It’s a movie...I don’t get my faith from movies...I get it from God. I get my entertainment from movies (although rarer and rarer these days.) Has anyone seen the movie, THE JUDGE? What a preposterous piece of crap. The acting was good..but that was about it. Predictable and just downright silly at times.
Amen.
It sounds like this is more of a narrative device than anything else, and the inspiration may just be more the desire to tell the story differently from the way Cecil B. DeMille told it, rather than anything theological.