Posted on 03/01/2014 6:04:24 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
Blockbuster in the making. Son of God blasts off to major viewer numbers, Thursday night and Friday!!! Could be #1 movie this week. Terrific movie across the board. All Americans should see this wonderful, motivating, religious film!!! Son of God will do terrific across the entire world!!!
That passage doesn’t refer to all of Scripture. It specifically says it refers to that scroll of prophecy.
If I’ve read the book, I never see the movie version, except “Lone Survivor”.
“That passage doesn’t refer to all of Scripture. It specifically says it refers to that scroll of prophecy.”
You are correct. However, we are not given ‘artistic freedom’ to edit what we what out of the Bible. S. Michael Houdmann (www.gotquestions.org) expounds upon the danger of distorting God’s Word:
Although the warning in Revelation 22:18-19 is specific to the Book of Revelation, the principle applies to anyone who seeks to intentionally distort God’s Word.
Moses gave a similar warning in Deuteronomy 4:1-2, where he cautioned the Israelites that they must listen to and obey the commandments of the Lord, neither adding to nor taking away from His revealed Word.
Proverbs 30:5-6 contains a similar admonition to anyone who would add to God’s words: he will be rebuked and proven to be a liar.
Although the warning in Revelation 22:18-19 applies specifically to the Book of Revelation, its principle must be applied to the entire revealed Word of God. We must be careful to handle the Bible with care and reverence so as to not distort its message.
A movie is not “the Bible.” It’s a movie!
If someone published a book that purported to be “the Bible,” and made changes and deletions, that’s something else.
There was Bible published around 1930 that caused an uproar, even among Protestants. It changed the words of the institution of the Eucharist: Take and eat, this means my body...take and drink, this means my blood.
I looked at a copy once in a bookstore, but didn’t buy it. I had read about in a book by Arnold Lunn.
“A movie is not “the Bible.” It’s a movie!”
The Bible is not a ‘screen play’ It is the WORD, Who existed before time, Who created heaven and earth, Who died for our sins.
We, as believers, have a responsibility to see that the WORD is kept HOLY because HE is HOLY.
For the script to include “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” and leave out “No man cometh to the Father, but through Me” is deliberate.
Woe to those who condone artistic revisions when it comes to the basic tenants of our faith.
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The way you’re carrying on, you’d think the producers had launched a campaign to burn all the Bibles in the world.
No movie based on any book or any history has ever included each and every fact and each and every word spoken. It just can’t be done.
Nothing has happened to the gospels. There are still millions upon millions of copies all over the world.
“The way you’re carrying on, you’d think the producers had launched a campaign to burn all the Bibles in the world.”
What is disturbing is how the church has embraced “Son of God” without question. New Age gurus have become the spokesman of truth.
The camel has put his head under the tent of all denominations.
Look....it's a movie and no where has it been purported to be the exact Word of God replacing the existing Bibles. Give it a rest. As I've said on other threads, I see this as a way to disciple and open dialog with unbelievers and hopefully lead them to a relationship with Jesus.
“You carry on on this and other threads”
I love the Word.
The parts of the Bible left out by this movie are the most important parts.
Without the glorification of God and the blood atonement of Christ, the Bible is not the Bible. It’s logically incoherent to call it the Bible.
The problem I have with any film of the ilk of 12 Years is the half-truth which inheres in them. They claim to be "documentaries about slavery" - but treat exclusively of slavery of blacks by American Christians. As Thomas Sowell points out in his wonderful Black Rednecks and White Liberals, nobody ever wanted to be a slave, or to have their own friends or family enslaved. But, worldwide throughout and history, nobody ever attacked the legitimacy of institution of slavery itself until Christians, and primarily Protestants, and most especially the British - decisively rejected and delegimated slavery as an institution in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. William Wilberforce
In fact, the Emancipation Proclamation was motivated in part by the effect Lincoln knew it would have in Britain - making it impossible for Britain, never disquieted by any difficulty encountered by America, to side with the Confederacy. The reason slavery was suppressed worldwide, to the extent that it is or really ever has been, was the worldwide authority and influence of Great Britain, plus the Union Army here.
No other religion/culture ever turned against slavery in principle. Not paganism, not atheism (communism), not Hinduism, not Shintoism, not Buddhism, not Confucianism, certainly not Islam - none of them has any claim to having led the opposition to the institution of slavery. Only Christianity. The Christian slaveowners in the South were uniquely situated to be the last Christians to come to that conclusion. They were an anachronism. So ultimately, any "documentary about slavery" which focuses only on slavery by Christians is a half-truth - and a very great lie.
The title of the movie is "Son of God" NOT "the Bible".
The reviewer suggests there is such a narrator, at least at the start. And yes, Son of God is EXACTLY that -- the footage was filmed at the same time as The Bible miniseries. They knew they would be following up with this.
Good point.
But to portray Jesus Christ without including the blood atonement for the sins of mankind is to portray a different Jesus Christ.
The Jesus Christ who is the son of God is not the one in this movie.
Have you seen the movie?
‘The title of the movie is “Son of God” NOT “the Bible”.’
The Son of God and the Bible are the same.
John 1:1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And let me guess....you’re perfect! Good grief. Tell me, oh wise one, has there ever been a movie abut Jesus that passes your perfectionist expectations? One that includes every word in the Bible?
Have you seen the movie?
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