Non-Christian friends of mine have asked me how I can believe that the Bible has been authored by God (through the divine inspiration to its writers) yet can still hold so many apparent inconsistencies not to mention tonal shifts. Let's not forget that the Bible as we know it today does not come from just one source in one language (which would alone lead to multiple translations), but from different languages (some telling the same story) and many different sources. Yet, somehow, it all works.
Enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Over the past fifteen years, Marvel has released 29 films in its Cinematic Universe (this does not count the apocryphal Sony or Fox movies). Not even examining the eight Phase 4 shows or the 14 announced movies and 13 shows still on the horizon, the MCU is quite an impressive feat. Somehow, they have managed to weave together 29 different story lines, most with different writers and directors, not to mention many with huge tonal shifts between them, into a single interconnected overarching tale. Not only do many of the inconsistencies get explained away, some of them even get incorporated into the larger narrative in ingenious ways. Above them all is Kevin Feige, who alone knows the entire plan and how the various pieces come together. While he allows writers and directors to make their own mark on the MCU, it is clear that his guiding hand has made certain that essential details have remained throughout.
Now Feige likely already has enough of a God-complex without this sort of comparison, so I want to point out that the MCU is a work purely of human origin, while the Bible's designer has a level of understanding infinitely beyond our own. There are also many more players involved in the Bible's story, especially when one considers that the Bible is not a stand-alone work; it is meant to be connected with its companion, the Church, and interwoven with the billions of lives that have existed before and since its creation. Much like I can find new details and even revelations that I missed when I rewatch movies in the MCU, I fully expect that the Bible still has more to reveal to us.
Enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Over the past fifteen years, Marvel has released 29 films in its Cinematic Universe (this does not count the apocryphal Sony or Fox movies). Not even examining the eight Phase 4 shows or the 14 announced movies and 13 shows still on the horizon, the MCU is quite an impressive feat. Somehow, they have managed to weave together 29 different story lines, most with different writers and directors, not to mention many with huge tonal shifts between them, into a single interconnected overarching tale. Not only do many of the inconsistencies get explained away, some of them even get incorporated into the larger narrative in ingenious ways. Above them all is Kevin Feige, who alone knows the entire plan and how the various pieces come together. While he allows writers and directors to make their own mark on the MCU, it is clear that his guiding hand has made certain that essential details have remained throughout.
Now Feige likely already has enough of a God-complex without this sort of comparison, so I want to point out that the MCU is a work purely of human origin, while the Bible's designer has a level of understanding infinitely beyond our own. There are also many more players involved in the Bible's story, especially when one considers that the Bible is not a stand-alone work; it is meant to be connected with its companion, the Church, and interwoven with the billions of lives that have existed before and since its creation. Much like I can find new details and even revelations that I missed when I rewatch movies in the MCU, I fully expect that the Bible still has more to reveal to us.
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