Dia-Logos Podcast - Ep 11 - Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and the Human Search for Home

I want to stay So how do we look at this from a Christian perspective? I mean, we don't want to say you can't watch this movie because you're a believer in Jesus.

We've got to only watch The Chosen.

From a Christian perspective, heading out to a movie like this, what is in it for us as believers apart from just entertainment?

I think bottom line, one thing that fascinated me was the worldview of the Greeks, of the Greco-Roman worldview by the time when the Apostle Paul was around being a missionary to the Gentiles.

And just understanding that, you know, Paul would have had an understanding of the Greek worldview.

He was probably familiar with the Odyssey and the Iliad and a lot of other Greek writings.

And we have in Acts 17 where he's preaching and reasoning with the philosophers at the Arapagus in Athens.

And just to have an understanding that the gospel infiltrated this worldview, which is amazing.

I mean, the Greeks and the Romans, they were obviously known for their violence.

And that's still the default position, unfortunately, today, violence.

But the Greeks wanted wisdom.

Paul comes along, and I think it's in 1 Corinthians 1, where he says, you know, the Greeks want wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified.

And the concept of Christ crucified, a God on a cross, is just like alien to Greek wisdom.

And yet we find the gospel permeated that worldview.

And we know that many came to Christ.

Remember that most of your New Testament is written to Gentiles found in the context of this kind of worldview.

You know, you've got the temple to Athena.

You've got the Parthenon.

You've got all of these things taking place.

And yet the gospel takes root.

There's more that I want to say, but maybe just one or two other questions.

Yeah, Gary, I don't know if you want to pick up on what Richard's been talking about.

I mean, this is really powerful.

We're talking about a secular movie here that's depicting a worldview that wouldn't be unknown to people in the Bible that we resonate with whenever we're reading the Old or New Testament.

It's certainly, I mean, there's an argument that it's actually underplayed the level of chaos and sin within that particular worldview.