The reason these stories weren't included in the Bible is much of it cannot be corroborated elsewhere and some of it doesn't match the known accounts of what God portrays in Scripture. I'm sure Mary and Joesph knew of His uniqueness because they were visited by angels and told who He was. When Jesus went to Canaan for the wedding, when asked to make wine, He said it was not yet His time. His life was planned out to the letter in the OT and this wasn't covered. His ministry started when John baptized Him and he went to the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights. To give life to a dead child before He started His ministry is just fiction. Jesus was a child and needed to learn Scripture, learn to walk and talk, and just grow up as any other child. There are stories of Him speaking in the manger as an infant. For me, that takes from His humanity. The whole story of Jesus is to show that he was FULLY man and fully God when he was murdered. If He was just God from birth, one might say It was easy for Him to die on the cross for He was God and could dull the pain and remove His humanity from the scene. The whole point of His prayer in the Garden was to show His humanity. He was having a "crisis of faith" asking God to take the cup from Him, just as we will when enemy has your head on a chopping block to renounce the King of Kings. Jesus was a man, filled with the Spirit that never did anything without the Father showing Him what to do. This demonstrates that we could mimic Jesus if we would just surrender to God. The whole prayer in John 17 was to make us like Him to the Father. Our problem is always keeping our humanity and rejecting the divine. Jesus said we would do greater exploits than Him. Is anyone healing the blind and raising the dead in your church? It's only because we haven't "died to the flesh" yet and we don't do things like they are done in heaven here on earth. Most Christians even deny supernatural healing and other gifts exists today. Why even bother to pray for a sick person if you believe that's true?
I don't mind seeing a movie that is fiction, but the problem lies in others seem to latch on to visual things and somehow it becomes what we call today a "meme". If repeated often enough, it seems to evolve into fact. It's hard enough to get people to read their Bibles today without introducing fiction in the mix. Just as we go watch movies that are allegedly "facts", taken right from Scripture, inevitably there is "license" taken to make some obscure point the writer wants to make. Just as it's easier to listen to an audio book, watching a movie that supposedly gives you the facts will cement falsehoods in the person's mind that may never leave if they don't pursue the truth.
“I’m sure Mary and Joseph knew of His uniqueness because they were visited by angels and told who He was. When Jesus went to Canaan for the wedding, when asked to make wine, He said it was not yet His time. His life was planned out to the letter in the OT and this wasn’t covered.”
BUT - Jesus DID perform the miracle. I’ve always like that story. I know how my mom made me do stuff that was right, and pushed me, even if I didn’t want to. I wonder if Jesus, being a man, was a bit afraid of setting everything in motion. Or as God, even though it wasn’t God’s wish to do the miracle, he was requested by a human and so he did it. Sort of like the prayers we offer today. And in the OT God did listen and change things sometimes. Like Lot (iirc) haggling with God about “okay if I can find 100 rightous men...okay, how about 50.....okay, how about just one!?”
Although God, already knowing that he would not find even one righteous, it wasn’t so much haggling as trying to prove a point to Lot. So a bad example I guess.
“I haven’t seen the movie but think it may come from a group of books called “The Lost Books of the Bible. “
I’ve heard that as well.
It’s apostasy.
Movies about Jesus are inherently problematic. When the script is based on made up stuff, even more so.
Next they will do the New Age Jesus who went to India as a youngster.
It is inevitable as the religious movies are shown to be profitable that the more typical film-types will move in to get their hand in the pie.