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Has anyone seen the movie and what are your thoughts on it?

hi.  just the very idea that Jesus married mary magdalene and had kids is blasphemous enough.  that alone is the reason I will never see it.

For starters the bood/movie is a work of fiction.  With that said, it asks a very imporant question in a rather clever way.  What would any formal belief system do if presented with a divine truth that did not fit their theolgy.  

Think of it this way: If someone made a fictional movie about your dad being a pedophile or murder, would you see it? Should you feel less concerned if someone makes a fictional movie/book that blasphemes your heavenly father?

What is blasphemy?  Is it such a sin to use our God-given brain to think and analyze and consider possibilities?

Well John calls the Jews' father the devil; and paul says the Jews aren't part of God's kingdom.  Oh yeah, and "Jesus is the only way." Why are you Christians so sensitive to "blasphemy" when your own book denigrates other Jews and limits God's availability to only those who have faith in Jesus??? Christians can dish it out but they can't take it.

steven

Unfortunately many take as fact anything they see without doing their own thinking.  I see it as harmless conjecturing.  But at the same time, it could make Jesus more accessible to people who feel they have not part in the traditional understanding of the Christian message.  Dare I say that the Christian message has been usurped and is a pretty exclusive club--anyone who doesn't agree with all the details as the majority sees it is outside of God's kingdom.  Making Jesus more accessible is a good thing.  Whether he had kids or not seems to me insignificant, unless one is psychologically holding on to the idea that Jesus is Divine and therefore shouldn't be involved with procreation.  This is funny because didn't God create the world?  Holy procreation batman.  steven

Lots of religious symbolism and conjecture. I believe Tom Hanks made a very good case for the mistrust of the magisterium of the Catholic hierarchy.

From an artist perspective, the last supper critique of Davinci's painting was just another creative attempt to make the movie interesting, as well as the artist and world of high priced art.

One critique of the symbolism of the Nazi swastika likened it's winged crucifix to a centrifugal revolving turbine signifying the orgiastic frenzy.

So you can see interpretation is varied depending on your background and your understanding of art history. The triangle described as pointing to the crucible or Grail in the Last supper as framed by Christ and the apostle John, is included in the arcane code, I think, just to provide more interest to the movie than is necessary.

As in any other humanistic endeavor, there is an element of discovery, and then the process of deciding how, what, when, where and why to give what has been discovered a name and background, credits and a specific (if not so specific) definition by those deemed worthy or intelligent enough to make those type decisions.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, acknowledge Him in All thy ways.

I didn't watch it when it first came out, but felt led to watch it months later after I saw the impact it was having on people who don't know the L-rd, especially. We are to be wise as serpents, and I felt I needed to know what specifically was being brought out and how, to know what to say against any and all lies. Non-Christian people generally will not listen to you, if you just say, "Touch not!" Blessings....

One word:   boring.

The book was enjoyable, the movie a dud.