Comparing Bruce Almighty And The Adjustment Bureau

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A janitor, C.E.O, or a Chairman, what is God truly? In Bruce Almighty and The Adjustment Bureau we are left wondering. We are given different depictions of God, The Adjustment Bureau, we see God as a Chairman. A mysterious figure that has a path set for people the better follow or else. Then on the flipside we have Bruce Almighty, where we see a God that is kind of tired of one of his children complaining, so he gives him the power and lets him see if he could do better. But the thing that gets a little overlooked is the fact that each image could be looked at as a fatherly figure. Looking at both The Adjustment Bureau and Bruce Almighty we will see how both films give us an image of God as a father and how the films show him as different kinds of fathers.
To begin in the Adjustment Bureau the will of the Chairman is that David and Elise only see each other and never fall in love, but they do. The will
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In The Adjustment Bureau David and Elise end up together each time the chairman wants to pull them apart, but in the end the two end up together and the Chairman lets them be together. The Chairman gives up his efforts of keeping them apart and finally lets them be together and creates a new plan that include David and Elise together, to me that is like our heavenly father. If we take the Chairman and make him God, we see that the Chairman had providential plans for them, but their grace had them covered. God had plans for us, his providence, but we have free will and that free will can/will lead us down all sorts of paths, but if we were not covered by grace uor lives would be a mess. Like a father God has plans for us even before we are born, but sometimes we have our own plans (where would the world be if Michael Jackson would have done his homework like his father may have

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