[size=200]THIS IS PERHAPS THE MOST BIZARRE VERSION OF CHRISTIANITY EVER SEEN!!![/size]
Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series that ran for 95 episodes from March 1989 to May 1003 on the NBC network. Beginning with the thirteenth episode of the second season (“Another Mother”), each episode begins with a spoken introduction which explains the series’ premise:
“Theorizing that one could time-travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert, to develop a top-secret project known as Quantum Leap. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepping into the project accelerator, and vanished…
…he awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time is maintained through brain-wave transmissions with AL, the project observer, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett can see and hear.
Trapped in the past, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next Leap with be the Leap home.”
One of the series’ most popular elements was that at the end of every episode Sam would leap into the next person, giving viewers a teaser of the following episode’s installment. As part of a running gag, Sam would leap, realize where he was, and say: “Oh boy!”
A QUANTUM LEAP PARODY IN THE POPULAR MEDIA BEFORE THE IDEA OF SUPERCHRISTIANITY:
In the Family Guy episode: “The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz”, Peter Griffin, in a parody of the Jehovah’s Witness faith, knocks on a man’s door and begins to tell him about Jesus Christ; instead, Peter begins talking about the Quantum Leap premise. A flashback then shows Jesus “leaping” on the back of a pick-up truck with a farm girl kissing him; the girl’s husband then points a rifle at him. Jesus then says “Oh boy” with Executive Producer Donald P. Bellisario (the creator of Quantum Leap) credited at the bottom of the screen.
Jesus Christ is proposed to have suffered every predation, and to have committed every human predation (and to have experienced the predatory mind)—becoming both all victims and all perpetrators within the negative aspect of God’s omniscient foreknowledge of all events, within a simulated reality (dream, “reverie”, or hallucination) while physically dying upon the cross.
The sacrificial hallucination/dream of the First Reverie is imposed by God in order to infuse the psychology of Jesus Christ to the negative content of God’s omniscient foreknowledge. Thus the meaning attribution of evil itself is irrevocably altered by “diluting” the original content with the thoughts and emotions of Jesus as he performs the same acts and feels the same feelings as the characters that are the incidental subjects within God’s pre-universe imagination of the existence of evil.
“For what the Law was powerless to do
In that it was weakened by the sinful nature,
God did, by sending his own Son
in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin
offering. And so he condemned sin in
sinful man….”
(Romans 8:3 NIV)
[b]“Blessed are they
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man
whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”[/b]
(Romans 4: 7, 8 NIV)
“But man does not obey God’s will. In particular, the law says: “Thou shalt not covet,” yet this demand for purity of inward desire [b]is violated by everyone, every day. So the law, divine as it is, cannot make us good—nor can it forgive us when we sin.
Unless God intervenes and provides some other means to forgiveness and strength, man is doomed (Romans 7). Just this justification, this forgiveness and moral strength, Paul found in Christ.
Here, Paul drew an analogy from pagan mystery cults. Devotees of the latter sought by various rites (baptisms, sacred meals) to merge themselves into the life of one of the gods, and thereby to share in the god’s own immortality and divinity. The Christian, says Paul, interlocks his life with Christ’s, and thus “dies” to the old and “raises” to the new. He is then secure in the knowledge of God’s forgiveness.
Therefore, when one joins himself to Christ, one accomplishes all that the law had aimed at. In fact, one fulfills the law.”
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(Encyclopedia Entry: The Apostle Paul: The New Book Of Knowledge Encyclopedia)
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