Jesus' teaching as I see it.

It did not come to me through the Christian Bible. It came to me through the movie: The Greatest Story Ever Told.

George Stevens was the story teller, and Jesus took the form of actor Max von Sydow. And the movie was not shot in the Middle East. It was shot in the South Western part of the USA. What are the chances of the truth, of that teaching, getting though to me? The only way to find out is through having a dialogue between me and you. Are you up to it?

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LadyGrace ·

The Greatest Story Ever Told does come from the Bible. It is in the Bible. We cannot count on man's idea of what they think God said. These Biblical movies are sometimes enhanced and even the truths from the bible, twisted, with inaccurate accounts. They cannot be dependent upon. I'll take God's word over man's, anytime.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@LadyGrace

The Greatest Story Ever Told does come from the Bible.

The movie of that title was based on Fulton Oursler's 1949 novel which told of the life of Jesus from the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament.

It is in the Bible.

It was in Fulton Oursler's mind that Jesus' teaching inspired the creation of the novel.

We cannot count on man's idea of what they think God said. These Biblical movies are sometimes enhanced and even the truths from the bible, twisted, with inaccurate accounts. They cannot be dependent upon.

Man's idea is all we have to intuit what Jesus taught.

I'll take God's word over man's, anytime.

The word is not the thing. The word "door" is not the actual door. Reading words is like reading smoke signals. Jesus' teaching cannot be verbalized.

LadyGrace ·

@sree251 That's where you're wrong. Man's idea is not all we have.

I'm just saying that the greatest story ever told is the story about Jesus and his redemptive power. It's in the Bible. Man's ideas are not above God's and they are flawed.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@LadyGrace

That's where you're wrong. Man's idea is not all we have.

What other means do we have other than the verbalization of thought?

I'm just saying that the greatest story ever told is the story about Jesus and his redemptive power. It's in the Bible.

The movie was about Jesus' teaching. The power of redemption is open for discussion. You could see it as
the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil. I view it as the action of regaining the state of freedom from conflict in relationship with ourselves and others.

Man's ideas are not above God's and they are flawed.

Is this what Jesus taught?