The Divine Missions of Superman - and Jesus [and 20 other similarities]

[23] Superman came from the planet Krypton, which in Greek means "hidden, secret,"38 just like the mythic location of Heaven. It also "sounds like "Tikkum olam" a Hebrew concept of restoring [correcting] the world's wrongs."39 This theme was reinforced by Jor-El in the Arctic Fortress of Solitude when he told Kal-El that his destiny and duty was to help right the wrongs of a troubled Earth. Similarly, Jesus was an off-world visitor of unspecified location who came to Earth to right cosmic wrongs with a God-inspired message of love. He left the planet with an expectation of a Second Coming, and a religio-political agenda that advocated God above Rome using the coin of love. Within S2, this Messianic "return" expectation was partially fulfilled near the end of the film when Superman apologised to the US President for being away so long. Thus implying "that Jesus has never been indifferent to our sorrows but that urgent reasons of his own have kept him away."40

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clipped from www.unomaha.edu Twenty Superman - Jesus Parallels [3] The filmmakers were able to build into their production(s) many parallels that incorporated direct character transpositions, sacred symbolism, verbal identifiers, Christic signifiers, divine colouring, biblical phraseology and scriptural allusions. For example: 1.0 Divine Paternity 2.0 Divine Diaspora 3.0 Earthly Existence 4.0 Divine Signature Signs 5.0 Costume Symbolism and the Significance of Blue 6.0 Divine Naming [10] In "the comic books 'Kal-El' is Kryptonian for 'Star Child' - which ties into the Child of the Christmas Star."20 This child is Jesus (Matt. 1:25), the divine child from the stars whose other name was "Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us" (Matt. 1:23). Superman miraculously arrived, preordained, on terra firma as a star-child inside a spaceship that physically looked like a Christmas star. 7.0 Superman-Jesus-Star Associations 8.0 The Mystical Age 9.0 Shared Life Biographies 10.0 Divine Calling 12.0 Divine Mission