hey i jsut saw matrix 3 last night at the global premiere. it was sooo good. and guess what...i knew what would happen, cos i fully belive that it's based on the bible. some of you guys, i dunno...you know so much stuff and i can see your searching...but you search to find anything contradictory...ive experienced gods provision in my life, no one can tell me differntly, there are so many parallels in the matrix. someone on here said that neo fights to save his people, and jesus didn't, jesus didn't physically fight people yes...but he DID fight to save his people. i dunno what your all saying about buddism and things like that to do with the matrix...where does karma come into it? or reincarnation? i dunno. just think about it. i knwo your all hardcore and things like that but neo died with his arms stretched like he was on a cross. it is done. this means EXACTLY the same thing as "it is finshed as it says in the NIV translation of bible. there are many differnty translations..they HAVENT got it wrong guys, there are many differnt ways to express the same thing thus the reason for varying bible veriosns...read it.
in my humble opinion, i woyuld definatly say the matrix all three draw upon the bible...you guys have all saud it im sure. 💃
Well I saw the final movie and here's how I see the matrix related to the bible. These are just a few thoughts.
First of all when neo sacraficed himself the light that game out of him was without a doubt in the shape of a cross.
One thing that I don't think I saw in any of the replies is, what is the matrix as it relates to the bible. I believe that it's exactly what morpheus says it is in M1. The world that's been pulled over our eyes to blind us from the truth. The matrix is "the lie". That means a lot of things but most importantly it is to keep us from knowing the truth. I've seen a lot of people point to the architect representing God but if he is the father of the matrix then he is the father of lies. Which is a term often used to describe satan.
To keep it short here are some other things I think the characters represent.
Mr.Smith=It seems that in biblical terms Mr.Smith represents sin and how it can infect all of us.
the child=b/c the child is the first thing to appear after smith is gone, she would seem to represent the innocence.
the oracle=not 100% sure but I think she represents God. Although you might think that she also helped create the matrix but I think all she did was give the people in the matrix a choice.
Seraph=Mr.Smith say that he always keeps popping up all over the place so he might be a representation of the holy spirit as he is also the defender of the oracle.
Many of the other character have already been discussed so let me know what you think. I'm new here so go easy.
Hmmm
Interesting topic...
Neo, symbol of the ONE for all is of ONE and to the ONE shall we all return. In this era of existentialism and projection of self before anything else it is refreshing to get a movie that attempts to provoke a break with tradition. "In my Fathers mansion there are many rooms"...
Be yourself at all times, your chosen path is that which is engrained in you, the essence of your being.
Though it may be different from mine, to the ONE shall we all return eventually.
Link to the Bible alone?
I think that would be doing the ONE an injustice in its limitation to the reality of BEING which is all encompassing, beneficient, loving for all eternity and posterity.
Think about it...
Here is another biblical refrence that I haven't seen anywhere else. The architect said that Neo was the sixth anomaly to come around. In the bible there are six covenants or promises made by God. They are as follows
1.Adamic Covenant
2.Noahic Covenant
3.Abrahamic Covenant
4.Mosaic Covenant
5.Davidic Covenant
6.New Covenant
The new covenant is of couse Jesus the Savior of mankind. This would explain the reason that neo is the sixth anamoly. On a side note some count the seventh covenant to be the return of christ which was also hinted to at the end of M3.
it is hard for me to personally comprehend some of the biblical references, i just can't delve into the story line underlaying the obvious but this is how i can see it from the Matrix Revolutions.
Neo is representative of Jesus Christ for reasons already stated. he was resurrected from the dead as jesus was. the contraversy that Trinity was brought back to life but is not considered to be Christ because Neo brought her back to life much like Jesus did with Lazauris.
Bane (along with Cypher) can be considered Judas for he betrayed the humans and inevitably Neo(Jesus)
Smith is (as the oracle states) the opposite of Neo, he is the negative energy, or the Beast (stated in Revelation) the anti Christ or Satan (who are all basically the same person.) his battle with Neo is the inevitable battle between good and evil.
The architect can be considered God but after reading some of the other forums i am convinced that he is actually more like the Devil, especially with his last lines in Revolutions, his lines were doubting the peace Neo had sacraficed himself to obtain.
The oracle is God for she said her job was to unbalance the equations which the architect had ballanced. this may be considered a bad thing that she could be the devil for doing this but truly she helped the unpluged humans. she also fortold the coming of the One much as God fortold the coming of Jesus
okay, the architect and the Oracle would be more like two faces of one entity, a Yin and Yang themselves...Neo would be Jesus, Smith would be Anti-Christ, but you also have to take the religious connotations to be more than just Christian, there is also Buddhist, Hindu, and Mythology parallels as well...
I do think depending how someone interprets the story different people can represent different things. Thats why the movies are so brilliant. The W.Brothers have created a story that everyone can connect to in some way. I do think they included a lot of the bible b/c they are smart and the bible has sold more copies then any book ever written. That means a lot of people will connect with the story. Since I'm comparing it to the bible I don't believe that the architect and the oracle are merely yin and yang. If the architect created "the world that is pulled over our eyes" in a biblical since that would make him the devil. I believe when the oracle said she is here to unbalance it what she is really saying is she's there to undo what he does. I think calling smith the devil is too obvious. Jesus never destroyed the devil in the bible. In the bible when jesus died on the cross and it was to destroy the effects of sin. Mr. Smith being the devil just doesn't fit. He wasn't decieving anyone he didn't manipulate anything he just came to destroy. And he did it in a very straight forward manner.
Another thought was that maybe Neo's death and ressurection in the first movie is a symbol of Jesus's baptism before he started his true ministry. Since baptism is a symbol of death and ressurection then they might have made it more litteral. Or they could have simply not known that they were going to make 2 and 3 so they wanted to get their idea across in 1 movie.
After thinking about seraph more I think he just fits into the role of an arch angel. In the bible there were angles called seraphim who stood like gaurdians on either side of Gods throne. Since Seraph protects the oracle it also points to her as God.
Smith would be more of the Antichrist, rather than the devil...the antiChrist takes followers away from the true Christ, whereas Smith copies over the humans...also, the Architect is not necessarily evil, he just cannot grasp choice...he is the god of the programs, whereas the Oracle is the God(dess) of the humans...
Maybe Smith represents the sin that takes us over. Neo dies to kill Smith who is in everyone just like Jesus died to destroy the sin in us.
The Architect, who wants the humans to follow a certain path, but gives us choice and who created the world: God, The Oracle, who made the world easier for the rebels and helped destroy Smith/Sin could somehow represent the New Testament:God, The Merovingian, who takes the exiles/sinners into his world and has a club hell(come on): Satan, Neo, who dies to destroy Smith/Sin: Jesus.