If you have been following the news on the new game Path Of Neo, you have seen that you can change the fate of The Matrix movies by choosing diffrent paths for Neo. I think this game kills all theories on Neo being a Christ like character, as in the Bible it states that Christ was perfect and had to die to save the world and in the movies it did, to a point, give you that impression, along with some Buddism, Hinduism, and a few other religions. I guess Neo wasn't the saviour after all and just a bozo that killed the humans chances of destroying what they created. So now we must go back and change what that bozo did. I am just stating the impression the new game synopsis, that I have read, gives me. Any further comments on this?

You actually make a good point in that. You'll have that happen any time you take a deity-like figure and allow people to become them. Imagine if they made a game where you are Jesus, deciding what to do and when. It'd kill the common thoughts we carry of him now.

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Maybe the writers of the game just didnt want it to be linear.

Does Neo really have to die in the end for him to be considered a "christ like figure"? I think just being put in the position of possibly sacrificing ones life for the lives of other people automatically makes you christ like.

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Sort of true, but as I stated before if Neo made bad choices he was not perfect.

Neo made bad choices in the movie. He used violence to achieve an end, he slept with Trinity out of wedlock, and many other things. Neo was never meant to be an exclusively christ-like figure.

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We don't know if they were truly out of wedlock, as you say. Also, God himself used violence throughout the Bible to achieve His will. Neo's use of violence isn't any worse or better.

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I completely agree with you, PP.
Violence is used throughout history, even by the Jews, with their God's favor.

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PP, and they could create an expansion pack where you play muhammed. They could make it a first person shooter, lol.

Anyway, could Jesus not have chosen other ways? I believe so. He had a free will, and he lived by the law of God, yes, but when I walk around a fountain left or right, I do not violate God's will. There is plenty of 'breathing space'. When Jesus was crucified, he stated 'Why has thou abandoned me?' or something along those lines. He had the freedom to act within God's realm.

Mr U

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Well, I don't want to get into to much of a religious discussion, although the matrix kind of is for me :P , Jesus had to follow the path that was made for him by God perfectely. In the trilogy, Neo had to follow the path of the one perfectely and if in dying he did not, then he was not perfect.

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I agree w/ HU on this one. Jesus had free will, he actually had more freedom to do what he pleased than any of us do. But as with Neo, the outcome was inevitable. There was a certain ending that would happen all along, and no matter what Neo choses to do along the way, he will eventually get there.

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How do you know? Have you asked God personally?

Just because its not in the Bible doesn't mean it didnt happen, and just because it is in the Bible doesn't mean it did happen.

I agree with Tmaster in not making this discussion too theological, but its also important to remember that "The One" turned out to be just another form of control by the machines, and one could argue the only reason Neo's version of the one was different from the others was because of his direct love for Trinity.

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