Posted on 11/18/2007 6:58:14 PM PST by BGHater
Hollywood is to fill in the Bible's "missing years" with a story about Jesus as a wandering mystic who travelled across India, living in Buddhist monasteries and speaking out against the iniquities of the country's caste system.
Film producers have delved deep into revisionist scholarship to piece together what they say was Jesus's life between the ages of 13 and 30, a period untouched by the recognised gospels.
The result is the Aquarian Gospel, a $20m movie, which portrays Jesus as a holy man and teacher inspired by a myriad of eastern religions in India. The Aquarian Gospel takes its name from a century-old book that examined Christianity's eastern roots and is in its 53rd reprint.
Article continues The film's producers say the movie will be shot using actors and computer animation like 300, the retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, and will follow the travels of Yeshua, believed to be the name for Jesus in Aramaic, from the Middle East to India. Casting for suitable Bollywood and Hollywood actors has begun.
"The Bible devotes just seven words to the most formative years of Yeshua's life saying: 'The boy grew in wisdom and stature'. The [film] will follow Christ's journey to the east where he encounters other traditions, and discovers the principles that are the bedrock of all the world's great religions," said Drew Heriot, the film's director, whose credits include the cult hit The Secret.
The film, which is due for release in 2009, sets out to be a fantasy action adventure account of Jesus's life with the three wise men as his mentors. Although the producers say the film will feature a "young and beautiful" princess, it is not clear whether Jesus is to have a love interest.
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Damn, that is funny. I was laughing aloud. I like Bollywood movies...and parodies thereof.
so who is financing this movie?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Well let’s use the words of Jesus himself and Matthew Mark Luke and John to see if this is feasable...
Jesus never started His earthly ministry of teaching, preaching,healing, casting out devils and miracles until he had received the power of the Holy Spirit at age 30... Matt 3:13-17 Mark 1:9-11 Luke 3:21,22 4:1 John 1:29-34
He told his disiples to tarry in Jerusalem until they received the power from on High, the Holy Spirit...120 were filled with the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.. Acts 1:4-8 Acts 2:1-47
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand” Matt 4:17
Luke 4:14-22
Jesus was not taught by men. The words that Jesus spoke to His disiples came from God the Father not man John 12:44-50 John 17:8
Jesus never went to India, but if He had He would have preached the gospel telling the people there to repent and be saved...and that He alone was “the way, the truth and the life...no man comes to the Father, (God) but by Me”...John 14:6 John 3:3-21 John 10:1-18
He told His disiples to go into all the world and preach the Gospel Matt 28:18-20 Mark 16:15-20
Is this the lost gospel where Jesus helps Mogli defeat Sher Khan?
I have the book.
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ
The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the
Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World
Transcribed from the Akashic Records by LEVI
Copyright 1907 by Eva S. Dowling and Leo W. Dowling
Reset 1964. Copyright 1964 by Leo W. Dowling
Chapter 53 describes how Jesus, as a man in his twenties, was taken to the Hall of Harmony in Egypt, where he fell in love with a beautiful woman.
“Among the instruments of music was a harpsichord, and Jesus sat in a thoughtful mood inspecting it, when, quietly, a maiden of entrancing beauty came into the hall. She did not seem to notice Jesus as he sat and mused, so busy with his thoughts. She found her place beside the harpsichord; she touched the chords most gently, and she sang the songs of Israel. And Jesus was entranced; such beauty he had never seen; such music he had never heard.”
And so, he fell in love with her.
After 14 verses in which he struggled with his desire to abandon his mission and stay with her, Jesus finally said, “Although my heart shall break, I will not fail in this my hardest task; I will be victor over carnal love.” And he sent her away.
Unfortunately for the credibility of this book, the harpsichord wasn’t invented until the 1300’s.
Will it be Ben Affleck? (GIANT HURL).
Adrimal Penn perhaps?/ ducking
will he be a practicing Buddhist and do yoga? . . . lol of course.
I wonder if they will have a scene with God calling him Grasshopper? :-)
Its not bollywoood. The language is not Hindi.
Okay, fair enough. So, what is it?
Are there any words in common between the two?
The South Indian languages may have some words from Sanskrit but otherwise on the whole its as good as Greek or Latin for me.
I recall from my linguistics classes that India was home to scores of languages and that each one had its own regional variations.
“living in Buddhist monasteries and speaking out against the iniquities of the country’s caste system.”
LOL, of course.
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