[A blog I wrote for Torrey Gazette.]
The history of special revelation (ht: Vos) begins in a garden. Man was created, as image of God, in a garden. It was in this garden-temple that the serpent came to man and promised him more: he would not merely image God, he could become a god himself. As man rebelled against God as usurper, he waged war against heaven trying to reverse the natural order, the Creator-creature distinction. While mankind had the ability to create, to create life was left in the ability of God. To create life is an attainment of divinity that man, in his rebellion, dreams of. That the creature becomes Creator is a metanarrative that gets at the heart of the movie ex_machina. [Read more]
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