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For those of you who saw the movie "Titanic", you
remember that
in the beginning of the film a man said=
"Even God couldn't sink this ship!"
This statement is a historical fact, on its maiden voyage the "Titanic" was
hailed as a ship that even God couldn't sink.
Well, God sunk it. If they would only of believed that the boat was sinkable, they would
of put enough life boats on it. But they didn't and the death count of the Titanic was in
direct proportion to the faith that was put in the ship instead of God.
It seems to me that in the sinking of the Titanic, God was teaching mankind a lesson. You
would think that the deaths of over 1500 men, women & children would remind us that we
are God made beings and all our great abilities are God given.
Somehow Hollywood missed this lesson.
The film should have depicted a clash between man's pride and God's
position.
But instead this man made ship that failed to keep safe the lives of the souls it carried
is still worshiped. It is portrayed with romance and sorrow. Not sorrow in man's sin in
elevating the Titanic above God. No, it is sorrow in that the thing that they loved more
than God was destroyed. Even in its death it is loved more than God. Not only was the
lesson of the Titanic completely missed, but the sin that caused the sinking of the
Titanic is re-enforced.
The makers of this movie teach a different lesson using the teaching methods of Satan.
Satan teaches with deception, or as I call it "the half truth approach".
Here is the method:
- Tell something that is true.
- Make a big deal about how true this truth is. Validate it through and through.
- Attach a lie to it (THIS LIE IS THE TEACHING POINT).
- Make no effort to validate the lie.
- Go back & forth between the lie and the truth always emphasizing the truth and taking the lie along for the ride.
- In the end the student will swallow (tragará) both truth and lie.
Following the method above, Titanic starts with a truth: the
plight of the poor.
The movie gets the audience to hate the rich by making them very arrogant, backbiting and
selfish.
Then it gets you to love the poor by portraying them as talented, understanding, fun
loving and adventuresome.
This is all fine and well, we don't want the rich to oppress the poor.
But the movie isn't really focusing on the rich and poor class struggle. (Remember, these
movie makers are multi-millionaires).
This rich vs. poor conflict is only used to win the heart of the audience (call it a half
truth).
What Hollywood wants to convey are the other characteristics attached to these two
classes.
- The rich, in addition to being very arrogant, backbiting and
selfish also attended religious services. (or in other words:
"Christians").
- The poor, in addition to being talented, understanding, fun loving and adventuresome also drank heavily and had pre material sex. (or in other words:"non-Christians")
Notice the power struggle has moved from rich vs. poor to Christian vs. non-Christian. The
rich-poor bit was only a teaser (importunador) to get the audience to bite. Which they do.
The heavy impact of the drama, sound score, special effects and stagging of this movie
finishes the conversion of the audience's heart to take side with the poor (depicted as
non-Christians here)
The viewer walks away feeling (knowingly or not) less loving of the Christian faith and
more sympathetic to the free-sex and heavy drinking lifestyle.
After all Christians are very arrogant, backbiting and selfish and the immoral lifestyle
is full of talented, understanding, fun loving and adventuresome people.
Hollywood has successfully removed the sting of the judgment and lesson of this ship. At
the close of the film we see the souls who died living on forever riding the Titanic.
Strangely, these people are not judged by God. God's judgement is nowhere to be seen in
this movie. God's hand has nothing to do with the sinking of this ship. The rich are to
blame for the tragedy (the Christian rich that is). Did we miss something here?
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