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AI Overview says:
Actor Dean Cain is not traditionally labeled a strict or institutional Evangelical Christian, though he has a strong personal belief in God and frequently stars in and produces faith-based and Christian films.
The Christian movie is
God’s Not Dead (2014).
Details from the Scene
• Character Name: Mark Shelley, played by Dean Cain.
• The Quote:
Mark visits his mother (who suffers from dementia) and complains that she lived a faithful, good life and ended up sick, while he calls himself the “meanest” person and says, “My life is perfect. Explain that to me!”.
• The Response:
His mother briefly becomes lucid and warns him that a life free of trouble can be a spiritual trap set by the Devil (”like a jail cell, except it is all nice and comfy”) until time runs out.
The Christian movie is
God’s Not Dead (2014).
Details from the Scene
• Character Name: Mark Shelley, played by Dean Cain.
• The Quote:
Mark visits his mother (who suffers from dementia) and complains that she lived a faithful, good life and ended up sick, while he calls himself the “meanest” person and says, “My life is perfect. Explain that to me!”.
• The Response:
His mother briefly becomes lucid and warns him that a life free of trouble can be a spiritual trap set by the Devil (”like a jail cell, except it is all nice and comfy”) until time runs out.
Mark 4:19
King James Version
19 And the Cares Of This World, and The Deceitfulness Of Riches, and The Lusts Of Other Things entering in, choke the Word, and it becometh unfruitful.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%204%3A19&version=KJV
Matthew 13:21-23
21st Century King James Version
21 yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while. For when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the Word, by and by he loses Faith.
22 He also that received the seed among the thorns is he that heareth the Word; and The Cares Of This World and The Deceitfulness Of Riches choke the Word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23 But he that received seed into the Good Ground is he that heareth the Word and understandeth it; who also beareth fruit and bringeth forth, some a Hundredfold, some Sixty, some Thirty.”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2013%3A21-23&version=KJ21
Why do the Wicked prosper?
Some consider the Book of Job to be
the oldest written book in the Bible...
Not the oldest events, of course
But the oldest book written
FWIW:
Job 21:7-18
21st Century King James Version
7 Why do the Wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
10 Their bull breeds, and faileth not; their cow calveth and casteth not her calf.
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
13 They spend their days in Wealth, and in a moment go down to the Grave.
14 THEREFORE THEY SAY UNTO GOD, ‘DEPART FROM US, FOR WE DESIRE NOT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THY WAYS.
15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?’
16 Lo, their good is not in their hand; the counsel of the Wicked is far from me.
17 “How oft is the candle of the Wicked put out! And how oft cometh their Destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in His anger.
18 They are As Stubble Before The Wind, and As Chaff That The Storm Carrieth Away.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%2021%3A7-18&version=KJ21
AI Overview:
Yes, Friedrich Nietzsche did write the phrase “God is dead” (German: Gott ist tot).
Where He Said It
Nietzsche used the phrase in several of his works, most famously in his 1882 book The Gay Science (Aphorism 125 and Aphorism 343) and in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
The full passage from The Gay Science (Aphorism 125) includes:
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?”
What He Actually Meant
• Not a literal claim:
Nietzsche was not declaring that a literal, supernatural being once lived and then died. Instead, he was making a cultural and philosophical observation about Western civilization.
• The loss of a foundation:
He meant that the Enlightenment, the rise of modern science, and secularization had made belief in the Christian God no longer credible or necessary for most modern Europeans.
• The death of objective truth:
“God” symbolized the ultimate source of moral authority, absolute truth, and meaning. By losing that foundation, humanity risked falling into nihilism—the belief that life has no inherent meaning or value.
• A warning and a challenge:
Nietzsche viewed this transition with mixed feelings—both as a dangerous vacuum that could lead to despair or mediocrity, and as an opportunity for “free spirits” to move past traditional Christian morality and create their own life-affirming values.
And Job seems to give answer to a question that many ask: “Why do ‘bad’ things happen to ‘good’ people?” I have always found it fascinating that this appears to be the oldest book in Scripture written.
“for from Him, and through Him and to Him all things exist. To Him be the glory forever.”
Amen
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