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I think the author HAS A REAL PROBLEM WITH JESUS.

As my dissertation research elaborated a bit . . .

Many believers of all persuasions BELIEVE EXTRINSICALLY. They put their religion on like a coat for various reasons.

It can be for business; for psychodynamic reasons; for perfectionism reasons; for Obsessive-compulsive reasons etc.

THE PHILOSOPHY of Christianity becomes their God instead of GOD ALMIGHTY; THE RESURRECTED SON; HIS SPIRIT--THE PERSONHOOD OF THE GODHEAD.

It's understandable. The PHILOSOPHY can be manipulated, hammered, controlled, gamed with. It can be used to control and do gamey things with other people.

Such extrensic believers usually have holes in their psyche, their emotions, their spirits which were not filled by proper parenting and proper parental affection the early years of their lives.

And subsequently, making sure that all the petty details of their religious construction on reality--making sure those details are all lined up according to their script--that rigid surveilance and obsessive scanning and pontificating serves to quiet however briefly their aching, gaping, hurting, empty inner holes in their person. Trouble is, it requires constant maintenance. It requires ever finer details hammered into place. Or it requires ever more hammering on others around to butress the gaping inner holes to afford the tortured psyche shreds of comfort.

But Jesus has a better way. He calls us to intrinsic, authentic, heart belief grounded in HIS REAL, HEART-FELT, AUTHENTIC DEATH and RESURRECTION--in HIS VERY POTENT BLOOD BOUGHT COVERING FOR OUR FLAWS AND WILFULL SINS. He died that we could give up RELIGION and exchange it for RELATIONSHIP.

Those obsessive about the letter of the law very, very, very rarely have much awareness of the inner vitality of true faith, in my experience. But I have a fair amount of compassion for such. I was among that number for agonized years. It was the best that I knew how to do and be in my fractured walk with God.

MERCIFULLY, GOD HAS BETTER FOR ALL OF US. AND MANY CAN FIND THAT BETTER THROUGH SEEING THIS MOVIE.