Jeff Overstreet posts some insights into the spiritual appeal of Frankenstein, Gollum, Darth Vader, and other cinematic monsters. We don't want our movie monsters to be entirely villainous—we want to see a spark of conscience and the ever-so-slight possibility of redemption:
God makes it pretty clear in the scriptures: All have sinned and fall short. He might have decided, then, to just write off all of us “bad people.”Instead, his grace allows for the possibility of redemption… even in the hearts of monsters like Saul [in the New Testament].
I think we need stories about monsters… especially those that remind us how sin has made us all monsters, and that our hope must come from grace and forgiveness that can fill our hearts with light and give us daily comfort and strength as we seek to overcome the influence of evil within our own hearts.
Amen to that. Hey, if Darth Vader can find forgiveness, then maybe there's hope for the rest of us....
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