Easter Sunday is the Holiest day of the Liturgical year. On this day our Lord rises, proving to all with good sense that he is God. Thousands died as martyrs and will continue to die until the end of time based on what Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday showed and will show them. It is the basis of the Catholic Religion and the fact that Jesus Christ is God, the Creator, is why we listen to Him when we wish to be informed about the purpose of us and the whole universe. It gives us the hope of heaven!
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Review of the Animated Movie the King of Kings
Review of the Animated Movie the King of Kings I think it was around passion Sunday that I watched the Animated feature film “The king of Kings: A Story Told by Charles Dickens” at a movie theater. It was set in a Victorian house of a man telling his young son a story. It switched from story telling to animated flashbacks to the life of Christ. Details like the deaths of the Holy Innocents (Matthew 2:16) were handled delicately by Herod saying something like: go to Bethlehem and GET RID of all the all the children under 2 (my emphasis added). Some of the highlights I remember which I think they covered, in Christs life, other than his birth, was the finding in the temple, the clearing of the temple, multiplication of the loaves and the betrayal. The gory details of the passion were also handled delicately to include the nailing to the cross which as I remember was seen at an angle where you could not actually see the nails being driven but hear them looking across Christs face. The most notable and important part of this depiction of the salvation story is that they cut back to explain Adam and Eve and the original sins, without which, Christ’s death, and even his whole life, is essentially meaningless. As I remember, it of course ends with his resurrection on Easter. Basically, the salvation story in a nutshell!
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Easter
God did not make us to torture us as some people seem to think, because of all the “rules,” otherwise he would have just created hell and put us all there. No, unfortunately, by his nature he is not only all good but all just. In addition, he is rational just like He created us to be. This world is not to train us to obey rules, but for us to learn and to want what is needed to live in peace with each other forever. The one real law is to love, but to love God the most and to love your neighbor as yourself. If we truly choose to love God and our neighbor in this world, and want to follow his precepts, when we get to heaven God will heal the wound of original sin so that loving Him and our neighbor will be second nature. But he will not force this on us. If we do not want to love Him or our neighbor we will go to a place where everyone shares our desires – hell. But, in my opinion, and there are some biblical hints, as covered in earlier blogs, the inhabitants of hell will make it that way, not God.
God personally showed the world as Jesus Christ and his followers for the first approximately 300 years how if you hate for no reason, then you just torture people for no reason – in my opinion the very definition of hell. People did this, made places hells on earth not God! Those first Catholics showed why hell is so evil, and despite the fact slowly changed the world they were in from one of constant killing of those around you to bend them to your will and keep them ignorant so you can use them to a society filled with universities, orphanages and help for the poor so that mankind could learn better ways to help make their fellow man lead more productive and comfortable lives. Easter is God’s demonstration that good eventually conquers evil and the first approximately 300 years of Catholicism shows that even though it may seem hopeless, God is with us, and that if we work to make it a reality, are patient as well as being willing to suffer and die for God/beliefs, good can conquer evil! Finally, He shows us graphically that death is not the end, that he has dominion over death and life after death is not a myth and no matter how badly our body is hurt, for his plan to instigate peace in this world, it will recover in the next, more glorious than we can imagine!