I'm an atheist, and been one for 30 years. My parents are both Christian and even though me and my father don't get along with each other (not because I'm an atheist) he and my mother are not like the Christians in films like this. It's like simultaneously the Christians in films like this are scared out of their minds for the Rapture to happen but also want it to happen. Yet look at the price: billions of people around the world will die instantly (literal version), some will rise to Heaven and others will be stranded on Earth. Sounds fun, right? /sarcasm
Video quality is good. The acting isn't bad. The problem always is: when they get to the "rapture" everything then falls to the wayside, especially plot--if one could really say films like this have a plot. The good thing about this film, in such regard, is that the 'rapture' doesn't happen until the third act so the plot stays in tact...at least until then. A Christian is a person who accepts Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour, and lives every day to be like Jesus. That's it. Nothing else.
If one knows the Bible then one knows it is seeped in metaphor. There was a 3rd Century theologian named Origen who posited the 'rapture' (not a word he or any other Christian would have used back then) would be of a Spiritual nature rather than a physical one. In context: that does make more sense. Of course, by the 19th to 20th Century it became more and more literal rather than metaphorical; thank John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) for that, I guess. Darby's version is the version that mostly all Christians believe today.
There's some over dramatic scenes throughout, some angry, and only in the beginning is there any sort of humor and probably, to a point, happiness. There's plenty of stereotypes, clichés, and all other diatribes that come with that. I love how films like this place Church before Faith or without Church there is no Faith--that's Old Testament Christianity (ESV) Proverbs 18:1 "Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment" not New Testament Christianity (ESV) Matthew 6:5 "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues [Churches/Mosques/Temples] and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward." Films like this always cater to Old Testament Christianity except in concern to Revelation. It's doom and gloom not peace and love. Shame, really.
The last 15 minutes of this 71 minute film is the 'Rapture'. It goes into news around the world and then flashbacks of different characters being killed for their 'sinful' nature and those who went to Church (for the right reason) rising into the clouds of Earth (not shown). So, the message is: GO TO CHURCH OR GO TO HELL!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The composition at the end is ominous and overpowering of the dialogue. I'm still waiting for the Christian film that's really honest because there's a scene where it shows all the children were taken to Heaven but if they weren't baptised then they wouldn't have been taken. John 3:3 states we are all born sinners, that includes babies and children--no one is innocent.
I always love seeing Tiny Lister in a film. Even if it was short.
Video quality is good. The acting isn't bad. The problem always is: when they get to the "rapture" everything then falls to the wayside, especially plot--if one could really say films like this have a plot. The good thing about this film, in such regard, is that the 'rapture' doesn't happen until the third act so the plot stays in tact...at least until then. A Christian is a person who accepts Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour, and lives every day to be like Jesus. That's it. Nothing else.
If one knows the Bible then one knows it is seeped in metaphor. There was a 3rd Century theologian named Origen who posited the 'rapture' (not a word he or any other Christian would have used back then) would be of a Spiritual nature rather than a physical one. In context: that does make more sense. Of course, by the 19th to 20th Century it became more and more literal rather than metaphorical; thank John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) for that, I guess. Darby's version is the version that mostly all Christians believe today.
There's some over dramatic scenes throughout, some angry, and only in the beginning is there any sort of humor and probably, to a point, happiness. There's plenty of stereotypes, clichés, and all other diatribes that come with that. I love how films like this place Church before Faith or without Church there is no Faith--that's Old Testament Christianity (ESV) Proverbs 18:1 "Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment" not New Testament Christianity (ESV) Matthew 6:5 "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues [Churches/Mosques/Temples] and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward." Films like this always cater to Old Testament Christianity except in concern to Revelation. It's doom and gloom not peace and love. Shame, really.
The last 15 minutes of this 71 minute film is the 'Rapture'. It goes into news around the world and then flashbacks of different characters being killed for their 'sinful' nature and those who went to Church (for the right reason) rising into the clouds of Earth (not shown). So, the message is: GO TO CHURCH OR GO TO HELL!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The composition at the end is ominous and overpowering of the dialogue. I'm still waiting for the Christian film that's really honest because there's a scene where it shows all the children were taken to Heaven but if they weren't baptised then they wouldn't have been taken. John 3:3 states we are all born sinners, that includes babies and children--no one is innocent.
I always love seeing Tiny Lister in a film. Even if it was short.
