Why Barbie is a God Movie

Warning: Spoilers. Sort of.

I used to float, now I just fall down
I used to know but I’m not sure now
What I was made for
What was I made for?

From What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish from the Barbie movie.

We are not our jobs no matter how important they might be. We are not our houses or our cars or our vacations no matter how impressive they might be. We are not our relationships. We are not what somebody paid for.

We were made because . . . God.

And we don’t always have to be on our toes.

One of the reasons I’m not a fan of complementarianism is because God created us for different purposes that are not always gender-specific. Even in Scripture, women can be prophets, entrepreneurs, judges and spiritual leaders. I believe that while we have different particular purposes, all of us share at least two:

• We are called to be the person God created us to be.
• We are called to treat others as God created them to be.

Valued. Loved. Honored – just for being us because that’s how God created things.

Image of Margot Robbie from the Barbie movie.

P.S. I love this article in The New Yorker that includes the fact that “Gerwig presented (film) executives with a poem in the style of the Apostles’ Creed“ when pitching her idea for the film. I hope somebody still has that poem.