be precise, this aneurysm is called "aneurysm", and the name is dangerous, and because it changes the blood flow of the human brain, it is easy to Make the patient hallucinate.
This metaphor-laden tumor started the story of Eli Stone (The Amazing Lawyer). In fact, I think that being a prophet has nothing to do with being a good person or a Christian, but has a lot to do with diseases such as "tumor". Although there is no clear evidence in the Bible that the famous prophets, especially John, who lived to be hundreds of years old, may have suffered from aneurysms or other diseases.
Sickness is a kind of "incompleteness", and usually only those who admit that they are "incomplete" have the possibility of receiving revelation from God. Like Moses. I've often guessed that Moses was a stutterer, and this flaw in him made him know he couldn't take on the role of delivering God's word, but God always likes to put someone who's clearly not up to the task so people can know that the finisher doesn't. Not the man, but the god behind the man. Although it was Aaron who later became a priest of God, we do not remember what word of God he conveyed, but instead the most important Ten Commandments were brought back from the mountain by a stammering Moses.
Is this because people only rely on God and believe everything He says when they understand that they are flawed? I once evangelized a young boy who was very receptive to himself, but his girlfriend prevented him from becoming a Christian because: "Only the mentally ill need to believe in God, our minds A healthy person doesn't need it."
So if you don't have a tumor, a lawyer full of self-confidence probably won't listen to the voice deep in your head, whether it's a hallucination or not. In the final episode, the man with bowel cancer made it clearer.
God tends to have a good sense of humor, and when he first spoke to Samuel, he was a naive child, and when he wanted justice, he chose a lawyer. Yes, lawyers are the people in this world who "should" go to justice for people. When they forgot this mission, God reached out to correct their direction - not "money", but "justice".
Can we also understand that when you are someone, what work should you accomplish? The event of Eli Stone becoming God's Queen's Lawyer is full of comedy, and more importantly, it is not God who benefits from it, nor the vulnerable people who get the lawyer's help, but the lawyer himself. From this series of absurd visions, he not only rediscovered what he was supposed to do, but also rediscovered the mysteries of life - including his father.
So, Eli Stone's vision is full of George Michael and his music. Music symbolizes beauty. There is always a corner of people's heart that hides the beauty that they remember or don't remember. This beauty symbolizes goodness, that is, the breath God blew into people's nostrils when he created man, that "Spirit of God".
The funniest thing is that the person who explained his vision to Eli Stone and guided him to listen to God's word turned out to be a Chinese healer who gave acupuncture in Chinatown - Dr. Chen - he looked more like his brother than he was. Like a wizard rather than a doctor. Maybe God, prophecy, prophet, should be a mysterious image in people's mind, just as the acupuncturist in Chinatown must have a weird accent and have a name like "Chen". And one such acupuncturist is mysterious enough to be used to symbolize the mystery of God. This is probably also a careful arrangement by the screenwriter, or it is also a metaphor.
As Amu said: prophecy only exists in the future, and has no meaning in the present world. When people other than prophets could not understand the meaning of the prophecy, they did things like consider whether he should be disbarred, whether the directors who supported him should be fired, in addition to thinking that Eli Stone was acting oddly. Can only wait for the earthquake to come. Only a few believers can be saved, like Noah in the Bible. When the believer is a mayor, perhaps a little more people can be saved.
For those who believe, prophecy is a good thing, but for the prophet himself, it is a pain: the ability to prophesy is itself a "morbidity", a "weird" that cannot be tolerated by society, and is incompatible with the values of the world. the opposite. Unfortunately, God and the world cannot be unified, so the prophet had to be a "sick" in this world with the will of God. Eli Stone lost his office, assistant, fiancée, and if God hadn't used his lawyer status, he might have lost his only job qualification.
When we see prophets speaking God's word in the Bible, do we have a little bit of "prophet" worship? But in reality, the "prophet" is not necessarily glorious, perhaps more is not understanding, ridicule, unemployment, life problems... I guess the ancient prophets are similar. Perhaps I should say that the ancient world is similar to the modern world.
From this point of view, the prophets have nothing to admire, maybe they are more "unlucky".
Oh, I almost forgot to mention that this aneurysm is hereditary, which is more in line with the biblical point of view: God's chosen prophets are often chosen before they are born. Even if he fled to the sky like Jonah, he could not escape the mission arranged by God. In this way, the second season of this American series will be very interesting, because in the last episode of the first season, Eli Stone's secret condition for becoming a prophet - that genetic aneurysm - was successfully removed.
2008-5-5
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