It's that cult again, family cult, and Western Christianity is really going to be hopeless. From Norway (Skam) to Germany (Dark) to the US (Rick & Morty).
———————— July 1, 2020, update after watching the third season
I think the show would be more concise if it thought directly from theology, and I don't think anyone can deny that there is a deep religious element lurking in both seasons.
Riman Destiny's Gate is also set up with a similar time and space paradox. The setting of free will seems to be higher than this show, because in Stone Gate, there are constant attempts to change after knowing the future situation, but due to the objective existence of time and space The law makes there always some "inevitable factor" (i.e. the clock stops and the person trying to protect is killed for no definite reason); and in this show, at least as far as it turns out, everything is out of free will, which means freedom Will also seems to be under the determinism of time zeit.
1. Theological situation: the abyss destroys the darkness
So what should be considered from the theological point of view, the Bible bluntly says that the world "destroys darkness", and the devil is the commander of the world on earth, and a new perspective opened by this drama is: In the past, we mentioned the devil as the king of the world, but only I feel that he is the king of material wealth and murderous power, and the scale of population and wealth involved are tens of thousands, but this play reminds: If the world is time and space, then the devil also rules time, and it is time. Wang, then obviously in this drama, the one who is closest to the devil or is the devil himself is probably jonas. Saying that he is the closest to the devil here does not rule out that there is a deeper force driving jonas to become Adam; and to say that jonas is the devil himself is because if Jons is the one who is the initiator, as he said, he completely fits the definition of the devil. , the one who lied in the first place, the one who murdered in the first place, and, with him in the first place, the Lord Jesus condemned mankind as the descendants of the devil, not only symbolically, but also indeed.
2. Coping with sin: there is no righteous person in the world
So in the face of this predicament, how did everyone deal with it, or how did the plot become more and more chaotic and tangled, to be honest, how did they struggle with their sins and give birth to new sins? If they want to save themselves, whether it is the White Devil or Adam, these two are mentors (teacher and student) to each other. They both think they want to save the world, but it is the White Devil who thinks that the salvation of the world is a way of life, while Adam thinks that the world Salvation is a dead end, in fact, both have biblical basis. The rest of the people, the other people in the sic mundus organization, the men, women, and children in the whole town who are connected with it all think about how to save themselves or others, but they don't think that their hands are already dirty, what about dirty hands? Clean yourself up, let alone others? They are incompetent in saving, but they want to decide to save others, and the final result can only be to pretend to be gods and eat people.
3. The Devil's Lie
On this way of pretending to be gods, everything is a lie, and the devil is at war with the devil, all of which are wonderful lies made up by the "snake" long ago in the book of Genesis. Adam sacrificed others Needless to say, the white devil also sacrificed others, and plausibly said "we always need sacrifice", what is sacrifice, who decides and deserves it, they don't say a word, because honestly, sacrifice is To kill is to lie. They kept their tears and placed their hopes on the first person who saw the past and the future, looking for the living among the dead, sons killing their fathers, wives killing their husbands, daughters lacking mothers, mothers also lacking daughters, lovers murder lovers, The root cause of all this is the vain desire to save the world on one's own. With the paradox of the shoelace, the devil attempts to destroy the creator before time, and he doubts the responsibility of "people" because he "has no other choice, so he is not free." On the one hand, he reveals half the truth: God has arrangements for everyone and Plan, disguise oneself as the executor of God's plan; on the other hand, it tempts people to change the established destiny, so as to achieve self-liberation from the ring of hell. The descendants of the devil are really us.
4. True Free Will
Now that we have faced this ring of hell, and we have to make a choice from our own free will, and know that our choice will also be included in all inevitability, what should we do? Because the influence of the decisions made by free will on the world is also controlled by the devil, and only decisions that do not affect the world but only affect one's own soul belong to true free will, that is, Confession and Love: The introduction is Claudia's apology to her father, Mikel's love for her son, and Ulrich's long-overdue repentance, but these are all introductions, if not for believing in the Lord, how can he be justified? If you love this filthy world more than you love the Lord, who in this play can say that God owes him?
Yes, the ending of the first season points from the past to the future, and the ending of the second season points to multiple worlds from time and space, but God is the creator of all worlds, all time and space, and I don't expect jonas to move from these multiple worlds. To gain sublimation or redemption through experience, on the contrary, I see a more depraved and corrupt path.
Jonas' final becoming Adam must be closely related to his love for martha, just as the name says: Adam, who experienced the fall precisely because he loved Eve more than God (cf. Genesis), we'll just have to wait and see.
ps: the story can also be said to originate from jonas wanting to save his father, but in my opinion, his father Mikel has been saved because of his own letter, there is no need to test his suicide with me Not conforming to the law, he may have been deceived by the devil and took his life, but a richer life must be taken back.
In the end, truth needs to be balanced. Of course jonas is on a more corrupt and depraved road, but don't be proud of yourself, we are that person, and it is we who are so unbearable that we can still be saved by grace, that shows whether Christ wants all people to be saved or not. May one fall in love.
Maybe I can predict the theme of the third season: 5. Only the church: mutual encouragement in the world
When referring to the church complete with sacraments and prayers, I'm afraid Holy Baptism may not be present in this drama. The Niebuhr prayers from the first season can now be understood: Gott, gib mir die Gelassenheit, Dinge hinzunehmen, die ich nicht ändern kann. den Mut, Dinge zu ändern, die ich ändern kann, und die Weisheit, das eine vom anderen zu unterscheiden. Complete as follows: May God grant me serenity to accept what I cannot change. May God give me the courage to change the things I can change. May God give me the wisdom to tell the difference between the two. Live every day of my life, enjoy every moment you give me, see hardship as the path to peace, like the Lord Jesus, accept this sinful world as it is, not as I want it to be. Trusting him will make all things good, if I submit to his will; I may have the right joy in this life, and the bliss of eternal life with him in eternity. Amen. This courage is the courage to repent and love each other. The courage that a lover needs is much greater than that of murder.
Confession is not repenting to the world, and loving each other is not loving the world. It is impossible to do without confidence.
Essay appendix
a. Faith begets peace and joy, and peace and joy beget hope, hope begets courage, courage begets love, love begets wisdom, and loving him is wisdom. (Think of the word love wisdom philosophy).
b. On the question of whether Adam and Eve were saved: The current mainstream view is that Adam and Eve are likely to be saved, based on the fact that God made a leather garment for him. The LORD God made leather garments for Adam and his wife to clothe them. (Genesis 3:21) There is sacrifice and atonement, but baptism and circumcision cannot be used as a defense for once saved and eternally saved. Therefore, the mainstream view also admits that the Bible does not clearly indicate whether Adam was saved or not. My comment The book was originally written with the subconscious mind that Adam was not saved, but after discussing it with the church members, I also discovered that I was lacking in learning. At that time, I just read the Bible by myself and felt that Adam was a typical example of loving the world (Eve) more than God and leaving the Garden of Eden. Just telling a big lie, saying that Eve is the mother of all living things, and breaking the rules set by God, and handing over the naming rights to Eve, it can be said that it is a constant sin, until the appearance of Seth makes me feel the beginning of grace, and based on My distaste for ancestor worship took me to the other extreme, so I thought that Adam should not have been saved. The current understanding is: if it is not mentioned in the Bible, it means that this matter is unimportant in the eyes of the Holy Spirit, and if we think he is important, there is only one reason, our view comes from the devil, specifically, If it is recorded or believed that the salvation of Adam and Eve will lead to an increase in the arrogance of sinners; if it is recorded on the contrary, it may damage the faith of sinners. This is because of God's love and good intentions, and He could have tried his best to try it. God of his goods, but he also loves his own creation, and has mercy on us, so he does not tell us whether Adam and Eve are saved or not. What we should think about is, what has Adam and Eve's salvation to do with us (some people will say we are Adam's sons and so on), just as what did Mary have to do with Jesus? After watching this drama, we can understand very well, maybe from a fool's point of view, Adam was born earlier than Jesus, but in fact Jesus Christ is the first and the last at the same time, and is not created. People in this world either consider themselves to be the children of Jesus, that is, the children of God, or the children of Adam, that is, the children of man. Isn’t this a complete and balanced truth?
c. Darkness is the world, so there should be more analogies between the play and Genesis, such as thinking about the relationship between Noah in Genesis and Noah in the play.
d. The Platonic metaphor of the cave, clinging to the "truth" guided by heresy is to follow a lie.
e. My interpretation is permeated with the pessimism and world-weariness that may be caused by my biased understanding of eschatology. I welcome the advice of brothers and sisters.
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