One of my alien fascinations is with culture, particularly film and music. I’ve always loved them not only for their entertainment or artistry but for the way they reflect who we are as human beings. When you listen to a song or watch a movie there’s always so much meaning lurking under the surface if you care to look. And as an alien I love seeing how the Kingdom of God intersects with this world in those mediums.
Stories (which is really what film and music are) often reflect our deepest longings and desires. I believe that the root of those unfulfilled parts of our life rest in the gospel. Until we come to recognize that we were made for life with God our soul cries out for Him, even if we are unaware of it.
French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal had this to say in his book “Pensées” (Section VII, 425), “What is it then that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself.”
The Bible says we, “groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” (Romans 8:23, also see 2 Corinthians 5:1-5) This verse speaks to an agony that we live in apart from God. Jesus came to relieve us of this agony, to give us a way to fill the void in our souls. This is the gospel, the good news about Jesus. And the gospel story is pervasive in almost all of the stories we tell. Themes of loss, longing, discovery, redemption, sacrifice and so on are all represented in the gospel and they are usually represented in our stories as well.
As you read this blog I’ll frequently be bringing this up. I’ll be looking at specific movies and songs and talking about how they reflect the gospel story, bringing my alien perspective to the way I experience the culture around me.
An alien perspective. 
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