The “Son of God” Movie Is NOT What We Think–Do You Know The Voice of Your Master

http://thelasthiker.wordpress.com ^ | February 23, 2014

[NKP_Vet]

Last year the History Channel featured the epic television event, “The Bible Series,” which was produced by Roma Downey and her husband Mark Burnett. This show captivated audiences and became the talk of many churches. Churches even purchased pre-written sermons to go along with the show, which according to outreach.com made it into 180,000 churches.

Roma and Mark were endlessly interviewed in Christian magazines, and on Christian radio. All along saying that they were sold out Christians and believers filled with the Holy Spirit.

And the churches bought it.

They promoted it.

And yet, as I watched “The Bible Series,” I personally became furious at how much they twisted the word of God. Not just omitting things for the sake of time–but changing the theme, the message, and the nature of Bible characters, and the nature of God Himself. That is unforgivable.

God will judge that.

I was furious.

My husband and I were sitting in our darkened living room with our bowls of ice cream and we couldn’t even get five minutes into it without pausing it and discussing how, not only is it different than the Bible, but that the way that it is different changes so much of the truth of God and the Bible. We would talk about what message it is sending to people that don’t know God. It got so bad that I had to write about it.

[fabian]

What is one good example of the lies in this movie? I would like to know...

[aumrl]

you know both bowls were vanilla!
lol

[Starstruck]

What part of a woman's brain thinks this turns men on? LOL

Did you photoshop this? Saw her on Hannity the other night and she didn't look anything like this.

[redleghunter]

This may be the right time again to post your good links to orthodox productions of the Gospel. I think I remember you did so the first time we discussed this movie.

[TwoSue]

She was also affiliated with John Kerry for President.

[redleghunter]

As I said, I haven't seen it yet, but anything reverential about Jesus and His life, death, and resurrection, for me anyway, is welcome. If someone is moved in the theater, maybe they will seek out the rest of it from a place of real worship where they can be taught the more meatier things of Scripture. If we disparage people trying to bring Scripture the the big screen, then be ready for the old standby of movies made with handheld video cams with local actors paid for from a 250 member church.

I have to agree with you in principle.

[redleghunter]

Understood. However any movie even the “Passion of the Christ” deviate from the Scriptures to add dramatic effect. Just look at those scenes where Pilate is conversing with his wife and the Roman soldiers are chatting with each other. I did not torpedo the movie for that given I knew it was a movie.

The ‘orthodox’ movies of the Bible which go verse by verse usually won’t find its way outside of a home DVD player, tablet or church movie night. I love this movie version of the Gospel of Matthew:

http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-According-Matthew-Bruce-Marchiano/dp/1450700543

However, since it is verse by verse one cannot view in one sitting and may take two or three sittings to finish. It is mainly used by churches for Sunday school but there is some good acting involved. They even ‘flash’ the verses on the screen.

Again, such a production would not see the ‘dark’ of the movie theatre. Not even in the hay days of Ben Hur and King of Kings.

So perhaps the movie “Son of God” may wet the pallet of seekers and have them pick up the Bible to read, study seek.

[daniel1212]

People will nitpick and complain just to nitpick and complain, always seeing the glass half empty.

One one hand, you do have those who,

• If it’s The Nativity Story, they point out that we don’t know the wise men were kings, or that there were three of them.
• If it’s The Prince of Egypt, they point out that it was Pharaoh’s daughter, not his wife, who discovered Moses in the river.
• If it’s The Ten Commandments, they remind us there is no biblical record of an Egyptian princess saying “Moossseeeess, Mooosseeeess!” so many times.
• If it’s the History Channel’s Bible series, they point out the Bible does not attribute ninja moves to the angels who helped Lot flee Sodom.

Second, there is the group that is flattered to see Hollywood pay any attention to the Bible at all. No matter what Hollywood does with the sacred stories, it’s “getting the word out,” or “making the Bible seem cool.”

• If it’s Bruce Almighty, they start a group discussion about how God may or may not be like Morgan Freeman.
• If it’s The Passion of the Christ, they invite their lost friends and neighbors over for dinner and a bloodbath.
• If it’s Spiderman 3, they do a sermon series on revenge and the spirituality of superhero movies. (http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2013/11/18/how-should-christians-respond-to-noah-the-movie/)

However, my objections are not simply a case of a Hollywood's re-telling of Biblical stories with some reasonable necessary conjecture, and minor errors, but willful distortions of the Scripture, and often poor acting by souls who can only fake reverence for that which is holy, and which, like a dead gospel, has the effect of immunizing souls to the real one. It is crime to misrepresent history in text or in spirit, and how

On recent ones, The Bible The Mini-Series: http://beginningandend.com/the-bible-miniseries-hollywood-heresy/

Noah: Glenn Garvin of the Miami Herald held little back in his criticism, noting, “With the pace of a music video, the characterizations of a comic book and the political-correctness quotient of a Berkeley vegetarian commune – laughably, the destruction of Sodom is depicted without the faintest hint of the sexual peccadillo that takes its name from the city – this production makes Cecil B. DeMille look like a sober theologian.” Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/just-how-unbiblical-is-the-bible/

Survey Shows Majority of Christians Unsatisfied With Bible-Themed Film 'Noah' - http://www.charismanews.com/culture/42824-survey-shows-majority-of-christians-unsatisfied-with-bible-themed-film-noah

Also of note as to motive, there is a documentary i have not watched, The Bible According to Hollywood, but a review cites the narrator Henry Stephens averring that the Bible's essential value to Hollywood springs from its absorbing stories and plot lines, and since these tales are considered to be in the public domain and therefore necessitate no linking royalty payments,. - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420524/?licb=0.6313922659731218

[DungeonMaster]

I could tell by the sound bite I hear in the advertisement it is a terrible movie.

[jsanders2001]

One of the obvious PC embelishments, not necessarily a lie because no one knows for sure, is that Samson was a big black bodybuilder with dredlocks. Another obvious omission was the state of Soom & Gomorrah with no mention of homosexuality as being one of the reasons it was found to be a cuty if sin and wickedness; just 2 examples

[jsanders2001]

> I agree. I wonder if the nitpickers would prefer that Biblical stories not be told at all?

That’s the liberal spies in our midst not the conservative group. Not trying to pick the series apart but when there are very serious omissions or changes to the storyline you have to wonder why when there are so many versions that say the same thing.

[fabian]

I meant about the Son of God movie...it looks good to me, worth seeing I am hoping. But yes, Sampson did NOT have dreadful dread locks! Those are ridiculous and gross.

[jsanders2001]

cuty = city

[jsanders2001]

I haven’t referenced that movie in here. Mine was in reference to The Bible series but I understand they’re made by the same people.

[stellaluna]

She’s been married three times and Della Reese performed the last ceremony. I think she’s Catholic when it’s time to hustle the rubes.

[redleghunter]

Della Reese

Please tell me you are kidding. LOL.

[daniel1212]

You do realize Roma Downey is Roman Catholic?

Yes, but the unofficial Internet Office of the unHoly Inquisition, longing for the Real Thing, has excommunicated all those liberals whom Rome treats as members in life and in death, thus excommunicating the church from its fellowship, even if not formally.

[fabian]

ok..but this thread is about the Son of God...I suppose I did not pay good enough attention to the posts. Thanks.

[montag813]

Downey is freaky-deaky. And this article is VERY eye-opening. Then again, at least the boffo box office on SOG will show Hollyweird the force we are, as did The Passion.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

I agree that the Acts of the Apostles would be a great book to do a film of. A film treatment of The Book of The Revelation of Saint John The Divine would not be a wise idea, in my opinion. Amongst Protestants, there are historicists, preterists and idealists and futurists. Some believe in 'covenant' theology while others believe in 'dispensationalism'. Some even believe that the 'whore of Babylon' referenced in the Book, is the Roman Catholic church. I am quite certain that the Roman Catholic church and the Orthodox churches also have a diversity of opinions on the interpretation of Revelation.

For many people in the 'first world', much of which was once known as 'Christendom', the Bible is irrelevant or worse, so it is constantly under attack. A film, based on one of hundreds of interpretations of Revelation would be very divisive. A world that is seeking to ridicule the Bible and Christianity, would jump on the divisions that would surface in public. "They can't even get along with each other, why would I want to be one of them?" "Why would I want to get involved in a belief system where they are beating each other all the time?” “Since they fight so much, what do they really believe and how are their lives any better than mine?”

Frankly, I have seen and experienced inter-denominational ‘warfare’, and it is not pretty and most certainly does not reflect Jesus! A movie based on Revelation would hurt the cause of evangelisation instead of helping it, so I'm sure that Hollywierd will soon be working on such a movie!