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Originally Posted by awareness
The actor playing Jesus was the European Jesus. That cracked me up, and only proves we don't know the human Jesus.
And that Matthew was standing back taking notes. That cracked me up too, because whoever wrote the gospel that came to be attributed to Matthew, in the 2nd c., wrote it 4 decades after Jesus ; much of it taken from the gospel that was later in the 2nd c. attributed to Mark. The gospels were written anonymously. We don't know who wrote them. The authors didn't sign them.
Here's the thing on this matter. If Jesus was 100% human and God, so is the scripture divine and human. And again, it's God God God, but the human side of the scripture is dismissed.
But thanks for the laughs. As you said, we all need a good laugh, especially these days. You're a real peach.
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Yes, I just physically dismiss whoever is playing Jesus, because we always want to pretty them up way too much I think. (kinda like the Caucasians that used to play all the native Americans in old cowboy/Indian movies, right?) If I didn't do that, there would be no "suspension of disbelief" and I couldn't enjoy it at all! Most anything concerning scripture which is presented by a big production has man's "fingerprints" all over it, so it must be taken with a tablespoon of salt (rather than a grain) to enjoy . . .
A brother and I were briefly talking yesterday about Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" and how he doesn't go see any movie depicting Christ, because He (and his wife) doesn't want to get any image in their head, other than from scripture. He said people told him the movie would change his life, and he thought, "Why would I want that - I only want Christ to change my life!" I really respected that! (I actually didn't care all that much for the Gibson movie, as I didn't think it went far enough, and was a little too "dark" for me - He did it for the JOY set before Him after all! That's why I like acting brother Bruce's depiction so much - and that they didn't take as much licence as most depictions do)
BTW - Gibson is supposedly working on a sequel to "The Passion" about the resurrection of Christ. If this is done right, it could be really, really good. But again, I am usually quite disappointed when Hollywood does anything concerning the Good News.