In the past, I don't care much about religions in the world, but I have recently seen a documentary about The Real Jesus Christ. I think this topic is interesting.
Although the video is interesting, I disagree with the filmmakers for some reasons.
From the very first frames of the documentary, the title featured the Real Jesus Christ with a picture of a white man in the background.
This point made me doubtful about the truths that the filmmakers tried to convey.
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| Jesus wasn't white - He was brown |
According to the documentary, in Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago, there was a man named James, also known as Jesus's brother. James was the eldest son of Palestinian family and he had to struggle in order to seize the power from the rising of his comrade-then-enemy Paul.
Unlike a Jewish homie James in Jerusalem, Paul traveled a lot and he was famous with his city's life in Rome. Paul and James became enemies because of their differences in political views.
The filmmakers said that Paul rewrote the truths in the New Testament. Paul's propaganda involved the unnecessary of performing circumcision on newborn baby-boys and the absurdity of eating Kosher foods.
When James knew about all of this, he became furious with Paul and planned to kill him. Unpredictably, Paul bought Roman nationality to get the protection from Roman soldiers.
Meanwhile, the Imperial Rome used Paul's falsity in description about Jesus in the Bible in order to suppress the people in old world. I thought filmmakers suggested that Paul was foxy and evil.
However, I did not think that was a good way to tell a historical story because the filmmakers gave voices to a few people from one side only - the anti-Christ side.
Where were the voices of professors or historians from the opposite side? I am an atheist but this documentary could not persuade me. There were a lot of words "should" or "would", and apparently, these were not great words in term of exact historical representation.
The authors of the gospels were those who knew Jesus best. From what we were told, Jesus was not well received in his hometown. Unfortunately, debates happened among the followers of Jesus movement. The suspended ending of the movies confused the audiences.
In general, people are free to believe in whatever they want. I saw the positive messages of Paul's story about Jesus. Believe it or not, a religion could bring hope, inspiration and meaningful support to to millions of people world-wide. After all the fusses, this is a good thing to know Jesus.
Note: Read another point of view about the documentary from Duy the Chef
