| re: Jesus Christ, John Legend |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:47 pm EST 12/19/17 |
| In reply to: Jesus Christ, John Legend - GrumpyMorningBoy 03:10 pm EST 12/19/17 |
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"It blows my mind how many church-based 'theater troupes' continue to perform this show, despite the fact that it essentially presents Jesus as merely human."
But does it? I've always thought JCS is open to interpretation on this point -- or a more negative way to phrase it is that it's confused on this point. For example, Judas's perspective -- which he states more than once -- is that Jesus is merely human, not the son of God. But then, in the title song, Judas sings: "You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned. Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land? If you'd come today you could have reached a whole nation; Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication." Well, if Jesus had the ability to choose when he was born, wouldn't that mean he'd have to be the son of God, or at least something more than mortal man? |
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