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Dec 24, 2023 · But we also need his emissaries. We need people who see us and know us, who enter our stories. Through their compassion and love, we feel, I feel — even if only partly — God’s compassion and ...
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Reviewed by: Raphael Vera CONTRIBUTOR “I am John, and I was one of his [Jesus’] followers. After what I had seen, how could I not be?” And so begins the account of Jesus Christ “The Son of God.” From his miraculously foretold coming centuries earlier to his birth in an obscure village, not among the rich and powerful, but among the poor, he was bot...
While the language is clean throughout, and there is no overt sexual imagery, aside from a brief flashback to Adam and Eve, and this only from the shoulders up (nudity implied), the strongest visuals were in the violence category. Roman soldiers are seen beating the populace and killing with swords(mostly bloodless) and only once did you see, in si...
The last third of the movie, focusing on Jesus’ death and resurrection, is the most riveting and moving part of the movie. The rest of the film is less so, and I think this is for several very evident reasons. First, many of scenes are done vignette style, no more than a few minutes in length. The miracle of Jesus raising Lazarus from the deadcould...
Reviewed by: Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell ANSWERS IN GENESIS, a Team Member of ChristianAnswers.Net “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning” (John 1:1–2). These words open John’s Gospel. By opening the feature film “Son of God” also with these words,1 filmmakers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey...
Here I make a play on the Charles Wesley hymn, which connects the character of Jesus to His identity as the Lamb of God, who according to John 1:29 takes away the sin of the world, and to His transforming grace. This movie shows us the meek and mild Jesus, but fails to make the connection to sin, repentance, and salvation. To many people, the word ...
Largely cobbled together from The Bible miniseries that showed in six parts on the History Channel last year, “Son of God,” as a full-length feature film focusing just on the Earthly ministry of Jesus Christ, had the opportunity to make the message of the gospel clearer, but really added nothing that would do so. Thus Son of God’s main weakness is ...
Truly, I cannot find fault with a movie for simply leaving out some of the things that Jesus did, but I find great fault with this film because its omissions distort the central purpose of Christ in coming into the world. The Bible itself records only a selection of teaching and events, as John 21:25 clearly states, “And there are also many other t...
Reviewed by: Justin Peters, Th.M. JUSTIN PETERS MINISTRIES This review will pertain to matters of historical and theological biblical accuracy. I have seen the movie once and did my best to take notes on as much as I possibly could. What follows is not—by a long shot—a comprehensive list of the problems with “Son of God” but does hit some of the mo...
The problems with the movie began with the very first scene. The opening scene is that of Jesus calling Peter as his disciple. The biblical account records Jesus calling both Peter and Andrew his brother at the Sea of Galilee followed shortly thereafter with James and John (Matthew 4:18-22). In the movie, it is only Peter who is called. This is the...
The ordering of events in this movie is the chronological equivalent of a game of Pickup Sticks. The events of nearly every scene were either out of order or spliced together with portions of completely separate events. The account of Matthew, the tax collector, being called (Matt. 9:9-13) is just one such example. In the film, Hippie Jesus calls M...
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Feb 24, 2023 · That is the story and the message of a new film, also called "Jesus Revolution," based on a book by one of the leaders of the "Jesus freaks," Greg Laurie. This movie is not about certain details, like one of its real-life characters' homosexuality and history of substance abuse and instability.
Feb 27, 2014 · The point is this: if you are making a Jesus movie today, it is important to make smart choices. In “Son of God” we see Peter walking, for a moment, on water. Only one of the four Gospels ...
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Sep 21, 2024 · At the top of my interview, I questioned Snyder about his use of religious imagery throughout the vast majority of his work, including here in his new animated series, where Jesus Christ makes an ...
