I saw a Thief in the Night in church when I was a kid... Not sure exactly what year, but I turned 7 in 1972... I would have guessed more like 10 years old.
I remembered the title recently and went and found it on youtube and watched it. I was surprised that I remembered so much of the movie for being 40+ years ago! I don’t ever remember a time in my life I doubted in God or the bible, what I remembered of it that is, I read some of the old testament and all of the new as a kid, but I did not do much reading of the bible either until more recently... Since the internet, I got lazy and usually just searched “what does the bible say about ‘X’ “. I have not been a regular church goer either since I moved away for tech school after graduating high school, but we are looking for a good one to start going to now after going to church with my mom via the internet for a few months now, where his Sunday sermons are the bible study we need in our lives.
Organized religion as a whole is what I found that I have a problem with... From my point of view, the vast majority of them are leading people away from God and what the bible says... by telling their followers it does not really mean what it says. Exactly as this movie from 47 years ago showed.
Don’t take that wrong, I know there are many good churches out there, but it is my belief, they are the ones that focus on bible study and not preaching that virtually everybody will go to heaven if they just live a good life and don’t worry about what the bible actually teaches us, because we have evolved since that old book was written.
Thanks for posting, I will have to watch parts 2-4 some time when I have nothing to do, never knew they even existed.
Yes, you and I see things very similar. Shortly after I became Born Again I attended a home fellowship Bible study. As I grew in the Word of God, I soon learned that due to persecution, the Apostle Paul also shared the good news from home to home. His biggest opposition were the religious sect.
When I first read Acts chapter 7, I recognized the spirit that stoned Stephen. In these last days of the Church Age that spirit is becoming worse.
1 John 4:2-4 King James Version (KJV)
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
(BTW) I see that your a NASCAR fan. Any chance that Johnson can win one last title before retiring? I’m pretty impressed with this new crop of drivers. But I don’t think there’s any stopping Kyle Busch this year.