I got 4/5 for this short assignment and for me it is really tough as Sir asked us to write not more than a page! Gosh, have to bite my fingers to stop writing. Haha! I enjoyed watched this movie and I did cry for 'Jesus'- not because he redeem the sin as Christians believe, but because of how cruel the way they tortured people. Glad, our Muslim Jesus (Isa a.s) has not face that kind of punishment. ...They said, “We killed the Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of God." They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but the likeness of him was put on another man (and they killed that man)... (Qur'an, 4:157)
VIDEO REPORT ON CHRISTIANITY; Development and Theology
Movie: The Son of God, produced by Roma Downey and
Mark Bunnet, released on 2014.
Starting hour of reviewing: 3:27:51
It is starts
with Jesus meeting his disciples after 40 days from his resurrection day. Here
is the point where the obligation toward preaching to peoples starts. As the Holy
Spirit possessed them, they gain power- able to speak in different languages
and can cure peoples. Thus, the disciples were not hesitated, preached to the
Jews about the kindness and greatness of Jesus. The news about the disciples
reached the temple and makes the Caiaphas; the head of Pharisees felt insecure
and tried to stop the disciples' task. Nevertheless, the follower of Jesus resisted
as they said it was their duty to spread to humankind about the good news to
people. Caiaphas got angry and said loudly that the duty towards temple, nation
and God only in his responsibility.
The
disciples went to preach and the peoples rejected them. Stephen was stone to
death as Saul loudly charged him as blasphemy. He was the first martyr.
Afterwards, Saul team up with Caiaphas to get rid of Jesus's teaching but
eventually he turned over and became one of the prominent preachers and spread
about how lovely Jesus was as he was forgiven and cured.
One by one, Jesus's disciples killed. Roman beheaded James and the
chaos condition urged the remaining disciples to split to the separate way.
Hence all of them became missionary. The Christian tradition says that all the
disciples die for their call. Paul beheaded by the Roman but his works live on
as his letters are nearly half of the New Testament. In due course, the movie
ended with John who was sent to the isolated island as the peoples were not
able to kill him even he was poisoned.
Overall, for me the movie is successful as an epic legend, but
somehow even the movie was claiming it based on the Bible itself, many of the
important events skipped from it. By some means, the development and
Christian’s theology is there but not clearly and well explained.
Prepared by: Fakhratu Naimah Muhad [1210062]
For: Dr. Fatmir Shehu (Study of Religion 1 2013/2014)
Accessed the movie from: http://watch32.com/movies-online/son-of-god-6292
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