A film suitable for Catholic literacy

Nicola 2021-10-20 17:36:11

Let me introduce the cultural background first: Constantine: The name is the same as that of a certain emperor in ancient Rome. In 313, Constantinus IMagnus issued the EdictumMediolanensium (EdictumMediolanensium), and Christianity became a religion allowed by the Roman Empire. In addition, it seems to have no other special significance. Gabriel: Gabriel was originally a seraphim, with a distinguished and noble status. Gabriel has the responsibility of destroying all filthy things in the human world. However, because of his great disagreement with God on the issue of punishing the Egyptians, he angered God. He was demoted to the great heaven and listed as one of the archangels. After the great heaven prospered and received more and more attention from Jehovah God, Gabriel became the archangel, an important guardian post in heaven, and served as the guard of the entire heaven. At one time, his voice was rising, and he became the best backup candidate for Seraph. Gabriel appears in Islam, Christianity, and Catholicism. Gabriel first appeared mainly as a male image. At the latest, in film and television works, female images are predominantly taught, and there are even intersex images. Lucifer: the famous fallen angel. Before the fall, he was an angel of the same status as Gabriel. Lucifer is Latin and is composed of lux (light, possessive lucis) and Ferre (bring) is composed, meaning the messenger of light. Lucifer was originally the most beautiful and powerful person around God. He rebelled because he was dissatisfied with God's request to kneel down to the Son of God, and eventually fell into a demon king and became one of the masters of hell, that is, the "arrogant" demon king of original sin. Lucifer was once the highest-ranking angel in heaven, serving as the archangel before his fall. Dante's "Divine Comedy" and John Milton's "Paradise Lost" all say that Lucifer, because he refused to surrender to Christ the Son, led a third of the heavenly congregation to raise the anti-banner in the northern part of the heavens. After three days of dramatic war in the heavens, Lucifer's rebels were defeated by Christ and fell into the chaos for nine twilights before falling to hell. Since then, God created Xintiandi and mankind. In order to take revenge and seize Xintiandi, Lucifer turned into a snake and sneaked into the Garden of Eden, lured Eve to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree of knowledge, and then used her to lure Adam into committing the crime of disobeying God’s order. . So Lucifer made God’s new creation fall together as he wished, and opened the door to a new world for the demon gods. Since then, sin, sickness, and death have finally spread all over the ground. The reason for Lucifer’s betrayal is said to be this: when God created mankind, angels Was told to obey this new creation. However, the angel who was born with flames could not obey the human being born in the clod and resist. Also, Lucifer, who was once an archangel and beloved, was told when God first created angels that he could only respect God, be loyal to God, and could not obey anyone other than God. So when God forgot this command and asked him to obey mankind, Lucifer refused and was exiled from the heavens. Lucifer, who was banished to hell, naturally hated humans. Michael Michael: also known as Mi'er (Hebrew: יכאל Micha' el or Mîkhā'ēl; Latin: Michael or Míchaël) is the name of an angel mentioned in the Bible. The guardian of the Garden of Eden designated by God is also the only spirit body mentioned with the title of archangel. The name Michael means "Who is like God". The records of the "Bible" show that in the Seven-Day War with Satan, Michael fought hard to defend the sovereignty of God and fight against God's enemies. "The Bible" mentions the spirit body named Michael not many times, but every time he is mentioned, he is actively acting. For example, "The Book of Daniel" describes him fighting with evil angels, "The Book of Jude" describes him arguing with Satan, and "Revelation" describes him fighting with the devil and his evil spirits. In Christian paintings and sculptures, Michael often appears as a young boy with long golden hair, holding a red cross (or a red cross-shaped sword) fighting a dragon or standing on a dragon. The dragon here is Satan. The reason why Michael is mentioned is that this man seems to have the least combination of righteous and evil, and he has a righteous spirit. Satan: Satan, mainly refers to the fallen angel (or Satan) in the Bible. He is the Fallen Angels who rebelled against God Jehovah. He was once one of the seraphs before the seat of God. Putting temptation in the world, he later fell into a devil and was seen as a source of evil and darkness against the power of light. In the Bible, Satan and lucifer are not the same person, but various literary creations of later generations, such as Milton’s Paradise Lost, also use lucifer to call Satan. The movie should equate Satan with lucifer. There have been two similar rebellions in heaven: The first time, when God created the world, Adam and Eve were born in the Garden of Eden. The second time, it was before the birth of the Son of God Jesus in the sky, which can be said to be about the zero year of the modern "Western Yuan". For the first time, Satan turned into a snake and tempted Eve to steal the forbidden fruit, causing mankind to be driven away by God. The second time, Lucifer led a third of the angels to fight against the heavens, and finally all fell to hell to become fallen angels. So these two demons in the Bible are two completely different people. The creation of later generations made him a person. Samael, the first rebellious angel recorded in the Apocryphic Book of Enoch, was the archangel Samael at the beginning of the creation of the world; it is also recorded that he was the brilliance with twelve wings The spread of the messenger (the popular belief that there are three pairs of seraphs with six wings. There are also different records that high-ranking angels have hundreds of wings; this article does not believe this statement), but whether Samael is true Having twelve wings is untestable-he is an angel whose name is banned by the sky, and all the information is also blocked at the same time, only to be left for future generations to shed their cocoons and guess. It was Samael who refused to bow down before Adam and said: Why should I, the angel born by the holy fire, bow down to a body made of dust. The rebellious words. It was Samael who was deprived of the title and became the forbidden angel who only called The Serpent. It was Samuel who sneaked into the Garden of Eden like a snake and bewitched Eve. It was Samael who was condemned as the worst-Satan. Later, Sameer disappeared. Lucifer was the second rebellious angel, so more than two thousand years ago, on the eve of Jesus' birth, Lucifer refused to kneel down to worship Jesus. It was "Lucifer" that triggered the famous War of Heavens. It was "Lucifer" who took away one third of the angels in heaven. It was the hell that "Lucifer" was knocked down, symbolizing the "Angel Hell". It was "Lucifer" that Jesus took away the name of the morning star. Even after the Fall, Lucifer still has the name "wise man". Lucifer is not "Satan", it is Samael who is called "Satan". The six kings of hell What about the six kings of hell? Some people think that the name of Satan does not refer to any one person, but is owned by the six people who govern hell together, such as Lucifer. Satan is a symbol of hell's authority, and each of these six people can be called Satan. Although friends who think this way are better than those who mistake Lucifer as Satan, this concept is also derived from the wrong idea that Lucifer is the greatest rebel, and they also forget that the ancient snake Samel is. The first rebellious angel. Satan leaves are probably the biggest misunderstanding and the biggest joke ever. First look at the names of all the archangels. Most of them end with -iel, which symbolizes the chief heavenly monarch under absolute light. Lucifiel lost all his titles after being beaten, and the -iel sound was captured and turned into Lucifer, so before Satan was beaten, shouldn’t I add this ending sound back? ? Satan + -iel (-il) = Sataniel or Satanil Satan leaves. Summary: Samael is Satan. Above, we can preliminarily clarify how Lucifer is the source of the king of hell while wearing white clothes in the film. And although the angels call God the father, it is not a true father-son relationship. Angels are born in flames, and humans are born in dust. All were created by God. Mammon: Mammon is the god of greed in religious legends. This is unquestionable. But Mammon is the son of Satan, which can be understood as an independent setting in the film, and it is easier to understand the main doctrines of Catholicism: Catholicism is one of the three major denominations of Christianity, and its official name is "Roman Catholic Church". The transliteration of Gatli Church, the paraphrase of Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Orthodox Church. According to the translation of the Jesuit missionaries in the late Ming Dynasty, the Chinese called them Catholicism and Roman Catholicism, which were taken from an old Chinese saying "the highest is the heaven, the supreme is the lord". Among all Christian churches, the Catholic Church has the largest number of people, with about 11. 300 million, accounting for 17% of the world's total population. Christianity originated in the Jewish community of Jerusalem in Palestine (formerly known as Canaan) in the 1st century AD, and inherited the Hebrew Bible as the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. In 395, the Roman Empire was divided into two parts, the East and the West. The Catholic Church was divided into the Latin school with Rome as the center and the Greek school with Constantinople as the center. It was divided into Catholicism and Orthodox (Greek Orthodox) in 1054 by the division of Serularius. The Eastern faction emphasizes its legitimacy and is called Orthodox, while the Western faction emphasizes its universality and is called Catholicism. The Catholic Church is the Catholic Church. In the Middle Ages, Catholicism penetrated into the political, economic, ethical, legal, academic, cultural, educational, and artistic fields of Western European society and became an omnipresent spiritual force. It was not until the rise of the Reformation Movement in the 16th century that the Protestant (Anti-Road Zong) factions separated from the Holy See. In China, some Chinese translation names of Christianity have caused misunderstandings about Catholicism and Protestantism. "Christianity" is translated from the English "Christianity", which refers to all beliefs in the Savior Jesus Christ, including Catholicism, Orthodox Church and Protestantism; and In China, "Christianity" generally refers to the English "Protestantism", and a more accurate translation is "Protestantism", a Christian sect formed after the Reformation of Martin Luther in 1517. It is recommended that the country eliminate this kind of translation that affects people's understanding. It's not too messy. The main teachings of the Catholic Church include: The creation of God: "Old Testament · Genesis" records: God created all things in nature in 5 days, created man on the 6th day, and rested on the 7th day. The creation of God is the core of Catholicism. It is precisely because God created everything that he is said to be the supreme, omnipotent, all-knowing, omnipresent and only true God, and the supreme lord of the universe. If you understand it scientifically, you can understand it this way. The Big Bang gave birth to the earth and mankind. The omnipotent god is equivalent to the eternal mysterious power of the universe. The original sin of man: Catholicism believes that human nature is sinful. It is proclaimed that God created the first ancestors of mankind Adam and Eve (ie Eve), who were placed in the Garden of Eden and lived a carefree life. Later, under the lure of the devil (snake), Eva encouraged Adam to steal the fruit of the tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, thus offending God and being expelled from Paradise to work on the ground. The sins of Adam and Eve have been passed down to all their descendants, the original sin of mankind. Original sin can be washed away through the sacrament of initiation (holy baptism). Isn’t this just baptism~ Salvation says: Catholicism believes that Jesus was born for the purpose of Redemption of sins fills the world. God sent his only-begotten Son, Jesus, into the world to take the death and shed blood for the sins of mankind in order to atone for the original sins of mankind. Only by believing in and relying on a savior, Jesus, to make atonement for mankind, can people seek eternal life after death. In the salvation theory, there is a topic that is often discussed, so that believers can be saved. The Korean movie "Miyang" describes such a thing. A murderer who killed the children of others, because he forgave his crimes from the heart by believing in God in prison, and he had no sense of guilt. This made the mother who lost her child unacceptable, and raised questions about God. Of course, if you believe that "everything is destined" in the movie, you will not be obsessed with whether others are suffering or happy, because it has nothing to do with yourself. The mother's question is not a question at all, but a manifestation of his own deep egoism.

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  • John Constantine: Close your eyes. And whatever happens, don't look.

  • John Constantine: Why me, Gabriel? It's personal, isn't it? I didn't go to church enough, I didn't pray enough, I... was five bucks short in the collection plate. Why?