There's a new "horror" movie out right now called Heretic that's been getting a lot of attention. But the main horror of the movie is really just how insulting and condescending the whole thing is to Christians.
The movie is about some psychopath who locks a couple female Mormon missionaries inside his house and then spends almost the entire 2 hours just having him "debunk" religion and try to convince the missionaries to question their faith. I haven't been able to find any confirmation on the background of the film's creators, but there is one scene that is laughably biased in favor of Judaism.
The old man starts telling the missionaries about the history of monopoly and how it was just another iteration of an older game called The Landlord's game. You see, the Landlord's Game was made by a smart and hard-working feminist, and then some mean sexist man plagiarized it and created Monopoly and didn't give her any credit. Then he starts giving examples of how modern songs were sued for copyright infringement because they plagiarized melodies from older songs, and he uses these as an analogy to say that Christianity and Islam plagiarized off of Judaism.
Judaism was the OG monotheistic religion. But if they were the first true monotheistic religion, then why are they only 0.2% of the world's population? Well it's because they don't advertise their religion like Christians do.
The Guardian even put out an article praising the movie's realistic portrayal of Mormonism and citing some totally real Mormons who thought the movie was amazing and very realistic.
Adam was Christian. Noah was Christian. Abraham was Christian. Moses was Christian.
They all anticipated the forthcoming Christ. The historical aberration is rabbinical judaism, which is a failed, satanic offshoot of Christianity, circa 70 AD.
I would object to this. The Jews, or Hebrews if you prefer, were in a severe state of ethnic, religious, and moral decline by the time of Christ. This is attested to by the historical record, the Jewish prophets of the OT, and Christ himself.
The Hebrew prophets of what Christians call the Old Testament constantly bemoaned the plight of the Hebrews are the hands of foreign conquerors, but they ALSO criticized the Hebrews' tendency to revert to paganism, usually the paganism of their own conquerors. Historically, we know that Hebrews of Judea were subject to invasion and conquest by foreign powers; indeed, the Babylonian captivity was the beginning of Talmudism as Jewish teachers began incorporate Babylonian mysticisms and legal theory into what would eventually be called Judaism. By the time that Rome had taken de facto control of Judea via agreements with Harrod the Great, Talmudism had already taken root and was the predominate Jewish religious and social teaching even as it existed alongside the Levitical priests of the more ancient religion.
The Talmudists are who the Christian New Testament call Pharisees. Now, if you were raised in a Christian tradition, its likely that you interpreted Jesus of Nazareth's criticism of the Pharisees as one of "hypocrisy" or "legalism". This is bullshit. The Pharisees were the pushers of Babylonian Talmudism at the time Christ, and Talmudism is a pagan perversion of the religion of the ancient Hebrews. Then Judaism would continue to evolve over the next several centuries and readily incorporate as many anti-Christian doctrines as the Rabbis could pack in. This is where Rev 3:9 comes in, from a Christian perspective.
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Again, this is a theological discussion.