From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
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Artist: William CranBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 240 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
DVD Reviews of From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
DVD Review: Santa Claus
Summary: 4 Stars
I read all the reviews here, and just like so many other videos and books on religion, it's the same old thing. People acting as six year olds in elementary school having the classic playground argument on whether Santa Claus exists or not. No, I'm not an atheist. I took the long way around to discovering that I'm a believer in God, and Jesus Christ. But I didn't just automatically adopt what others told me to think. My search began sometime ago with an almost agnostic doubt, and although there is no absolute proof that Christ was anything more than a human being, and possibly historical figure, I have found my faith and will live with it, for that is what faith is...believing without proof.
That being said, I found From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians to be a very good look into the "historicity" of Jesus and his original followers and how the early movement developed into a worldwide following. Because there is so little true historical documentation besides sacred scripture, this program like so many similar efforts must make some conjecture based on the few historical things We Know occurred and are verifiable from other historical accounts (mostly from the Romans and Jews of the period). The New Testament in and of itself has to be called into some doubt as far as an historical source because it simply contradicts itself at times. Locations, events and who was there differ greatly from Mark to Matthew to Luke. That is simple fact. Read your Bible. This program addresses that issue without demeaning the whole, I believe.
The problem is, there are so many different belief systems today within modern Christianity, it would be impossible to get everybody on the same page as to what went down 2,000 years ago. We can't agree on what happened last week. And people have their own Santa belief system so when someone comes along and throws in cold hard facts, the egg nog goes a little off.
I highly recommend this PBS documentary to anyone who is searching for some truth mixed with their reindeer. I'm not saying the show has it all right. It doesn't convey or profess that it does. But it offers some very good insight as to what may have happened and how difficult the culture of the time really (historically) was, and not how 19th and 20th century artists have painted it for us as children.
While shining some light in dark corners, the beauty of From Jesus to Christ is that it portrays the mystery of the whole thing as just that: Beautiful and mysterious. That an empire that executed the leader of an insignificant band of his followers could eventually be dominated by their philosophy is at least an uncanny irony. That God "works in mysterious ways", is an absolute truth.
Watch and enjoy (and maybe learn), and don't let it ruin your day if you don't agree with everything portrayed within. Your preacher doesn't agree with everything your friend's preacher says, so chill. :)
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