Bishop Moule once stated (source unknown), “A Savior not quite God is a bridge broken at the farther end.” John Mitchell put it ( An Everlasting Love, pp. It is foundational to the Christian faith and crucial to your personal faith that you understand and embrace the truth that Jesus Christ is fully God. Moses begins Genesis (1:1) by confronting us with the majesty of God, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” In the same way, John 1:1 confronts us with the majesty of Jesus Christ, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John wants us to stand in awe of Jesus as God and as the One who reveals the unseen God to us, just as a word reveals an unseen thought. Rather than beginning with the story of His birth, John confronts us with His deity in eternity. He never mentions Jesus’ name until verse 17, but it becomes clear right away that he is talking about Jesus.
John begins his Gospel by stunning us with his description of Jesus Christ. The effect that the film wanted to convey is that an encounter with Jesus Christ would stun and perhaps even soften the hardest of men. Jesus turned and looked at the soldier, who stood there immobilized in awe as he looked at Jesus’ face (which the camera did not show). When the Roman soldier in charge saw this, he yelled at Jesus to leave the man alone and raised his whip. He cried out, “God, help me!”Īt that moment Jesus (the film never showed His face, but only His back) reached down to give him a drink. He was tired and thirsty and had dropped to the ground from exhaustion. In the movie, Ben Hur, Ben Hur had been imprisoned by the Romans and was being taken to a galley ship where he would be forced to row.
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