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[[File:jesus-saves.jpg|frame|Goaltender of your salvation.]]

 

 

... Passes to Moses... '''GOAL'''!!!

 

Done well, it would portray said Faith as Trust as much as Belief—you can trust in Christ with your soul because He [[Heroic Sacrifice|paid the price for your sins]]. It won't be a cure-all for life's ills but would give the new believer a newfound feeling of purpose in the world, or at least a [["Get Out of Jail Free" Card|Get Out Of Hell Free Card]].

 

In [[Real Life]], discussing God's omnipotence and whether or not he directly intervenes in physical events is a hobby among some Christians. It goes up and down the spectrum, some believe that yes, God micromanages ''everything'' and the only reason it doesn't make sense to you is because [[In Mysterious Ways|his plan is too vast and complicated for you to comprehend]]. (The word used is "ineffable.") Others feel that he doesn't interfere because humans are only free to choose with free will and random events being present. There's a gazillion variations of this.

 

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* Some [[Supernatural Fiction]] may express this, if the point is that God's power literally makes (for example) crosses repel agents of evil, like vampires. The trope may end up subverted in the narrative as a whole.

* Every [[Jack Chick]] tract. Ever. It's the whole point. In fact, there are only two real types of tract: the "Jesus prayer", where the person being preached at accepts him and "gets saved", and the "Hell chuck", where they ''don't'' accept him and get chucked into the Lake of Fire in the last or second-to-last panel. Sometimes both in the same tract.

 

* ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'', in addition to being a [[Recycled in Space|retelling]] of ''[[The Odyssey]]'', has strong themes of redemption. Even after the main characters are legally absolved of their crimes by the governor (who was piggybacking on the popularity of their song; they were literally redeemed through music), they are still pursued by the sheriff with the dark glasses (who is implied to be [[The Devil]] himself), indicating perhaps there exists a higher justice than Man's. [[George Clooney]]'s [[Hollywood Atheist|worldly atheist]] character throws himself on the mercy of God in prayer in desperation, and is saved by a flash flood, a thematic reference to either the [[The Great Flood|Biblical Flood]] or the act of baptism (both of which are meant to purge sin in either a global or local sense). [[Ignored Epiphany|He immediately chalks it up to coincidence]].