This movie is hard hitting and resonates long after you leave the theater...
.....Please don’t put constraints on it before you even see it
It centers on Paul’s final days in prison....and Dr.Luke ministering to him.
Rome has burned...and while Nero probably lit the fire himself or had someone do it....
....the blame has been set on the people of the Way.....Christians
Nero is terrorizing and torturing them.....( this is all at the beginning, I’m not giving anything away)
This premise sets the template for the whole movie.....
.....you feel Paul’s struggle and loneliness in prison
You feel the terror of the Christians
GO SEE IT!
That itself sounds like typical Hollywood reading into Scripture what is not there. Does it show what Scripture does?
Does it show this faith of early Christians?
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. (Hebrews 10:32-34)
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: .. Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: (1 Peter 1:6,8)
I am not sure how y Paul’s struggle and loneliness in prison is described, but does it also describe,
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. (Philippians 4:11-14)
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. (2 Corinthians 6:10)
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. (2 Corinthians 12:10)
Likely prior to this there was this:
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; (2 Corinthians 1:8-10)
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; (2 Corinthians 7:4-6)