Maybe that’s why the movie is so terrifying. The words Reese used to describe the T101 apply absolutely to your relationship to Death on an atheistic worldview. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. So listen and understand: that Terminator is out there.
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If there is no God at all and atheism is true, then The Terminator is a fictional story about a very real truth – that Death is coming for you. With any other God, your cries for help are either unheard or unheeded. No other religion says that God is coming to find you, or where death itself can be conquered. You cannot find another worldview where you are worth dying for. You will not find any other religion where God offers to rescue you. The temptation at this point might be to say, ‘Well, it’s not just Christianity – all religions have these themes.’ But that’s just not true. I think because we are wired to respond to them. The Terminator is a fictional retelling of a real, historical event.īut why do we resonate with themes of rescue, self-sacrifice and redemption. The theme of self-sacrifice itself has an origin story though, and it’s found in the pages of the New Testament. But they use it because it’s a theme that has universal resonance. Now obviously, plenty of films use the idea of self-sacrifice as a plot device. The decision to save and rescue predates the incarnation. This is a nice allusion to John 8:58, where Jesus says, ‘Before Abraham was, I AM’.
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Because of the brain-melting paradox of time, Kyle Reese saves Sarah’s life in a time before his own physical birth. At the climax of the film, he lays down his life for hers, and takes death down with him. The rest of the film centres on Reese’s attempts to get between Sarah Connor and death (Arnie’s Terminator). The only witness of the event is a bearded vagabond who asks Reese if he ‘saw a bright light?’ This homeless man is the John the Baptist figure who testifies to the light coming into the world. He arrives in the early hours of the morning and the authorities are quickly onto him (like a thief in the night?). He arrives naked and vulnerable and the weaponry he would otherwise use can’t make the leap, so he has had to give up his full power to get here. His mission is to save humanity – starting with someone who doesn’t know him.
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Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) is sent into our time on a rescue mission by his own son (OK, so the father is sent by the son on this occasion, but stick with it). What you may have missed in this epic horror/blockbuster is a surprisingly accurate rendering of the incarnation of Jesus. And yet the film itself is a pale imitation of a story already told further back along our timeline. The film that spawned an infinite number of sequels and (bizarrely) a state governor, The Terminator is the 1984 action horror that many have mimicked, none have bettered.