if you think the promises of God can not be verified 'before hand' I think you need to read your bible again.
As far as the matrix is concerned watch the scene where Morpheus is telling Neo what the matrix is (In the white room with the two nasty chairs and the old TV.
The Matrix is slavery, and even if the illusion of slavery is clothed in a mod con world it is still slavery. (Which is the point of the movie, or the good one/1st one anyway.) The matrix according to Morpheus is control/slavery. This life is the same type of control and slavery through and to sin. To "wake up" from this life is the resurrection where we will be free from sin.
To die is to litterally awake from this matrix.
As far as the matrix is concerned watch the scene where Morpheus is telling Neo what the matrix is (In the white room with the two nasty chairs and the old TV.
The Matrix is slavery, and even if the illusion of slavery is clothed in a mod con world it is still slavery. (Which is the point of the movie, or the good one/1st one anyway.) The matrix according to Morpheus is control/slavery. This life is the same type of control and slavery through and to sin. To "wake up" from this life is the resurrection where we will be free from sin.
To die is to litterally awake from this matrix.
