Movie Editorial on "Back to the Future" by Joseph Y. Lee

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"Go Forward into the Future"
Movie Editorial on "Back to the Future"
By Joseph Y. Lee
Philippians 3:13-14

 

To the Brothers and Sisters who are faithful in Christ
Jesus:

 

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.

 

In summary of the movie, Doc Brown built a time machine.
Later, he was shot dead by the Libyan terrorists in the
beginning of the movie. While he was killed, Doc Brown
saved Marty's life analogously the same way that Jesus
had died on the cross to save our lives! In some sense,
Doc Brown was shown as a type of Jesus Christ by saving
Marty McFly's life. Shocked by Doc Brown's death, Marty
forced himself to use the time machine to escape death
from the Libyan terrorists. Finally, Marty McFly went
back to 1955 and fixed his parents, who were thought to
be beyond repair through many accidents during the
course of the story. To make the story more interesting,
Marty McFly was able to save Doc Brown's life as well
even though Marty tried and failed to use the time
machine 10 minutes before Doc Brown was supposed to be
killed by the terrorists. In some humorous and ludicrous
good sense, Doc Brown was resurrected from the dead
analogously the same way Jesus was resurrected from
his death on the cross. Ha ha ha… I loved this movie!

 

Many young believers struggled with the horrible hurts
that our non-Christian parents were beyond repair. When
we saw the movie "Back to the Future," every believer
could really relate to the main character to Marty McFly
while Doc Brown was shown as a type of Christ in the
movie. Many young Christians always counted on our God
to fix our parents while Marty McFly was getting plenty
of help from Doc Brown in terms of fixing his parents
George and Lorraine McFly. It seemed so hurtful to see
Doc Brown putting more effort to fix Marty McFly's
parents when we didn't see our God putting any effort
to fix our non-Christian parents. Nevertheless, God
always had a better way to fix our dysfunctional
parents, who were beyond repair or fix.

 

Maybe, I asked myself my question to God, "Lord, why
couldn't you build me a time machine to fix my parents
in the past? Why couldn't you change the Korean War in
a way so that my parents could love and accept you as
their personal Lord and Savior?"

 

Sinful man believed that if we built a time machine,
then we could change the course of history and fix all
of our mistakes or the mistakes of our parents. However,
was it contrary to Philippians 3:13-14? Should we go
forward into the future rather than go back to the past?
If you did not notice, the title of movie was written
in wrong English. If you say, "Let's go back to the
future," then it really did not make any sense when we
could only go back into the past, not the future. The
correct grammar of the movie title should be, "Go
Forward into the Future." In other words, we must not
go back into the past, according to Philippians 3:13-14.

 

… but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and
reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward
the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in
Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14
 

 

Of course, sinful man probably insisted the impossible
contrary to Philippians 3:13-14. He perhaps had some false
hopes that he could change history for the better. If you
saw the movies, "Back to the Future - Parts 2 and 3,"
then you could see that sinful Marty McFly and Doc Brown
almost made things a lot worse by changing the course of
history. Anyway, maybe, it was possible to change the past.
However, it was also possible that changing history could
be disastrous in terms of destroying the space-time
continuum! Seriously! For example, what if I built a time
machine, went back into the past, and killed the inventor
of the time travel before he had built the time machine?
If the question was too confusing, then Parts 2 and 3
could explain what I was trying to say. Anyway, I believed
Steven Spielberg could explain it a lot better.

 

Thank you for your prayers.

 

Grace be with all those who incorruptibly love our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Following the will of God,
Joseph Yosuk Lee