Archive for March, 2014
GOD’S NOT DEAD – MAN’S PHILOSOPHY IS!
Thursday, March 27th, 2014
The surprise hit movie of 2014 is not the coming big budget flop from Hollywood, NOAH, but the offering from some wonderful folks at PURE FLIX and actor Kevin Sorbo. Their sleeper hit “GOD’S NOT DEAD” surprised the mainstream movie industry when it opened in only 780 screens across America on Friday March 21 and ended up at number 4 in the Box Office that weekend! The average Hollywood production launches in 3000 or more screens (just as a gauge).
What makes this movie the potential blockbuster not seen since 2004’s Passion of the Christ is quality production combined with inspired solid professional writing. The main story revolves around a freshman Christian student Josh Wheaton who finds himself in a Philosophy class run by the vitriolic atheist Professor Radisson (played by the popular actor Kevin Sorbo). Radisson begins his class by telling all 80 plus students that they must disavow God, write on a piece of paper that “GOD IS DEAD” and sign their name to it. Josh is a Christian and comes face to face with this Faith or what his cultural “christian” (and soon to be ex-) girlfriend calls “his future”.
THE REALITY OF THE FLOOD (#NOAH’S ARK, SCIENTIFIC PROOF”)
Thursday, March 27th, 2014The new Paramount Hollywood version of NOAH, starring a fifty year old man who is supposed to represent an almost 600 year old Noah, is so off based that the real reason the Great Flood ever happened is lost – as was intended. The context of sin, corruption and the evil of man is not mentioned by those who saw the various previews. As a result, we have people like Bill Maher and even Russell Crowe himself (who played Noah in the most recent movie) blaspheming God to the vilest extent. They and those who believe like them do not understand original sin, the Holiness of God or the Fall of man.
This post looks more at the result of the Flood which legitimate scientists are finding in the fossil record and more, as God reveals more and more of Himself to His people, in these last days! Therefore, we start here briefly with the Biblical context from Bible Gateway (NKJV).
Genesis 6
The Wickedness and Judgment of Man
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. 3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” 4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.