Since I had a few minutes until my coffees ready and I hear a sermon from Ravi Zacharias (no he is not coming to my house, nor I to his, he is on the radio) I thought I’d follow the crowds and put in my two cents worth regarding the new movie, “Noah”. No, I haven’t gone to the theater to see it and I probably won’t since I would rather wait for it to show up on my big screen 3D television that is only a short walk to my bathroom (a place that I visit frequently it seems). Like last night’s viewing of “Saving Mr. Banks”,….I was able to sit comfortably, stop action when needed (for bathroom and snack breaks) and sniffle to my heart’s content without the gang bangers behind me making some comment. I was even able to check my facebook account without fear of getting shot. But my post is not about the comfort of the viewing rooms or whether guns should be allowed in,…it has to do with whether the movie should be “recommended”. So, do I recommend it? Yes, sounds like a real discussion starter and a pretty epic presentation of an epic event (the flooding of the world). But what do I do with the inaccuracies and the fact that some of the cast and crew are nonbelievers? Well unlike Ghandi who said that he would have become a Christian if it wasn’t for what he saw in Christians (which is as idiotic as saying I starved to death cause I got bad service at Mickie Dees) I think it’s OK to go to a movie created by a bunch of atheists , or Druids or even Lutherans. I am a big boy and thus I believe I can sit thru a movie without becoming a follower of some new religion (or lack of one). But my problem this morning is listening to folks bad mouth a movie for all kinds of “reasons” but never mentioning the bad translation of the Bible which has come from all the Protestant and Catholic denominations (and yes, I have heard this preached) that gives rise to the “watchers” who supposedly are a combo of mankind marrying demons. This is the worst of the movie from what I have heard, and is a very serious theological problem but once again the “believers” who are crying foul are too ignorant and lazy to “work out their own salvation with fear and trembling”. In the story of Joshua and the spies going into the Promised Land (Numbers 13:33) they meet the “niph’leam” (translated separated ones) who happen to be giants (as in Goliath). Now when the Bible was translated this verse was covered before the harder verses of Genesis 6 when the “children of God come into the daughters of men and they become giants (so the translations says). Since the “niph’leam” were giants in the other story, it carries over to this one, which makes it sound like some big old half angel half people are wandering around the earth….but it ain’t so. Actually this is simply stating that the children of Cain and Abel (remember them) married and out of their children came the “men of renown”. The last of the verse calls them “the men of THE NAME” which in the Hebrew thought were followers of God. These were the great men of the O.T. This view is shared by my mentor the late Dr. H. Leo Eddleman;… Christian gentleman, Biblical Scholar, fluent speaker of Hebrew and former missionary to Israel in 1948,…and one hell of a good storyteller (he would laugh at that). If this translation does not fit into your wheelhouse then feel free to still be my friend. So what’s my point? Go see the movie if you want. The free salvation that comes to all men thru Jesus Christ is not dependent on whether you boycott a movie. In fact our blasting of anything that doesn’t fit out exact version (or the one we have been spoon fed by our “leaders”) is as ignorant as the Pharisees, the Sanhedrin and yes, the Taliban. Truth lives in the light (the biblical word is “the phosphorescence of God”) and so in a symbolic way a darkened movie theater (or living room for that matter) is never the place to learn absolute truth of God…but a great place to watch a dramatic presentation,…ie….a movie. And it also might suggest that Churches keep the lights on and the windows open before they start singing all those chants, …uh, I mean “Praise Choruses”. ? God is not found in celluloid, in plastic cups of grape juice or in the size of a building or the name you call the Bishop. God is found by seeking a relationship with Jesus Christ, the son of God who is waiting and knocking at your heart. So post yourself on your back porch, park bench or boat dock and talk to Him, and by pass all the middlemen (and women). I’ll see y’all on the off ramp.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:50:15 +0000
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