Biblical movies tend to come around every now and again and really energize the populace since those that tell them tend to find a way to do so in a manner that’s nothing less than inspiring and altogether impressive. The tales of the Holy Bible are typically those that carry a heavy lesson, a gripping tale, and above all, something that can bestow the passion of serving a higher power back to humanity even if it’s only for a short while before habit takes over and people go back to their daily lives. Back in the 2000s there were a few movies, one most of all, that accomplished this and did it in a way that didn’t preach too much and left people with a great many emotions roiling through their hearts and minds as they tried to contemplate what they’d just seen. In a big way, biblical movies are a reminder of the belief that many still carry deep inside of them.
Here are some of the best biblical movies from the 2000s.
5. Joseph: King of Dreams
There’s nothing quite like a jealous band of brothers that believe that they’re being seen as second class to their youngest sibling. But unfortunately for Joseph his attitude coupled with the resentment his brothers allowed to fester was more than enough to allow them to hatch a plan that involved selling him off to the Egyptians while his brothers claimed that he’d been killed. Of course a lot of people know the rest of the story of how Joseph came to rise high in the hierarchy and eventually ran into his brothers yet again, only to recognize them and eventually forgive them for what they’d done.
4. The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith
This has actually been likened to a Cinderalla story in a biblical fashion, which might upset the wrong people if you decide to tell them such a thing. But all in all it’s about a young woman that leaves home to find a better life and after enough hardship does end up finding a wealthy royal that changes her life for the better. As bible stories go this is perhaps one of the most upbeat around but it definitely comes with its share of hardships since overall the message within the bible seems to be that few things in life are ever handed over without paying some kind of price or going through one trial or tribulation or another.
3. One Night with the King
The ins and outs of royalty and how they apply themselves to religion can be as tricky as American politics in the current era, though it made a great deal of sense to people back then despite the games, intrigue, pomp, circumstance, and anything else that just happened along in a story. Esther certainly knew how to play the game that had been laid out long before she was queen and managed to get the king on her side in a very effective manner. But this game was also dangerous since it tended to be played with those that would gladly hang another person for any and all slights that were real or imagined, or buried in the past.
2. The Nativity Story
Many people know of the nativity due to its relevance in Christmas tradition, but few have ever heard the entire story of how it came to be and how Mary and Joseph really made their way to that barn on a certain night when Jesus was to be born. This movie goes through the events leading up to that blessed moment and shows just what was really going on according to historical and biblical texts. It wasn’t a blessed time as many might be able to see from the violence that was being rained down upon the people, and it was a dangerous time to be anyone that stood in the way of the king.
1. The Passion of the Christ
For many people this movie was hard to watch since in true Mel Gibson fashion it was quite graphic and not a little bit apologetic when it came right down to it. The act of watching Jesus Christ being beaten, made to carry his own cross through the street, and being tortured in horrendous ways was enough to make some people leave the theater, but it had the effect of making just about everyone feel something. To think that any human being was put through this is enough to think that our humanity is a fragile and conditional thing at best that makes us worse than the animals, who at least have the excuse of needing to eat when they savage one another. This was simply barbaric and borne of fear and paranoia felt by those that believed their days of lording over others were through.
There is a certain amount of power in biblical tales.
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