#but she’s duped by the same lie that snagged Eve

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No my friend, it’s not an accident; you’re just proving the point of my post. Yes, she is a genius. An unoriginal one, but a genius, nonetheless. <— That there? The point.

I didn’t miss the point of the creator scene either: you’re just reiterating what I actually said. “Free will” isn’t what Gerwig is claiming it is.

We’re made for love. We don’t get to opt out of that any more than a Lego can spontaneously turn itself into a dolphin. No matter how “free” you claim your will is, you can’t will yourself into a different purpose. You can’t escape loving something. Try it and see. You can pretend for a while, but you’ll always be loving something. Unlike Barbie, you can’t make yourself something different just by willing it to be so. That’s Greta’s lie—or, well, the one she borrowed from Satan. 🤷‍♀️

Your Creator made you to love Him and be loved by Him. But He gave you the ability to choose not to love Him and be loved by Him—you can opt to love yourself, instead. But uh…yeah, tough luck, you’re still loving something and being loved by something in that scenario, sooo, I guess you kinda can’t do completely and totally anything you want. 🤷‍♀️

That’s the worst part. We’ll say, “no thanks, God, what do I need You to love me for: I’ll love myself!” And it won’t be “living.” It’ll be “trying and failing and misery.” Because we can’t do it. We were made for an infinite and unfathomable Creator’s perfect love to fill us up. And we settle for our own finite, shabby, easily-forgotten self-love. Like playing in a mud puddle when there’s a whole ocean just over the next hill.

So your friend Greta Gerwig and the guy she stole her unoriginal message from, Satan, tell you “you have free will to be whatever you want to be, and it’ll satisfy you because that’s living, baby!” And it’s a lie. You’re not Barbie. You can’t magically make yourself a human instead of a doll. You can’t magically make yourself a creature that is not suited for God’s love—you can only reject that and twist around into a self-lover—still a lover, just a more broken one. 🤷‍♀️

And then the second part of the lie, “it’ll satisfy you because that’s living,” isn’t true either. You won’t get satisfaction or life from “self love,” because it’s not the real thing. You’ll get misery and death. You can pretend for a while. Heck, you can spend your whole life trying new ways and ideologies to self-love. But in the end, you get death.

Yeah, Christians “like” free will. We just know what it actually means in the context of reality.

Greta Gerwig is saying you can be like Barbie, going from being a doll to being a human with genitalia and working tear ducts—that’s how powerful your “free will” is. But it just…isn’t. You can’t will yourself into being a god with control over what you are and what will satisfy you. (You can claim that you’re satisfied, but sadly, that’s different from being satisfied.)

The truth is, what you were made for is so much better than what you think you want. Read the Bible, put what you’re hearing to the test, and prove me wrong. You’re already trying to put what Gerwig and Satan say are right to the test. How’s it working out?

I mean actually it's really just the story of Adam and Eve and their fall, but with Greta Gerwig's ending and contextual spin put on it.

God actually created man in His own image first, for relationship with Him, and then added woman because it was not good for man to be alone without a helper. Then the Enemy told Eve that disobeying God would make her "LIKE GOD," so she disobeyed God and Adam went along with it, and instead of being like God they became monsters and their relationship was broken with God. But He offered a way to fix it by sacrificing His Son in mankind's place and un-twisting their monstrousness back into what humanity was meant for.

But in Greta Gerwig's understanding, Eve was in a sheltered idealized perfect environment and started to "wake up" to the messy possibilities of life and mortality. Barbie's jarred out of perfect, idealized Barbieland and into the messy life-and-mortality of the real world. Oh, and Ken's there too.

Instead of learning that she's become a twisted-up monster-version of what she'd been made for and opting to be returned to her true purpose, like a Christian does, Barbie does the opposite.

She decides she wants to become human--and since, in this movie, humanity means "messy decision maker" and that, in turn, translates to "a god worthy of worship," she's literally doing what Eve ACTUALLY did to sever her relationship with God in the first place: try to be god.

But instead of that breaking Barbie's relationship with her creator and twisting her up even further until she's eventually destroyed, this decision to be god is portrayed as a good thing. In fact, her creator admits that (supposedly) a creator has no say in the matter--then disappears. Because in Greta Gerwig's worldview, God is dead, for all the meaning or use or power He has, and we are gods just as we are.

It's disgusting. It's revisionist history. It's taking a historical person with the moral standing of King Henry, and writing a metaphor about how chopping his wives' heads off was actually the grand transcendent defining moment of his life--which was objectively beautiful.

That's what Greta Gerwig's Barbie has done with humanity's Fall. She says "it wasn't a Fall, it was an Awakening." Which is exactly what the Enemy lied and claimed that it would be. She's just believing the old lie and perpetuating it.

And unfortunately, the God of the Bible is actually real (plot twist) and very much on control of how all this ends. And it just doesn't end with the monsters pretending to sit on His throne listening to a pretty Billie Eilish song and smiling the end credits into place, I gotta say.

I mean it's expertly done. Very engaging story. Speaks to everything we, as humans, love in the worst way. But it's a lie. And its basically the least original take on...humanity. The world we live in. God Himself. It's the original unoriginality.