Some thoughts about the movie The Unholy Part 1

I watched the movie The Unholy the other day. It was an okay movie, with okay story, okay mood, decent editing and acting, but with crappy CGI and quite a few elements that felt like they didn’t hang together in a meaningful way. 

But this is not a review. It’s the movie’s essential theme that is interesting here. The theme is false prophets and false saviours. Since I felt sort of drawn to see this movie, and since it grabbed my attention in spit of being rather mediocre, maybe there was a point in me seeing it (I have more and more come to believe that nothing in our lives happen by accident. We are just usually not attentive enough to see that God constantly speaks to us). 

Another thing that is a little easier to miss about the movie, but which really is right there in front of us, that would be backed up by many passages in The Bible, is that just because someone is able to perform miracles, it does not mean that the miracles come from God. This, I think, is very significant. Because I think that this is an easy concept to grasp and even take to heart. But how many of us would not be easily swayed by something that we perceive as a genuine miracle, if we would encounter one? I know that for me, in my past it has taken even less. I’ve been close to adopt teachings because they have given me loads of insights as to how things work. And the more I’ve been impressed by their wisdom, the easier it has been for me to disregard the flaws and unsubstantiated claims of these teachings.

In the times we live in, there are many spiritual “truths” out there. I’ve spoken about this in other posts and I will probably keep talking about it till I find some more clarity.

And all truths cannot be true, unless there is no truth. And if there is no truth, at least that much is true. 

A side note that warrants several posts on its own, but that I will just briefly mention here, is that false prophets are part of the endtimes-prophecies of The Bible. And there are other contemporary things that seem to fit in uncomfortably with these prophecies as well. But this is, as I said, too big of a topic to be explored here. And it would call for much more research than I have time for at the moment. 

How can we really know what’s going on inside another person? How can we know if someone is wilfully trying to deceive us? Or if that person has him- or herself been deceived? There are frighteningly many factors that determine what we come to regard as truth, that have nothing to do with whether it’s true or not. For example: how we see ourselves - our identity, how attentive we are at any given moment, which emotional state that we are in and our opinion of the source, just to name a few irrelevant factors with regard to the actual truth, which are all factors that determine what beliefs we choose to adopt or discard.