The Adjustment Bureau - Imbecilic, Propagandistic Trash

This movie stars Matt Damon. Basically if you strip all the dressing of this film away, you get a very anti-religious film. And more specifically an anti-Christian film. I have no idea how well the story followed Philip K. Dick's work, but from what I know of Dick, he doesn't strike me as following any mainline Christian belief.

This movie has things that have "been called" angels acting more like demons interfering in human affairs. The doctrine of free will is thrown out and God, who is called a lot of "different names" acts more like a mafia thug dictating His or "her" plans. Even the supposed angels are mafia like with fedoras and dark suits.

This is what happens when people of no faith or people who are enmeshed with the tripe and filth of the New Age make movies about God or religion. They attack and try to impart their ignorant wisdom that all religions are the same. God is Jesus, Vishnu, and Buddha alike. Poppycock!

The end of the movie moves towards the core of satanism in fact. We are told that one day humans can be like gods. That's the same way lucifer thought, that he was a god and look what happened to him. Scientology makes similar claims.

Apart from being outrageously stupid and philosophically dangerous, the film is totally worthless. There is nothing of merit to recommend it. "It is nicely shot," is about the only good thing I can say, but trash nicely filmed isn't much of a recommendation.

The Apostle Paul: His Gospel Before the Gospels - A Review

The Apostle Paul: His Gospel Before the Gospels is a serious study of the writings of St. Paul by Daniel J. Theron. It is a well written and well thought out book although it is somewhat difficult to get through at times for it is written in an erudite fashion which can take some getting used to.

Dr. Theron's views and opinions on St. Paul and his writings are mostly of the Protestant vein, however, other ideas seem to be mostly his own and I'm not sure how other Christians would interpret these. For instance his belief that Paul was largely influence by Gnosticism.

The book itself is well made and fits a lot of print per page. A serious student of Christianity or St. Paul may be interested in reading Dr. Theron's interesting book.

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