A comparison for those of us into "hokey religions and ancient weapons."
If you are like me, (and I know that most of my followers are), then you have seen every Star Wars movie about 500 times and we could probably all get together and reenact every scene if we wanted to. We make Star Wars references in just about every situation we get ourselves into every day, whether its waking up in the morning and feeling like Han Solo after being frozen in carbonite, or taking on a task as impossible as shooting a thermal exhaust port that's only two meters wide. A lot of you may also have a deep rooted faith, much like myself. Well this is the blog for you, actually I think I'll be doing a short series of blogs, in which I will be comparing several elements and scenes from Star Wars to elements and scenes from the Bible.
I haven't come up with these comparisons all on my own. Currently I am reading a book called Star Wars Jesus by Caleb Grimes in which he has done much the same thing. These readings have inspired me to think about the connections found between some of the Star Wars elements and elements of my own faith. I'd even make the statement that by looking at some of these things through the lens of the Star Wars mythology, I actually get a little bit clearer picture of different elements of my own faith which I never had much of a grasp on before.
Anyways, I am using here one of the sneakiest tricks Hollywood uses; The Teaser. Thats right, you get no real material, just a promise that more is to come. Maybe it will keep you coming by to see what's happening. So here is a little taste of what is to come. I started this blog with a quote from Han Solo. Some of you got the obvious reference to religion, but you may be wondering about the ancient weapons. Han Solo was talking to Luke Skywalker as he received some Jedi training for the first time. The ancient weapon as we all know was the lightsaber. In Ephesians 6, Paul describes the Armor of God, and in this armor is the "sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." And is Psalm 119, we find that God's word is "a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path." So we have a sword which is also a light, essentially giving us a lightsaber.
I promise that future posts will be a little deeper than the Bible being a lightsaber, but I told you this was only a teaser.
