Jesus: His Life (2019), TV series A mixed type of storytelling was chosen for the series. Artistic and dramatic mise-en-scene on behalf of people who were closest to Jesus throughout his life, alternate with popular science conversations / interviews of numerous professors in history and theology, from different faiths.
The attempt to evaluate the person of Christ through his fellowship with his family (Mary and Joseph), His disciples, Judas, and Pilate was schematic.
I noticed that every actor who tries to embody the image of Christ by saying, repeating His phrases, what He said, every actor begins to feel in his being asceticism and sacrifice, and everyone has something in his eyes.
And the actor cannot, for example, abruptly renounce the role of Christ, and begin to portray the character - Judas; or - the character of Pilate; or even - the character of Peter.
A similar metamorphosis occurred with actor Greg Barnett, so far little known, but talented.
The British renewed the theme of the Savior. There is another great example of the fascinating British method: the most effective are the attempts of people from the category of intelligent Skeptics. They do not believe that Jesus rose from the dead.
English journalist Frank Morison, conceived to write a book, his investigative sensation, based on the "myth of the Resurrection of Christ." The point is, the zealous Skeptic is on the trail. He began with the tomb of the Lord. The tomb belonged to a real person, Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the influential Sanhedrin. It was impossible to lose the burial place. The next point is the accusation by the Jewish leaders of the disciples of Christ that they stole the body. But the tomb was guarded by 12 reliable Roman warriors, plus a 2-ton stone at the entrance. An act of vandalism, a crime against the Roman Empire, against Caesar, under such conditions? ! . . .
For some reason, no historian has ever sworn that the body of Jesus Christ was found.
The apostle Paul wrote that more than 500 people saw the risen Christ at the same time, and provided this list of witnesses in 1 Corinthians. In 56, when he wrote this, many of the persons mentioned were alive. It is also remembered that the Apostle Paul was a militant Pharisee, his conversion to Christianity remains inexplicable, except for his own testimony that Jesus appeared to him resurrected.
You can start throwing typical psychiatric sleepers at believers about a “mass hallucination,” “as a result of a maddened desire to see the teacher alive.”
But professional researchers continue: the same “hallucination” at the same time in 500 people.
Why was Jesus the first to appear to myrrh-bearing women? In the first century, women had neither social status nor the right to vote. If the disciples of Christ had planned this in advance, why did they not choose any of the men as “key” witnesses?
Now one of the most important criteria. Behavior of the disciples of Christ. This is what has stumped historians, skeptics, and psychologists.
The disciples (except John the Theologian, whom Jesus asked to take care of Mary and take her home) fled in fear when Jesus died on the cross. As it turned out, Morison sums up, “11 former cowards” subsequently suffered torture, prison, humiliation and death, and all 12 people, for 40 years, without renouncing, continued to preach that it was true that they saw Christ risen, that they spoke with Him, and ate with Him a meal!
How did these 12 people not back down, sold out, continuing to tell that their teacher was alive, realizing the inevitability of martyrdom for a lie, when they knew that they themselves had stolen his body?
The behavior of the disciples of Christ corresponded to their sincere belief that their teacher was alive.
And Morison concludes that “anyone who studies the subject will encounter the fact of such a change in the consciousness of all participants in the event that confirms the fact that Jesus Christ is risen.”
Correlational in the end.
My opinion, on Jesus: His life lacks the fundamental cross-support on early Christian philosophical treatises. True, they are little mentioned in popularized reviews. But ancient theological works just explain that in the Jewish Old Testament religion God is a punishing formidable ruler, punishing for human weakness from passions / sins.
The God of Israel on whom they depended and feared. The God of Israel desired eternal truth without finding it in people, because in prosperous times the Jewish people were more attracted to the open worship of human vices/passions, simultaneously supported by various pagan cults.
Jesus took upon Himself the human nature (the body of the Virgin), and appeared in it with Grace for all (not for one people who was saved by Moses). Jesus abolished the death of the human soul as the only possible end to physical suffering. Assigning a sacrifice to God is bloodless. The purification of blood in the rites of the hecatamba stopped, the power of the rotten craftiness of the oracles and their defilements committed at the altars was deposed.
The authors of the most ancient theological systems understood that the exposition of the cause of salvation of man in relation to God and also in relation to the devil as to the defeated ruler of the world can only be extremely conditional. St. Gregory of Nyssa in his great public address represents the human race as a prisoner of the devil, and God as the liberator of this captive. Yes, the image of comparison is taken from the military sphere. But it is clearly said about the liberating characteristics that God did not liberate man by force, but redeemed him.
John Damascene thought about the bodily incarnation of Christ, about the redemption from the power of the devil, about the liberation of all captives as follows: "Death comes, and being deceived by the bodily bait (Christ was a bait for the devil), having tasted a sinless and life-giving body, pierced by the "wool of the Deity", then perishes and gives back all whom it swallowed. And just as darkness is destroyed by the bringing of light, corruption by the touch of life is driven away.
Blessed Theodoret states that the devil demanded for the liberation of men, the Son of God, no less, in order to nourish his passion for pride, exchanging more for less.
Ancient philosophers did not rule out the possibility that Christ would be held in custody of death. But when He came into this state, He produced what was proper to Himself by nature.
Christ, you know, took a lot of risks. That's what you need to know.
Easter Tropar:
Christ has risen from the dead, come to death, and the life of the grave has been given.
10 out of 10