The inspiring and unique story of seven-year-old Jesus Christ and his family as they come to a fuller understanding of His divine nature and purpose.
Justin B. on Youtube comment say:
"To those that are citing the rather antiquated charge of "heresy," we thankfully live in a post-enlightenment age where new stories, showing different dimensions of the story of Christ are allowed to enter the democratic market. We are free to engage or disengage, and that is the beauty of the world we inhabit now. William Blake painted some of the most beautiful religious-centric art, I feel our fundamentalist age is ruining religious-themed art. And I daresay that troubles me greatly, we are no longer engaging ourselves in the actual stories and myths around us, not in a meditative or thoughtful way. If anything, I think this film will offer, like Anne Rice's Christ the Lord novels, a chance for a far more allegorically rich portrait of Jesus to come through. And what's the problem with that? And remember: "Today's heresy is tomorrow's dogma," Madeleine L'Engle is very wise, she also offers more wise words that are relevant to some responses to this film: "Each time an unexpected discovery is made in the world of knowledge, it shakes the religious establishment of the day. Now, we are often taught that it is unfaithful to question traditional religious beliefs, but I believe that we must question them continually-not God, not Christ, who are at the center of our lives as believers and creators-but what human beings say about God and about Christ; otherwise, like those of the church establishment of Galileo’s day, we truly become God’s frozen people. Galileo’s discoveries did nothing whatsoever to change the nature of God; they threatened only man’s rigid ideas of the nature of God. We must constantly be open to new revelation, which is another way of hearing God, with loving obedience."
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