Posted on 12/13/2014 6:47:02 PM PST by smoothsailing
Really. Wonder how THAT happens and what could possibly go wrong?
God as a child just wouldn't work for me. I think he's about 25-30ish...forever.
It seems out of character for an embodied God to be speaking out of the bush. It’s not hard to portray a speaking bush on film so I don’t get this business about having no choice.
Apparently it’s not that Scott portrays God as a child, but the child is the concrete manifestation/mouthpiece of God. Early on in Scripture, angels carrying God’s messages were portrayed as youths. Movies being what they are, viewers need a more believable “voice of God” than words emanating from a burning bush. I appreciate the problem, as I’ve not found any media depiction of God’s voice a satisfactory & believable form.
Sorry. Any movie with Bruce Wayne as Moses cannot be taken seriously.
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That is enough info for me to never see it. To me, portraying God that way is blasphemy. I can’t be a part of that.
Allow me to correct you. Any movie with Patrick Bateman as Moses cannot be taken seriously.
Alan Rickman played the Voice of God in Dogma. At least that film got the casting right!
George Carlin’s best role.
Cinematically, this EXODUS is brilliant and moving, raising deeper emotions about this sacred story than THE TEN COMMANDMENTS from 58 years ago.
Medved is a fool too
It is not our modern sensibilities that are at play in the Exodus of the movie or the Exodus of the Bible, but the beliefs of the Egyptians and of the Hebrews who did hold those thoughts in their respective religions. Even the Bible shows us that despite the very literal evidence of their own recent experiences the erstwhile Egyptian slaves were pretty fickle about whom to worship, being wiling to toss aside their belief in their unseen God (which is why I have serious problems with Ridley Scott's interpretation of God as a visible 11 year old boy) in favor of the Golden Apis Bull of Egypt, hoping to perhaps re-establish a relationship with the pantheon of Egypt and regain lost favor.
THEY believed in this moral equivalence. . . it was not fully developed yet. YHWH had to punish them with 40 years of wandering in the wilderness for that transgression.
Him too.
Well I certainly have no intention of paying good money to see this film. I havn’t seen a movie in a theater in over 30 years and I’m not going to start now.
At some point it will be available on cable for free and maybe I’ll check out the special effects on my 42” Vizio HD TV. That will be the extent of my interest.
having Moses portrayed as a union negotiator is repugnant to me!!!
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You don’t believe that Christ born in a manger is God? The second person of the Holy Trinity?
Read up on the miracles of Santo Nino.
I like to think of Jesus like with giant eagles wings, and singin’ lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd with like an angel band and I’m in the front row and I’m hammered drunk!..............or..............
I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo T-Shirt because it says I want to be formal, but I’m here to party........or
Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn Baby Jesus, in his golden, fleece diapers, with your curled-up, fat, balled-up little fists pawin’ at the air.., lyin’ there in his ghost manger, just lookin’ at his Baby Einstein developmental videos, learnin’ ‘bout shapes and colors.
Are we heading down the path of the final days? Could be. I always find it amusing that movies about those final days have religious people desperately running around trying to PREVENT them from coming about. . . when God says they will occur. . . and must occur for the Second Coming to also occur. I think they would be the LAST ones to prevent the fulfillment of prophecy.
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