Every time I read through (or watch through in this case) one of the gospels I always find new insights that I hadn’t noticed before. The film portrayed Christ with the people all the time. He sat with them, listened to them, talked with them, and touched them. It really brought out his humanity.
It’s easy to remember that Christ is God, but that he was also man often escapes me. It’s important to remember his humanity because it gives a very real example of how to live and how to deal with temptation.
As an example, I had made not in preparation for teaching Sunday school that Jesus used scripture when he was being tempted by the devil. That is a great example of how we can use Jesus’ humanity as an example of how we too can combat temptation. Were he not man and simply God appearing as man, he would not have been able to be tempted.
At first there were some things that were distracting about the film. As noted before, the narrator. Also it appears that they were using a different version of the bible than I am accustomed to. At first watch, I would not say that there were any major theological issues with the translation, but certainly some minor inconsistencies, probably for cinematic reasons.
At any rate, it is good that the film produces deeper insight into the text and that it is easy to confirm its accuracy through the text.
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