False Messiahs aren't in the desert--they're in MOVIES!

[Trynn]

I'm not feeling well, so I'm browsing a Christian forum, which is very popular and, depending on which parts of the forum, not too much crazy. Until I came across this...

Mat 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not.

Remember when the movie the Passion of the Christ came out? Of course you do, we all do. I had yet to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior at this point in my life. And yet, isn't interesting what everyone was telling everyone, "Go see this movie! Ya gotta see this movie!" I'm very fortunate that I have never been compelled to see this movie, but I have been tempted to rent it - thankfully I never did.

When they say He's here, or there, do not go. I would imagine, obviously, that Jesus was warning against seeing "false images" of Him a movie theater.

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[debrand]

I wonder if that poster has any art work depicting Jesus in their house. The people that I knew who didn't like the idea of Jesus being portrayed in movies were not against the white, blonde Jesus that hang in some people's walls. They never complained about the violence or antisemitism; instead, they focused on Jesus being shown in a film.

[uber frau]

The fundie church I grew up in decried that movie as idolatry or something. They didn't like any depictions of Jesus, even the ones in children's story bibles. (Actually most of them didn't like story bibles either, but that's a whole 'nother post.)

[Trynn]

I just don't like white blue eyes jesuses. If you try to portray him as culturally accurate, I have less of an issue.

I saw that movie when it came out. I thought it wasn't the greatest and didn't see what all the fuss was about. It was my first r rates movie.