Why Hollywood Continues to Copy the Jesus Story - Part 2
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
J. Warner continues his interview of Frank and Zach Turek about their new book, Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God. Is it possible to extract the truth about God from popular superhero movies? Can the truth about Jesus even be found in the Harry Potter series? J. Warner, Frank and Zach discuss the issue in this episode of the NRBtv Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast.
For more information about the book, visit: https://hollywoodheroesbook.com/
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| 0:00.0 | J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders |
| 0:07.2 | in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:09.4 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV. |
| 0:12.8 | Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christianity. |
| 0:24.4 | In this episode of Cold-case Christianity, we pick up where we left off in part 1. |
| 0:31.2 | Our host J. Warner Wallace describes the attributes of many of the characters, the parallel |
| 0:38.5 | Jesus Christ, and how he has been reimagined in fiction. |
| 0:43.5 | In this last episode of our special interview, Dr. Frank Turek and his son Sack Turek unpacked |
| 0:50.9 | how our most popular superhero movies actually reveal the ultimate superhero, and show |
| 0:59.0 | that the greatest story ever told is the story of Jesus of Nazareth, the myth that became |
| 1:06.0 | true, the only one who can truly say this. |
| 1:09.7 | I hope you enjoy the rest of this interview. |
| 1:13.0 | God bless. |
| 1:14.0 | Now, as I'm saying, you can think about all the characters you've written about in your |
| 1:19.0 | book. |
| 1:20.2 | You can kind of see that this is common to many of these characters. |
| 1:23.6 | It was born mysteriously and appears at least early on to be poor, but this is some form |
| 1:31.0 | of dual identity, one that is common, the other that's special in some way, has an oddly |
| 1:39.2 | unknown childhood and is later either misunderstood or considered crazy, provides hope to others |
| 1:46.9 | and has miraculous supernatural powers, behaves in an extremely moral manner. |
| 1:52.8 | You already said this Sack about one of the characters, or it could be celibate, for |
| 1:58.0 | example, as part of the narrative. |
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