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Posted by: Sleezykelveezy
Posted by: IceWeasel
Bare with me here, I mean thematically.
Jesus as a Man or an idea or a theme has been prevalent all through out the Halo stories, both in the games and in books.
The Master Chief fulfills a ship-load of Jesus euphemisms. The Arbiter, Johnson and the Prophets also. I won't immediately describe how they do, unless specifically asked. No one person is assigned to His likeness, but He is prevalent none-the-less throughout.
I suppose I can elaborate on the Chief before specifically talking about the ODST reference, just so I don't go way too ahead of myself...
A while a back (try a few years) I posted a thread about how the Chief is thematically like Jesus Christ.
His time on Earth was short, making one of His first stops in Egypt/[Cairo!]
He left suddenly, descended to the Grave and in doing so destroyed Regret.
Following the voice of Truth, He walked the streets of the Covenant Holy City.
At His second coming to Earth He defeated the Grave and the last False Prophet and Saved mankind.
If you want me to discuss how the other characters or events or ideas foot the Holy bill, ask and I'll elaborated. But on to the ODST aspect. Don't blink, it's real quick.
According to the Apostle's Creed:
Jesus Christ [...] was as crucified, dead, and buried;
He descended into Hell.
I think it's so cool that Bungie came up with the idea for ODST's, especially since they put so much effort into creating Scripturally based allegorical themes and characters.
Some Christian sects believe that in order for Christ to fulfill the sin-penalty on our behalf, He'd not only have to die for our sins, but go to Hell (temporarily) for them. Not all Christians believe this, but a lot do, hence the Creed.
"Feet first in to Hell"
"We are dropping into Hell, troopers!"
"He descended into Hell."
Your an idiot, find better things to do than talk trash about the Lord.First of all, he's not saying a thing to insult God. Secondly, I think this is a very good topic. Not many serious threads are on these forums any more and most of them just get discarded, but this theory seems correct, interesting and true as far as I can see.