2007-08-16 03:20:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God couldn't be using Superman as a tool because that would be altering Superman's free will.
2007-08-16 03:25:54 · update #1
dawnUSA: It's a damn good thing that's not me in the photo.
2007-08-16 03:31:40 · update #2
ah!!!!!!!!! Did you ever consider that God sent Superman to save those people??? Hmmmmm????
2007-08-16 03:24:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Both are characters of fiction, so the debate is really pointless. You are right though that he could not use Superman for his own ends because Superman has free will. Just assume that God will never, ever help you or anyone else in your life and you will not ever be surprised or disappointed.
2007-08-16 15:44:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, it would be God's will for Superman to save them.
2007-08-19 21:04:41 · answer #3 · answered by mitchell2020 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doubtful.
Interesting bit of trivia: Superman's Kryptonian name, "Kal-El", sounds almost exactly like the Hebrew phrase meaning "the voice of God".
And while some people like to claim Superman as a Christ allegory, it's really more of a Jewish "assimilation fantasy" -- he comes from a different culture where everything in our world is alien to him, so he creates a separate persona (Clark Kent) so he can blend in and appear to be like everyone else. (The creators of Superman were a couple of nice Jewish boys from Brooklyn).
2007-08-16 10:25:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God IS superman!
2007-08-16 10:35:15 · answer #5 · answered by holly B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Silly meatbot, of *course* God can use willing people as tools!
One of my favorite stories is of the young nun kneeling beside her flat tire--because the older sister in the car was even less capable--trying to figure out where to start. The big, capable driver who stopped to help declared, "Gee, I've never been the answer to a prayer before!"
Well, not that he knew of . . .
BtW, it was the artist, Joe Shuster, who was born Canadian. He and Jerry Siegel worked out the character together while they were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and neither was yet 20.
Finally, the boring, orthodox answer to your question is the very first one given: If you mean, would God be angry with Superman or anybody else who saved someone that He didn't save by a miracle . . . we are informed that He works in mysterious ways, sure, but sometimes His works are just plain obvious!
2007-08-16 10:42:31 · answer #6 · answered by georgetslc 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think he would be pissed off about the whole Superman comparison to Jesus. You Know Jar-el sending his only son to earth. Man God had a monopoly there for a while.
2007-08-16 10:28:44 · answer #7 · answered by The true face of religion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Superman is a fictional super hero actually conceived by a Canadian.
2007-08-16 10:27:43 · answer #8 · answered by Lukusmcain// 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um Rev. Jerry Seigel and Joe Schuster(sp? on both) were from Cleveland and created him in their Teens
and his origins do parallel Moses' to some extent(baby in a basket [rocket] cast upon the waters[space])
their is a huge Christ allegory, but alot of that was not part of their work, it was all added by successive writers
2007-08-16 19:38:51 · answer #9 · answered by janssen411 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate to break it to you, but Superman is a movie & tv character. We live in reality here, and God is very real -- to many of us, if not you.
2007-08-16 11:19:59 · answer #10 · answered by kaz716 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Superman is one of those people.
2007-08-16 10:24:11 · answer #11 · answered by Charles 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋