Posted on 03/26/2009 7:28:35 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
An online movie documenting the close ties between ancient pagan religions and today's Christianity is "antichrist" in nature, destroying the faith of believers by combining some astonishing truth with plenty of error.
That's the claim of a Christian historian and author who, ironically, has himself been educating the public about the impact heathen sun worship has had on traditional Christianity.
Richard Rives, author of "Time is the Ally of Deceit" and "Too Long in the Sun," is sounding the alarm about "Zeitgeist," a 2007 documentary written and narrated by Peter Joseph, a freelance film editor, composer and producer in New York City.
Literally meaning "spirit of the time," "Zeitgeist" was released on DVD and the Internet, and Joseph claims it has been viewed more than 50 million times on Google Video, and more than 100 million times when other formats and public screenings are taken into account.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Yep. The fact is that Christians reclaimed that date from the pagans. It's exactly what God does -- reclaims sinners and makes new people out of them.
I think you and I agree wrt the original point. My initial response to you was completely focused on the uniqueness of the virgin birth.
I pray you have a great day GunRunner!
I posted a response to Zeitgeist on here a while back. I debunked the first half of the movie.
After several hours of work to show the fallicy of the first half in a manner that did not assume any knowledge by the reader, I decided to not waste more time on the rest of the movie. If you want to read it, PM me and I will pull it from my MySpace blog.
No..., Christianity isn’t fragile at all, but rather extremely robust. What is extremely fragile is some people’s understanding of Christianity and the sound foundation upon which it is based. There are way too many faddish Christians these days.
No. I guess it’s just clearing out those with no genuine faith.
Hey, Mom MD. How are you doing? Long time no see.
You said — “Our next defense is to quit talking about it with reactive outrage. It only kindles curiousity and fuels interest in this kind of filth.”
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No, I wouldn’t react to it with outrage, but rather with cool, hard, and precise analysis and logic, in terms of what the Bible gives us and what we know of the world, in other words, present the Biblical worldview in contrast to that one. Stuff like this is only going to increase in the coming years. I do think that there has to be a response.
And, as Christians, I don’t think there should be any fear in listening/viewing it. We, as Christians, do know the truth and we can see where the lie is, in this presentation. It pays to know what the precise lies are, so that we are able to give a response to those who ask us — like them saying, “Well, what about this Zeitgeist movie?” Be ready to give them an answer of the hope that is within us, from Jesus Christ our Savior and be prepared to knock down the lies that they have heard....
I personally don’t have any problem at all, as a Christian, in listening to this stuff, because what it tells me is where the “thinking” of many in society are at, so I “know where to go” with my conversation with them. I’m not caught by surprise by something they might say or about information that they think is valid, which I can show them differently.
Have no fear... :-)
doing well. And yourself? I have been hard at work, so I am only on intermittently, but I try to lurk frequently.
Busy as well. Trying to get the garden beat back and mulched BEFORE the weeds take over.
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