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| - Nowhere in The Bible does it say anything about a Christian who God will give the explicit power of telepathic conversion. However, it does say something about The Antichrist (or at least an antichrist) coming in the light and claiming to be Jesus (or, at least in this case, a special chosen one of His). In the midst of Vince's Bible cram session early on in the film, about 3-4 scenes or so before Sheri discovers her new power, this is actually slightly eluded to when he mentions a verse saying in basic terms that not all angels and spirits that appear are there to minister in good. Vince is also the one that says that the Devil's main tricks are to deceive, trick, and scare you. Apparently he wasn't alert enough to this all, because anyone who's decently well-versed in even a handful of key points within the New Testament would know that God wants people to, y'know, actually choose Him, which Sheri's power completely defeats the purpose of, instead opting for the "mass-church-dependency" approach. You would think Pastor Jeff would know this, but if his reasoning that everything is going to hell and it's pissing him off before he devises his plan is any indication, he's basically allowed anger to cloud his judgment. The fact that Old Scratch shapeshifts through the exact same bright light as the supposed "Holy Spirit" Vince and Sheri saw on the chandelier, and the fact that the Devil effectively does nothing truly sinister in this film besides mess with Sheri at such a gradually increasing pace it's like he's guiding her along to this path, should've tipped off at least Sheri at some point that something was wrong here. Instead, she continues right along using her power to produce a world that is superficially far better and more "Godly" than reality, but consists of little more than guilt-tripped androidized people who, despite her sermon in the last church scene before her death of leukemia, never get the chance to actually make their own choice as to where they stand within eternity. And since people generally have to choose Jesus to get to heaven according to anyone who knows the first thing about Christianity, the fact that they never actually get to choose means they're basically all following what they think is God's will all the way to hell. Speaking of which, her disease itself. She shows no outward signs of any trouble or difficulty with life as a result of it. This is probably intentional, as the doctor even lampshades this in the middle of the film. Either God is truly keeping her alive to do His work as the movie claims, or it's Satan masking the disease just long enough for her to bring about this artificially-cleansed world. Last but not least, in a film that is supposedly a straightforward Christian work, during the view of the photos on the fireplace there's a wooden pentacle with cherries hidden in the middle there. Either this was supernaturally put there without anyone really noticing it or Sheri's family bought/found it and put it there and they're all complete idiots. Speaking of Sheri's family and the ending of the movie, that brings us to one last conclusion…
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