Scriptural Principles in Secular Movies.
The more knowledge we gain of Scriptures and the cosmos the more various the Ezraic representations become. We should expect more Bible-based art in the near future and already some great Torah tuned works have been put out, largely unnoticed by the traditional church.
 
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Most of what Stephen Spiellberg produces is strongly influenced by the Torah. Small Soldiers, for instance, is a lovely kids-remake of the Exodus event, while the trans-systemized Men in Black ostentatiously protect the earth from the scum of the universe, imagine what they will know tomorrow, admire the stars and in the mean time battle some mean, galaxy-snatching, humanness feigning Lord of the Flies! (The Hebrew name Baal Zebub - Gr: Beelzebub - means just that).
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The galaxy is located in a jewel on the 'belt' of jeweler Rosenberg's pet cat Orion, and the Hebrew word for the 'belt of Orion' also means the 'girding of the loins,' or rather the 'specialization of one's personal vigor.' Specialization is what unicity is all about, and thus Paul exhorts to gird the loins with Truth, since only in Truth all people can reach their full potential and utter liberty within society. Pretty nifty movie, not just another sci-fi flick.
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But the most deliciously shameless references to the Torah happen in the many Star Trek productions (while rival Star Wars is curiously enough strictly Persian). Stars, of course, are imaginal of the sons of Abraham, and a Federation on the move in search of new civilizations, seeking new life forms and going boldly where no man has gone before, resonates with the people of Israel growing to new heights in a hostile world. |
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The movie Star Trek - First Contact is grafted upon Herman Melville's Moby Dick, the classic meditation on various demagogical systems or social contact forms and the prime one, the only one which allows perfect liberty of its participants, namely the one under God. The movie eloquently defends that the so-called 'Borg' (a systematic assimilation at cost of individuality, complete with an Ezekiel-like cube; the most lethal enemy of a Federation in quest of perfect liberty.) is defeated by brotherly love and the death of Self, liberating Data in the process, typical for rebirth in the Biblical sense. |   |
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In Star Trek - Insurrection a sanctuary of life is situated in a region full of electromagnetic storms called the Briar Patch (do I hear Burning Bush?). Our Star Fleet heroes don their invisible-making cloaks, set up a observation post and watch the sanctuary like angels. Against all protocols they show themselves when trouble strikes. And it always strikes! Some youths who previously had fallen away from the beneficial ways of moderation come to wreak havoc. Wayward Star Fleet admiral Dowerty leads the renegades on a heist of material that produces eternal life, but comes to a miserable fall. A dower, of course, is a share of a dead man's estate that was formerly allowed to his widow for life (do I hear, Oh, how you have fallen, O morning star?). |
 
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Although a pretty crafty flick and certainly a vast commercial success, Mell Gibson's The Passion of the Christ has not a thing to do with Christ. Even to this day people are tortured to death in the most gruesome ways all over the world, and nowhere in Scriptures can I find the urge to stare at a man being wrecked for three hours. And where in the movie am I assured that the real Christ is portrayed? Could have been anybody dying in the same way Jesus did. The unusualness of Jesus' death is that He wouldn't stay dead. Frankly, I've seen more portent in The Life Of Brian than in Mell's Passion.
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Imagine what you will know tomorrow.
"Zed, call the Arch-aliens, tell them we got the galaxy..." K-MIB
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