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Oh poor Kwik! That all sounds so terribly painful. I will ask our dear Heavenly Father to heal her quickly so she can get back to being her lovely self.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Just for your info, there are SPOILERS ahead for the movie The Seventh Sign. This isn't meant to be a serious review, it's just a random bunch of my thoughts tied together for my own amusement.

A film I kind of like (although it's fanciful and imaginative, to put it mildly) is 'The Seventh Sign', a Demi Moore flick from 1988 in which she plays a married pregnant woman who is destined to witness the Second Coming of Christ, who handily rents out their garage semi-detached kitchenette, as He apparently does. He is carrying literal representations of the Seals from Revelations, which He travels around the world breaking and causing  'unnatural' weather events such as blood in the water, and freezing ice-covered land in the middle of the desert, which is the original site for the doomed towns of Sodom and Gomorrah.

The plot centers around the Jewish belief in the Guf, or Hall of Souls is that it only contains a finite number of new souls, and when it is empty that's the seventh seal which is broken. Demi Moore's character Abby is going to have the first baby born without God's grace, and thus fulfilling the prophecy. After a confrontation with Jesus (but named David), she tries to stab him, believing He intends her harm, but He is for all intensive purposes immortal and cannot die again. 

So are you keeping up, or am I thoroughly confusing you all?

Of course the Vatican is involved in keeping track of possible biblical signs, and the priest looking out for the end of days turns out to be Cartaphilus, the Roman soldier who struck Christ before He was crucified, and was given the sentence of having to wander the earth until Jesus returned a second time. This comes I believe from the legend of "The Wandering Jew' and the Longinus legend, or so Wikipedia tells me. His intent is to make sure the Second Coming actually happens and that mankind is not given another chance, as Cartaphilus is a tad weary of existence at this point.

Abby bears witness to all the Seals being broken, until the Last Martyr (a man with Down's Syndrome whose parents are brother and sister, so he murdered them, and I'm not even going to attempt to address THAT nest of angry hornets!) dies in a gas chamber, then she has the baby and as he doesn't have a soul, he is stillborn. Abby finds her faith at that most dreadful of moments, and tells Jesus that she will die for her son, and so God's grace is returned and the Hall of Souls full again.

I can't offer any real reason for why I like this film as it a farce of biblical proportions (haha), but perhaps because it's a film from my childhood? Normally I would be throwing something at the screen and yelling 'that's not right! Check your facts!' and other such things but it is an intriguing topic, albeit badly addressed here. Maybe we need a group of people from this website to make some really good films where the facts are exciting enough in themselves to be portrayed? My curiosity comes from thinking about what would happen in the lead-up to Judgement Day, and although I have read Revelations I'm certainly not an expert, far from it. The whole premise is that our Faith can move mountains, and we can find God in the most dark and bottomless hole.  This film is certainly a colourful idea of what the end of the earth would look like, but I don't believe we have a 'get out of this' clause on this one. We won't have any chance to stop it, as it is God's Will, so shall it be done. At least this one of the very few films around where 'Jesus Christ' isn't just an in-trend swear word.

Do you have a movie that makes you think a little harder about your faith, or Christian legend, or the like?

On 9/29/2016 at 8:34 PM, kwikphilly said:

Well,I'm a big fan of SciFi with computer graphics,special effects,art design......So,I got it                                  With love-in christ,Kwik

Oh yes Avatar was really good too, I quite enjoy a good sci-fi/fantasy  

A very difficult undertaking to narrow it down, I just couldn't. There are so many! In no particular order, just off the top of my head:

The Star Wars series

The Star Trek series

Legend

The Man From Snowy River (1 & 2)

Harry Potter series

The Black Stallion (1 & 2)

The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings series

What? I'm in Wednesday lol

1 minute ago, Logan said:

No worries, you can't be last until you read every post on this thread...but even then everyone knows Logan is last

Good to know... I wouldn't want to step on anyone's toes  

Oh dear I wish I could stop getting notifications from this thread  

I hope this doesn't make me last  

First of all welcome, you'll find many supportive and loving people in this forum to talk to.

I'm so sorry you went through such a break up, it can be so difficult to know what to do when your plans go awry, but if that happens it's often because the plans we have for ourselves are different to what God wants for us. I commend you for asking God for help in your life, as this can be hard to do, but often the most difficult thing is learning to be patient and to listen to God. It can be an acquired skill, but once you stop trying to be headstrong and try and make the answers you think you have work, then the real healing and faith begins.

Unfortunately the short answer on what you do about your girlfriend, no one can really answer for you. I think how you're feeling might be an indication you need to work on your relationship with God first, and let what comes naturally happen with your girlfriend once you know a bit more about yourself. It seems as if your girlfriend has her own trust issues, and this may mean she too needs to do some healing, so in that case she needs time and understanding. You can't heal other people though if they're just not ready, the only person you can change is you and be the best version you can be.

I find often that once I 'fix' an issue in my life with God, all the rest falls into place. I personally never pray for anything for myself in particular like a husband (would be nice lol), because I accept that only God knows best for me. I once begged Him to let me get back with a boyfriend who was abusive to me, believing I couldn't be without him, and I did, and got more of the same. Ever since then I have let God take control and what happens, happens. But that's just my personal philosophy.

I wish well and will pray you find your way (which I knwo you will). God bless you and keep you.

Emily

1 hour ago, ayin jade said:

And just tonight hillary said crime was down.

How many more debates are there to go? My Mum asked so I said I'd ask a Yank

2 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

Yes, when I leave the house I carry my phone with me and turn it on. I am in a disability situation where I need to be available at all times.

I wouldn't have to try and turn it on during a hypo/seizure for instance, as I just sit there giggling until I pass out. It'd be funny to watch I imagine, if it ween't so serious  

8 hours ago, GoodFruit said:

This could possibly be due to what Jesus says in Matthew 22:30 (and Mark 12:25) in answering the Sadducees questions about the resurrection:

Matt. 22:29-30  NKJV    ⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God^[a] in heaven.

Mark 12:25 NKJV  ²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

 

Maybe angels are the closest thing there are that is comparable to being dead, so that's why the comparison was made. I didn't know about that being said in the bible though (but I like reading quotes from other people).

I was thinking more of people who are into the trendy popular culture of angels, if you go into a 'new age' shop or the like you'll find they do a very good trade on anything with angels on it. You know, the typical Botticelli images, and beautiful women with a pair pf perfect wings for example, which is highly idealistic in view. I think if an angel appeared to us today we would be terrified and overcome at the sight, as were the shepherds when the birth of Christ was announced to them. 

11 hours ago, ayin jade said:

You can go out and leave the phone at home you know.

True, but as I have insulin dependent type 1 diabetes and other health problems I admit I feel safer with it. 

Oh yes, as I grew up on a property with horses in the middle of Queensland Australia in the early 1990's, so my time back then was spent outdoors with my dog and horse, riding all over the property. Today I feel like the Net has grabbed my attention almost as if it were an entity unto itself. I don't usually leave home without my mobile phone now either, which was unheard of back then.

I no longer have horses so my life changed because of that anyway, but it feels now that I had freedom back then that I wasn't even aware of, when now if people want to get ahold of me they ring my phone or find me online, so there's no where I can hide and get away from everything like I used to be able to do. Of course having the Net has its good points too, but if given the choice I think I'd like to go back to those days where taking time to be out in the bush and marveling at His beautiful Creation was my favourite pastime.

1 hour ago, Omegaman 3.0 said:

available online for free as a PDF file

Do you happen to have the link? Don't make me look up stuff  

15 hours ago, B3L13v3R said:

. What's really going on here is demonic. It's a culture shaking its collective fist at God and shouting: "Don't tell us how to live! We will not listen to your rules!"

What we are watching in America today is Romans 1 being played out before our very eyes.
 

 

 

Yes, we're so good at believing we're all grown up and no longer need God, but we are nothing without Him. It seems as if popular society is having a collective childish tantrum, 'I want t that sweetie! I need that sweetie! Why shouldn't I have to have that sweetie?'

God is the only one who has enough foresight and knowledge to determine what we really need as human beings, and we can't seem to see beyond our noses, to our obsession with material things and the onus on the self, as if we were autonomous, we no longer believe we need our family or church structures that are designed to support us in living lives worthy of Him. The needs of the many, or society as a whole no longer matter. Family and Christian values seem to be disappearing in the face of the worship of the individual self. 

Wow, yes there are a few of them I was under the vague impression they may be in the Good Book. A few of them my mother has quoted to me during my life, so I think I just assumed where they were from really.

No 5 is so often misquoted, it is 'The love of money is the root of all evil'. It changes the meaning entirely.

No 12 is just weird, I don't understand people who think we become angels, or those who deify them either. Angels are messengers of God, very important and having key roles, but not exactly main players.

No 14 is from Shakespeare's Hamlet, and I knew that couldn't possibly be in the Bible.... otherwise Shakespeare was a master plagurist and I'm the first to work it out. Hooray, me!

I'm glad you posted this, it's quite thought-provoking and makes me realises that I don't know as much as I think I do!