In the news|March 08, 2014 12:48 EST
Noah Movie vs 'Noah and the Last Days' - Evangelist Ray Comfort Releases Alternative Version, Claims Hollywood has 'No Respect,' 'Paints Noah as Psychopath'
Christian evangelist Ray Comfort is set to release a 30-minute film entitled NOAH-And the Last Days on March 28-the same day that Hollywood's controversial Noah movie will debut in theaters. Unlike the Darren Aronofsky version, he says he is set to tell the Bible account of Noah with sincere hope that people will "obey the Gospel."
The $125 million film, Noah, follows a fictional tale of the biblical account of Noah as he builds an ark to save his family and a shipload of animals from the coming flood judgment. The film features a star-studded cast of Russell Crowe, Emma Watson, Jennifer Connelly, and Anthony Hopkins.
Comfort has provided an alternative viewing of the account for Christians disappointed by the Hollywood epic. On the same day that Noah will be released, Comfort plans to reveal a 30-minute film entitled NOAH-And the Last Days available for purchase and on YouTube.
Comfort told Christian News Network that his film movie is set to communicate the true biblical account of Noah as well as a very important biblical message.
"The main message in our movie is that God means what He says," Comfort said. "He once judged the world because of its wickedness, and He warns that He will do it again, but this time it won't be just a catastrophic worldwide flood."
Produced by Living Waters NOAH-And the Last Days will provide ten signs of the end of the age. Revealing Indisputable evidence that we are living in the last days.
The movie Features on the street interviews about the Great Flood, the existence of God, salvation in Jesus Christ, and God's judgment of sin. It also draws biblical correlations between the rampant sinfulness of the world in the time of Noah and the state of today's culture.
Stating that "we are surrounded by evidence" of God's existence, Comfort told Christian News Network that God's judgment of sin agrees with basic moral instincts.
As with his other movie projects, Comfort said the public reaction to NOAH-And the Last Days has been mixed.
"Those who love God love hearing the truths of Scripture-and they love seeing people's reaction to the Gospel," Comfort said love the film. "But those who hate God and use His name to cuss will hate the movie with a passion. It hasn't even been released on YouTube yet and I've seen two YouTube clips made by atheists mocking the film, and they already have thousands of views. That's to be expected."
However, Comfort says the ultimate goal of NOAH-And the Last Days is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
"We didn't produce NOAH to entertain you," Comfort says at the end of the film. "We produced it in the sincere hope that you'll obey the Gospel, that you'll repent of your sins, and trust alone in Jesus Christ-so that we'll see you in Heaven."
Comfort has been very vocal about his opinions of the Hollywood version of the Noah story. "Taking 'poetic license' on this story further erodes the public's perception of the biblical account-and of the Bible in general," he told charismanews. "That's why we produced our version of Noah, which looks at him from a different perspective. We reveal 10 undeniable Bible prophecies that link to Noah, and show that we are living in what the Bible calls 'the last days.'"
He had a message for Aronofsky stating, "Maybe they will even consider making a sequel called 'Muhammad,' where they portray him as an evil character as they did with Noah, and see if Muslims file in two-by-two to see it. But they wouldn't dare malign Muhammad's character, because they know that there would be serious repercussions. With Noah they have shown that they have no respect for Christians and Jews by painting Noah as a psychopath.??"
Comfort then named The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur as similar examples of the upcoming picture. The Ten Commandments became the highest-grossing film of 1956 and Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ was the highest grossing film of 1959. ??"They have no qualms about sensationalizing the story of Noah in order to make it more profitable. That's their bottom line. But the movie strays so far from the biblical account that it omits its essential message: God's judgment for man's sin and evil," Comfort says.