Joel Miller, author of Lifted by Angels: The Presence and Power of Our Heavenly Guides and Guardians thinks now is a good time for Hollywood to make more movies with well-drawn angels in them. “Perhaps all this newfound interest in biblical stories and characters offers Hollywood a chance to do it right for a change. Forget sappy, romantic, and cute. In researching my new book, Lifted by Angels, I was struck by how overwhelmingly powerful and even frightening angels are.”
Hollywood doesn’t understand frighteningly awesome angels because they don’t believe in a frighteningly awesome God. They see God mostly like Odin from Marvel’s Thor, wouldn’t you say? But as Joel says, the industry based in Los Angeles needs to overcome their biases at least once.
What concerns me most regarding the people I know who are fascinated, intrigued or even obsessed with angels is not so much the lack of any real Biblical foundation in their doctrines, but their worship of a creation instead of the creator. It takes many forms. One woman told me that she felt safe and protected by the many angel figurines, crystals, and photos decorating her house. One church member sent me an email telling me all about how angels would protect me if I did something nice.
I generally respond to these encounters by pointing out that there are two kinds of angels. All were created to serve God and do his bidding but some of them rebelled and sought worship of themselves, or at least wanted to do their own thing rather than God’s thing. The second group are called demons and led by Satan.
Now, if I have an angel telling me it is there to do my bidding, I have to assume that is not one of the good angels, who exist to do God’s bidding. Not only that, it is the follower of the Father of Lies, so I have even less incentive to rely upon his promises.
Either overcome their biases, or have somebody else who doesn’t share those biases compete. We need a version of Phil Vischer for adults.
I know Brian Godawa has done good work and had several screenplays rejected by various studios, but I don’t know why.
What concerns me most regarding the people I know who are fascinated, intrigued or even obsessed with angels is not so much the lack of any real Biblical foundation in their doctrines, but their worship of a creation instead of the creator. It takes many forms. One woman told me that she felt safe and protected by the many angel figurines, crystals, and photos decorating her house. One church member sent me an email telling me all about how angels would protect me if I did something nice.
I generally respond to these encounters by pointing out that there are two kinds of angels. All were created to serve God and do his bidding but some of them rebelled and sought worship of themselves, or at least wanted to do their own thing rather than God’s thing. The second group are called demons and led by Satan.
Now, if I have an angel telling me it is there to do my bidding, I have to assume that is not one of the good angels, who exist to do God’s bidding. Not only that, it is the follower of the Father of Lies, so I have even less incentive to rely upon his promises.