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God is Not Dead - Movie

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  • #31
    Originally posted by RBerman View Post
    The majority of Christians don't even go to grade school.
    I sure hope you are referring to people in times and places with little to no access to an education. Otherwise...
    If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
      I sure hope you are referring to people in times and places with little to no access to an education. Otherwise...
      The majority of Christians in the world are not American.
      "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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      • #33
        Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
        The majority of Christians in the world are not American.
        I know, but it seemed to me like he was equating education level with intelligence and the truth value of one's beliefs. Which would be offensive. Plus what would the average education of Christians have to do with the truth claims of the Gospel. I'm curios, what is the relation of Christian education to the other people in the same situation. Otherwise it would be comparing apples and oranges. I would guess that economic status has more to do with education level than religious beliefs.
        If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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        • #34
          Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
          The majority of Christians in the world are not American.
          Yes, well, at least not the real ones.
          For Neo-Remonstration (Arminian/Remonstrant ruminations): <https://theremonstrant.blogspot.com>

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          • #35
            Originally posted by The Remonstrant View Post
            Yes, well, at least not the real ones.
            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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            • #36
              Part of the problem is that films in general are often trite, disingenuous, predictable, and overall poorly thought out and made. Movies are always about making the audience feel good. The story, whether it's fighting aliens or solving a murder, always involves lots of drama, coincidences and the like...and usually have varying degrees of language, sex, and violence. Why? Because we like that....and continue to pay for those. So, when you get a film like this that at least has some Christian values and pushes back against the aggressive "God-Haters", then it's going to play well with it's target audience...i.e. Christians. The formula remains the same, the only difference is the genre...

              I expect this to be recommended at my church, and my wife will definitely want to go see it....and I'll probably like it as well...
              "What has the Church gained if it is popular, but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?" - A.W. Tozer

              "... there are two parties in Washington, the stupid party and the evil party, who occasionally get together and do something both stupid and evil, and this is called bipartisanship." - Everett Dirksen

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Littlejoe View Post
                Part of the problem is that films in general are often trite, disingenuous, predictable, and overall poorly thought out and made. Movies are always about making the audience feel good. The story, whether it's fighting aliens or solving a murder, always involves lots of drama, coincidences and the like...and usually have varying degrees of language, sex, and violence. Why? Because we like that....and continue to pay for those. So, when you get a film like this that at least has some Christian values and pushes back against the aggressive "God-Haters", then it's going to play well with it's target audience...i.e. Christians. The formula remains the same, the only difference is the genre...

                I expect this to be recommended at my church, and my wife will definitely want to go see it....and I'll probably like it as well...
                Yeah, it's a "feel good" movie.
                The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                • #38
                  And, as is typical of me, I blew the title of the thread....

                  It seems important that the catch-phrase is THREE words, making it "God's Not Dead".
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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