{"id":8156,"date":"2016-06-24T09:38:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2016-06-22T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T12:42:02","slug":"why-do-movies-about-jesus-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2016\/why-do-movies-about-jesus-do-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Movies About Jesus Do This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, not ALL movies. But I&#8217;ve noticed that recent movies about the life of Jesus have this tendency.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little weird. And when you start to see a pattern, you start to wonder if there&#8217;s a reason. And if so, what is it?<\/p>\n<p>There are two things that are left out &#8211; maybe three. Of course this wouldn&#8217;t apply to a word-for-word reading of a Gospel, but movies such as <b>Son of God<\/b> or <b>Risen<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Thomas&#8217; Declaration:<\/b> When Thomas saw Jesus, did he touch Jesus&#8217; hands or side? I doubt it &#8211; he was so overwhelmed, he said simply,<i>&#8220;My Lord and my God!&#8221;<\/i> (John 20:28) Why do movies frequently include Thomas, but frequently leave out his great declaration of faith?<\/li>\n<li><b>Lord:<\/b> I haven&#8217;t done a scientific search through transcripts, but it seems that Jesus is rarely called &#8220;Lord&#8221; at all. This actually isn&#8217;t very common in the Gospels, but it&#8217;s more common after Jesus rises from the dead. (Once you get into the epistles, &#8220;Jesus&#8221; is usually paired with &#8220;Christ&#8221; or else &#8220;Lord&#8221; &#8211; rarely is it just &#8220;Jesus&#8221;.) Peter seemed to like to call Him Lord.<\/li>\n<li><b>Father, Son, and Spirit:<\/b> It&#8217;s the Great Commission, of course &#8211; which is sometimes included in some way shape or form in these movies. But I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever heard the whole thing. Why is &#8220;the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit&#8221; (Matthew 28:19) frequently left out?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that every movie about Jesus&#8217; life is bad unless it&#8217;s a word-for-word transcript from the Bible, necessarily. But these things, especially the first and the last, seem pretty glaring by their absence. Especially when the scene is included &#8211; and the scene with Thomas in the Bible is pretty short (it&#8217;s not as if these things would have to be cut because of time)! &#8211; but the key words are left out.<\/p>\n<p>Have you noticed this? Any reason why this might be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, not ALL movies. 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