I refute that “Ben Hur” was a Christian movie; it had mass appeal and was simply a reflection of the Western Civilization from which it sprung.
A Western Civilization that has been thoroughly distorted, gutted and discarded by our elite masters, BTW.
The last few minutes of Ben Hur were very Christian. Ben Hur was transformed into a new person, the very heart of the Gospel.
For the most part, I tend to agree. Most of the fictional Biblical epics simply use the Christ story as a backdrop. To an extent, Ben-Hur is supposed to depict Jesus and Judah Ben-Hur as two parallel men who take different paths. However, they never really get into the purpose of Christ's mission in the film. The moments where Christ appears probably only resonate with Christians who already know Christ's story.
Ben Hur is certainly worth reading in the original book. I agree that when Hollywood got hold of it for a movie, they screwed it up, as usual.
But that classic novel is presumably the distant source of this present movie. What matters is, does the movie do a good job? Evidently so, judging from the reviews and the comments here in FR.
>>I refute that “Ben Hur†was a Christian movie; it had mass appeal and was simply a reflection of the Western Civilization from which it sprung.
People think of the chariot races when they think of Ben Hur, but it really is a Christian story. It is the story that many Christians live.
Ben Hur was written in 1880, long before our Masters of Western Civ corrupted things. Author Wallace, in his memoirs, said
The Christian world would not tolerate a novel with Jesus Christ its hero, and I knew it ... He should not be present as an actor in any scene of my creation. The giving a cup of water to Ben-Hur at the well near Nazareth is the only violation of this rule ... I would be religiously careful that every word He uttered should be a literal quotation from one of His sainted biographers