The Connection Between The Matrix (Trilogy) and Christianity

The Matrix Linked Christianity

Introduction

Matrix movie is full of violence but there are some powerful concepts in it that will help us to understand what really the real world is , that may help us to be different from usual people , leaving the secular society and do the things that are needed to be done

When Neo took the red pill and woke up in the pod or vat , it was just like when we turn to Jesus and woke up from the Matrix that we live in called material society . Like

Neo when he woke up in the pod , he realized that humans are slaves to an empire of man-made , intelligent machines and the first year of most of us who turned back after with Christ was extremely confusing (The Christian Science Monitor , 2003 Things we had believed for years no longer made any sense whatsoever Neo said "how come my eyes hurt so much , and Morpheus replied "It 's because you never used them before . Neither had most of us used our spiritual eyes , and when the light of Jesus hit us , we were empowered to see things through our spiritual eyes , but it also hurt like crazy cause no one understood us . Lots of people had never yet wake up from Matrix and these people are the most person who will always turned us down people who are our love ones

Analysis of Matrix from Christian View

The Matrix : our civilization

The Resistance : members of the Christian family including Angels in heaven (people not plugged into the Matrix ) and Christians on earth (people plugged into the Matrix ) The only job of the Resistance is to wake people up from the Matrix and get them to join the Resistance

Sentient programs : angels of the Devil roaming the earth (Matrix looking for members of the Resistance (Christians ) who they can kill or interfere with

Morpheus : John the Baptist

Cypher : Judas

Neo : Jesus Christ

Life in the Matrix is not real life and there is a supreme negative intelligence running the Matrix . It is smarter than any human being . It outsmarts people into thinking they are living life and getting ahead (successful in the Matrix ) when they are really asleep , dying and lying dormant in the pod (or vat ) with the life being sucked out of them by the source of the Matrix (the Machines- the Devil . In the movie this "life " is human electromagnetic energy - in real world that "life " is our spiritual energy , the soul that the devil sucks out of us , as we are lying spiritually unconscious

In the world of The Matrix , men are "born into bondage , born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch " Then comes "the One the promised deliverer who will overcome mankind 's enemy and liberate the human race from bondage . Morpheus has been foretold that he will find this figure of prophecy and , like John the Baptist heralding Jesus as the Lamb of God , Morpheus recognizes Neo...