Shimmie
You are so passionate for the word that you are reading way too much into my statements. Instead of asking me to clarify you simply put words into my mouth and further go on to rehash your point.
The parallels in Superman and the Messiah are ideas that an only son is sent to earth to show mankind the way we should live and save us from ourselves. We all know we need a Savior. Even our imaginations and fantasies cry out for a savior. However we are fortunate. We have a loving God who did send his only son. Not only did he redeem us from our sins he showed us how to live. It is as simple as that. You can draw comparisons without making something equal.
So many times Christians have a knee jerk reaction without asking for an explanation. I never said that the story of Superman was an archetype for Christ. Parallels means that they have similarities.
Indeed I am passionate for God's Word, and I'll be honest, I'm not passionate enough, but I'm surely headed there. What does it profit me to agree with (gain) the whole world, and risk losing my soul?
I've come too far in my faith to lose the Gift that God has given me. I've paid the price of what it takes to get to where I am in Christ Jesus, I'm not losing to appease someone's disapproving opinion. It's my faith that saved my son's life, kept my former husband alive past the years that the doctors gave him. He lived to enjoy his grandchildren.
I can tell you so much more my 'passion' for God's Word has done to save far too many lives, marriages and souls. And it's God and only God who gets the full credit and the glory. I'm just the vessel He's been able to use....and my passion is of Him and the power in it.
To say that Superman is a similarity to Jesus, is lying. The life and Ministry of Jesus is just that, His Life and Ministry and there is nothing to compare to that. Superman is a fictional character, there is nothing about his life similar to that of Jesus.
Unfortunately, no everyone knows this and to say that the two are similar brings a compromised view of the wholeness of Jesus. It's Jesus, Ride or Die and none other. Leave superman to the movie theater and out of the Church, unless the actors playing in the movie come to the Church, leaving superman behind and falling upon their faced in total awe and worship of God only, no wedge of anything or anyone else in between.
I'm not trying to be offensive nor am I trying to put words in your mouth. But this is serious business. satan is out to weaken the Church and the faith of those who dwell therein.
We are called to be steadfast in the faith. If we bring in comparisons to Jesus, it takes souls off course, staggering between total commitment to Jesus, with many falling into an abyss of no return. It's just that serious.
And you think I'm too impassioned? I've only scratched the surface. And it's God who gets the glory. Not Shimmie....