Although the story is of the Old Testament, the screenwriter(s) apparently grasped the movement of an Old Testament Yahweh's gradual evolution into a God of Mercy and Love, one made clear by the end of the picture. This view is very much at odds with that of modern-day evangelicals who still thump the OT God-image they read selectively out of their bible passages. Movie was beautifully and passionately done and should become a Christian classic.
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Probably this is one of the few Christian stories ever where the main character arc belongs to God!
What an amazing approach, especially for so long ago.
Terror with napalm
I want ya'll to STAY calm!
You expressed my thoughts on this play perfectly.
"Wake me when we get to Purgatory."
Can you please explain your theology a little bit more?
Isn't God always the same? He doesn't change. He doesn't evolve. He doesn't exist in time, but in eternity.
Well, according to the Scholastic view of God, your statement about the unchanging nature of God would certainly stand the test. However, it is man's view of God that changes and evolves over the centuries (or devolves, in certain cases where tragic consequences for humanity have ensued).
God is always the same loving Being, but it is we who change. In our changed hearts and minds, our relationship with God can also change. Hopefully, as with any person (and in this case, person with a capital "P"), the relationship becomes deeper, better, more connected.
This was a great movie. Thank goodness for Turner Classis Movies. Otherwise, I'd never heard of it before.
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I'm not a Christian, but I love this movie - this one and Cabin in the Sky. In a recent television viewing of both, I was struck by the difference in how religion is presented in these two movies, versus how religion is presented by religious entertainment today.
1940s message: Be the best person you can be, it's hard to be consistent with being good, but if you do your best there are rewards on earth and after.
2000s message: The end has already come. Accept Jesus. If you don't, you'll be killed in a fiery end-times scenario, and then won't YOU be sorry when we're raptured and looking down on you sinners boiling in the lake of fire. Ha ha.
The Omega Code, Left Behind, anyone? Personally, if there were any way to make me a Christian (there isn't), it'd be the pleasant, straightforward, simple and poignant way offered in the old movies rather than the passive-aggressive bullying over Biblical semantics in the new ones.
I agree with each of y'all. *smile*
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Loved that. In the last scene, when Hezdrel is explaining to De Lawd that God is different, but the same, I flashed back to a remark I overheard when visiting a Catholic church. The priest was laying on some rather heavy Old Testament wrath and a five-year-old boy in front of me turned to his mother and said, "God used to be like that, but He's better now, huh?" I was laughing and crying at the same time recalling this! I wouldn't have been in that woman's place for anything--or missed the remark for anything either!
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