Posted on 03/22/2018 1:07:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Paul, Apostle of Christ” comes from the Affirm label, which has produced such Christian-themed dramas as “Heaven Is for Real.” Less interested in blunt proselytizing than more open-ended explorations of faith and its challenges, Affirm films have gratifyingly avoided the kind of Sunday-school pageantry that characterizes so many movies of the genre.
“Paul, Apostle of Christ” is no exception. A portrait of the titular Christian convert and leader of the early church as he faces imprisonment and martyrdom at the hands of Roman oppressors, this absorbing drama benefits from lush production values and first-rate performances from a cast of seasoned actors.
The story focuses on Luke (Jim Caviezel), a colleague of Paul’s in setting up early Christian communities, as he visits his incarcerated friend, desperately recording his final words while Nero’s forces torture and murder their brothers and sisters outside the prison gates.
Writer/director Andrew Hyatt includes flashbacks of Paul’s famous conversion, from tormentor of Christians to a believer, while on the road to Damascus. Those sequences are filmed in a milky, slow-motion haze that threatens to drench “Paul” in sentimentality. But when the action returns to Rome, the movie becomes far tougher and more intriguing.
Caviezel, who played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” is convincing as a man of both reason and belief. James Faulkner brings sonorous authority and deep sensitivity to Paul, whose insistence on following Christ’s most essential commandments — to love God and to love one’s neighbor as oneself — is both gentle and uncompromisingly courageous.
Next to Faulkner’s quietly affecting portrayal, the most compelling passages take place in Rome’s embattled Christian quarter, where a frightened and rapidly fraying community is wondering whether to stay and fight or escape to rebuild.
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There was a TV movie some decades ago about Paul and Peter. Paul was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. It was a fairly good movie too.
The story of Saul/Paul provides example of the Creator’s ability to re-form and redirect a life, turning that individual’s acquired talents and innate energies from one pursuit to another for which the Creator/Potter intended from the beginning.
“if Women must not speak in the “church” and cover yout heads !!”
I don't preach in church (but I do here at FR!) I do read Scripture--- the Old Testament lesson and the Epistle--- from the lectern at the Sacred Liturgy.
You want to tell us about your Sacred Liturgy?
Or what's your problem?
If you’re going to attempt to quote scripture, at least quote it (you also might try putting the words into context to why the words were spoken). At least spell it correctly lest you come off ignorant but maybe that’s what you were aiming to do.
Very interested in this film!
Looks like a great movie, will go see next week. Thanks for posting. God bless!
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Paul seemed to understand that Eve women are cursed from the garden to listen to Satan and desire their man’s headhip and headship/place as head, and when she prays uncovered she is dishonoring her head (father if unmarried or husband if married). So telling women to be quiet in church and covering their heads is consistent with what he was taught about the garden of Eden.
And Adam as the head and image and glory of God, is to rule over her and not let her speak in church as she is due to say something that she got from Satan.
Adam men are cursed when they listen to their Eve’s who are listening to Satan. And being dishonored as their Eve’s head when she doesn’t pray whole covering her head.
That covering on a woman’s head is to reflect just a small testimony of the Father’s patriarchal government that woman is to honor her ‘head’(again her father if unmarried or husband if married) a sign of authority over her ‘glory’ ( her long hair)
That’s why man isn’t supposed to cover his Head- He is the image and glory of God. His head isn’t to be covered.
But woman is the glory of man.
And man would dishonor his head (Christ) if he prays with his head covered in the same way woman would dishonor her head (man) if she didn’t cover her head ,because of the ministering angels.
And people may only see it as a natural concept,but there are prophetic and spiritual applications to what Paul was instructing the Corinthians. And there are deep studies that could be done about coverings,etc that even go all the way back to the garden.
Where thet were ‘covered’ by His Glory so they were naked and unashamed but when His glory left, they needed to be covered by a temporary covering to protect them.
They lost a layer of protection when they were no longer clothed by His Glory. They tried to clothe themselves with leaves but what truly was needed was skin from a sacrificed animal.
Deep deep study that at times can be very hard to understand.
But it is along the line of what Paul was instructing the Corinthians.
Peter noted about some of Paul’s teachings-
2 Peter 3:16
There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
I have always considered Paul the greatest man who ever lived. I will also keep my fingers crossed.
We will see it. We saw “I Can Only Imagine” last week. Helped it beat that pro-homosexual Fox tripe “Love, Simon”.
The I Can Only Imagine story is very moving.
I disagree with you. I consider Jesus the greatest man who ever lived.
Why don’t you?
Got to say I’m very excited about this!
When mr. mm and i went to see *I Can Only Imagine* they showed some trailers for other faith based films and we saw one advertising this.
It looks like there’s a bunch of good ones coming out and we’ll be spending more of out time and money going to the theaters to support them.
A womans hair is her natural covering...no need for covering.
Paul was so completely about salvation by grace, through faith alone. For Paul there could not be any works at all involved in salvation. He said that if salvation were of works, it could not be of grace, and if it were of grace it couldn’t be of works. His message is not what Catholics believe. I can’t imagine how a Catholic could do justice to portraying Paul truthfully. The salvation/grace message is at the very heart of Paul.
Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
“Who Said Women Can’t Teach?” (They can.)
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Said-Women-Cant-Teach/dp/1459633377
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Not while praying according to scripture.
1 Corinthians 11 details it.
It is written
1 Cor 11:5-6 every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
Because Jesus was not a man; rather, though he took human form he was of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made.
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