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The dude apparently has some impressive superpowers: https://www.simplybible.com/f744-revln-seven-powers-of-christ.htm https://www.simplybible.com/f744-revln-s

The dude apparently has some impressive superpowers: https://www.simplybible.com/f744-revln-seven-powers-of-christ.htm https://www.simplybible.com/f744-revln-seven-powers-of-chris... Jesus as Superhero is a common Christian theme: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jesus+superhero https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jesus+superhero But they'd have to either treat him as a Mary Sue, and be boring, or make him a character with human flaws, which would offend people.

edoceo 5y ago
Probably skip the part where you're supposed to love and help your fellow terrans too.
TchoBeer 5y ago
Jesus Christ Superstar did the latter and it was good, though ig I'm not a Christian and thus am not the one who would be getting offended
- runarberg 5y ago
  Whenever I listen to Superstar I can’t shake the feeling that Jesus was a boring prog rocker unwilling to move to a different genre, while Judas was a funk, much more willing to embrace the full spectrum of rock music. I always root for Judas for that reason.
- ghaff 5y ago
  I was apparently at least mildly controversial and offended both some Christians and Jews when it came out. Though that's probably par for the course with any production depicting Jesus. I don't think it was highly controversial.
bitwize 5y ago
One of the reasons why I like the story of Final Fantasy XV, as fragmented as it is, is because Noctis is a messiah in the same way Jesus was: a king of royal lineage, prophesied to save the world by sacrificing himself. Yet Noctis, unlike Jesus, is a flawed person who starts the game concerned with little but himself and maybe his friends. The arc of the game shows his struggles and sacrifices, all of which culminate in him earning his worthiness to save the world. That makes it an interesting messiah story, imho. On the other hand, if you go onto the dark side of YouTube, there's a guy named Professor Geek. His traditionalist views on mythological heroes and opposition to the injection of current-year politics into modern mythological media like comic books automatically make him a mouthpiece of the alt-right and anything he says is not to be trusted. But should you trust some of the things he says, there are interesting perspectives in his videos on the two major types of hero: the aspirational hero, a character representing an ideal to be striven for; and the cathartic-motivational hero, a flawed character who is struggling to approach the ideal. Think Superman and Batman. Jesus is clearly supposed to be an aspirational hero. His story is not supposed to be that of a flawed person struggling to be better. He is a template to show what a good person looks like: become more like Jesus, and you will be better. The Christian answer to the cathartic-motivational hero is Saul of Tarsus. Maybe some of the Apostles also count. So even though I personally find Jesus boring (and this was a factor in me renouncing my Christian faith), the Jesus narrative does serve a mythological function.
- runarberg 5y ago
  I think Peter is the ultimate example of the latter. A person who rejects Jesus in the ultimate moment, then repents it, and changes to embrace Jesus as the sole think he lives for. He will ultimately die for Jesus, crucified up-side down because he doesn’t deserve the same fate as Jesus (the perfect being). This story has everything a Christian could hope to be. Accepting Jesus, Jesus as the ultimate human, repentance, and the forgiveness of once sins.

edoceo 5y ago

Probably skip the part where you're supposed to love and help your fellow terrans too.

TchoBeer 5y ago

Jesus Christ Superstar did the latter and it was good, though ig I'm not a Christian and thus am not the one who would be getting offended

runarberg 5y ago
Whenever I listen to Superstar I can’t shake the feeling that Jesus was a boring prog rocker unwilling to move to a different genre, while Judas was a funk, much more willing to embrace the full spectrum of rock music. I always root for Judas for that reason.
ghaff 5y ago
I was apparently at least mildly controversial and offended both some Christians and Jews when it came out. Though that's probably par for the course with any production depicting Jesus. I don't think it was highly controversial.

bitwize 5y ago

One of the reasons why I like the story of Final Fantasy XV, as fragmented as it is, is because Noctis is a messiah in the same way Jesus was: a king of royal lineage, prophesied to save the world by sacrificing himself. Yet Noctis, unlike Jesus, is a flawed person who starts the game concerned with little but himself and maybe his friends. The arc of the game shows his struggles and sacrifices, all of which culminate in him earning his worthiness to save the world. That makes it an interesting messiah story, imho. On the other hand, if you go onto the dark side of YouTube, there's a guy named Professor Geek. His traditionalist views on mythological heroes and opposition to the injection of current-year politics into modern mythological media like comic books automatically make him a mouthpiece of the alt-right and anything he says is not to be trusted. But should you trust some of the things he says, there are interesting perspectives in his videos on the two major types of hero: the aspirational hero, a character representing an ideal to be striven for; and the cathartic-motivational hero, a flawed character who is struggling to approach the ideal. Think Superman and Batman. Jesus is clearly supposed to be an aspirational hero. His story is not supposed to be that of a flawed person struggling to be better. He is a template to show what a good person looks like: become more like Jesus, and you will be better. The Christian answer to the cathartic-motivational hero is Saul of Tarsus. Maybe some of the Apostles also count. So even though I personally find Jesus boring (and this was a factor in me renouncing my Christian faith), the Jesus narrative does serve a mythological function.

runarberg 5y ago
I think Peter is the ultimate example of the latter. A person who rejects Jesus in the ultimate moment, then repents it, and changes to embrace Jesus as the sole think he lives for. He will ultimately die for Jesus, crucified up-side down because he doesn’t deserve the same fate as Jesus (the perfect being). This story has everything a Christian could hope to be. Accepting Jesus, Jesus as the ultimate human, repentance, and the forgiveness of once sins.