Amen. Maybe it was inevitable that once Christianity reached every corner of the globe, some of the true or meaningful messages would be lost or changed or missed
Christianity is so deeply ingrained into western culture that a truely inspired story built on Christianity would not be overtly Christian. Christian symbolism is used extensively in many different works of fiction to great effect, but the problem is when storytellers start making propaganda. A propaganda story is one that assumes it's conclusion too strongly and arrogantly, they write assuming they already know the answer, instead of asking a question and letting the story explore what the answer could be.
Please help!!! I was raised to think the Bible is about “being saved” and our point of living is to show people to be saved. If this isn’t the case, please some one clarify how we are to live or reference a video or something I can use to explore this further
Allow me to bring ease to you all to suggest Christian movies and Books that are actually nuanced and Good The Divine Comedy Paradise Lost Pilgrim's Progress Ben-Hur J.R.R Tolkien's Works C.S Lewis' Works The Ten Commandments Flannery O' Connor Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Jesus of Nazereth The Prince of Egypt Passion of the Christ The Case for Christ (ironically made by the same Producers of the well-intended yet pretentious 'God's Not Dead' Series) Hacksaw Ridge and most recently… Dallas Jenkins' The Chosen
Also this Anime short I saw called 'My Last Day'.
Also Veggietales…….Yeah I said it! . . ………..It makes me laugh.
Those types of movies and stories are so ideological and shallow. I think they actually do more harm to people's faith and understanding of Christianity than they do good. It’s so unfortunate
Wait… Is not being saved the purpose of our existence? I thought you had said several times that it is all about theosis, the sanctification of one own's life, devoting it to God, etc. Even Jesus commanded (and I'm hoping not to be out of context) christians to be 'the light of the world', didn't he? I hope I wasn't all wrong about it… Could anyone explain?
Exodus; Gods and Kings is arguably the worst movie Ridley Scott has ever made. And even that is still better than 99.9999% of the Christian movies made today.
Those few scenes in Ben Hur involving Christ or where He is spoken of are more powerful and inspired than every single typical Christian film made today. Some foreign films are also criminally neglected – as is the Passion Of Christ!
Do Narnia or Lord of Rings are Christian stories?
Passion of the Christ: Resurrection is expected to come out next year 👌🏻
Amen. Maybe it was inevitable that once Christianity reached every corner of the globe, some of the true or meaningful messages would be lost or changed or missed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_3J6Go5Ng
Jonathan I'd love to see you break down some of the films of Robert Bresson.
SayGoodnightKevin is a channel that reviews bad Christian media. He does a good job
Protestant and filoprotestant movies are cringe. There are great Catholic and Orthodox movies though.
The best christian movie I ever saw is Stalker by Andrey Tarkovsky. Tarkovsky just oozes his credo in his movies. And he did that in Soviet Russia!
"Why are modern Christian movies and books so bad?"
J. R. R. Tolkien: Hold my beer.
It's the difference between a story with symbols and an ad.
Amen 🙏 I pray they will come to learn bc it’s either that or they will move away from Christianity entirely
A good modern Christian movie is "end of the spear"
Christianity is so deeply ingrained into western culture that a truely inspired story built on Christianity would not be overtly Christian. Christian symbolism is used extensively in many different works of fiction to great effect, but the problem is when storytellers start making propaganda. A propaganda story is one that assumes it's conclusion too strongly and arrogantly, they write assuming they already know the answer, instead of asking a question and letting the story explore what the answer could be.
Please help!!! I was raised to think the Bible is about “being saved” and our point of living is to show people to be saved. If this isn’t the case, please some one clarify how we are to live or reference a video or something I can use to explore this further
Allow me to bring ease to you all to suggest Christian movies and Books that are actually nuanced and Good
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Pilgrim's Progress
Ben-Hur
J.R.R Tolkien's Works
C.S Lewis' Works
The Ten Commandments
Flannery O' Connor
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Jesus of Nazereth
The Prince of Egypt
Passion of the Christ
The Case for Christ (ironically made by the same Producers of the well-intended yet pretentious 'God's Not Dead' Series)
Hacksaw Ridge
and most recently…
Dallas Jenkins' The Chosen
Also this Anime short I saw called 'My Last Day'.
Also Veggietales…….Yeah I said it! . . ………..It makes me laugh.
Those types of movies and stories are so ideological and shallow. I think they actually do more harm to people's faith and understanding of Christianity than they do good. It’s so unfortunate
TLDR: because Protestantism
Wait… Is not being saved the purpose of our existence? I thought you had said several times that it is all about theosis, the sanctification of one own's life, devoting it to God, etc. Even Jesus commanded (and I'm hoping not to be out of context) christians to be 'the light of the world', didn't he? I hope I wasn't all wrong about it… Could anyone explain?
Exodus; Gods and Kings is arguably the worst movie Ridley Scott has ever made. And even that is still better than 99.9999% of the Christian movies made today.
Those few scenes in Ben Hur involving Christ or where He is spoken of are more powerful and inspired than every single typical Christian film made today. Some foreign films are also criminally neglected – as is the Passion Of Christ!