GOD'S NOT DEAD: A LIGHT IN DARKNESS / PAUL, APOSTLE OF CHRIST

PG  ( 1 hr & 46 min )

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I went to see this movie on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018, at the Edward's Fairfield Stadium 16 & I-Max, in Fairfield, CA, for the 11:20 a.m. showing in auditorium 5, row 4, seat 7. The price of admission was $5.45.

Quickie Review:  A church at a college campus accidentally burns. And the college wastes no time in trying to have the historical landmark demolished to make way for a student center. The minister ( David A. R. White ) enlists the aid of his lawyer brother ( John Corbett ), an atheist, to help him win the case.

Here's what  I don't like about this movie:  In today's "intellectually enlightened" society, people
are moving away from the God of the Bible and embracing the STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering, Math ) gods. This movie illustrates the shift in the belief of the masses. But, also, it foreshadows the alarming anti-Christian/pro-Islam trend that is taking place in Europe and in the USA.

PG-13   ( 1 hr & 48 min )

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 I went to see this on the same day and at the same theatre as the previous movie. I watched this movie in auditorium 2, row 3, seat 9. The price of admission was $5.45. And I bought a medium fountain drink ( half pink lemonade/half fruit punch ) at the concessions counter for $6.50.

Quickie Review:  It is near the end of Paul's ( James Faulkner ) life as he sits in jail awaiting the time of his execution. His faithful companion, Luke ( Jim Caviezel ), writes his final sermons.

Here's what I don't like about this movie:  Paul was not, I repeat, was not an apostle of Christ! He never met Jesus Christ. He was not even a disciple of any one of the 12 apostles. He belonged to a mob that went around stoning Christ's Apostles and Disciples. Saint Peter was divinely appointed by Christ, Himself, as the successor/founder of the Christian Church. Paul was humanly appointed--by none other than his own self--to head the "church"; and he introduced ideas that run contrary to the teachings of Christ, a two-fold blasphemy against the Holy Spirit! Paul presided over the "church" in place of Christ's chosen successor. The Greeks have a term for it: Anti Christo ( you know what it means ).

Luke, on the other hand was a former slave who became a physician. A later scene shows the Roman officer ( Olivier Martinez ) asking Luke for medical help instead of asking Paul for a miraculous healing. This is a very telling development in the movie. Anyway, Luke was also not an apostle of Christ--he, too, never even met Christ, Himself.


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