Light Along the Journey

Even though you’ve been raised as a human being, you are not one of them.

They could be a great people; they wish to be.

They only lack the light to show the way.

For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you, my only son.

So, what’s that a quote from? Some wierd Bible transaltion? Some funky musical on the life of Christ?

If you look, even our debased culture carries echoes of a deeper reality, glimpses of God’s truth, even though partial and distorted. Some may be intentional on the part of the writer being aware of Christianity, some may be unintentional and orchestrated by the providence of God.

If we use a cultural “echo” to think about the deeper, truer reality, that’s ok. The problem comes if we read too much into it, start letting the distorted truth become our truth, and then have a false view of God and reality. The prime example in the past few years was how many Christians went on and on about the film The Matrix, which had some echoes of God’s truth but actually had a lot more toward Eastern philosophy and religion.

In the above quote, there are echoes that the person being talked about was not human, that he was an only son, that he was to be a light to humanity and be instrumental in their becoming a great people. All of that is true of Jesus Christ. Was is NOT true, however, is that humanity “wishes” to be a great people, lacking only light to illuminate their capacity for good—like all sub-Biblical views, these few sentences deny original sin and our fallen nature, a fatal flaw to any world view. A person who sees a Saviour as only light and wisdom can never come to Christ.

So, still don’t know where the quote is from?

The teaser trailer for the film Superman Returns, June 2006.