lost

Okay, So I'm a Lostite. Really. I am loving the show more and more with every episode. One of the noted things I enjoy is the fact that there is an under current of theological reflection through it all.

Obviously, per the title of this blog, I like that.

But yesterday's episode left me with a few thoughts I couldn't wait to decide what they could potentially mean.

The first is with the dilemma between The Man in Black (we will call Esau) and the man Jacob. Now, both comment and discuss things with Richard, the human on the island.

Esau and Jacob play a good cop/ bad cop game, where Esau protrays himself as the good, the just, the one wanting to help and Jacob is painted (and to some degree performs) the role of bad cop, beating up Richard.

Then ther eis the part I like--Richard's violent baptism, and the critical discussion of choice. The idea that destiny has been played out in this show--its a concept even theologians argue over. But instead the discussion of choice--the realization that there is inately in us created a good, the reality that we buy into this lie that we will always sin, always choose evil, is a lie from the diablo.

I know that its short, and its really because I've been at work since 7am, and its now 11pm. But I wanted to share.

And if you dont watch Lost, you should try to get into it. I'd love to do an adult series over the theological implications of each episode....it would be AWESOME.