Posted on 04/07/2018 8:39:53 PM PDT by rey
Is Paul, Apostle of God an appropriate move to take a 13 almost 14 year old to? I realize it is PG 13 but he was greatly abused and eventually beheaded. How traumatic might it be.
Thanks
It is a horrible movie. Extra Biblical... nonsense! Went yesterday and could not believe how bad it was. If you want a movie about “Christ-less Christianity” this is the one for you.
Another ‘Christ-less Christianity’ movie is the latest trash called, “I Can Only Imagine.”
I say that it is a new age answer to John Lennon’s famous song. In this they seem to say that heaven is real enough but made in the image of man.
“Are you ready to rock!!!”
I didn’t hear any ‘gospel’ in that movie.
And the hatred that the lead singer of Mercy Me had for his lost father does not portray the Christianity that I know of.
One other thing (there are more) . . . people commented on the song said, “I brought me closer to God!” . . . unfortunately close to God while on the other side of the gulf caused by sin will still result in “Depart from me, for I never knew ye.”
The ONLY thing worse than ‘Hollywood” not making “Christian” movies…
...IS Hollywood trying to make “Christian” movies
They simply have NO idea...because they don’t understand that ‘Christianity” is a living, growing, RELATIONSHIP...with a risen Savior!
...and NOT a ‘religion”
..they will continue to get it wrong..100% of the time.
My mom wanted to see the film and I went with her. I gave her my review of the film, but her response was . . . “As long as it gets people thinking about the Bible.”
That’s the problem now, isn’t it?
People are thinking about the Bible . . . they don’t want it! They will accept an alternate path though. The Bible offends them.
So rent a Tarantino movie instead?
You are being lead by the Holy Spirit...sadly most are not....”there is a way that seems right to a man....but the end thereof is death”
Without a personal encounter with THE Living Jesus Christ.... it’s all just “religion, good works and death”.
Preach Jesus and Him crucified… preach the cross… and you will still be stoned.
Amen . . .
What's the source for your figures?
Your timeline accounts for 9 years. I won’t ask how you derive that.
I used the timeline offered here. However, other sources also support the first missionary encounter in Lystra taking place in 48 A.D.:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-47/apostle-paul-and-his-times-christian-history-timeline.html
http://christianityinview.com/paulstimeline.html
http://ssppglenview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/St._Paul_Timeline_-1.pdf
Even another source that places his first mission between 44 - 46 A.D. (and therefore, the encounter in Lystra, in the latter half of his journey in terms of geographical distance traveled), places the authorship of 2 Corinthians in 57 A.D. Likewise from this source.
And this was using strictly Evangelical/non-denominational sources, by the way.
What I do wonder is whether you doubt that anyone rose from the dead in Acts?
Not at all. Consider in the ninth chapter of Acts, wherein Tabitha is resurrected from the dead during Peter's visit. Likewise Eutychus in Acts 20.
But they're a lot more unequivocal about the reality of death, relative to Paul's stoning in Lystra...and, to get back to the original point, why would Paul's stoning in Lystra (even if it was a true death) have anything to do with his final (as it were) death?
To RevelationDavid:
It is a horrible movie. Extra Biblical... nonsense! Went yesterday and could not believe how bad it was. If you want a movie about “Christ-less Christianity” this is the one for you.
Not exactly sure how you would consider this a 'Christ-less' movie, but are you arguing that anything that is 'extra-Biblical' (aka, not described or portrayed within the bare letter of Scriptures) renders it anti-Biblical or anti-Christian? What exactly about the movie raised your ire so?
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