[Dataman]

...and this guy — who clearly has no clue about the Biblical good news of Jesus — is telling us Jesus' story.

I wouldn't say no clue. For example, the recent move, The Gospel of John, was put together by a committee of not-exactly-orthodox "scholars" who, on the bonus disk, denied the Resurrection, denied the authorship of John, danced around His deity, and late-dated the Gospel as a product of redactors. Yet the film got great reviews and high praise from conservatives.

You know how the saying goes, if God could use a talking donkey,....

I believe that God has raised Mel up for this purpose. Mel could just be at the beginning of his spiritual journey. Apollos obviously needs to explain some things to him. Bottom line for me: The culture needs this message.

[BibChr]

The Gospel of John has going for it that, whatever the insanities and idiocies of its makers, the dialogue is straight from a (fairly wretched) translation of the Gospel, verbatim.

This is his interpretation.

The fact that he'd live with the text as long as he presumably did, and still come up with the twin damnable heresies of (A) my wife will go to Hell because she's not Roman Catholic and (B) she really ought to go to Heaven because she's really a good person... well, it's not encouraging.

Dan