And success is dependent not only on the favor of the gods, but also on the humans making good, virtuous decisions along the way. The Greeks and Romans told heroic stories like these too: humans and gods in epic quests to fight evil and find our forever home. Whether it’s the Avengers, Avatar, The Lord of the Rings, or the Chronicles of Narnia - there is this strong sense in all these stories that everything matters because everything is moving to a climactic end when good will triumph over evil. Don’t we feel to our core that evil is more terrible than we can see or estimate? That good is more beautiful than we can put into words? That what we do has cosmic significance beyond what we can touch or see? Don’t we feel that the darkness will keep fighting us, but that one day everything be put right somehow. In fact, I think it’s more like a knowledge that we are part of something much bigger. They and movies like them capture this longing to be part of something much bigger than ourselves. These two films were extraordinarily popular across the world, topping the charts. She obliterates enemies left and right allowing Iron Man to finally get his hands on the infinity stones so he can snap his fingers and restore what Thanos destroyed… at the cost of his own life. But just when all hope seems to be lost, suddenly, Captain Marvel bursts from the heavens to save the day. Thanos’ forces of darkness close in on the Avengers to extinguish the light forever. And it seems like everything is going to work until everything starts falling apart. But the good guys - the Avengers - concoct a gutsy plan to go back in time and reverse it all. Those left alive are stunned and struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives for years. As soon as he snatches up the final stone, he vaporizes billions of lifeforms in the snap of a finger - turning the universe upside down. He descends from the heavens in a mass invasion to snatch up the final infinity stone. In Avengers: Infinity War and End Game the powerful titan-god Thanos gathers powerful “infinity stones” so he can “bring order” by killing half of the population of the universe. Sun AM Series: 2 Peter (Hastening the Day of God) Eyewitnesses of His Majesty (2 Peter 1:16-18)
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