Once again Hollywood chooses to blaspheme the name of The Lord Jesus Christ.
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” — 2 Corinthians 11:3-4
Hollywood is set once again to further blaspheme Christianity and the Lord Jesus Christ as director Paul Verhoeven is set to produce a film that portrays Jesus Christ not as the Son of God but as a moral politican who was the product of Mary being raped by a Roman soldier. The movie, titled “Jesus of Nazareth,” is based on Verhoeven’s own 2010 book of the same name, which presents a pseudo-historical account of Christ’s story that differs greatly from the accounts of Jesus presented in the Bible – and offers yet another attempt by pop culture to attack Christianity and further the spirit of Antichrist into society.
Verhoeven, the director of 90’s blockbusters Robocop, Basic Instinct and Total Recall, bases his own beliefs from being a member of ‘The Jesus Seminar’ an offshoot of the Westar Institute, which describes itself as “a member-supported, non-profit research and educational institute founded in 1986 and dedicated to the advancement of religious literacy.” Westar’s twofold mission is: “to foster collaborative research in religious studies and to communicate the results of the scholarship of religion to a broad, non-specialist public.” (source)
The Jesus Seminar’s main purpose was to reevaluate the Bible and re-examine all of the words and actions of Jesus in the Gospels to determine which “are truly authentic.” What this amounts to is another attempt by a non-Christian organization to attack the credibility of the Bible and the deity of Jesus Christ. According to the Jesus Seminar, their own members get to vote on what they believe to be authentic, probably authentic or inauthentic aspects of the Bible and thus form a ‘consensus.’ In the case of Jesus’ life in the Gospels, they voted that 16% of it was true. As they state on their site: “For those who believe the Bible to be the word of God a 16% historical accuracy rate may seem ridiculously low.”
Verhoeven echoes these sentiments:
“If you look at the man, it’s clear you have a person who was completely innovative in the field of ethics,” Verhoeven has said about his planned film. “My own passion for Jesus came when I started to realize that. It’s not about miracles, it’s about a new set of ethics, an openness towards the world, which was anathema in a Roman-dominated world. I believe he was crucified because they felt that politically, he was a dangerous person whose following was getting bigger and bigger. Jesus’ ideals are about the utopia of human behavior, about how we should treat each other, how we should step into the shoes of our enemy,” he added. (source)
Paul Verhoeven’s new film is promoting a blasphemous deception.
Beginning and End has detailed in many articles that Hollywood and pop culture in general, has sought to blaspheme God and attack the Bible at any chance it can get. This is a key part of Satan’s agenda. The Bible defines the Spirit of Antichrist:
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. — 1 John 2:22-23.
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. – 2 John 1:7Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. — 1 John 4:2-4.
The Antichrist, the satanically-empowered False Messiah who will rule the world in the final years before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, will appear in the future but the “spirit of Antichrist” exists in the world today. And the way to identify this spirit is clear: by someone who specifically denies that Jesus is The Son of God and Messiah, which is precisely what Verhoeven is going out of his way to do in his film. Thus a movie based on an unscholarly group’s “voting process” will once again seek to disparage the name of Jesus Christ. Aside from the Talmud, a book goes out of its way to blaspheme Jesus (and is not in line with Biblical Judaism) there is no historical record of Mary, the mother of Jesus ever being raped. This is a completely baseless assertion from a director with a clear agenda.
Who Did Jesus Say He Was?
Paul Verhoeven’s book sought to portray Jesus in the worst light possible.
There are many people who want to cast Jesus as a good moral teacher, philosopher or spiritual guru. However, Jesus left no room for such ridiculous assertions. Jesus is the prophesied Messiah of the Bible and He affirmed that with His actions and words. This is why Jesus asked His disciples on several occasions, “who do you say I am?” The Gospel Book of John opens with:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made….And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” — John 1:1-3, 14.
The Bible says The Word, a title for Jesus, was with God and “was God” since the beginning, which means before the creation of Heaven and Earth. It also says Jesus is the Creator of all things and became flesh, which took place 2,000 years ago when He took human form and was born into the world.
Even when Jesus lived on the Earth, teaching from the Bible (Jesus quotes from almost all of the books of the Old Testaments in His recorded words in the New Testament), performing supernatural miracles and declaring the Gospel for forgiveness of sins, many people doubted or were confused about who He was. Was He the Messiah? Was He an excellent teacher? Was He just an imposter? But there were some who understood exactly who He was:
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. — Mark 16:13-17.
Notice that when the Disciple Peter answered correctly, Jesus did not hesitate to praise Him and tell Him that He was blessed by God the Father to know this.
If Jesus was such a peace-loving, moral teacher, why did people want to kill Him? Was was He so despised, if His message was just “love each other. Do not judge. Everyone just get alone? Because that was not His message. And He was not a moral teacher. His mission and message was to save souls of humanity by His sacrifice on the cross. To be a payment for the sins that humanity has been committing for millenia. And that payment required a divine sacrifice. And Jesus made it clear He was divine:
Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. — John 10:24:33.
The reason why the enemies of Jesus wanted to kill Him was because He declared that He and God were on in the same.
Verhoeven, has taken over the modern-role of the Pharisees by misunderstanding the statements Jesus made as way to attack Him. In Verhoeven’s book Jesus of Nazareth, he states that Jesus made many “catchy phrases” such as “knock and it shall be opened to you”, “seek and you shall find,” and “ask and ye shall receive.” Verhoeven’s conclusion from this is “What a great idea! You can banish evil by praying, and something better will take its place. Your mind could actually control matter through prayer. Jesus himself said so.” (Jesus of Nazareth, ch. 1 p.1). Thus after 20 years of research, Verhoeven’s studies led him to the wildly incorrect conclusion that Jesus was trying to teach His disciples to have supernatural powers over matter. This is not what Jesus taught at all. Jesus taught His disciples to seek Heaven. To ask for eternal life and to knock on the door that leads to forgiveness for sins. This is why Jesus came to the world.
The Da Vinci Code was one of the biggest deceptions of all time.
Verhoeven continues to show his utter ignorance of the Bible by saying: “..the Evangelists tell us that John the Baptist was sent to pave the way for Jesus, though they glossed right over the fact that Jesus tried to usurp his place.” (Jesus of Nazareth, preface, page 3.) John the Baptist, who was indeed sent to declare to the nation of Israel that the Messiah had arrived in advance of Jesus starting His ministry, said of Jesus: ” And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.” — Mark 1:7-8.
John the Baptist not only saw Jesus as the Messiah, he did not even feel worthy to tie Jesus’ shoes. There was no competition between them. Even when John the Baptist’s own disciples told him that Jesus was gaining larger crowds, John replied: “I must decease, and He must increase.” This is the essence of Christianity. It is realizing that we are nothing but sinners who have violated God’s laws and our worthy of His wrath. But thanks to Jesus, God in the flesh, who lived as a perfect man, we can be forgiven based on His work and His sacrifice.
Jesus Declared Himself God
After Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey (something prophesied in the book of Zechariah centuries earlier), He was open as to who He was:
And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? 61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?” –Mark 14:60-63
Who Do YOU say Jesus Is?
Look in the Bible to learn about Jesus. Not a Hollywood movie.
The Pharisees knew without a doubt that Jesus was proclaiming to be God. His statements made that abundantly clear. So for anyone reading the Bible it is your choice to believe if Jesus is the Son of God or not. But if you choose not to believe that, there is no room to say He was just a “good teacher.” A good moral teacher would not lie and repeatedly claim to be God knowing He was not. A ‘wise scholar’ would not tell His followers many times that He was going to die and be raised from the grave 3 days later. That would make him a liar and insane.
Movies like the Da Vinci Code, the “Lost Tomb of Jesus” hoax and other anti-Christ productions seek to change who the Bible says Jesus is in order to bring people farther from believing in Him. Since they cannot change the truth that Jesus existed, the next best step is to attack the book that explains who He is. Whether it’s saying “Jesus was married and had a child!” or “Jesus was buried and we found his tomb!” or now that “Jesus was not born of a virgin!” pop culture continues to try to distort what the Bible says. This is preaching “a different Jesus.”
As the opening verse showed, the Bible accurately predicted that this would happen and many people, shows, songs and even churches are preaching a different Jesus from the one of Scripture. If you are not a Christian, open your eyes to the fact that you are being purposely bombarded with big-budget messages specifically about Christianity and the Bible to lead you into doubt and rejection of it. The Bible says that Satan will use “any means” to deceive people into believing his version instead of the true Bible. Why? Because he wants all people to worship his “seed” and his false Messiah, the Antichrist, the prophesied false Messiah who the unsaved, God-hating people of the world will accept and believe in one day. Do not be deceived. Believe in the true Jesus of the Bible. He was no mere man. He is the Messiah and He offers eternal life and forgiveness of sins for those who know Him and believe. Jesus said: “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:35-36). As society moves farther from the true Jesus, turn back to Him and get closer. Your eternal destiny depends on it.
“Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” — Matthew 10:32-33.
This type of conduct will continue on , but Matthew 16:18 proves that God church shall not be moved.for this reason we shall all be baptized for the remission of we sins Act 2:38 http://www.biblestudyguide.org. Thank You B&E without you some Christians would be blind to the ways of the devil, my prays are with you as you open our eyes.
“Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” — Matthew 10:32-33.
Um, but can’t you change your mind since Jesus is dead and he hasn’t come back yet? I’m not saying that I am denying him but alas he died 2000 years ago and there were people on the earth before Jesus was even here.
Jesus did or was supposed to reveal himself as a ‘being of light’ to one of his diciples once but there is no solid proof of that? But where is heaven?
@BeginningAndEnd.Once again you’ve written another good article.
Good job B&E! They come up with some of the most horrible stuff. I’m offended that they speak like that about my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. People take a stand if you were to speak like this about their mother which is human and can not save even herself, but speak like this about someone who is greater and most will say nothing. Why don’t the church ever talk about this stuff? Idk maybe its not the right place…
Well it seems more plausible than a deity impregnating a virgin without her permission. Jesus was just a man, he was killed in the manner which every other criminal was in that time. Was he a good person? Maybe.
Also, god is not real, the facts of Evolution proves that. Well it proves that the abrahamic religions are wrong and the other thousands that have similar creation stories. Go read a book people, understand Evolution, see how stupid and ridiculous it makes your religion look.
I know your insecure, scared and terrified of dying that’s why you resort to believing in ridiculous things like ‘heaven,’ but just live the life you have now, the afterlife is not there and will never be there. Life is short, don’t waste it.
It sounds like you are scared and trying to convince yourself that hopefully a Holy God does not exist so that you will not be accountable for your wicked ways……..we rest on the Rock of Truth….you rest on sinking sand……and yet, even now it is not to late for you to call out to the LIving God and He will reveal himself to you if you have an open heart and open mind!! I suggest strongly that you Repent and turn to Christ before your short life is over…..
One merely has to look as their handle to understand where this person is coming from.
I love the whole, “Jesus was just a good person” or “he was a great moral teacher, but that’s it” arguments. Here’s the thing: he was either who he said he was, that is, the Messiah, or he was a very dangerous man. “Good people” don’t go around claiming themselves the Son of God. “Great moral teachers” don’t tell people, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” It is very clear that this person doesn’t understand the concept of the annuciation (” impregnating a virgin without her permission”); rather, Mary had a choice. She didn’t have to accept this huge responsibility. There was no force at all: “And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.” Luke, 1:38.
” facts of Evolution proves that” there is no God. This is laughable on its face. Talk about a jump in logic! You know what evolution tells me? It tells me that there are undesirable traits in organisms, and as a species reproduces, those traits are essentially weeded out through breeding against those traits. Science! You know what it doesn’t tell me? The exact statement you made. There’s no connection. You say “read a book on evolution”. You may be well to do so yourself.
to follow up on comments made about evolution vs God, i would recommend everyone watch the tv series “creatures that defy evolution.” it is based on a former athiest biologist who became christian after finding tremendous flaws in the theory of evolution and the fact that these anti Christ entities that attempt to describe things are theories and evolutionary theory, not fact theory falls into that category. just watch some of the episodes and see if u still have the same thoughts about things. i used to not beleive in god but i put all the evidence together and concluded that all the theories and explanations that man has to offer still lacks all the answers needed to understand the very begining of our universe even string theory becuase after all its another…….wait for it……… theory and cannot be proven just like the big bang theory and the famous theory of relativity – special and general. these anti god theories take you in a big circle and leave you right back to where u started. they are papers written by extremely brilliant people who changed the world and helped explain certain occuraces in nature but to say that these THEORIES are more factual and true than the bible is ridiculous. i also recommend a documentary ” a case for christ” it is done by a yale educated, former aethist with a solid head on his shoulders who wanted to prove to his wife that jesus was not who he said or people said he was and based on fact and logic alone he concluded that not only was Jesus who he said he was but he is not a follwer of Jesus. God gave us free will and we have this life to choose our fate. i chose to follow Jesus because i studied his teachings in the bible and they make more sense than any earthly or man made explanation of life and the universe available and using my gut instincts i felt everything was right which is no more ridulous than damning your soul and believing that all these man made thoeries are the answer and the way. i just ask of anyone who is a sceptic/ aethist / agnostic whatever to watch those things i listed above and take into accout the fact all these theories do i spin your butt around in a circle and leave you with more unanswered questions and a pit in your stomach. i sure wish i followed jesus earlier because when u finally accept him into your heart and confess your sins your will feel love and joy and grace flow through you like nothing on this earth. Jesus will forgive if you truly mean it in your heart since he sees in your mind right through you and he WILL forgive you and change your life forever. dont live a bs scientific life with no promise no love no hope save your soul and learn the love that will come to be in you and the love that awaits in heaven. watch some youtube vids on people who dies and saw our lord. they claim that theres no word in the emglish language to describe how awesome loving peaceful and perfect thier glimpse of heaven and or Jesus was. god bless all of you.
Jesus Christ ‘ll forgive Paul Verhoeven’… bcoz only Jesus, the visible image of invisible God can forgive and bless all human beings whtr he’s good or bad… bcoz he’s love.. Love ‘s Jesus,,, V cn c our boy Jesus in evry faces… U knw my frnds, Our Hindhu vedas prophesied birth of Jesus, God son through mentioning his virgn birth, crucifictn, resurctn etc.. Goutham Budha prophesied t birth of Godson… Quran also stated that Jesus Christ is the holy ghost of God.. Then wat hpnd to these xian countries.. U knw, tho v r only Indians, v belve in Jesus Christ… V tink, Holy bible’s t basic stone of ur inventions.. glory etc… & wen xian countries begin to lose their faith in Jesus, It lead to their great recessions, failures etc.. wt hpnd tem… come bck to Loving Jesus Christ… T real super star of history & universe
Huh? Is that shorthand? LOL what does that say?
According to the erroneous tradition, Pantera was the name of the name of the Roman soldier. You can then gather the worldview of the vulgar popular musicians that named their bad after this fictional individual.
Wow. I never knew that. That’s pretty sad.
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish things that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would rather be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God…But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
C.S. Lewis.
I already studied evolution theories… V hve thorough knowledge abt science & inventions.. But t existense of God, it is beyond our normal intelligence.. I wld like to declare a statement with great confidence.. ” Jesus christ hs been raised ” oh my lord, oh my God… “
Personally, I think the idea of the film is kind of interesting, just like those alternative versions of fairy tales are generally interesting (I’m not saying what happened didn’t happen, I’m just saying that I personally find alternative versions of stories fascinating to examine/read/watch).
I have to say, I must applaud other Christians who are of my similar opinion, as to have such a strong faith, we aren’t afraid of looking at other versions. It doesn’t really matter how different someone wants to envision an event, because at the end of the day, it happened how it did, and no one can change that.
“Look in the bible to learn about Jesus”? And who wrote the bible, God? Chances are, the character as described in NT never even existed at all. Why do the Jews reject him? I mean, the OT is Jewish, right? And they would know more about the meaning of the prophecies in their OWN SACRED SCRIPTURES. Why is that they still deny and reject him?
I’ve actually resorted to studying Church History just because of these questions and what I discovered about those who gave the bible is shocking, to say the least.
HI Logistics,
Thanks very much for your excellent questions. As for Jesus never existing, I would simply check here:
https://beginningandend.com/jesus-exist-historical-evidence-jesus-christ/
But your raise an even more compelling question: “Why do the Jews reject him? I mean, the OT is Jewish, right? And they would know more about the meaning of the prophecies in their OWN SACRED SCRIPTURES. Why is that they still deny and reject him?”
It was because they did not believe their own sacred scriptures or study them carefully. By the time Jesus arrived on Earth, the traditions of men, man-made rules and superficial religion had swept through ancient Judea (Israel). And Biblical knowledge was not high. So when the Messiah Himself showed up, demonstrating His power and fulfilling hundreds of Old Testament prophecies, many still did not understand or believe. The same thing is happening today. Biblical illiteracy is rampant. You for example, have not even looked at the Bible or into its manuscript history, yet you reject it and doubt its authenticity. This is all the plan of Satan. Having people reject and disbelieve God’s Word is critical to him setting up his own kingdom on Earth. Do not be deceived.
I would urge you to really look into these matters and give God a chance before rejecting Him outright. Why not actually read some of the Bible, with an open heart, not a skeptic’s glare? Jesus said: ” For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3).
It is our sin that is the issue between us and God and the fact that we are all sinners is very provable and obvious. Jesus came to reconcile this and bring us back to God’s family. I hope that instead of suppressing the truth you know in your heart, you explore it and believe.
How to Get to Heaven
https://beginningandend.com/how-to-get-to-heaven/
” You for example, have not even looked at the Bible or into its manuscript history, yet you reject it and doubt its authenticity. ”
Thanks for letting me know what I have and haven’t read. I wasn’t aware of that. Really appreciate it.
You seem to consider the bible as some drug that none can snort in its entirety without getting hooked to. I take it that this is where your presumption that I haven’t looked into it is coming from.
As for the Jews not believing or carefully looking into the own scriptures, well, that’s like the Chinese telling the Americans that they don’t understand the American Constitution, and that the Chinese interpretation of the American Constitution is more accurate and authoritative.
OK. Wait. So if Jesus wasn’t who he said he was, and lied, than he un-ethically and falsely led 12 apostles and multiple other jewish people into believing he was the messiah all the way to his meaningless death. I have debunked it in less than 5 minutes. Nice
now the son of god does denie god because he were giving all power over the heavens and the earth which does make him the antichrist in a pacific way/but devil/ but there should always be a spirit over Jerusalem and the people of the world.amen.etc.love,stephanie curry.john:3;16.thankyou.love,stephanie curry.
I was always skeptical about mary and the birth of jesus christ. Given the time period mary was in being a virgin yet pregnant sounds very iffy. I mean how can you impregnate a virgin woman without secual intercourse even in greek mythology zeus had sex with the mortal females that bared him demigods.
Cause this is the only time I ever heard of a virgin woman being knocked up by the spirit of god. Now if women were to say that today I pretty sure their spouses/husbands would leave them because it sounds like a bunch of bull. I feel bad for Joseph though god knocks up your future wife and he couldnt get mad.