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Christian Mythology in The Matrix

roles, portraying himself as good and God as evil. Many people fall for this lie. For example, many see Satan as noble liberator in the garden of Eden but judge God as a stingy jailer instead of seeing God as providing an idyllic environment, while selfish man just had to have one more tree despite the abundant orchards! Man, imitating Satan, said "I will be like God" and rebelled against his benevolent Creator a Creator Who in turn humbly took the form of a man to be crucified for the willful sins of His own creation so that a way of redemption could be open to all by simply trusting the Rescuer. To regard someone as 'evil' that dies on your behalf is the height of deception.In biblical times Jesus had a traitor among his decipilies, Judas. The Matrix is not without this betrayer.The betrayer character is named "Cypher", a play on the word 'cipher'. In the dictionary, some interesting meanings of 'cipher' are 'zero' and 'one that is without value'. Cypher demonstrates that he is indeed without value; he is a selfish murderer. Jesus said about Judas, "it would be better for him if he had never been born." (Mark 14:20).Cypher the traitor is not just betraying Morpheus, who has the codes to Zion, but Cypher is betraying the entire human crew as well, which includes Neo. Cypher almost pulls Neo's plug to kill him, which is a traitorous act directly against Neo. In this sense, Cypher can be typed strongly as Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.From the beginning, Cypher never believes Neo is "the One". Even as the film begins, Cypher says, "We're going to kill him, do you understand that?" Cypher also expresses his faithless attitude when Neo is trying to jump from tower to tower in the training simulation. As Cypher talks to Neo alone at night, he says, "Actually, I've been thinking it [the blue pill option] ever since I got here [meaning that Cypher never did appreciate the red pill]." Even Cypher's last words are "No. I don't believe i...

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