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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Just finished watching a new major motion picture release on DVD called "Thor." In it I was surprised to find the same theme I stated when I started this thread. The protagonist of the movie, Thor, said that where he came from (Asgard), "Science and magic are one."
In the movie, Asgard was inhabited by non-mortals who look after and supervise the universe. They had appeared to man before and saved Earth from malevolent ice creatures. Back then the Nordics worshipped the Asgardians as gods. They movie portrayed the Asgardians as vastly superior, possessing great powers, and wielding this power in a combination of science and supernatural magic.
The movie was about a power struggle and war in Asgard, where Thor was banished to the Earth for a time. He is first seen on Earth by a (appropriately enough) female astrophysicist, who he develops a romantic relationship with.
I do believe this is a demonic theme being presented to us in a variety of ways, in order to soften us to the idea, and cause us to look for someone from beyond the Earth. This being will bring these two areas together (science & magic/paranormal) and will set himself up as mankind's modern savior. We will be powerless to stop this lawless one, and if not for the love and power of Christ . . .
Wow - this is much better and more adventurous than any movie!
So I think something is going on here my friends . . . but, then again, that's just something I think.
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Sounds like the typical Greek/Roman pantheon system to me.
And you sound like Justin Martyr to me, a church father of the early 2nd century.
Justin tried to convince the Roman leaders that persecuting Christians was wrong because Christianity wasn't different from Greco-Roman paganism ; that Jesus was born of a virgin, like many of the Greek gods, and Jesus died and resurrected and ascended to heaven, just like the Greco-Roman gods ; that Jesus was half divine and half human, like many of Zeus's children.
He also -- basically claiming clairvoyance into Satan -- said that Satan knew Christianity was coming beforehand, and pre-copied the Christian system in the Greek and Roman mythological systems, in order to mock Christianity, and mislead the faithful. (Like Justin could know what Satan does and does not do.) I guess Satan is a powerful as God, to Justin. He'd have to be to pre-invent mythological systems that were similar to Christian beliefs.