We went to see Evan Almighty yesterday afternoon. I enjoyed it.
The name indicates it’s a sequel to Bruce Almighty. God’s interactions with Evan and Bruce are somewhat different though. In Bruce Almighty Bruce challenges God and God responds by saying “Ok, let’s see how you would do at my job” and gives Bruce all his powers. In Evan Almighty Evan doesn’t challenge God. He asks God to help him change the world and God says “Ok, build an ark for me”.
This movie comes about as close as anything I’ve seen to depicting the way God interacts with people in the Bible. God shows up unexpectedly and asks people to do things he says are important, which tend to be unusual and extremely inconvenient. It would be nice if God also appeared to the family and friends of those people and said “Yes, I really did tell them to do this!” But God often chooses not to do that, leaving the people the challenge of convincing others they are not crazy but rather are doing what God asked them to do. Read the rest of this entry »
06-25-2007 |
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