That Keanu Reeves commits suicide in the film but doesn't go to hell for it. How do Christians feel about that, and should you still honour your father if he was Satan? How do you decide which laws to break and which to obey?
2006-10-23 01:40:09 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
come on, you guys need to lighten up. That film rocks! Al Pacino is a great actor for monologues and there's certainly plenty of them in that one. "The Look but don't Touch" monologue is a good one especially. And actually look at it, the points being made about God's fallibility to Man should get you thinking. Take off the blinders, listen to the other side, and if you're still stnaidng on the side you started on at least it's not through ignoring others. As for the suicide thing he was brought back to an earlier point. But, you do not know who brought him back. Was it God? giving him the chacne to reverse a decision that would save him and his wife?
2006-10-23 02:39:12 · answer #1 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well he doesn't go to Hell as such, as for Hollywoods morale ending it allowed Keanu not to choose his father (Devil), which in Hollywood's position, okay considering your not selecting the great evil. Keanu's character got a conscious which is great for the ending. He's the first lawyer with a goodside as such.
As for how Christians 'take' on this film, I thin Madonna nailing herself to a cross - in the context of her being a spiritual leader of sorts, is for more concerning than the Devils Advocate which really starts as a movie and ends as a movie, no more and maybe a little less.
Good Christians always go back to he bible, and as such if there is such thing as a lesser crime/law to break and if one must choose either ie should you honour your mother and father vs say not worshiping false idols well one must make a personal decision and hope the bible has theology somewhere to help with the decision.
2006-10-23 08:55:11 · answer #2 · answered by Parge 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Devil seems to have the power to control time and space in this movie does he not,after all right after Keanu kills himself he goes back to what we at that point realize is Satan's first contact with him,so if he's sent back in time it's like it never happened therefore he didn't commit suicide,therefore he can't be sent to Hell for it. It's like a time loop if you go back to the beginning of the loop then all that occurs after hasn't happened yet whether you have done it or not. If there is the possibility of time space manipulation it seems to me that God would have to accept the outcome of such a manipulation since any physical laws that allowed for it would be laws he made.
2006-10-23 09:24:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a stupid movie.Not to be taken literally.That movie stinks anyway.That is a good debate though.I don't have an answer for the biblical part of it.I too wonder,but I will say I love me,but under the circumstances I wouldn't be a satanic vessel for the devil.
2006-10-23 09:25:40 · answer #4 · answered by Derek B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seriously doubt that very many people in Hollywood have read the Bible or any other religious text for that matter. With the exception of all the L. Ron Hubbard stuff that Tom Cruise and John Travolta are into.
There are tons of movies where people who have done bad are exhonorated in death.
Hollywood does not even do historical movies with any degree of accuracy. You cannot expect any truth from them.
2006-10-23 09:04:45 · answer #5 · answered by Robert L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Natural Law (generally concected with the Catholic way of running things) Throws up problems like this all the time. The bible defines some-things as being wrong without exception, but then people like you raise this very valid question.
The conclusion I came to is that nothing is black and white, despite what Religion tries to do, nothing and I mean NOTHING is just wrong no matter what. There are exceptions to everything...Trying to simplify it only serves to complicate it.
Annoying paradox. I know.
2006-10-23 09:40:37 · answer #6 · answered by dirty_class 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A good one. Maybe it highlights how black and white good and evil isn't.
As he had killed himself, does he "end" evils power with his suicide, and all is good, Or get saved by the good by not commiting suicide, only to have let evil live, leaving man to have to fight them for the rest of eternity. Having said that, i don't know. Perhaps it would take the event to decide.
2006-10-24 10:54:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I am a king of spritual and tantra and fortune it is clear that he will definetely do too bad to u or involve u in some court case also in flirting too so u must be aware in case if u have any complicated issue not to be involve try to solve tht issue any how thanks because you are surrounding from this type of evils black magic or related mantras and tantra also in the bad sence which carry to u in wrong way
2006-10-24 03:14:55 · answer #8 · answered by name of spritual tantra horr0r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't seen the film but you raise an interesting question in that you ask should you honor your father if he was Satan? Don't you realize that those who do not worship God the Father through his son Jesus Christ are of the devil? By default their father is Satan. It's one or the other. You either worship the one true God or you bow your knee and do the will of Satan. Yet many don't even believe that Satan exists. Satan is wise, and keeps the world in deceit.
2006-10-23 08:52:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think we must take into acount there every story that Hollywood comes up with is absolut fact and has to be delt with on equal footing with Scripture..... NOT Jim
2006-10-23 09:04:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋