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My heroic identity FOR Christ

Postby iamneo19 » Sun Feb 29, 2004 5:27 pm

Hi. I'm the new guy, Jerry. I'm 19 years old, and try my best to please God through my actions and fellowship to others.
What I want to portray hereis what I think my fantastical heroic version of myself is. This is only a fantasy, but when I at least get to heaven, more than half of these "powers" will be at my disposal.

My favorite movie hero:

None other than Thomas "Neo" Anderson from the Matrix movies.

Once Neo finds out the truth, everything about him and everything around him, he cracks. Some Christians "crack," or have a temporary little break down before taking on their full responsibility as a full-fledged Christian, just as Neo took on his new responsibility after being unplugged from the world. (Just in case you didn't notice...I think the Matrix movies are a non-Christian analogy for Christianity-minus the fact that Jesus never had sex with anyone, and Neo did. If you are curious, I have even more ways to defend this view. Ask me later. But anyways...) Neo begins to learn of ways to bend the "natural" laws that he's lived with all of his days. He gains superfast reflexes, and by the push of a button in the Nebuchudnezzar, he's a martial machine, knowing every trick in the book. Since I'm a martial artist, this is REALLY kool! :cool: The way Neo flies puts Superman to shame. When Superman lifts off, he doesn't leave ripple marks whenever and wherever he leaps up. And the way Neo rears up then throws his body forward like a catapult is just plain SWEET (You can see this in Reloaded while he's doing his "Superman thing" and in the last DBZ-like fight with Smith in the rainy sky in Revolutions.) :drool: ! Although, I think dodging bullets rather than stopping them would be more kool looking, but not practical. That's why I like Neo so much. I want his powers when I get to heaven. :angel: If I would really want them now, there would be something wrong... (Lord, :?: )

My favorite...well, uh...other hero:

The well-made in-depth powerful character none-other than Sephiroth of Final Fantasy VII.

I haven't even beaten the game, but his character intrigues me much. He was a powerful and knowledgable warrior, but one who questioned his purpose. I was like that for a while. There was a time where I knew God existed, but I just wasn't sure what I wanted with my knowledge. Even though Sephiroth read too many books and opinions of others to throw his mind off, I see it as looking to the world around you for answers, instead of looking to what you find out to be true by yourself. That's the spiritual/mental likeness I had with him. A lot of potential, but just misguided. The physical aspects are way kool too. I'm growing my hair out to at least the middle of my back, and dying it pure white, or metallic platinum, whichever I find first. This isn't just for conventions, but for a more permanent state, until I get tired of it. I love his sword, the Masamune. I would love to be a swordsman. I know I have potential, I just have to have my potential sharpened into raw skill. I like his black fassade as well. Liking to wear black doesn't make me any less Christian than I am.
Sephiroth's magic potential is, of course, phenomenal. Do I want magic now? I wouldn't really think so. God didn't mean for us to have certain things for a reason, so I really don't see the need for it. What my point is with this, is this...Sephiroth, having so much power and potential used it for the wrong things in the end. I was like this. I used my martial arts wrongly at one point. But at the same time, recooperating from that (with God's help, of course) I feel for Sephiroth's character. Squaresoft does an excellent job at letting the players connect with the characters and feel their pain or feel their joy. I feel that there are people out there like him who need to find out the truth for themselves, and when I look at Sephiroth's decision to believe what the world/secret library told him, I feel a responsibility to show the world what I have learned in the past few years from searching for myself. That is why I love Sephiroth's character.

So, no...I'm not nuts like him... :eh: (maybe)


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Postby EireWolf » Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:06 pm

iamneo19 wrote:So, no...I'm not nuts like him... :eh: (maybe)


Eh... Prove it. :eyebrow: :grin:

J/K. Welcome! :lick:

About wanting super powers when you get to Heaven... I think that, when we get there, all desires will fade to nothing when we finally see Christ's face.
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Postby The Grammarian » Sun Feb 29, 2004 10:50 pm

About wanting super powers when you get to Heaven... I think that, when we get there, all desires will fade to nothing when we finally see Christ's face.


I would say it's more like, all of our desires will be met in the Person of our Lord; "all our desires fading to nothing" sounds too much like a variety of Buddhism, where 'heaven' (nirvana) is a state of being absent of desire.
To all, life thou givest, to both great and small.
In all life, thou livest, the true life of all.
We blossom and flourish as leaves on a tree
And wither and perish, but naught changeth thee.

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Postby cbwing0 » Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:22 am

Welcome! :)

I would like to think that our resurrection bodies with will be considerably more powerful than our current bodies, but there would be nothing to do with them. There will be no criminals to catch, monsters to fight, or people to save in heaven; so I think I would get bored if I focused on those powers.
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Postby EireWolf » Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:54 pm

[quote="The Grammarian"]I would say it's more like, all of our desires will be met in the Person of our Lord]

Hmm. Semantics. ;) Doesn't it basically mean the same thing? I'm not afraid of truth, no matter where it comes from. :)
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Postby cbwing0 » Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:59 pm

EireWolf wrote:Doesn't it basically mean the same thing? I'm not afraid of truth, no matter where it comes from. :)

Not exactly. The Buddhist doctrine states that we will be absorbed into the divine, or the infinite, or whatever you like to call it. In other words, we would no long exist as separate beings. This is very different from the true God in heaven, "For the lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes" (Revelation 7:17).

Clearly this is not the same as being absorbed into nothingness. At the very least, there would still be the desire for God, which is lacking in Buddhism.
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Postby The Grammarian » Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:06 pm

Eirewolf wrote:Hmm. Semantics. Doesn't it basically mean the same thing?


Not really. Under the Buddhist conception of Nirvana, the self finds 'heaven,' or eternal bliss, through being emptied of any desires. The Christian conception of Heaven is that we will find all of our desires purified (along with the rest of our being, self included) by the time we reach Heaven (some say that this point of Christian perfection will be at or near the instant of death, others say it can happen in this lifetime] by the time we're seeing him face-to-face). The difference is between loss of self--Buddhism--and purification of self--Christianity.
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Postby EireWolf » Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:45 pm

Okay. All I meant was that when we get to Heaven and see Christ, all the silly things we hope for in this life (such as super powers, a great car, lots of money) will matter less than nothing. :)
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Postby The Grammarian » Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:14 pm

EireWolf wrote:Okay. All I meant was that when we get to Heaven and see Christ, all the silly things we hope for in this life (such as super powers, a great car, lots of money) will matter less than nothing. :)


That much is true. Which is kind of depressing in some ways--we think of heaven as the place where all of the things we wanted to do but never could in life come true, but once we get there, we won't want to do many of those things any more. :( Of course, there's the rub: we won't want to do them any more, so it won't matter.
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In all life, thou livest, the true life of all.
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Postby cbwing0 » Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:15 pm

The Grammarian wrote:Of course, there's the rub: we won't want to do them any more, so it won't matter.

I bet I could muster the nerve to do them anyway. :cool:
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