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Last night I finally saw the 2014 movie Son of God.
I’m not as down on the movie as this guy! Other reviewers point out some inaccuracies of detail. Others say it’s just too compressed.
Me, though I liked the movie, I most noticed what New Testament material they left out, as well as their familiar, confused picture of Jesus and God.
In this episode, my review, and also, some interesting listener feedback. (Got some? Upload your audio file here.)
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Here are some relevant previous posts:
- On the God-as-baby theme. (Here’s the saccharine song that ends the movie.)
- On forgiving sins.
- Two posts on Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
Finally, some other movie Jesuses:
Related posts:
catching the Masked Man
Leonard Hodgson on "Subordinationism"
podcast 182 - White's case for the Trinity - Part 2
podcast 130 – Ehrman and Bird on How Jesus Became God – Part 3
some thoughts on Brown vs. Singer (1992)
"Only God can forgive sins." False.
Christology and Heresy 3 - The basic philosophical issue (JT)
podcast 326 - Dr. Licona's historical case that Jesus considered himself to be God - Part 1
podcast 234 – Dr. James R. Gordon on the extra Calvinisticum – Part 2
podcast 123 - your official god vs. your actual god
When you say that traditional trinitarians are agreeing with the Pharisees when they say that interpreting Jesus’ words in Mark 2 (ability to forgive sins) implies Christ’s divinity, this is inaccurate. The Pharisees by their questions are posing a syllogism:
a) If you can forgive sins you are God.
b) Jesus is not God.
c) Therefore Jesus cannot forgive sins.
Traditional trinitarians merely affirm the first premise. But you affirm the second. So both you and they are in effect “agreeing with the pharisees”. You just agree on different premises.
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