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Many were upset by Batman v. Superman<\/em> because their heroes seem to become corrupted. (After all, why would Batman <\/a>be fighting Superman?) But this movie addresses more theologically rich questions about God, evil<\/a>, and our culture than any other Batman film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one reviewer put it, \u201cIt may be a good movie, a bad movie, or anything in between, but it is without question an important film today, and a quintessential product of the America we inhabit.\u201d[i]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see why, let\u2019s start with Superman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Superman is probably the superhero most obviously patterned after Christ.<\/strong> Superman\u2019s father (Jor-El) sends his only son to earth to save people from a rebellion, although he knows that humanity will almost certainly reject his son. He comes as an infant and stays disguised as Clark Kent until his appointed time to save the world (age thirty-three), at which time he helps people by using his other-worldly powers and abilities. He experiences suffering and death before rising from the dead to save the world. (And there are several other parallels).[ii]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why are people against Superman? And why are Lex Luthor and Batman trying to kill him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer lies in one of the most vexing questions of all time: If there is a good God, why is there evil? Why doesn\u2019t He stop it!<\/strong> The film states this question and explores it directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After we see flashbacks to the murder of Bruce\u2019s parents, Bruce is racing through Metropolis trying to save people from the explosions and falling buildings that are the collateral damage from Superman\u2019s battle with General Zod at the end of Man of Steel. He comes across one of his employees, Wallace Keith, whose legs are pinned under a steel beam. After removing the beam, he races to save a young girl from falling debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruce looks angrily up at the flying Superman, the supposed cause of all this mayhem. The look on his face questions the goodness of Superman. He\u2019s supposed to be a savior? He\u2019s causing all of this damage and would have let this girl die. What kind of a god is he? Despite the fact that Superman is trying to save the world from General Zod, Bruce comes to see Superman as a threat to humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruce Wayne: He has the power to wipe out the entire human race, and if we believe there\u2019s even a one-percent chance that he is our enemy, we have to take it as an absolute certainty . . . and we have to destroy him.<\/p>

Alfred: But he is not our enemy!<\/p>

Bruce Wayne: Not today. Twenty years in Gotham, Alfred; we\u2019ve seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It makes sense to be concerned about someone getting too much power. They are likely to abuse that power and use it for evil. History confirms that. Abraham Lincoln put it well: \u201cNearly all men can handle adversity, but if you want to test a man\u2019s character, give him power.\u201d<\/strong> Lex Luthor sounds the alarm about granting too much power when he says to Senator June Finch, \u201cDo you know the oldest lie in America, Senator? It\u2019s that power can be innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although, curiously, few of us think that truth applies to us personally. We are not distrustful of ourselves when we get power. Lex Luthor is not concerned that he has too much power. We all think we can handle it\u2014that we can use it innocently. It\u2019s all those other people we need to watch out for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Wallace Keith, who not only lost his legs but his family in the fallout, climbs up and spray paints \u201cFalse God\u201d in big red letters on the city\u2019s Superman statue. If anyone considers Superman a god, you\u2019re now warned that he\u2019s not a good god.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lex Luthor has the same negative assessment of Superman and God. After throwing Lois Lane off the top of a building to attract Superman to his location, Lex launches into a scathing putdown of Superman:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve got problems up here\u2014the problem of evil in the world . . . the problem of YOU on top of everyone else; you above all; because that\u2019s what God is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lex reveals he\u2019s upset that God didn\u2019t save him from his abusive father. This motivates his rebellion against God and Superman, who both put themselves over human beings. Next, Lex cites the classic problem stated by the Greek philosopher Epicurus (341\u2013270 BC): \u201cI figured out way back, if God is all powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He is all good, then He cannot be all powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then applies it to Superman as if he\u2019s the god of this world, \u201cAnd neither can you! [The people of this world] need to see the fraud you are with their eyes\u2014the blood on your hands!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Lex and Wallace, Superman is a false god who needs to be exposed for the fraud that he is. Lex eventually gets Superman to bend to his will, which is a satisfying turn: God bends to him rather than the other way around. He also tells Senator June Finch that \u201cdevils don\u2019t come from beneath us, they come from the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice that Lex and Wallace have disdain for God based on their personal experience with evil. <\/strong>A good God would have stopped my abusive dad; a good God would have protected me from injury and my family from death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is such a common expectation that the Bible writers raise the same complaints to God, especially in Job and the Psalms. The New Testament writers, and even Jesus Himself, address the problem of evil in different ways as well. We don\u2019t have space to address all of that here,[iii]<\/a> but we can point out here that evil does not disprove God\u2014it actually shows that God does exist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How so? Because evil can\u2019t exist without good, and good can\u2019t exist without an objective standard of good, which is God\u2019s nature. This began to make sense to the great Christian scholar Augustine (AD 354\u2013430) when he realized that evil can\u2019t exist on its own. Evil only exists as a lack or a deficiency in a good thing.[iv]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evil is like cancer: if you take all of the cancer out of your body, you have a better body; if you take the body out of the cancer, you have nothing because cancer can\u2019t exist on its own\u2014it needs something good (a body) in which to exist. <\/strong>Evil is like rust on a car: if you take all of the rust out of a car, you have a better car; if you take the car out of the rust, you have nothing. In other words, evil is a parasite in good. That\u2019s why we often describe evil as negations of good things. We say someone is immoral, unjust, unfair, dishonest, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We could put it another way: the shadows prove the sunshine. There can be sunshine without shadows, but there can\u2019t be shadows without sunshine. <\/strong>That is, there can be good without evil, but there can\u2019t be evil without good; and there can\u2019t be objective good without God. So evil may show there\u2019s a devil out there, but it can\u2019t disprove God. Evil actually boomerangs back to show that God is real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, we can certainly question why God allows certain evils, as the biblical authors and Lex Luthor do. But to answer that God is not good would defeat the objection itself. Without God there is no good, which means there would be no evil. If there is no evil, then what is Lex Luthor complaining about? The objection evaporates. Only by stealing the standard of good from God can anyone even know what evil is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice that Lex Luthor complains that God did not stop his father from hurting him. But Lex does not complain that God hasn\u2019t stopped him from hurting Lois Lane, Martha Kent, Batman, or Superman. Lex expects God to stay out of his business when he is hurting others. He only wants God to stop people from hurting him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We do the same thing. We ask God to stop other people from doing evil, but we rarely ask God to stop us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about God not being all-powerful? That claim doesn\u2019t square with the facts either. First, we have other grounds for believing God is all-powerful (like the fact that He created the universe out of nothing and fine-tuned the universe with unimaginable precision).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, being all powerful doesn\u2019t mean that God can do contradictory things. For example, God can\u2019t force free creatures to never do evil because then they wouldn\u2019t be free<\/strong>. And if we are not free, then we wouldn\u2019t have the ability to love or be morally responsible. Good and evil wouldn\u2019t even exist in a robot world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, we can\u2019t see how the trillions of interacting choices in this world ripple forward to impact time and eternity<\/strong>. God might have morally sufficient reasons for allowing evil to continue. It might bring forth good down the line, even though we can\u2019t see the ultimate outcome from our limited perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claim that evil exists because God isn\u2019t all-powerful or all good ignores another aspect of God\u2019s nature\u2014the fact that God is all-knowing. In other words, God is all-wise. Since He knows how things are going to turn out eventually, God wisely allows events that don\u2019t make sense to us right now to take their course.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, God\u2019s character and power guarantees good will come from evil to those who love Him (Romans 8:28). That\u2019s why a former pastor at Notre Dame in Paris once said, \u201cIf God would concede me His omnipotence for twenty-four hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are.\u201d[v]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[i]<\/a> Matthew Rosa, \u201c\u2018Batman v. Superman\u2019 isn\u2019t a flop: A superhero movie that questions absolute power is tailor-made for 2016,\u201d Salon, March 29, 2016, https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/03\/29\/batman_v_superman_isnt_a_flop_a_superhero_movie_that_questions_absolute_power_is_tailor_made_for_2016\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ii]<\/a> See Austin Gentry, \u201cSuperman Parallels Jesus in 11 ways,\u201d AustinGentry.com, June 15, 2013, https:\/\/www.austingentry.com\/superman-parallels-jesus-in-11-ways\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[iii]<\/a> For more, see my (Frank\u2019s) book, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make their Case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[iv]<\/a> Since evil is a privation in good, the ultimate Being, God, cannot be evil. And there cannot be two co-equal opposing forces of good and evil. In chapter two of Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis writes: \u201cTo be bad, [the devil] must exist and have intelligence and will. But existence, intelligence and will are in themselves good. Therefore he must be getting them from the Good Power: even to be bad he must borrow or steal from his opponent. And do you now begin to see why Christianity has always said that the devil is a fallen angel? That is not a mere story for the children. It is a real recognition of the fact that evil is a parasite, not an original thing. The powers which enable evil to carry on are powers given it by goodness. All the things which enable a bad man to be effectively bad are in themselves good things-resolution, cleverness, good looks, existence itself. That is why Dualism, in a strict sense, will not work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[v]<\/a> This quotation is attributed to Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabr\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frank and Zach Turek<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

are the father-and-son duo behind Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God.<\/em>

Frank Turek<\/strong> has written or co-written several books, including I Don\u2019t have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist<\/em>. He hosts a weekly TV program broadcast to 32 million homes and an apologetics podcast. Frank speaks over 100 times per year to youth and college students. Frank is the founder and president of CrossExamined.org and runs OnlineChristianCourses.com and ImpactApologetics.com.

Captain Frank Zachary Turek<\/strong> is assistant director of operations for the United States Air Force, with a specialization in intelligence. Captain Turek earned his master\u2019s degree in philosophy from the Southern Evangelical Seminary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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