Zombies and UR

[Seth]

I know this might be a stretch for some, but I wanted to share something that I have been thinking about regarding a TV show and a movie (The Walking Dead and I Am Legend), both of which I have seen. To me, zombies are good tool for satire. Yes, they can be disgusting, but I actually have gotten some spiritual insights from them.

God has compared those who are stuck in sin and abiding therein to be like the living dead, or the walking dead. Jesus uses the example of Gehenna, which James interprets to be when the tongue "defileth" the whole body. So, spiritually speaking, Gehenna is the land of the walking dead, set on fire which does not kill them but does torment them.

To me, zombies, with their dirty rags (our own righteousness) and their bellies which cannot be satisfied, are the perfect representation of carnality. Zombies are such a perfect representation of how sin causes suffering. In the show The Walking Dead, the living have no power to save these former people but to save themselves by shooting zombies in the heads (I know, gross.)

But in I Am Legend, (spoiler!) the solution is in the blood. For a single man for whom the curse of the decease had passed over, he found a solution in his own blood by which to create an anecdote. When he tests this on a captured zombie, he finds the girl reverts back to her human state.

I see so much significance in that. There are places in the Bible where God says he hates the wicked. But if you understand that through eyes of love, you can see that because he hates them, he wants to save them. The zombies may look disgusting and terrifying, but can you imagine if the characters from Walking Dead had a solution? Rather than kill the zombies, they could bring them back to life and save them! Then they wouldn't have to kill to keep themselves safe, they could go out and save everyone!

Yes, if zombies were real, I would hate zombies too, if in the sense that I knew what they could be if they were cured. I would love to save them.

[JulieTang84]

Oh my goodness Seth, I totally missed this one!!! 

Wow Brother you are certainly onto something here. Thank you so much for taking the time to piece all of this together.

Father has shown me time and time again. It is not about anyone else, Zombies or the Walking Dead included, but ENTIRELY on how heart is directed towards such as these. If I am pious to such in anyway, shame on me for spitting in the Face of Father.

Father granted the Spirit of all LIGHT for a reason, lest we ever forget.  :dsunny:

Love Julie  :HeartThrob:

[Seth]

It's just so interesting to me how the concept of walking dead factors into God's description of our Adamic state of mind, the carnal mind. It's like a living death and not only that, according to Apostle James it's it's the living dead set on fire in a garbage pit. How's that for horror? It's interesting to see that description factoring in to film language and imagery thousands of years later without a drop of irony intended.

Actually, there was a film called Dawn of the Dead which takes place in a shopping mall, so the use of zombies there was indeed intended for scathing satire on consumerism.

[Lazarus Short]

I'm reminded of a short story by Isaac Singer which is set in a fictional Heaven where, if you did wrong (no, I don't vouch for his theology), you would be sent to Earth to live out a human life as your punishment.  In the story, two angels fall in love (forbidden) and are sent Down.  In human form, they meet as a young man and woman.  Unseen, a watching angel reports, "The grave and the gravedigger have met.  The burial will take place tonight."  Chilling...