Well, with all this discussion I'm sending a forward I just got:
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To: AFA Action Alert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 8:34 PM
Subject: [afalert] AFA Is Unable To Recommend CBS Miniseries 'Jesus'
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5/12/2000
AFA IS UNABLE TO RECOMMEND CBS MINISERIES 'JESUS'
"TV Guide said many viewers might be surprised by the movie's
"reexamination of scripture and other historical accounts of biblical
times." The same article quoted producer Lorenzo Minoli as saying, "This
is a new Christ, a very human Christ, for the new millennium."
{ Online Version - http://www.afa.net/alert/aa000512.htm }
The CBS two-part miniseries entitled "Jesus" deserves, at best, mixed
reviews. Some have sung its praises, but AFA reviewers cite several
objectionable elements observed in the advance copy of the four-hour
feature scheduled for airing May 14 and 17.
Included in the film were these things:
1) About six minutes into the movie, there is partial female nudity when
Mary Magdalene rises from her prostitute's bed where she has just
entertained a client. Dialogue includes sexual subjects.
2) Later in the movie, there is another sex scene featuring Mary
Magdalene.
3) Jesus is angry at God for the death of Joseph. When Mary refers to God
as Jesus' father, he declares, "Joseph is my father!"
4) John agrees to baptize Jesus if he has repented of his sins.
5) Jesus often appears to be confused and uncertain about his ministry.
Because of these and other similar scenes and/or attitudes, AFA is unable
to recommend the movie.
TV Guide said many viewers might be surprised by the movie's "reexamination
of scripture and other historical accounts of biblical times." The same
article quoted producer Lorenzo Minoli as saying, "This is a new Christ, a
very human Christ, for the new millennium."
See Related Stories:
'Jesus': A life more ordinary -
http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/tv/let022.htm - USA Today (May 12,
2000)
CBS miniseries leaves some questions -
http://www.religiontoday.com/Archive/FeatureStory/view.cgi?file=20000511.s1.
html
- Religion Today
CBS Rejects Christian Internet Site From Advertising On 'Jesus' Miniseries
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http://www.baptistpress.org/Archive/BaptistPress/view.cgi?file=20000511.html
#STORY4
- Baptist Press
PRAYER FOCUS: According to Religion Today, "The four-hour, two-part
miniseries will take the Gospel to people who aren't going to read the
Bible, its proponents say. The movie 'renders an important service in
presenting the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ' to a large
audience, said A. L. Barry, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri
Synod.
...Certain 'liberties and embellishments' are taken in the film for the
sake of developing the plot that 'although not biblical, [are] not
necessarily overtly offensive,' Barry said.
...But two important misimpressions of Jesus are given, he said. The first
is that Jesus, after the death of his earthly father Joseph, didn't know
what to do with Himself, and later is unclear about His mission. 'Jesus
Christ was never for a moment unsure of His work,' Barry said. He
understood 'full well' what He would one day have to do, 'go to the cross
as the willing, obedient Lamb of God to take the sin of the world.'
...The movie also leaves a faulty impression about the purpose of the
crucifixion, Barry said. Sisto, as Jesus, says in the movie, 'I am in the
hearts of men. I will die for the everlasting kindness of the human heart,
created by the Father, so that men will make His image shine once again,
and those who will want to will find in me the strength to love until the
end.'
...This is 'exactly the opposite reason why Jesus died on the cross,' Barry
said. 'God did not sacrifice His Son for the everlasting kindness of the
human heart. He sacrificed Him because the human heart, since the fall of
Adam and Eve, has been darkened with evil and plagued by sin.'
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