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The Silence of the Lambs is a novel that won the 1988 Bram Stoker Award and 1989 Anthony Award for Best Novel. It was adapted into a film in 1991 that won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is the only horror film to win Best Picture and the first and only horror film to win the “Big Five Awards” at the Oscars.
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The Silence of the Lambs Title Is A Metaphor For Innocent Victims
As a little girl growing up on a sheep ranch in Montana Clarice Starling would hear lambs crying out in agony. When she investigated, she discovered the spring lambs being slaughtered. Clarice couldn’t stand to see them suffering, so she attempted to escape with one, but failed. As an adult she becomes an FBI agent – a dangerous, lonely and tormented way of life – as a means of saving human innocents who can’t protect themselves.
It’s just a question of believing if saving someone else’s life is worth giving up yours.
And for Adam, it was.
Adam knew the consequences when he chose to eat the fruit.
“Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” (I Timothy 2:14)
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.” (Romans 8:38-39)
And when Adam responded to his partner’s need with faith in God, regardless of the consequences to himself, God’s will for humanity was executed.
Faith in God’s love is learned from experiencing love from the sons of God who have developed his likeness.
“all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love _____ as thyself.” (Galatians 5:14)
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God’s transfer of dominion to humanity was validated and his control upheld.
- “I [the woman] am crucified [died on the tree] with YHVH’s Chosen One / Christ [Adam]:
- nevertheless I live;
- yet not I, but YHVH’s Anointed / Christ liveth in me:
- and the life which I now live in the [mortal] flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20)
- Adam also “was the son of God” (Luke 3:38).
- Adam was YHVH’s first Chosen One.
- “For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world…But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man ha-adam, that thou art mindful of him?” (Hebrews 2:5-6)
- Adam redeemed the woman from the curse of utter isolation, AKA death, when he joined her in the judgment of the law, including the experience of death and expulsion from the Garden of Eden to a desperate struggle for survival. He willingly chose to share the tree-connected, AKA crucifixion, death curse with the first fallen human.
Mrs. Adam’s lived experience is foundational to the Christian concept of how the second Adam’s death on the cross accomplished restored life for humanity.
“For The Chosen One / Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit.” (I Peter 3:18)
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by HIS life” (Romans 5:10)
- “For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren [family],
- Adam could have repudiated his wife and declared himself too good to identify with her, assuming the Creator could just clone another companion for him.
- Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren / family, in the midst of the congregation of believers / church will I sing praise unto thee.
- Can you not imagine Adam reassuring his wife that “I love you, and I’ll never turn my back on you.” I’m not asking you to speak from experience, mind. Maybe from a movie or romance novel…
- And again, I will put my trust in him.
- The woman didn’t trust God from whom she could only expect judgment. She trusted Adam because of what he did to save her from the dreadful isolation of death she brought upon herself by her sin. Can you not imagine Adam reassuring his wife that “Our Father will fix this, I don’t know how but I know he will.” Granted, given the type of fatherhood most people experience, that is hard for some people to imagine. Bottom line, she trusted Adam.
- And again, Behold I and the children [of God, family] which God hath given me.
- Adam reassuring his wife “We’ll still be able to have children, I’m sure of it.”
- Forasmuch then as the [human] children [of God] are partakers of flesh and blood, he [Son of God / Adam / Jesus Christ] also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;” (Hebrews 2:11-15)
- Can you not imagine Adam refusing to abandon his wife when she is seized by the shock of the death throughout her entire body? If not from experience, from the scene in the romance movie Titanic?
- not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law [as in “don’t eat the fruit!”] BUT that which is through the faith of Christ / God’s Chosen, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” (Philippians 3:9)
- Adam’s faith in Creator God’s ability to fulfill his promise to grant dominion, even to the extent of cancelling out in some way the death caused by Adam’s action, was proven by his acceptance of death.
Can we not see that that is the basis for faith in our own gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ?
“Behold the offspring [another one like myself made from myself] which God hath given me. Forasmuch then as the offspring became mortal flesh and blood, I also likewise took part of the same; that through death I might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver the woman who was subject to bondage.” (Hebrews 2:13-15)
Can we not hear the roar of triumph by the winning side of righteous angels, mingled with the scream of anger by the defeated fallen angels when the Adams were not immediately struck down to death, but instead had their death sentences commuted?
Kingdom Come 