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Originally Posted by Ilya
One movie cliché that gets on my nerves (and I am not even a Christian!) is that world will end/Satan will emerge victorious if certain manuscript is found/certain incantation spoken/certain child born/certain demon walks through a certain gate/etc. – and the heroes must prevent this from happening. Examples are "End of Days", "Warlock", "Dogma", or "Wishmaster".
In a generic fantasy setting that’s not a bad premise – if you accept supernatural, why not accept that something supernatural can end the world? But in Judeo-Christian setting, which such movies almost always have, it’s terrible. Basically, it means that God cedes the world to Satan if some completely arbitrary event occures. Why would God do that?
Always hated that sort of thing.
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It's rather complicated and perfectly understood by those raised with the Christian Bible. Unfortunately, Hollywood tends to garble exactly what John's Revelation is talking about.
According to the Revelations, there will be a period of tribulations as the Anti-Christ takes over the world and rules it for a period of time. There is a series of plagues and signs that foreshadow the End of World before God steps in and creates his ultimate paradise.
The reasoning behind thses Hollywood stories is that it is Satan that will determine the beginning of the tribulations and not God.