“I agree. It was the best and most happy depiction of Jesus I have ever seen. And I do believe he was a very joyful man!
I agree. Jesus brought joy. He drew people to Himself and brought new life to others. However, JESUS was born to die for our sins.
We should never take His sacrifice for granted.
ISAIAH 53:1-6
53 Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
of course, and how the movie takes anything for granted, just is not seen by me. Those passages are very true, I know...but his life was a lot of happiness with people too, and I love how the movie depicted that. There is nothing that brought more joy to God and Jesus than beginning people to love Him, through Jesus. The movie showed that quite well, I believe.