If you are a little too sensitive to the script setting in the movie that praises Christianity, and the scene arrangement is too sensitive, you may lose your understanding of the way people go to religious beliefs when watching this movie.
It is true that there are so many people who are not believers who are happily married. Husbands and wives are tolerant of each other, loyal to their marriages, and have their own ways of loving each other to cure various marital diseases. But who can deny the change of the people in it, to promote a better self to achieve happiness and as much fulfillment as possible. In terms of maintaining a relationship and building a harmonious marriage relationship, they must be similar. In fact, they all insist on not giving up, and recognize their own faults, so they can tolerate the faults of others. . . But the difference is that in Christianity, these virtues are elevated to belief, and thus gain a deeper power. In the movie, why the character is a firefighter obviously means that helpers also need to be helped, and it also lets you see how the pride and conceit of a self-confessed "helper" in life is manifested. These prides are not something that the proud person can do by himself. Seeing, that's why he has requirements for being respected, and feels uncomfortable when he is not obeyed.
Pride and conceit, from the perspective of Christianity, is the most fundamental sin and the greatest evil. Pride leads to all other sins. Pride is fundamentally competitive. It loves competition by nature. *
If one party in a marriage has a competitive thinking habit of looking at things, I think it is impossible to avoid quarrels. If it is not through learning humility, not discovering this sin from the heart, recognizing the troubles caused by this sin and the corresponding pain to others, Putting in the "self cage" to save yourself and move towards a better self, if bystanders say that they can also have a harmonious marriage, I am afraid that it is also an illusion that the other party in the marriage is holding back doubts.
The movie tells us to let go of this pride and let the relationship change. (Even some of the plot points of a rookie firefighter in the movie are teaching humility.) For an atheist married life partner, if both parties can have similar behavioral effects as above, it is commonly said "find your own reasons, Changing one's own practices, the most important thing is to start with oneself" and so on, are actually the best personal qualities for building harmonious relationships. The possible difference is that Christians can find God’s words and obey them very well, while atheists may have to bypass many detours if they don’t cooperate with their own personalities.
Taking such a detour is not terrible, there is no right or wrong, but you must be patient, including living with time. In addition, if they finally get such a virtue through learning some knowledge, experience, and perception, in fact, those things they believe and practice are also a kind of "faith" to promote change. To be precise, even people with Christian beliefs will go through detours and need a process. If they are not able to think about their beliefs often, they will miss or even misunderstand the lines of the Bible. Just looking for the answer nearby. It's all too easy to classify such films as "religious films," and yet from that perspective, you can trust that the filmmakers are some true Christian believers who feel the meaning of life as they understand it. Well, don't be too cautious about them showing such a complex of praise and faith, and don't think that the filmmaking is promoting religious life to make them think they are better than others, including atheists, religious beliefs are not what they want to use As a better weapon of life, it makes you feel "must have", because if that's the case, it's not what God wants, it's the devil's work, and it's pride. ** Seen in CS Lewis "Back to Basics" Chapter 3 The Big Sin
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