Anybody else watch Messiah (Netflix)?

I have not yet watched it but I will give it a look. I am in a sci-fi binge (with a heavy dose of end of times) at the moment.

I have now watched the season. One thing that is interesting is the continued mystery around the central messiah figure. The story is told from the perspective of individuals around the messiah figure. We ride the roller coaster of belief with them from wanting to believe, to euphoria that it could all be real, and then to be disappointed and disillusioned (either because new information comes out that casts doubt on the messiah figures divine origins or because the character’s expectations of what the messiah would do went unmet).

For example, in the show the origin of the messiah figure is a mystery. We do not even know his name. Later we learn a little of his backstory and he came from a family with a brother and mother, studied and went to college. Does that mean that he isn’t divine? I think this happened to Jesus as well. He was rejected by some that said things like “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” or “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?”

There also are a number of miracles presented. With each miracle there is a tension. There is enough implausibility that those wanting to believe can see the miracle and there is enough of coincidence and scientific explanation to explain away the miracles for those disinclined to believe.

Divine character, mystic holy man, or flat out con man – The Netflix show Messiah keeps you guessing.

I don’t want to spoil anything for anybody, so SPOILER ALERT STOP READING NOW, I thought the faith crisis aspect as demonstrated by the minister was an excellent analogy. He clearly had demonstrated faith and belief until near the end, but what did he end up doing?

The story is told from the perspective of individuals around the messiah figure. We ride the roller coaster of belief with them from wanting to believe, to euphoria that it could all be real, and then to be disappointed and disillusioned (either because new information comes out that casts doubt on the messiah figures divine origins or because the character’s expectations of what the messiah would do went unmet).

I agree. Some of those that fell the hardest from unmet expectations, disillusionment, and faith crisis were those that had believed the most and made large sacrifices based on that belief.

I just started watching it. The thought came to me: maybe he’s the antiChrist?

😮 😮 😮

The story does brings up an interesting premise: If you came face to face with Jesus Christ, how would you know that he was

the son of God? In the account in the NT, it appears that very few people really knew who he was even after the resurrection.

Would he wear a suit & tie?

Would he have short hair?

Would he be clean shaven?

Would he be surrounded by angels?

Would it be something in His countenance?

What in His countenance would give him away?

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

The Texas preacher storyline was really intriguing to me and said conflicting, problematic things about religion. He was an unlikely choice for the Messiah to work with since he was on the verge of committing insurance fraud due to his own financial failures. He was quick to follow, but quick to doubt when it stopped being all about him. He just assumed he was chosen to be special to the messiah (and he attempted to use his connection to the Messiah to turn a profit for his televangelist FIL). When he found out that his wayward daughter had an abortion he saw her as standing in his way to be special and singled out by the messiah, and his ego was deflated by the suggestion that his daughter was actually the chosen one. He couldn’t believe that she was any good now that she violated his views on abortion. I think he’s going to end up a Judas figure later in the series. He’s definitely captured the hypocrisy, self-aggrandizement, patriarchy, conservatism, moral ambiguity, self-righteousness, and aimless leadership of modern Christianity.

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I think the preacher’s daughter is an interesting piece not only because of the abortion, which we don’t know about early on, but because her faith in al Masih comes from saving her in the tornado. I think she may actually have at least some of what her father wishes he had in relation to al Masih.

I don’t think “the young messiah” is the same thing. I am adding a picture of the main character at the bottom.

It was very interesting and I agree with hawkgrrrl’s take on it. I wonder where they are going after season 1.

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