We're into the third week of our look at The Avengers and Christianity. This week we're taking a look at Thor.
Stan Lee, creator of Thor once asked himself, how do you make someone stronger than the strongest human? His answer, don't make him a human, make him a God. Thor is not immortal, unlike our Lord. Whilst Thor is physically stronger than any human, our Lord Jesus is stronger perhaps not physically but spiritually and mentally. Whilst we could say that he was weak, hanging on a cross, demoralised, beaten, Jesus took the entire world's sin on his shoulders and then returned from the dead. How strong is that!?!
If we look back at Thor's origins, his father Odin decided that his son needed to be taught humility and so placed him in the body of a partially disabled medical student without any memory of his godhood. So in a nutshell, a father placed a son on our earth for a reason. Where have we heard that before?
He eventually found Thor's hammer, the Mjolnir, struck it against a rock and transformed into the thunder God. Thor's hammer is a massive part of the character but what do we see similar in the bible? Well of course we have the hammer than nails Jesus to the cross, that pierces the skin of the limbs of Jesus Christ. On the flip side hammers were also used for good. Remember the man who built his house on the rock rather than the sand, he'd have needed a hammer! Our superhero struck his hammer into a rock to become the thunder God - Jesus is our rock.
He came to break the chains, to free us. Our Lord completely defeated death, his enduring love is stronger than any weapon, any destructive force. How will you use your hammer?
Next time...the rest of 'em!
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