Posted on 05/22/2006 9:36:23 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Umm, isn't this the aim of most fiction...to seem plausible to everyone?
And when you do, you just enjoy the rage of Christians.
You don't mock someone's Savior without having an ensuing reaction.
Remember, when the school yard bullies called your mother a trashy name or lied about your father? Well, remember that when you sit back and watch the reaction of Christians to your "free speech".
Touche! Now THAT is enlightened comment.
You are correct - but it also insinuates that the Bible is not the word of God. We learn from the Bible about God's plan and it indicates that a lost portion was hidden, etc.
I couldn't agree more...those very points are why I believe the movie is pure fiction and should not be taken seriously....
Ummmmm . . . . are you sure you meant to post to me?? I posted #17.
That may be so, but we are talking about what could be generously described as a pulp novel. This work of a hack writer is an example of intellectualism? What else? Danielle Steel? J.K. Rowland?
I just listened to a lecture last night from a seminary professor who, strangely enough, wrote his doctoral dissertation on this very subject. This professor, speaking in the area of his expertise, Jewish culture in N.T. times, flatly stated that it was customary for Jewish men to not marry until their 30's and that they usually married (it sounds strange to us) teenagers. Moreover, he also alluded to an Old Testament prophetic tradition of singleness that would not have been at all unusual to those people.
What is your source for your assertion that it would be *VERY* odd for any rabbi or, for that matter nearly any 30 year old man, to not be married?
Cordially,
yeah...that ole English loathing thing turned me off too.
Said well, Mel.
I believe you have the wrong guy...
I can see where a man whose faith is under attack by Hollywood every day would be upset with this movie. As far as Braveheart, and the patriot I loved both movies and own all the dvds. The passion is the work of a genius. The most inspiring story of the death of Christ and probably very factual. Now if you don't like Gibson, too bad he is the only one , that makes a decent movie these days other then, Rigley Scott. and Jerry Buckhimmer. Since i have no interest in seeing his new one I will not go to see it. But even if Mel makes mistakes on his remarks about our president, I still forgive him and thank him for his faith . The Passion made mine even greater. For what Mel did for me ,with the Passion, I will cut the guy some slack.Good going Mel! Ps. , for all the posts about Braveheart, wallace never liked the English, maybe wrong about the princess and the Sterling Bridge, but not wrong about Braveheart as a whole.I hope he continues to express his faith first , Mel is one of a kind in carney town!
As other posters here have stated, that's million, not billion. God isn't impressed with how much money it made and that money won't do those who profitted off of it a heck of a lot of good when they stand before the God they mocked for their millions to line their pockets.
It's not a historical novel, that, true. I think it's a sort of combination contemporary murder mystery/historical mystery. But Brown still bungles his sources and some of the cultural background.
Cordially,
Prove, from the bible alone, that Christ was NOT married. It would have been *VERY* odd for any rabbi or, for that matter nearly any 30 year old man, to not be married; so normal that it would bear no comment.
See my post #120.
Where did you get the idea it would be odd for a 30 to 33 y/o man to not be married. In the Hebrew culture of the day, a young man spent many years building up an estate, so to speak, so that he could support a wife. Prior to getting married he would build a house (often as an addition to his father's house) to which he would bring his bride home after the wedding. He would not work for the first year of his marriage, so he would have to accumulate enough for them to live on for that first year. Another post already pointed out the fact that it was very common for a man in his late thirties to marry a young girl in her teens. When Christ spoke the words "in my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, so that where I am, there you may be also..." he was giving a picture of his relationship with the Church as that of a husband and bride. Such imagery, if he were married, would have been seen as an insult to his wife.
Cordially,
I totality agree. Thank you for the intelligent post. Your faith makes your light shine.
That assertion was actually made in a post 76, to which ZD was responding.
If the Muslims and Jews can censor MSM criticism, why not the Catholics?
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