Dr. Who and Jesus Christ

There are few TV shows I refuse to miss – really there is only one, 
Dr. Who.  To those of you have never seen this cultural icon of the 
BBC… It is the story of a time lord, the last of his kind, a humanoid 
alien who travels with a human companion through both space and 
time.

The series started in the 1960’s  and restarted a few years ago with 
much better special effects and for the most part, a killer story 
line.  One week he will be fighting witches with Shakespeare and 
the next he could be stopping cat nurses in New New York from 
breeding humans as vaccine incubators.

Dr Who is written in an agnostic/atheistic viewpoint which makes 
the following statement that much more ironic- pretty much in 
every show, the Doctor reflects Jesus Christ.

Now this is not an iron clad description – the Doctor has faults – the 
show wouldn’t last very long on TV if he didn’t (nothing duller than 
perfection on a TV show).  But if you look at the similarities they 
are unmistakable:

• Neither were what we consider impressive or superhero looking, 
  they don’t wear capes or have massive muscles, matter of fact they 
  both would be the last guy in the room who you would expect to 
  save the world.  Christ was born in a manger, son of carpenter from 
  Bethlehem. The Doctor travels in a 1950’s police box and wears a 
  bow tie.
  

 

• They both love the human race- The Doctor gets giddy about 
  humans and is continually fascinated by them. He loves them so 
  much, he is willing to die for them –every week. And Christ did 
  sacrifice himself on the cross to save humanity from their sins.
  

• The doctor never uses a gun, only a screw driver (a sonic screw 
  driver, no less). He is the master of the plan even if it takes forty 
  years for his plan to come together (as in Blink). Christ, too, is the 
  master of the plan but on a much larger scale (aka all of human 
  history).
  

• They both conquered death.  When a time lord dies, he rejuvenates 
  into a new body (this is how the series keeps going for almost 50 
  years and with 11 different actors). But while this occasional season 
  ending phenomenon is impressive, it was even more so when Christ 
  died, because when he conquered death, he conquered it for us too.
  

• The Doctor has human companions as he travels through time and 
  they help him on his many adventures, sometimes playing a pivotal 
  role.  Christ, too, asks us to be his companions in the adventures of 
  this life. He asks us to go out into the world and make disciples of all 
  men.  In many ways this is more dangerous than facing Daleks and 
  Cybermen.    
  

• Though he hides it most of the time, once in a while the true power 
  of the Doctor is revealed.  He will stand up to the enemies of 
  mankind and claim this world as his protectorate and that this simple 
  human species is under his lordship.  Christ too has claimed this 
  world; he is the Lord of lords and King of kings.
  

There are so many others examples I could not list them all.  From 
end of season 3 when the entire world rose up in one voice saying 
“Doctor, Doctor, Doctor…" (Every knee shall bow and proclaim Jesus 
Christ is Lord), to the fact that the Doctor gives every enemy a 
chance at repentance before he destroys them, just as Christ gives 
us the same.

The similarities between this work of fiction and the Messiah are 
undeniable. Perhaps this is mere coincidence, just the happenstance 
ramblings of a collection of gifted writers. Or perhaps it is a small 
statement buried deep under the language and imagery of atheistic 
secular humanism. Then again, maybe it is just the figment of my 
own mind, searching for any straw of faith in the barren wasteland 
of modern television. Any of these could be true, but as for me – I 
believe.