New movie:
Jesus is product of Mary being raped.
Hollywood
director Paul Verhoeven.
A new
Hollywood film in the works that some are already calling blasphemous will
portray Jesus as the product of His mother Mary being raped by a Roman soldier,
and show that miracles mentioned in the New Testament were not real.
Paul Verhoeven,
who directed previous hits including “Robocop,” “Total Recall” and “Basic
Instinct,” is basing the movie on his 2008 book, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
According to
Deadline.com, Verhoeven’s take on the life of Jesus discounts all the miracles
mentioned in Scripture, including the virgin birth and the resurrection, as
Verhoeven doesn’t believe any of them actually took place.
Perhaps the
most controversial of Verhoeven’s notions is that “Jesus might have been the
product of his mother being raped by a Roman soldier, which Verhoeven said was
commonplace at the time, and that Jesus was a radical prophet who performed
exorcisms and was convinced he would find the kingdom of heaven on earth, and
did not know he would be sentenced to die on the cross by Pontius Pilate,”
Deadline reported.
“He is
treading on territory that Christians universally would label as blasphemous,”
says Mike Fleming of Deadline. “The film seems to have landed in the
appropriate place, as a gritty and controversial independent film.”
WND reader
Dale Ulmer is among those already outraged, saying, “Anyone involved in the
production of this film will face the wrath of God. I will NOT watch this film
and I would personally like to write to these people and tell them they are
treading in waters with no life preserver unless they cancel this film because God’s judgment will be
harsh if they choose to mock him. They have no real proof of what they are
suggesting, however the Bible has never failed in its record of historical
events. Archaeologists and scientists are discovering proof of biblical
accounts, just as it was written.”
In a
previous interview with Fleming, Verhoeven spoke of Jesus in these terms:
“If you look
at the man, it’s clear you have a person who was completely innovative in the
field of ethics. My own passion for Jesus came when I started to realize that.
It’s not about miracles, it’s about a new set of ethics, an openness towards
the world, which was anathema in a Roman-dominated world. I believe he was
crucified because they felt that politically, he was a dangerous person whose
following was getting bigger and bigger. Jesus’ ideals are about the utopia of
human behavior, about how we should treat each other, how we should step into
the shoes of our enemy.”
Muse
Productions will reportedly be producing the new film, and Roger Avary, who won
an Oscar for co-writing 1994′s “Pulp Fiction,” is on board to adapt the book
into a screenplay.
No date has
been mentioned yet for when the film is targeted for release.
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