The Disciple

2/23/2014

As C. S. Lewis wrote Jesus Christ is either a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. Emilio Barrachina’s Christ is a lunatic and his Evangelists are liars, all including John. But the main problem with Barrachina’s premise is that there is no evidence from the time of Jesus to support his view. The incidents related in the movie all come from the imagination of the scriptwriter not from any sources truly extant from the lifetime of Christ. Christ was not a follower of John the Baptist nor was he a Nazarite. While Christ was executed for sedition the Gospels relate that it was his claiming to be a king that was the foundation for the accusation of his sedition against Caesar. Nowhere in any of the documents that we have on Christ from the Roman Empire or the Apostles is he portrayed as a vio