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ZekeSr:
I watched the trailer. This movie is by Affirm Films which is faith-based and a division of Sony. And according to the trailer, Paul has doubts about his own salvation—will he be forgiven for his sins when he was Saul. That goes directly against scripture—Paul’s knowledge of universal reconciliation.
Here is an excerpt from the Catholic Herald by Mark Pattison posted Thursday, 22 Feb 2018 :
With the new movie “Paul, Apostle of Christ,” Eric Groth, one of the film’s executive producers, said, “it was real important to tell the story of God’s mercy.”
“His message of love and life and mercy is so important for us today,” Groth said to an invitation-only audience of about 60 at an advance screening of the film at the St John Paul II National Shrine in Washington.
Groth is head of ODB Productions; he said the initials stand for “Outside Da Box.” The company has made, by his estimate, about 250 short films for Catholic religious education programmes, and a series of 15 shorts based on each of the 15 sections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
“All I wanted to do (in college) was play baseball. Then the Lord moved my heart,” Groth said. In addition to the film shorts, he also produced “Full of Grace,” about Jesus’s mother, Mary, helping repair the fractures that developed in the early Church. It was written and directed by Andrew Hyatt, who had the same two jobs on “Paul, Apostle of Christ.”
He gave credit to Sony Pictures for its willingness to go out on a limb with the movie. “They stretched partnering with a Catholic organisation, they stretched in the idea, they stretched in the screening schedule,” which had started a few months before its March 23 premiere, Groth said. A constant comment he said he had received from preview audiences was that the film was “imbued with Scripture without it having been read to them.”
I don’t question the sincerity of those involved, but nevertheless It's not just about money. It’s about preaching. And I have no doubt that it will be getting a big thumbs up from TBN and the like.

Mike

Wanda:

My personal experience may or may not shed some light on this. I had come out of the church,  that had so enslaved and brainwahed me, I could hardly think for myself anymore.  I was admonished often, not to read any other religious material or I would be judged, and condemned an apostate. I was to be no part of the world,  in ways that were impossible to adhere to.  Now I find myself without God or friends, living in a world I'm no part of, and God let me stew in that a bit.

One day, out of the blue I thought of the movie, Passion of The Christ, this was 2015, the movie had been out for a long time, but I had never seen it. It wasn't allowed in my religion, but now I could consider it. I decided against it, because I knew the crusifiction scene would be to difficult for me to get through. However, thoughts of God the father's suffering crept in,  and then the suffering Jesus endured. I questioned myself, how could I turn my back on the reality  of that sacrifice, because I was weak and selfish. I also considered the possibility, not watching it might have more to do with keeping God at a distance in my life at that time.

I talked to God often about it, finally making a commitment to him,  to watch it out of respect and gratitude,  for the enormous sacrifice he had made for me.

The outcome was an explosive change within me. I understood for the first time in my life, the love of God. That's a Huge personal revelation in anyone's life. It was then I wanted to find and know this God, the God of love. No more man, deciding what I could read, watch or do, it would be between me and God, as it should be.

A few days later, I earnestly asked God to show me his truth, and within seconds I was reading Ray's teachings, and I continue to do so.

Was this God, using this oh so un-Godly means to awaken me?

Stacey:
A man once told me that God can speak to us through a door post or a news paper.

That was back in my hell, fire and brimstone days so, I let him have a few of my stupid choice words of no understanding to set him straight about that kind of unscriptural bologna he was spewing!

A few of my favorite movies -

The Patriot
Gladiator
Kingdom of Heaven
Remember the Titans
Brave Heart

My wife and I will most likely wait for the movie about Paul to come out on Red Box and then we will rent it.     

lareli:
Pamela as you can see there are many different opinions among us.

Ultimately I think it wise to have faith in the spirit of God inside you and not allow any man(kind) to gain influence over your own God given ability to discern between good and evil. You’ve heard some say that they were freed from the lies of religion.. but in my own experience with religion it wasn’t the lies or false doctrines that imprisoned me.. the church I went to was pretty open ended with their doctrines. The prison of religion for me, had more to do with a man(kind) desiring to have influence over my own perception of right and wrong/good and evil.

Heb 5:14
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

My experience of religion was being subjected to those who desired to impose their unrighteous judgement of good and evil on me. My freedom from religion was God empowering me to discern good and evil for myself, by the spirit He placed inside me.

1 John 2:27
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him

Musterseed:
Hi Largeli
What makes you think I don’t have faith in the Spirit of God inside me and that I am allowing
man(kind) to gain influence over my own God given ability to decern between good and evil.?

Sincerely Pamela

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