![Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977, Anglo-Italian television miniseries and has been called a “cinematic diatessaron.“ This simply means that all four Gospel accounts of Jesus were blended together for the movie.Jesus of Nazareth was produced with an emphasis on making Christ evenly human and divine in his nature. The film was faithful to the accounts in the New Testament, but like most movies some literary license was used.This license made Jesus of Nazareth the most comprehensive portrayal of Christ than any movie before it’s time. Franco Zeffirelli and his screenwriters thought it necessary to take some liberties with the scriptures for purposes of brevity and narrative continuity.Before the movie even aired it came under fire by American Protestant fundamentalists led by Bob Jones III. Zeffirelli had told an interviewer from Modern Screen the film would portray Jesus as "an ordinary man, gentle, fragile, simple.” Jones took that to mean the portrayal of Christ would deny his divine nature. Despite not seeing the film, Jones called it blasphemy.Many echoed Jones' cry, and 18,000 letters were sent to General Motors. GM had provided $3 million of the film’s cost. They backed out of its sponsorship and lost their investment in the movie. Jesus of Nazareth currently holds an 83 percent audience rating at the film review aggregator RottenTomatoes.com. ](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/hash/d5/5a/d55a8be815de6806214798759a5f691b.jpg?itok=QxQRRtUd "Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977, Anglo-Italian television miniseries and has been called a “cinematic diatessaron.“ This simply means that all four Gospel accounts of Jesus were blended together for the movie.Jesus of Nazareth was produced with an emphasis on making Christ evenly human and divine in his nature. The film was faithful to the accounts in the New Testament, but like most movies some literary license was used.This license made Jesus of Nazareth the most comprehensive portrayal of Christ than any movie before it’s time. Franco Zeffirelli and his screenwriters thought it necessary to take some liberties with the scriptures for purposes of brevity and narrative continuity.Before the movie even aired it came under fire by American Protestant fundamentalists led by Bob Jones III. Zeffirelli had told an interviewer from Modern Screen the film would portray Jesus as "an ordinary man, gentle, fragile, simple.” Jones took that to mean the portrayal of Christ would deny his divine nature. Despite not seeing the film, Jones called it blasphemy.Many echoed Jones' cry, and 18,000 letters were sent to General Motors. GM had provided $3 million of the film’s cost. They backed out of its sponsorship and lost their investment in the movie. Jesus of Nazareth currently holds an 83 percent audience rating at the film review aggregator RottenTomatoes.com. ")
![The Passion of the Christ was directed by Mel Gibson and starred Jim Caviezel as Jesus Christ. It's mostly based on all four of the New Testament gospels concerning the last 12 hours of Christ's life on earth.Like most movies it takes literary license with many of the scenes in it. It also draws on the devotional writings of Anne Catherine Emmerich.The film opens with the agonizing scene of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and ends with his glorious resurrection. The movies contains several flashbacks of Jesus' life.Those flashbacks are said to have been based upon Emmerich’s visions of Christ. The dialogue is entirely in reconstructed Aramaic and Latin with subtitles. The film was a major commercial hit, grossing in excess of $600 million during its theatrical release. It became the highest grossing R-rated film of all time. The Passion of the Christ has been called a controversial film and received mixed reviews.Many critics claim the extreme violence in the movie, (the scenes of Christ’s flogging in particular), obscures its message. Several have questioned the authenticity of the non-biblical material the film drew on. One reviewer, David Edelstein of Slate magazine, said The Passion of the Christ was "a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie.” Time magazine listed it as one of the most violent films of all time.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/hash/d4/af/d4afe5c995cce631e3931396b72fffd7.jpg?itok=zfi60AYQ "The Passion of the Christ was directed by Mel Gibson and starred Jim Caviezel as Jesus Christ. It's mostly based on all four of the New Testament gospels concerning the last 12 hours of Christ's life on earth.Like most movies it takes literary license with many of the scenes in it. It also draws on the devotional writings of Anne Catherine Emmerich.The film opens with the agonizing scene of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and ends with his glorious resurrection. The movies contains several flashbacks of Jesus' life.Those flashbacks are said to have been based upon Emmerich’s visions of Christ. The dialogue is entirely in reconstructed Aramaic and Latin with subtitles. The film was a major commercial hit, grossing in excess of $600 million during its theatrical release. It became the highest grossing R-rated film of all time. The Passion of the Christ has been called a controversial film and received mixed reviews.Many critics claim the extreme violence in the movie, (the scenes of Christ’s flogging in particular), obscures its message. Several have questioned the authenticity of the non-biblical material the film drew on. One reviewer, David Edelstein of Slate magazine, said The Passion of the Christ was "a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie.” Time magazine listed it as one of the most violent films of all time.")
Everyone loves a good movie, right? Where good always triumphs over evil and the movie has a happy ending. However, not all movies that Hollywood produces these days have those characteristic traits.
Movie Guide is a family-based entertainment watchdog group, and they rate movies that have faith-based themes such as redemption and hope. Movie Guide says over the past 25 years these kinds of movies have become more popular.
According to Fox News in 1985, faith-based movies only compromised one percent of the movies Hollywood made. By 2009, that number jumped to 54 percent. Movie Guide also says in 2009,
films with no redemptive quality made an average $24 million dollars, while films with the most redemptive themes averaged $74 million.
Movies that are faith-based are about the real-life struggles ordinary people have in their walk with God. They experience the loss of loved ones, sorrow, happiness and hope. While most faith-based movies are about ordinary people, some are about people like William Wilberforce. He was a Christian man who struggled with life but his determination ended slavery in England.
Ultimately faith-based movies center around issues about life but have an answer which is contained in the word of God. You can use this list as a reference point for some good morally based movies your whole family can enjoy. If you have a Facebook account please be sure to vote in the poll of what your best loved bible based movie is.
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![The Passion of the Christ was directed by Mel Gibson and starred Jim Caviezel as Jesus Christ. It's mostly based on all four of the New Testament gospels concerning the last 12 hours of Christ's life on earth.Like most movies it takes literary license with many of the scenes in it. It also draws on the devotional writings of Anne Catherine Emmerich.The film opens with the agonizing scene of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and ends with his glorious resurrection. The movies contains several flashbacks of Jesus' life.Those flashbacks are said to have been based upon Emmerich’s visions of Christ. The dialogue is entirely in reconstructed Aramaic and Latin with subtitles. The film was a major commercial hit, grossing in excess of $600 million during its theatrical release. It became the highest grossing R-rated film of all time. The Passion of the Christ has been called a controversial film and received mixed reviews.Many critics claim the extreme violence in the movie, (the scenes of Christ’s flogging in particular), obscures its message. Several have questioned the authenticity of the non-biblical material the film drew on. One reviewer, David Edelstein of Slate magazine, said The Passion of the Christ was "a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie.” Time magazine listed it as one of the most violent films of all time.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/profile_large/hash/07/18/07180f8a425d67e65c67bdfc494c1391.jpg?itok=wW7VsQFB "The Passion of the Christ was directed by Mel Gibson and starred Jim Caviezel as Jesus Christ. It's mostly based on all four of the New Testament gospels concerning the last 12 hours of Christ's life on earth.Like most movies it takes literary license with many of the scenes in it. It also draws on the devotional writings of Anne Catherine Emmerich.The film opens with the agonizing scene of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and ends with his glorious resurrection. The movies contains several flashbacks of Jesus' life.Those flashbacks are said to have been based upon Emmerich’s visions of Christ. The dialogue is entirely in reconstructed Aramaic and Latin with subtitles. The film was a major commercial hit, grossing in excess of $600 million during its theatrical release. It became the highest grossing R-rated film of all time. The Passion of the Christ has been called a controversial film and received mixed reviews.Many critics claim the extreme violence in the movie, (the scenes of Christ’s flogging in particular), obscures its message. Several have questioned the authenticity of the non-biblical material the film drew on. One reviewer, David Edelstein of Slate magazine, said The Passion of the Christ was "a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie.” Time magazine listed it as one of the most violent films of all time.")
![Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977, Anglo-Italian television miniseries and has been called a “cinematic diatessaron.“ This simply means that all four Gospel accounts of Jesus were blended together for the movie.Jesus of Nazareth was produced with an emphasis on making Christ evenly human and divine in his nature. The film was faithful to the accounts in the New Testament, but like most movies some literary license was used.This license made Jesus of Nazareth the most comprehensive portrayal of Christ than any movie before it’s time. Franco Zeffirelli and his screenwriters thought it necessary to take some liberties with the scriptures for purposes of brevity and narrative continuity.Before the movie even aired it came under fire by American Protestant fundamentalists led by Bob Jones III. Zeffirelli had told an interviewer from Modern Screen the film would portray Jesus as "an ordinary man, gentle, fragile, simple.” Jones took that to mean the portrayal of Christ would deny his divine nature. Despite not seeing the film, Jones called it blasphemy.Many echoed Jones' cry, and 18,000 letters were sent to General Motors. GM had provided $3 million of the film’s cost. They backed out of its sponsorship and lost their investment in the movie. Jesus of Nazareth currently holds an 83 percent audience rating at the film review aggregator RottenTomatoes.com. ](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/profile_large/hash/cb/cc/cbcc860da500f1e63f9f1ce997f80e92.jpg?itok=t1ccWB7L "Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977, Anglo-Italian television miniseries and has been called a “cinematic diatessaron.“ This simply means that all four Gospel accounts of Jesus were blended together for the movie.Jesus of Nazareth was produced with an emphasis on making Christ evenly human and divine in his nature. The film was faithful to the accounts in the New Testament, but like most movies some literary license was used.This license made Jesus of Nazareth the most comprehensive portrayal of Christ than any movie before it’s time. Franco Zeffirelli and his screenwriters thought it necessary to take some liberties with the scriptures for purposes of brevity and narrative continuity.Before the movie even aired it came under fire by American Protestant fundamentalists led by Bob Jones III. Zeffirelli had told an interviewer from Modern Screen the film would portray Jesus as "an ordinary man, gentle, fragile, simple.” Jones took that to mean the portrayal of Christ would deny his divine nature. Despite not seeing the film, Jones called it blasphemy.Many echoed Jones' cry, and 18,000 letters were sent to General Motors. GM had provided $3 million of the film’s cost. They backed out of its sponsorship and lost their investment in the movie. Jesus of Nazareth currently holds an 83 percent audience rating at the film review aggregator RottenTomatoes.com. ")
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