By
Lisa Grace
Over the last few weeks,
three religious themed movies debuted, and have gone on to break projected
earnings in their time-to-date on the big screen. Two of these movies, Son of
God, God’s Not Dead, are solidly Christian.
The third, Noah, directed by
Darren Aronofsky, has had Christians arguing whether it is “Christian” or not,
because it is about a man named Noah and the Flood.
Whether Aronofsky’s Noah is the Bible’s Noah is actually the wrong question and the wrong debate.
If you’ve read your Bible, it
is obvious that Aronofsky, who is a self-proclaimed atheist, did not base the
movie on the biblical Noah. End of story, it is not a Christian film.
What did Aronofsky base
his Noah movie on?
I guess it hasn’t dawned on
most Christians or believers, that the sixty-six books we commonly call the
Bible, or the first five that make up the Torah, are not the only ancient
scriptures around that mention the flood story or Noah.
As Dr. Brian Mattson so
brilliantly points out in his blog titled Sympathy For The Devil http://drbrianmattson.com/journal/2014/3/31/sympathy-for-the-devil
Aronofsky’s vision of Noah is the one found in decidedly non-Christian sources,
the Kabbalah http://www.jewfaq.org/kabbalah.htm
and the book of Enoch 1 http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/1enoch.html
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/ethiopian/enoch/.
Gnostic sources. Read here for a greater knowledge of what Gnosticism
is: http://www.iep.utm.edu/gnostic/
The devil, who is extremely
fond of deceiving weak and uninformed Christians, (and if he could, even the
very elect [Mark13:22; Matthew 24:24] as we are warned in the Holy Scriptures,
and the warning is in place because of teachings and movies like this) because
as he knows, a little knowledge can be dangerous.
The great deceiver knows the
Bible better than any believer. He also knows all the perverted writings, since
he himself is the muse behind those writings.
I wish believers would stop
saying its okay to promote this as a “Christian” or a “believer’s” film; it’s
not. It is the Gnostic mystical view that contradicts the Holy Scriptures.
The problem with this movie
is it promotes falsehoods about what we know how the supernatural world and
beings work, according to the Holy Scriptures, the only authoritative work for
believers.
Lisa Grace is the author of
the Angel Series for young adults. The first two books in her series have been
optioned for a major movie by Motion Picture Pro Studios and are currently in
development. Angel in the Shadows, Book 1 is FREE on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052AI5W8 or
for all ereader/PC/phone formats at: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/236544
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