Posted on 09/30/2014 2:22:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
And on the eighth day, God created decent lighting and production values.
After years of releasing shoddy products featuring has-beens like Kirk Cameron, the Christian film industry is upping its game in an attempt to win a crossover audience. Is faith-based cinema about to go truly mainstream?
The year certainly has been good to believers. “Heaven Is for Real” with Greg Kinnear, a story about a boy who said he experienced the afterlife during surgery, raked in more than $100 million worldwide. “God’s Not Dead,” about a college student who debates his professor on the existence of a higher power, brought in $62 million on a budget of less than $5 Million. The Jesus biopic “Son of God” made $67 million.
Those three films are among the top Christian earners in history, trailing only 2004’s “The Passion of the Christ,” which made a whopping $611 million.
Rick Santorum, former Republican presidential candidate and now head of Christian film studio EchoLight, tells The Post the success of 2014’s crop of godly films is due to better writing, production and marketing. “Faith-based movies traditionally haven’t been very well done,” he says.
Friday’s “Left Behind” just might be the most mainstream Christian flick yet. It’s based on a popular book series about the rapture, but you might not guess that at first glance.
The film stars marquee talent Nicolas Cage and was directed by Vic Armstrong, a legendary stunt man best known for the “Indiana Jones” series. Cage was persuaded to take the role by his brother, Marc — a DJ on New York City’s Q104.3 FM and, according to Cage, a pastor. Cage plays an airline pilot who must calm his passengers and land his plane after the world is thrown into chaos following the sudden disappearance of millions of people.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Finding a good moral movie legal to watch (like when you are too tried to do much else) on the Internet let alone a Christian one is like finding money in the trash, but i looked under documentaries on Hulu and to my surprise and found this. Also found ,
Case for Christ (2007)
Case for Faith (2008)
Watch What Would Jesus Do? Online | Hulu
Letters To God (2010) Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (2009)
Also on Youtube and ITBN (regardless of the rest) Charles Spurgeon Movie
I’m waiting for Foxe’s Book if Martyrs on the big screen.
That is a wish, not a planned production correct?
Correct
Well; if they stick to what the Book says...
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
But there IS hope!!!
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
HMMMmmm...
1 Thessalonians 4:17
After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
I have read the sermon and the last paragraphs in the Latin make it clear the speaker believed the rapture happens at the end of the world.
But, even allowing your reading, one person out of millions of believers over hundreds of years makes my point nicely.
It's in the Book.
Actually, you insisted it was a “19th century novelty. It is not.
Second, you only asked for one person. You got it. There are examples from the early fathers through two thousand years.
Well; that thing about clothes is not really mentioned. However, if one extrapolates Elijah's mantle being left behind...
Matthew 24:38-42
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Luke 17:36
Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.
I am one, and also for reason's not of this earth.
I read the Book about it just a few moments ago...
Maybe I got one..........please read the end of the sermon, you may come away with a different opinion.
Yes, it was a 19th century novelty.
I've read that THIS place does pretty good with IT's movies...
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700096820/LDS-Church-builds-movie-set-for-ambitious-film-project.html?pg=all
Actually he taught this in 1788, so he missed the 19th century by 12 years. Makes my point nicely.
One last comment...
The sermon clearly orders the events and then lumps them together as occurring at the end of the world, which is true. More importantly for this conversation, he correctly orders the return of Christ for His church to keep them from evil, the pouring out of judgement on the earth and then the millennium - proving it was not a 19th century novelty.
in closing...
whether a single person in recorded history ever believed it is only important to disprove your claim. What actually matters is that it can be found in the Scriptures.
That you choose not to believe what is recorded in the Scriptures concerning the return of the Savior for His bride is entirely up to you. In my experience, most people have their ideas firmly set about this and the millennium. I do not try to change them because I do not believe it is the centerpiece of Christianity.
I may be wrong, but I believe you differ from historic Christianity on a number of central points. On the other hand, it is late tonight and I’m tired.
I wish you the best.
Well; we got beheadings on the little screen.
Does that somehow count?
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