Posted on 04/20/2014 1:42:07 PM PDT by MNDude
The good thing about the book and movie is that the preacher, and indeed all of us, "believe" in Heaven but when we meet someone or hear of someone that *may* have experienced it, we are very quick to dismiss, find fault with and question. So, it IS a question of faith and books and movies like this make us call our very own personal faith into question - which - should hopefully make it stronger.
Doesn't sound like it to me. "A crutch"...."MOSTLY true"...translated incorrectly and incomplete.
"the problem with your type is you have made the bible your God.""
You don't know what I have or haven't done, Skippy. BTW, the B in Bible is capitalized.
But I do know, from your past threads and posts, that you don't even believe in the divinity of Christ, and that you follow a heretical cult leader named Roy Masters. So you should probably think twice about stupid accusations.
A friend of mine read that book. If I remember right, God was portrayed as a black woman. *eyeroll*
Yes I remember that but something else was weird too. I am not going to go back a read it again to figure it out. Just creepy.
Thank you for your post.
That was my reaction to it, also.
I have to agree.
Maybe all the little boy related was not strictly scriptural...But I think he got the concept.
When you write that I don’t esteem the bible from my post, it shows me that you are another that has made the bible sort of over lord of your life. I made obvious statements such as other scriptures that never made it into the bible, and if you bothered to look into it, that is very true. There was a whole lot that went on and was written about when Jesus was here and much more written than what made it in the bible.
And it looks like you are the one with the presumptuous judgments because Roy is obviously a good man and the opposite of any cult leader. But you would not be interested im that fact...too busy trying to be right. Show me once where I wrote that Jesus was not divine! He can be divine in that perfectly in tune with the father, and clearly not be the Father. So don’t twist what I am and what I represented...some example of a Christian you are.
I have read the book and will probably see the movie (despite my general disdain for Hollywood product).
My impression of the book: I believe that Colton had a real experience with the real Heaven and the real Jesus. If some of what he describes conflicts with Scripture then he likely remembered it wrong - he was, after all, a very young child when it happened. The book was not meant as a theological treatise, it is merely a child’s attempt to describe something glorious and well beyond his understanding. Read the book (or watch the movie) in that light - as a glimpse into the real eternal home that awaits the born-again believer, as described by a little boy who understood very little of what he experienced. Expecting theological purity out of it is too harsh a standard to apply.
Yes, God the Father was a black woman, (the stereotypical overweight, tough-talking black woman with a heart of gold that we’ve all seen on TV and the movies again and again.) I think the Holy Spirit in the book was portrayed as an Asian woman. It was all very PC...the author trying to get every ethnicity into the story as he possibly could, and they were all stereotypes. But what really bugged me is when “Jesus” was a klutz and clumsily dropped a plate of food on the floor!
I could not have said it better than you.
It was a great movie and very moving.
Belief, Faith...you will know it..eventually.
My take from the film was Christian folks being tested by their own faith in Christ. i.e. if there is a Heaven, are we going to experience it.
There is an assault on Christianity for a reason. We believe and that is very powerful.
My admiration to you and for you for having read the book. I did not read the book so would not know of mentioned differences between book and film. The movie was Good (imho). Four and 1/2 stars out of five in my opinion. The child playing the part of the four year old son was exceptional (imho). I give the young man playing the part of the four year old son five stars.
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