“God’s Not Dead” is an amazing movie of faith.The movie was a surprises at the box office in it’s opening week. Especially today when Hollywood, the media, the music industry and even the president of the United States Obama ridicules and put down Christians. Who can forget when the president said “we are not a Christian nation” and ridiculed “those that cling on to their guns and Bibles. It is directed by Harold Cronk. It stars Kevin Sorbo of the Hercules TV series as the God hating atheist professor and Dean Cain of "The Adventures of Lois and Clark.” There is also a cameo appearance by Duck Dynasty star Willy Robertson and his wife.
The plot is about a subject matter that has been happening in colleges campuses since I went through college in the seventies. College freshman Josh who enters a philosophy class taught by Professor Radisson who is an atheist. Radisson asks the class to sign a statement that states that "God is dead" so they can skip over that philosophical argument. Yet, it has to be unanimous.
Josh who is a courages young Christian refuses to sign the statement. All the rest of his classmates wrote “God is Dead!” If Josh will not admit that "God Is Dead," he must prove God's existence. So, Radisson tells Josh that he can have around twenty minutes at the end of each class session in order to sway the class . Then there will be a vote by the class to see who is right. Radisson threatens Josh with with getting a bad grade since this will be 30% of his final grade. Josh refuses to turn his back and reject God.
This movie was way overdue. I experienced incidents like this in college. I was brained washed starting in junior high school, high school and it got worse in college into liberal anti-American, and God hating believes. By the time I started going to college I was agnostic. I believed that there had to be some kind of supreme being yet not the God my parents brought me up with. I was driving my patriotic parents who had left communist Cuba for freedom of religion and speech crazy with my anti-Christian and socialist believes. I would torment my father telling him that I supported Jimmy Carter and that he was going to be the best president ever.
By the time that gas prices went up $1.00 for the first time in history, we had hostages in Iran and our economy had been destroyed by Carter did I finally saw the light and realized that the socialist preaching in college did not work. Then came Ronald Reagan to seal the deal. It took a few more years before I realized that “God was Not Dead.”
There was a similar incident to “God’s Not Dead” in one of my college classes in the 70’s. The professor was constantly trying to disproved the existence of God. There was a Baptist girl in the class trying to give her opinion on why she believed in God and the professor destroyed her. Even though at that time I agreed with the professor I felt bad for the brave Christian girl.
In that class we had to write an essay on how we believed that the world started and I came up with a crazy idea that a planet was over crowded so they started sending people to earth. As time went by and generations passed we started thinking that those people in that other planet were gods. so that was how religion started. Believe it or not I got a high grade.
I was working at the gym at Miami Dade College when an older built tattooed, Puerto Rican man named Ernie Pagan showed up to workout. He would carried a Bible. Ernie had told us that before he excepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior that he was in gangs and had a warrant for his arrest in New York that is why he was living in Miami. One day Ernie asked me what I believed in so I told him that I did not believe in any god, yet I had this theory that we had come from another planet. When I told him the story I had written he told me that I was very bright to think of that. He then told me how God had changed his life. He invited me to church which I never went and gave me a King James Bible. I never read it yet I still have that Bible. I think that this was around 1977. It was a few years later in December of 1980 when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps that I started believing in God and reading the Bible. If it wasn’t for God I don’t think I would have survive Marine Corps Bootcamp in Parris Island, South Carolina. A few years later is when I finally accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and my life changed.
Today at church I was talking to one of the pastors Juan Diego Gutierrez who also saw the movie about how much this movie impressed me. J.D. told me that he still has an essay that he had to write for college on why he believe or did not believe in God. He was already a Christian and wrote about why he believed in God.
I never again saw Ernie Pagan who planted the seed. Who knows he might not even remember me or remember how he planted the seed. Yet, I'll never forget him. When I get to heaven I will thank him for it. Isn’t it ironic that the first colleges in the U.S.A were Christian and in college where you go to expand your mind and prepare for the real world that it would only strengthen my agnostic believe? Yet in the Marine Corps where you learn to kill is where I started believing in God? The Marine Corps is one of the places that still puts God first, “God, Country, Marine Corps!”
If you haven’t seen this movie yet go see it. God bless and keep the faith.
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